A39674:784
Planelogia, a succinct and seasonable discourse of the occasions, causes, nature, rise, growth, and…
Planelogia, a succinct and seasonable discourse of the occasions, causes, nature, rise, growth, and remedies of mental errors written some months since, and now made public, both for the healing and prevention of the sins and calamities which have broken in this way upon the churches of Christ, to the great scandal of religion, hardening of the wicked, and obstruction of Reformation : whereunto are subjoined by way of appendix : I. Vindiciarum vindex, being a succinct, but full answer to Mr. Philip Cary's weak and impertinent exceptions to my Vindiciæ legis & fæderis, II. a synopsis of ancient and modern Antinomian errors, with scriptural arguments and reasons against them, III. a sermon composed for the preventing and healing of rents and divisions in the churches of Christ / by John Flavell ... ; with an epistle by several divines, relating to Dr. Crisp's works.Planelogia, a succinct and seasonable discourse of the occasions, causes, nature, rise, growth, and remedies of mental errors written some months since, and now made publick, both for the healing and prevention of the sins and calamities which have broken in this way upon the churches of Christ, to the great scandal of religion, hardening of the wicked, and obstruction of Reformation : whereunto are subjoined by way of appendix : I. Vindiciarum vindex, being a succinct, but full answer to Mr. Philip Cary's weak and impertinent exceptions to my Vindiciæ legis & fæderis, II. a synopsis of ancient and modern Antinomian errors, with scriptural arguments and reasons against them, III. a sermon composed for the preventing and healing of rents and divisions in the churches of Christ / by John Flavell ... ; with an epistle by several divines, relating to Dr. Crisp's works.
London: printed by R. Roberts for Tho. Cockerill, 1691
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Thesis VI.
Suitably hereunto we find, that no sooner was the Christian Church constituted, and the Believing Gentiles by Faith added to it; but the Children of such Believing Parents are declared to be federally Holy, 1 Cor. 7. 14. and the unbelieving Jews, who were superstitiously fond of Circumcision, and prejudiced against Baptism as an injurious innovation, are by the Apostle persuaded to submit themselves to it, Acts 2. 38, 39. assuring them, that the same Promise, viz. I will be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee, is now as effectually sealed to them and their Children by Baptism, as it was in the former Age by Circumcision: And that the Gentiles which are yet a far off, whenever God shall call them, shall ⟨p. 293⟩equally enjoy the same Privilege, both for themselves and for their Children also.
Suitably hereunto we find, that no sooner was the Christian Church constituted, and the Believing Gentiles by Faith added to it; but the Children of such Believing Parents are declared to be foederally Holy, 1 Cor. 7. 14. and the unbelieving Iews, who were superstitiously fond of Circumcision, and prejudiced against Baptism as an injurious innovation, are by the Apostle perswaded to submit themselves to it,