A39674:786
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 VII.
The change of the Token and Seal of the Covenant from Circumcision to Baptism, will by no means infer the change or diversity of the Covenants, especially when the latter comes into the place, and serves to the same use and end with the former, as it is manifest Baptism doth, from Col. 2. 11, 12. as hath been, I think, sufficiently argued against Mr. Cary's glosses and exceptions, pag. 100, 101. of my Vindiciae Legis & Foederis. The Covenant is still the same Covenant of Grace, though the external initiating sign be changed. For what is the substantial part of the Covenant of Grace now, but the same it was to Abraham and his Seed before? Is not this our Covenant of Grace, Heb. 8. 10. I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people? And in what words was Abraham's Covenant expressed, Gen. 17. 7. I will establish my Covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting Covenant, to be a God unto thee and to thy seed after thee. This makes Abraham's Covenant, sealed to him and his Seed, as truly and properly the Covenant of Grace, as that which Baptism now seals to Believers and their ⟨p. 296⟩Seed. The rash ignorance of those that affirm, God may become a People's God in the way of a special interest, by virtue of the broken and abolished Covenant of works, rather deserves sharp reprehension, and sad lamentation, than a confutation; which, nevertheless out of respect to my Friend Mr. Cary, I have given it in its proper place in this Rejoinder.