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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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Had I had an itch to expose the Burlesque and ridiculous Stuff, which lies obvious enough in your Book; I should then have told your Reader, That according to your Doctrine, how opposite and inconsistent soever the two Covenants of Works and Grace be, yet the same Subjects, viz. Believers, may at once, not only stand under them both, ⟨p. 302⟩but that the same common Seal, viz. Circumcision, equally ratifies and confirms them both; for you allow in your Call, p. 205. That it sealed the Covenant of Grace to believing Abraham, and yet was a Seal of the Covenant of Works, yea the very condition of that Covenant, as you frequently affirm it to be. Vide, p. 81. of your Reply, and Passim.
I could as easily and justly have told you, That the most malicious Papist could scarcely have invented a more horrid Reproach against our famous Orthodox Protestant Divines, than you (I dare not say maliciously, but) ignorantly have done, when you charge such men as Mr. Francis Roberts, Mr. Obadiah Sedgwick; and indeed all that assert the Law, complexly taken, to be an obscurer Covenant of Grace; that they comprise perfect doing with the consequent Curse for non-performance; and believing in Christ unto life and salvation in one and the same Covenant. This is an intolerable abuse of yours, p. 5. of your Reply. They generally assert the Law, in that complex sense and latitude you take it, to be a true Covenant of Grace, though more obscurely administered; and that the distinction of the Covenants into ⟨p. 303⟩Old and New, is no parallel distinction with that of Works and Grace, or Christ's and Adam's Covenant. Your public recantation of the Injury you have done the very Protestant Cause herein, is your unquestionable duty, yet scarce a due reparation of the Injury.
I could as easily and justly have told you, That the most malicious Papist could scarcely have invented a more horrid Reproach against our famous Orthodox Protestant Divines, than you (I dare not say maliciously, but) ignorantly have done, when you charge such men as Mr. Francis Roberts, Mr. Obadiah Sedgwick; and indeed all that assert the Law, complexly taken, to be an obscurer Covenant of Grace; that they comprize perfect doing with the consequent Curse for non-performance; and believing in Christ unto life and salvation in one and the same Covenant. This is an intolerable abuse of yours, p. 5. of your Reply. They generally assert the Law, in that complex sense and latitude you take it, to be a true Covenant of Grace, though more obscurely administred; and that the distinction of the Covenants into