A39674:1008
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
Appendix 2 › Part 2 › Section 8 › Subsection 1: Proposition I.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Proposition I.
Believers need not fear their own sins, or the sins of others; because neither our own, or others sins can do us any hurt.
They seem to be induced into this Error, by misunderstanding the Apostle, in Rom. 8. 28. as if the scope of that Text were to assert the benefits of sin to justified persons; whereas he speaks there of Adversities and Afflictions befalling the Saints in this Life. Universalis restringenda ⟨p. 390⟩est ad materiam subjectam, loquitur enim de afflictionibus piorum. The subject matter (saith Pareus on the place) restrains the Universal expression of the Apostle: For when he there saith, All things shall work together for good; he principally intends the afflictions of the Godly, of which he treats there in that context. It may be extended also to all providential events; Omnia quaecunque eis accedunt forinsecus, tam adversa, quàm prospera: All adverse and prosperous events of things without us, as Estius upon the place notes. Nothing is spoken of sin in this Text. And the Apostle distributing this General into Particulars, verse 38. plainly shows, what are the things he intended by his Universal expression, verse 28. as also in what respect no creature can do the Saints any hurt, namely, that they shall never be able to separate them from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. And in this respect it is true that the Sins of the Elect shall not hurt them, by frustrating the purpose of God concerning their Eternal Salvation; or totally and finally to separate them from his Love. This we grant, and yet we think it a very unwary, and unsound expression, That Believers ⟨p. 391⟩