A39674:1036
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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Refutation.
I am not at all surprised at this strange and absonous Language. 'Tis a false and dangerous Conclusion, yet such as naturally results from, and by a kind of necessity follows out of their other Errors. For if the Elect be all justified from Eternity, and that neither Repentance, Faith or Obedience be required of us in the Covenant of Grace; but were all required of, and performed by Christ, who repented, believed, and obeyed for us; then indeed I cannot understand what relation our Sanctification hath to our Justification; or how it should be an evidence, mark or sign thereof: or what regard is due from Christians to any Grace or Work of the Spirit wrought in them, to clear up their Interest in Christ to them. For we being in Christ, ⟨p. 405⟩and in state of Justification, before we were naturally born, we must necessarily be so before we be regenerated, or newborn; and consequently, no work of Grace wrought in us, or holy Duties performed by us, can be evidential of that which from Eternity was done before them, and without them.
I am not at all surprized at this strange and absonous Language. 'Tis a false and dangerous Conclusion, yet such as naturally results from, and by a kind of necessity follows out of their other Errors. For if the Elect be all justified from Eternity, and that neither Repentance, Faith or Obedience be required of us in the Covenant of Grace; but were all required of, and performed by Christ, who repented, believed, and obeyed for us; then indeed I cannot understand what relation our Sanctification hath to our Justification; or how it should be an evidence, mark or sign thereof: or what regard is due from Christians to any Grace or Work of the Spirit wrought in them, to clear up their Interest in Christ to them. For we being in Christ,