A39674:1043
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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(4.) I will further grant, That the Eye of a Christian may be too intently fixed upon his own gracious qualification; and being wholly taken up in the reflex Acts of Faith, may too much neglect the direct Acts of Faith upon Christ, to the great detriment of his Soul.
But all this notwithstanding, The examination of our Justification by our Sanctification, is not only a lawful, and possible, but a very excellent and necessary work and duty. 'Tis the course that Christians have taken in all Ages. And that which God hath abundantly blessed to the joy and encouragement of their Souls.
He hath furnished our Souls to this end with noble self-reflecting Powers and Abilities. He hath answerably furnished his Word with variety of marks and signs for the same end and use. Some of these marks are exclusive to detect and bar bold presumptuous Pretenders, 1 Cor. 6. 9. Rev. 21. 8, 27. Some are inclusive marks, to measure the strength ⟨p. 407⟩and growth of Grace by, Rom. 4. 20. And others are positive signs, flowing out of the very essence of Grace, or the New-Creature, 1 John 4. 13. Hereby we know that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
He hath furnished our Souls to this end with noble self-reflecting Powers and Abilities. He hath answerably furnished his Word with variety of marks and signs for the same end and use. Some of these marks are exclusive to detect and bar bold presumptuous Pretenders,