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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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3. Finding my Adversary in the pursuit of his design, running into many Antinomian delirations, to the reproach and damage of the Cause he contends for; I thought it necessary to take the principal Errors of Antinomianism into examination, especially at such a time as this, when they seem to spring afresh, to the hazard of God's Truth, and the Churches Peace; wherein I have dealt with becoming-modesty and plainness, if haply I might be any way instrumental in my plain and home way of Argumentation, to detect the falsity and dangerous nature of those notions which some good men have vented; ⟨image 10⟩and preserve the sounder part of the Church from so dangerous a contagion.
4. In the next place I think it necessary to advertise the Reader, That whereas in my first Appendix under that head of the Conditionality of the New Covenant, I have asserted Faith to be the Condition of it, and do acknowledge, p. 246. that the word Condition is variously used among Jurists; yet I do not use in any sense, which implies or insinuates, that there is any such condition in the New Covenant, as that in Adam's Covenant was, consisting in perfect, personal, and perpetual obedience; or any thing in its own nature meritorious of the benefits promised, or capable to be performed by us in our own strength; but plainly, that it be an act of ours (tho' done in God's strength) which must be necessarily done before we can be actually justified or saved; and so there is found in it the true suspending nature of a condition; which is the thing I contend for, when I affirm, Faith is the condition of the New Covenant.
4. In the next place I think it necessary to advertise the Reader, That whereas in my first Appendix under that head of the Conditionality of the New Covenant, I have asserted Faith to be the Condition of it, and do acknowledg, p. 246. that the word Condition is variously used among Iurists; yet I do not use in any sense, which implies or insinuates, that there is any such condition in the New Covenant, as that in Adam's Covenant was, consisting in perfect, personal, and perpetual obedience; or any thing in its own nature meritorious of the benefits promised, or capable to be performed by us in our own strength; but plainly, that it be an act of ours (tho' done in God's strength) which must be necessarily done before we can be actually justified or saved; and so there is found in it the true suspending nature of a condition; which is the thing I contend for, when I affirm, Faith is the condition of the New Covenant.