A39674:46
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
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.
Once more, My Reader possibly may be stumbled at my calling Faith sometimes the Instrument, and sometimes the Condition of our Justification, when there is so great a Controversy depending among Learned Men, with respect to the use of both those terms. I therefore desire the Reader to take notice, That I dive not into that Controversy here, much less presume to determine it; but finding both those Notions equally opposed by our Antinomians, who reject our actual Justification by Faith either way, and allow to Faith no other use in our actual Justification, but only to manifest to us what was done from Eternity; I do therefore use both those terms, viz. the Conditionality, and Instrumentality of Faith, with respect unto our Justification, and show in what sense those terms are useful in this Controversy, and ⟨image 11⟩are accommodate enough to the design and purpose for which I use them, how repugnant soever they are in that particular, wherein the Learned contend about the Use and Application of them.
Once more, My Reader possibly may be stumbled at my calling Faith sometimes the Instrument, and sometimes the Condition of our Justification, when there is so great a Controversy depending among Learned Men, with respect to the use of both those terms. I therefore desire the Reader to take notice, That I dive not into that Controversy here, much less presume to determine it; but finding both those Notions equally opposed by our Antinomians, who reject our actual Justification by Faith either way, and allow to Faith no other use in our actual Justification, but only to manifest to us what was done from Eternity; I do therefore use both those terms, viz. the Conditionality, and Instrumentality of Faith, with respect unto our Justification, and shew in what sense those terms are useful in this Controversy, and ⟨image 11⟩are accommodate enough to the design and purpose for which I use them, how repugnant soever they are in that particular, wherein the Learned contend about the Use and Application of them.