A39674:49
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.
This, I desire, may be observed, lest in my use of both those terms, my Reader should think, either that I am not aware of the Controversy depending about those terms; or, that I do herein manifest the vacillancy of my Judgment, as if I leaned sometime to one side, and ⟨image 11⟩sometime to another. I speak not here, ad idem, as they do in that Contest; but when I call it a Condition of Justification, my meaning is, that no Man is justified until he believe. And when I call it an Instrument, my meaning is, that it is the Righteousness of Christ apprehended by Faith, which doth justify us when we believe. And so I find the Generality of our Divines calling Faith sometimes a Condition, and sometimes an Instrument of our Justification, as here I do.
And if there be any Expression my Reader shall meet with, which is less accurate, and may be capable of another sense: I crave that Candour from him, that he interpret it according to this my declared Intention.
And if there be any Expression my Reader shall meet with, which is less accurate, and may be capable of another sense: I crave that Candor from him, that he interpret it according to this my declared Intention.
5. Lastly, I have added to the former, a short, plain, practical Sermon, to promote the Peace and Unity of the Churches of Christ, and prevent their Relapse into past Follies.