A39674:602
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
Appendix 1 › Vindiciarum Vindex: OR, A REFUTATION OF THE Weak and Impertinent Re… › Absurdity I.
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Again, Condemned they could not be, seeing all that are under the pure Covenant of Grace (as he saith they were ⟨p. 181⟩at the same time) are certainly in Christ; and to such there is no condemnation, Rom. 8. 1. nor ever shall be: Joh. 5. 24. He that believeth, shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death unto life. What remains then, but that during life, they could neither be perfectly justified, nor perfectly condemned; and yet being absolutely under the severest Penalties of Adam's Covenant, they were perfectly condemned; and again, being under the pure Covenant of Grace, they must be perfectly justified?
Again, Condemned they could not be, seeing all that are under the pure Covenant of Grace (as he saith they were ⟨p. 181⟩at the same time) are certainly in Christ; and to such there is no condemnation, Rom. 8. 1. nor ever shall be: Ioh. 5. 24. He that believeth, shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death unto life. What remains then, but that during life, they could neither be perfectly justified, nor perfectly condemned; and yet being absolutely under the severest Penalties of Adam's Covenant, they were perfectly condemned; and again, being under the pure Covenant of Grace, they must be perfectly justified?
And then after death, they must neither go to Heaven, nor Hell; but either be annihilated, or stick mid-way in Limbo Patrum (as the Papists fancy) betwixt both. No condemned Person goes to Heaven, nor any justified Person to Hell. His Position therefore, which necessarily infers this gross Absurdity, is justly renounced and detested by Learned and Orthodox Divines.