A39674:722
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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We consider it Organically, Relatively, and (as most speak) Instrumentally, as it receives Christ, Joh. 1. 12. and so ⟨p. 250⟩gives us power to become the Sons of God; it being impossible for any Man to partake of the saving benefits of the Covenant, but as he is united to Christ. For all the Promises of God in him are yea; and in him, Amen, 2 Cor. 1. 20. And united to Christ no Man can be, before he be a believer; for Christ dwelleth in our hearts by Faith, Eph. 3. 17. Upon which Scriptural Grounds and Reasons it is, that we affirm Faith to be an Antecedent Condition, or, Causa sine quâ non, to the saving benefits of the new Covenant; and that it must go before them, at least in order of nature, which is that we mean, when we say Faith is the antecedent Condition of the New Covenant. And those that deny it to be so, as the Antinomians do, who talk of actual and personal Justification from Eternity, or at least from the death of Christ, must consequently assert the actual Justification of Infidels; and not only disturb, but destroy the whole order of the Gospel, and open the Sluices and Flood-gates to all manner of licentiousness.
We consider it Organically, Relatively, and (as most speak) Instrumentally, as it receives Christ, Ioh. 1. 12. and so ⟨p. 250⟩gives us power to become the Sons of God; it being impossible for any Man to partake of the saving benefits of the Covenant, but as he is united to Christ. For all the Promises of God in him are yea; and in him, Amen, 2 Cor. 1. 20. And united to Christ no Man can be, before he be a believer; for Christ dwelleth in our hearts by Faith, Eph. 3. 17. Upon which Scriptural Grounds and Reasons it is, that we affirm Faith to be an Antecedent Condition, or, Causa sine quâ non, to the saving benefits of the new Covenant; and that it must go before them, at least in order of nature, which is that we mean, when we say Faith is the antecedent Condition of the New Covenant. And those that deny it to be so, as the Antinomians do, who talk of actual and personal Justification from Eternity, or at least from the death of Christ, must consequently assert the actual Justification of Infidels; and not only disturb, but destroy the whole order of the Gospel, and open the Sluces and Flood-gates to all manner of licentiousness.