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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
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.
Dr. Downame harmonizeth with the rest in these words: That which is the only Condition of the Covenant of Grace,1 by that alone we are justified: But Faith is the Condition of the Covenant of Grace, which is therefore called Lex Fidei. Our Writers (saith he) distinguishing the two Covenants of God, that is, the Law and the Gospel, whereof one is the Covenant of Works, the other the Covenant of Grace, do teach, That the Law of Works is that which to Justification requireth works as the Condition thereof: The Law of Faith that, which to Justification requireth Faith as the Condition thereof. The former saith, Do this, and thou shalt live; the latter, Believe in Christ, and thou shalt be saved.
- 1Tract. 1. Of Justif. Lib. 6. cap. 8. Sect. 10. and Lib. 7. cap. 2. Sect. 6.Tract. 1. Of Iustif. Lib. 6. cap. 8. Sect. 10. and Lib. 7. cap. 2. Sect. 6.
But what stand I upon particular, though renowned names? You may see a whole Constellation of our sound and famous Divines in the Assembly, thus expressing themselves about this Point. The Grace of God (say they) is manifested in the second Covenant, in that he freely provideth, and offereth to sinners a Mediator,1 and Life and Salvation by him, and requiring Faith as the Condition to interest them in him, promiseth and giveth his Holy Spirit to all his Elect, to work in them that Faith, with all other saving Graces, and to enable them to all holy Obedience, as the evidence of the truth of their Faith, &c.
- 1Larger Catech. 4to. London 1648. p. 8.