A39674:736
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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Either these passages I have here cited and compared,1 were fetched at a great distance of time, out of Authors differing as much in judgment as you and I do; and so the dissonancy of them is the mere effect of oblivion, and incogitancy: Or else your Intellectuals are more confused and weak than I am willing to suspect them to be. For if the application of Pardoning Mercy to our Souls▪ is in order of Nature consequent to Believing (as you truly say it was); then certainly, notwithstanding Christ's fulfilling the Law, and purchasing Heaven and Happiness for Men, something else must remain to be done, besides declaring this to them, to incline them to believe and accept it, or prescribing to them in what way they shall finally come to inherit Eternal Life. For besides those declarations and prescriptions you talk of, Faith it self must be wrought in the Souls of Men, or else Pardoning Mercy is not in order of Nature consequent unto believing, as you said it was: For all the external Declarations and Prescriptions in the World are not Faith it self, ⟨p. 260⟩but only the means to beget it; which may, or may not, become effectual to that end.
Either these passages I have here cited and compared,1 were fetched at a great distance of time, out of Authors differing as much in judgment as you and I do; and so the dissonancy of them is the meer effect of oblivion, and incogitancy: Or else your Intellectuals are more confused and weak than I am willing to suspect them to be. For if the application of Pardoning Mercy to our Souls▪ is in order of Nature consequent to Believing (as you truly say it was); then certainly, notwithstanding Christ's fulfilling the Law, and purchasing Heaven and Happiness for Men, something else must remain to be done, besides declaring this to them, to incline them to believe and accept it, or prescribing to them in what way they shall finally come to inherit Eternal Life. For besides those declarations and prescriptions you talk of, Faith it self must be wrought in the Souls of Men, or else Pardoning Mercy is not in order of Nature consequent unto believing, as you said it was: For all the external Declarations and Prescriptions in the World are not Faith it self,