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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
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But,1 I suppose, you take my Notion to be as self-repugnant as your own, when I say Faith is an antecedent Condition to Justification: because I also say, ⟨p. 263⟩this Grace is also supernaturally wrought in us, and is not of our selves. This staggers you, and is the very stone you stumble at all along this Controversy: for in your sense, p. 34. every Condition is meritorious by condignity or congruity.
But,1 I suppose, you take my Notion to be as self-repugnant as your own, when I say Faith is an antecedent Condition to Justification: because I also say, ⟨p. 263⟩this Grace is also supernaturally wrought in us, and is not of our selves. This staggers you, and is the very stone you stumble at all along this Controversie: for in your sense, p. 34. every Condition is meritorious by condignity or congruity.
- 1Objection.
First, What do I say more in all this,1 than what those Worthies before-mentioned do expressly affirm? Doth not Dr. Owen (the man whom you deservedly value) make Conditions both in Adam's Covenant and the New, with this difference, that Adam's Covenant required them, but the New Covenant effects them in all the Federates? Sir, We take it for no contradiction to assert, That the planting of the Principle, and the assisting and exciting of the Acts of Faith, are the proper Works of the Spirit of God, and are also contained in the absolute Promises of the New Covenant,