A39674:741
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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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, Ezek. 36. 26, 27. Jer. 32. 39, 40. And yet Faith, notwithstanding this, is truly and properly our work and duty; and that upon our believing, or not believing, we have, or have not, an actual interest in Christ, Righteousness, and Life. For though the Author of Faith be the Spirit of God, yet believing is properly our Act, and an Act required of us by a ⟨p. 264⟩plain Command, 1 John 3. 23. This is the Command of God, That ye believe. And if its being wrought in God's strength makes it cease to be our Work, I would fain know what Exposition you would give of that place, Phil. 2. 12, 13. Work out your own Salvation, &c. for it is God that worketh in you both to will and to do. And as this Faith is truly and properly our work, though wrought in God's strength (for it is not God, but we, that do believe) so it is wrought in us by him (by your own confession) before the application of pardoning Mercy, which is consequent in order of nature thereunto: and therefore hath the true nature of an antecedent Condition, which is that I contend for; and did you but understand your own words, you would not contend against.
First, What do I say more in all this,1 than what those Worthies before-mentioned do expresly 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 Foederates? 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,