A39674:742
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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Oh,1 but say you, p. 34. every Condition is meritorious, either by way of congruity or condignity.
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This is your ignorance of the nature of a Condition,1 with which I find you as unacquainted as with the nature of a Covenant. A Condition, whilst unperformed, only suspends the act of the Law or Testament: it being the will of the Testator, Legislator, or Donor, that ⟨p. 265⟩his Law or Testament should act or effect, when the Condition is performed, and not before: but it is not essential to a Condition, to be a meritorious or impulsive cause moving him to bestow the benefit for the sake thereof. A man freely gives another out of his love and bounty such an Estate or Sum of Money, which he shall enjoy if he live to such a year, or day; and not before: is this quando dies veniet, this appointed time the meritorious or impulsive cause of the gift? surely no man will say it: but that it is a causa sine quâ non, or a Condition suspending the enjoyment of the gift, no man will deny that knows what the nature of a Condition is. An act meritorious by way of Congruity, is that to which a reward is not due out of strict justice, but out of decency, or some kind of meetness. Merit of condignity is a voluntary action, for which a reward is due to a man out of justice, and cannot be denied him without injustice. Our Faith is truly the Condition of the New Covenant, and yet we detest the meritoriousness of it in either sense.
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