A39674:746
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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If we cannot be justified or saved till we believe,1 and are justified when we believe; Then Faith is the Condition on which those consequent Benefits are suspended, &c.
- 1Argument 1
The sum of your Answer (without denying,1 distinguishing, or limiting one Proposition) is this, That, here Faith is properly put into the room of perfect Obedience, and is to do what perfect Obedience was to do under the Law: whereas (say you) Faith is only appointed as an Instrument to receive and ⟨p. 267⟩apply the Righteousness of Christ, which is the alone matter of our Justification before God; and Faith it self is not our Righteousness, as it would be if it were a Condition, p. 105, 106.
- 1Answer.
Not to note the weakness and impertinence of this Answer,1 I shall only take notice of what you here allow, and grant, That Faith is appointed as an Instrument to receive and apply the Righteousness of Christ, which is the alone matter of our Justification before God. Whence I infer three Conclusions.
Not to note the weakness and impertinence of this Answer,