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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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Your Answer is,1 That at this rate I may prove quidlibet à quolibet: for it doth not follow, that, because the New Covenant is absolute, therefore it hath no respect nor relation to any Grace wrought in us, nor Duty done by us, or that we may not justly take comfort in Sanctification as an evidence of our Justification.
- 1Answer. p. 120.
If I had a mind to learn the art of proving quidlibet à quolibet, 1and make my self ridiculous to others by such foolish attempts, I know no Book in the World fitter to instruct me therein, than yours. Certainly you have the knack of it, and gave us an instance of it but now, in confuting the Sequel of my Major by an Allegation out of Dr. Owen, which expressly confirms and establishes it. But to the Point, I would willingly know how it is possible for Sanctification to be a true and certain mark and sign of Justification, when (according to the Antinomian Principle, which you here too much comprobate and espouse) a man may be justified before he believe, yea, before he is a man, even from the time of Christ's death, and (as others of them speak) from eternity. A true mark and sign must be proper to, and inseparable from that which it signifies. Now if that be true which you said before, That after Christ's fulfilling of the Law in his own person, &c. nothing can remain but to declare this to men to incline them to believe and accept it, and to prescribe in what way they shall come to inherit eternal life. If this be all that can remain to us, then nothing but the Declarations and Prescriptions ⟨p. 272⟩of the Gospel, which are things without us, can remain to be marks and signs of Justification to us: and consequently all those to whom those Declarations and Prescriptions are made and given, have therein the marks and evidences of their Justification. But I am truly weary of such stuff. I am sure the Apostle places Vocation before Justification,