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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Error I.
I shall begin with the dangerous mistake of the Antinomians in the Doctrine of Justification. The Article of Justification is deservedly styled by our Divines, Articulus stantis, vel cadentis Religionis, the very Pillar of the Christian Religion.
I shall begin with the dangerous mistake of the Antinomians in the Doctrine of Iustification. The Article of Justification is deservedly stiled by our Divines, Articulus stantis, vel cadentis Religionis, the very Pillar of the Christian Religion.
In two things however I must do the Antinomians right. (1.) In acknowledging, that though their Errors about Justification be great and dangerous, yet they are not so much about the substance, ⟨p. 319⟩as about the mode of a Sinner's Justification: An Error far inferior to the Error of the Papists, who depress the Righteousness of Christ, and exalt their own inherent Righteousness in the business of Justification. (•.) I am bound in charity to believe, that some among them do hold those Errors but speculatively, whilst the Truth lies nearer their hearts, and will not suffer them to reduce their own Opinions into practice. Now as to their Errors about Justification, the most that I have read do make Justification to be an immanent and eternal act of God; 1