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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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That very mercy or privilege of Justification, which God from all Eternity, purely out of his benevolent Love, purposed and decreed for his Elect, was also in time purchased for them by the death of Christ, Rom. 5. 9, 10. where we are said to be justified by his Blood; and he is said to have made peace through the Blood of his Cross, to reconcile all things to himself, Col. 1. 20. to be delivered for our Offences, and raised again for our Justification, Rom. 4. 25. Once more, That God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses, 2 Cor. 5. 19. God the Father had in the death of Christ a foundation of reconciliation, whereby he became ⟨p. 330⟩propitious to his Elect, that he might absolve and justify them. Again,
(2.) It must be considered in its application to us, which application is made in this Life at the time of our effectual Calling. When an elect Sinner is united to Christ by Faith, and so passeth from Death to Life, from a state of Condemnation, into a state of Absolution and Favour; this is our actual Justification, Rom. 5. 1. Acts 13. 39. John 5. 24. which actual Justification is again considered two ways: 1. Universally, and in General, as to the State of the Person. 2. Specially, and Particularly, as to the Acts of Sin.
(2.) It must be considered in its application to us, which application is made in this Life at the time of our effectual Calling. When an elect Sinner is united to Christ by Faith, and so passeth from Death to Life, from a state of Condemnation, into a state of Absolution and Favour; this is our actual Justification,