A39674:878
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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(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, Rom. 5. 1. Acts 13. 39. Iohn 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.
As soon as we are received into Communion with Christ, and his Righteousness is imputed by God, and received by Faith, immediately we pass from a state of Death and Condemnation, to a state of Life and Justification, and all Sins already committed, are remitted without Exception or Revocation; and not only so, but a Remedy is given us in the Righteousness of Christ against Sins to come; and tho these special and particular Sins we afterward fall into, do need ⟨p. 331⟩