A39674:884
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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In this Sentence or Judgment, the Generality of Reformed Orthodox Divines are agreed; and the want of distinguishing, (as they according to Scripture have distinguished) hath led the Antinomians into this first Error about Justification, and that Error hath led them into most of the other Errors. That this Doctrine of theirs, (which teaches that Men are justified actually and completely, before they have a being) is an Error, and hath no solid Foundation to support it, may be evidenced by these three Reasons.
In this Sentence or Judgment, the Generality of Reformed Orthodox Divines are agreed; and the want of distinguishing, (as they according to Scripture have distinguished) hath led the Antinomians into this first Error about Justification, and that Error hath led them into most of the other Errors. That this Doctrine of theirs, (which teaches that Men are justified actually and compleatly, before they have a being) is an Error, and hath no solid Foundation to support it, may be evidenced by these three Reasons.
1. Because it is Irrational. 2. Because it is Unscriptural. 3. Because it is Injurious to Christ, and the Souls of Men.
It is Irrational to imagine that Men are actually justified,1 before they have a Being, by an immanent Act or Decree of God. Many things have been urged upon this account to confute and destroy this Fancy, and much more may be rationally urged against it. Let the following Particulars be weighed in the Balance of Reason.
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