A39674:886
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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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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1. Can we rationally suppose, that Pardon and Acceptance can be affirmed, ⟨p. 333⟩or predicated of that which is not? Reason tells us, Non entis nulla sunt accidentia; That which is not, can neither be condemned nor justified: But before the Creation, or before a Man's particular Conception, he was not, and therefore could not in his own Person be the Subject of Justification. Where there is no Law, there is no Sin: Where there is no Sin, there is no Punishment: Where there is neither Sin nor Punishment, there can be no Guilt (for Guilt is an Obligation to Punishment). And where there's neither Law, nor Sin, nor Obligation to Punishment, there can be no Justification. He that is not capable of a Charge, is not capable of a Discharge. What remains then, but that either the Elect must exist from Eternity, or be justified in time? 'Tis true, future Beings may be considered, as in the purpose and decree of God from Eternity; or as in the Intention of Christ, who died intentionally for the Sins of the Elect, and rose again for their Justification. But neither the Decree of God, nor the Death of Christ, takes place upon any Man for his actual Justification, until he personally exist. For the Object of Justification is a Sinner actually ungodly, ⟨p. 334⟩Rom. 4. 5. but so no Man is, or can be from Eternity. In Election, men are considered without respect to Good or Evil done by them,