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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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2. In Justification there is a Change made upon the state of the Person, Rom. 5. 8, 9. 1 Cor. 6. 9, 10, 11. By Justification men pass from a state of Death to a state of Life, Joh. 5. 24. But the Decree or Purpose of God in it self makes no such actual change upon the state of any person. It hath indeed the nature of an Universal Cause; but an Universal Cause produceth nothing without particulars. If our state be changed, it is not by an immanent act of God: Hence no such thing doth transire. A mere velle non punire, or intention to justify us in due time and order, makes no change on our state, till that time come, and the particular Causes have wrought. A Prince may have a purpose or intention to pardon a Law-condemned Traitor, and free him from that Condemnation in due time; but whilst the Law that condemned him stands in its full force and power against him, he is not justified or acquitted, notwithstanding that gracious intention, but stands still condemned. So is it with ⟨p. 335⟩us, till by Faith we are implanted into Christ. 'Tis true, Christ is a surety for all his, and hath satisfied the debt. He is a common Head to all his, as Adam was to all his Children, Rom. 5. 19. But as the Sin of Adam condemns none, but those that are in him; so the Righteousness of Christ actually justifies none but those that are in him; and none are actually in him, but Believers. Therefore till we believe, no actual change passeth, or can pass upon our state. So that this Hypothesis is contrary to Reason.
2. In Justification there is a Change made upon the state of the Person, Rom. 5. 8, 9. 1 Cor. 6. 9, 10, 11. By Justification men pass from a state of Death to a state of Life, Ioh. 5. 24. But the Decree or Purpose of God in it self makes no such actual change upon the state of any person. It hath indeed the nature of an Universal Cause; but an Universal Cause produceth nothing without particulars. If our state be changed, it is not by an immanent act of God: Hence no such thing doth transire. A mere velle non punire, or intention to justify us in due time and order, makes no change on our state, till that time come, and the particular Causes have wrought. A Prince may have a purpose or intention to pardon a Law-condemned Traitor, and free him from that Condemnation in due time; but whilst the Law that condemned him stands in its full force and power against him, he is not justified or acquitted, notwithstanding that gracious intention, but stands still condemned. So is it with