A39674:889
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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
As this Opinion is Irrational,1 so it is Unscriptural. For (1.) The Scripture frequently speaks of Remission or Justification as a future act, and therefore not from Eternity, Rom. 4. 23, 24. Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; but for us also to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him, &c. And Gal. 3. 8. The Scriptures foreseeing that God would justify the Heathen through faith, preached before the Gospel unto Abraham. The Gospel was preached many years before the Gentiles were justified: but if they were justified from Eternity, how was the Gospel preached before their Justification?
- 1Reas. 2.
(2.) The Scripture leaves all Unbelievers, without distinction, under condemnation and wrath. The Curse of the Law lies upon them till they believe, John 3. 18. He that believeth on him, is not condemned; but he that believeth not, is condemned already. And Eph. 2. 3, 12, 13. The very Elect themselves were by nature the Children of wrath even as others. They were at that time, or during that state of nature (which takes in all that whole space betwixt their conception and conversion) without Christ, without hope, without God in the World. But if this Opinion be true, that the Elect were justified from Eternity, or from the time of Christ's death; then it cannot be true, that the Elect by nature are Children of Wrath, without Christ, without Hope, without God in the World; except these two may consist together (which is absolutely impossible) that Children of Wrath, without God, Christ, or Hope, are actually discharged from their Sins and Dangers by a free and gracious act of Justification.