A39674:893
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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(3.) 'Tis cross to the Scripture-order of Justification; which places it not only after Christ's death in the place last cited, Rom. 8. 33. but also after our actual vocation, as is plain, vers. 30. Moreover, whom he did predestinate, them he also called; and whom he called, them he also justified; and whom he justified, them he also glorified. Is it absurd to place Vocation before Predestination, or Glorification before Justification? sure then it must be absurd also to place Justification before Vocation: the one as well as the other confounds and breaks the Scripture-order. You may as well say, men shall be glorified, that were never justified; as say they may be justified, before they believed or existed. So that you see the notion of Justification from Eternity, or before our actual existence, and effectual Vocation, is a notion as repugnant to sacred Scripture, as it is to sound Reason.
(3.) 'Tis cross to the Scripture-order of Justification; which places it not only after Christ's death in the place last cited, Rom. 8. 33. but also after our actual vocation, as is plain, vers. 30. Moreover, whom he did predestinate, them he also called; and whom he called, them he also justified; and whom he justified, them he also glorified. Is it absurd to place Vocation before Predestination, or Glorification before Justification? sure then it must be absurd also to place Justification before Vocation: the one as well as the other confounds and breaks the Scriptureorder. You may as well say, men shall be glorified, that were never justified; as say they may be justified, before they believed or existed. So that you see the notion of Justification from Eternity, or before our actual existence, and effectual Vocation, is a notion as repugnant to sacred Scripture, as it is to sound Reason.
And as it is found repugnant to Reason and Scripture,1 so it is highly injurious to Jesus Christ, and the Souls of Men.