A39674:895
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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(1.) It greatly injures the Lord Jesus Christ, and robs him of the glory of being our Saviour. For if the Elect be justified from Eternity, Christ cannot be the Saviour of the Elect, as most assuredly he is: for if Christ save them, he must save them as persons subject to perishing, either de facto, or de jure. But if the Elect were justified from Eternity, they could in neither respect be subject to perishing: for he that was eternally justified, was never condemned, nor capable of condemnation; and he that never was, or could be condemned, could never be subject to perishing; and he that never was, nor could be subject to perishing, can never truly and properly be said to be saved.
If it be said, the Elect were not justified till the death of Christ: I demand then what became of all them that died before the death of Christ? If they were not justified, they could not be glorified: for this is sure from Rom. 8. 30. That the whole number of the glorified in Heaven is made up of such as were justified ⟨p. 339⟩on Earth: Let men take heed therefore, lest under pretence of exalting Christ, they bereave him of the glory of being the Saviour of his Elect.
(2.) It bereaves him of another glorious Royalty. The Scripture everywhere makes our Justification the result and fruit of the meritorious death of Christ, Rom. 3. 24, 25. Rom. 8. 3, 4. 2 Cor. 5. 19, 20.