A39674:896
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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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. Gal. 3. 13, 14. Eph. 1. 7. But if men were justified from Eternity, how is their Justification the fruit and result of the blood of the Cross? as it plainly appears from these Scriptures to be. Nay,
(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.