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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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Reason I.
Because there be multitudes of believing and justified Persons in the World, who have no such manifestation, evidence, or assurance, that God laid their Iniquities upon Christ, and that he died to put away their Sins; but daily conflict ⟨p. 342⟩with strong fears and doubts, whether it be so or no. There are but few among Believers that attain such a persuasion and manifestation, as Antinomians make to be all that is meant in Scripture by Justification through Faith. Many thousand new-born Christians live as the new-born Babe, which neither knows its own Estate, or Inheritance, to which it is born, Vivit, & est vitae nescius ipse suae.
A Soul may be in Christ, and a justified state, without any such persuasion or manifestation, as they here speak of, Isa. 50. 10. And if any shall assert the contrary, he will condemn the greatest part of the Generation of God's Children. Now that cannot be the saving and justifying act of Faith, which is not to be found in multitudes of believing and justified Persons.
But manifestation, or a personal persuasion of the love of God to a Man's Soul, or that Christ died for him, and all his Iniquities are thereby forgiven him, is not to be found in multitudes of believing and justified Souls.