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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 II.
That cannot be the justifying act of Faith, which is not constant and abiding with the justified Person, but comes and goes, is frequently lost and recovered, the state of the Person still remaining the same. And such contingent things are these persuasions and manifestations; they come and go, are won and lost, the state of the Person still remaining the same. Job was as much a justified Believer when he complained that God was his Enemy, as when he could say, I know that my Redeemer liveth. The same may be said of David, Heman, Asaph, and the greatest number of justified Believers recorded in Scripture. There be two things belonging to a justified state. (1.) That which is essential and inseparable, to wit, Faith uniting the ⟨p. 344⟩Soul to Christ. (2.) That which is contingent and separable, to wit, evidence and persuasion of our interest in him. Those Believers that walk in darkness, and have no light, have yet a real special interest in God as their God, Isa. 50. 10. Here then you find Believers without persuasion or manifestation of God's love to them; which could never be, if justifying Faith consisted in a personal persuasion, manifestation or evidence of the love of God, and pardon of Sin to a Man's Soul. That cannot be the justifying Faith spoken of in Scripture, which a justified Person may live in Christ without, and be as much in a state of pardon and acceptation with God, when he wants it, as when he hath it. But such is persuasion, evidence, or manifestation of a man's particular interest in the love of God, or the pardon of his Sins. Therefore this is not the justifying Faith the Scripture speaks of.