A39674:912
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 III.
That only is justifying, saving Faith, which gives the Soul Right and Title to Christ, and the saving benefits which ⟨p. 345⟩come by Christ upon all the Children of God. Now it is not persuasion that Christ is ours, but acceptance of him, that gives us interest in Christ, and the saving benefits and privileges of the Children of God, John 1. 12. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God; even to them that believe on his name. So that unless the Antinomians can prove, that receiving of Christ, and personal persuasion of pardon, be one and the same thing; and consequently, that all Believers in the World are persuaded or assured that their sins are pardoned; and reject from the number of Believers all tempted, deserted, dark, and doubting Christians; this persuasion they speak of, is not, nor can it be the act of Faith, which justifies the person of a Sinner before God. That which I think led our Antinomians into this Error, was an unsound and unwary definition of Faith, which in their youth they had imbibed from their Catechisms, and other Systems, passing without contradiction or scruple in those days, which though it were a mistake, and hath abundantly been proved to be so in latter days; yet our Antinomians will not part with a notion so serviceable to the support ⟨p. 346⟩of their darling Opinion of Eternal Justification.