A39674:913
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 IV.
A Man may be strongly persuaded of the Love of God to his Soul, and of the pardon of his Sin, and yet have no interest in Christ, nor be in a pardoned State. This was the Case of the Pharisees and others, Luke 18. 9. Rev. 3. 17. Therefore this persuasion cannot be justifying Faith. If a persuasion be that that justifies the persuaded person, then the Pharisees and the Laodiceans were justified. Oh! How common and easy is it for the worst of Men to be strongly persuaded of their good condition; whilst humble serious Christians doubt and stagger? I know not what such Doctrine as this is useful for, but to beget and strengthen that sin of presumption, which sends down multitudes to Hell, out of the professing World: For what is more common amongst the most carnal and unsanctified part of the World, not only such as are merely moral, but even the most flagitious and profane, than to support themselves by false persuasions of their good estate? When they are asked, in order to their conviction, ⟨p. 347⟩what hopes of Salvation they have, and how they are founded? Their common answer is, Christ died for Sinners, and that they are persuaded, that whatever he hath done for any other, he hath done it for them, as well as others: But such a persuasion cometh not of him that called them, and is of dangerous consequence.
A Man may be strongly persuaded of the Love of God to his Soul, and of the pardon of his Sin, and yet have no interest in Christ, nor be in a pardoned State. This was the Case of the Pharisees and others,