A39674:916
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 V.
This Doctrine is certainly unsound, because it confounds the distinction betwixt Dogmatical, and Saving Faith; and makes it all one, to believe an Axiom, or Proposition, and to believe savingly in Christ to Eternal Life. What is it to believe, that God laid our iniquities upon Christ, more than the mere assent of the understanding to a Scripture Axiom or Proposition, without any consent of the will to receive Jesus Christ as the Gospel offers him? And this is no more than what any unregenerated person may do; yea, the very Devils themselves assent to the truth of Scripture Axioms and Propositions, as well as Men, Jam. 2. 19. Thou believest there is one God, thou doest well: the Devils also believe and tremble. What is this more than a Scripture-Axiom ⟨p. 348⟩or Proposition, God laid the iniquity of us all upon Christ, Isa. 53. 6? And yet (saith Dr. Crisp, p. 296.) God cannot charge one Sin upon that Man that believes this Truth, That God laid his iniquities upon Christ. The assent of the understanding may be, and often is given to a Scripture Proposition, whilst the Heart and Will remain carnal, and utterly averse to Jesus Christ. I may believe Dogmatically, that the iniquities of Men were laid upon Christ, and persuade my self presumptively, that mine, as well as other Mens, were laid upon him, and yet remain a perfect Stranger to all saving Union and Communion with him.