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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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There are several Mistakes and Errors in these Assertions; and I suppose our Antinomians were led into them, (1.) By their abhorrence of the Popish Doctrine, which errs more dangerously in the other extreme: for they wickedly assert our Sufferings to be satisfactory for our Sins, which is the ground of Popish Penances, and voluntary Self-castigations. (2.) From a groundless apprehension, That God's Corrections of us for our Sins, are inconsistent with the fullness of Christ's satisfaction for them. Christ having paid all our Debts, and dissolved our Obligations to all punishment, it cannot consist with the Justice of God to lay any Rod upon us for our Sins after Christ hath born all that our Sins deserved.
There are several Mistakes and Errors in these Assertions; and I suppose our Antinomians were led into them, (1.) By their abhorrence of the Popish Doctrine, which errs more dangerously in the other extream: for they wickedly assert our Sufferings to be satisfactory for our Sins, which is the ground of Popish Penances, and voluntary Self-castigations. (2.) From a groundless apprehension, That God's Corrections of us for our Sins, are inconsistent with the fulness of Christ's satisfaction for them. Christ having paid all our Debts, and dissolved our Obligations to all punishment, it cannot consist with the Justice of God to lay any Rod upon us for our Sins after Christ hath born all that our Sins deserved.
This mistake of the end of Christ's death, occasions them to stumble into the other Mistakes: they imagine that Christ's Satisfaction abolished God's hatred of Sin in Believers. But this cannot be; God's antipathy to Sin, can never be taken away by the Satisfaction of Christ, though his hatred to the Persons of the redeemed be: for the hatred of Sin is founded in the unchangeable Nature of ⟨p. 367⟩God; and he can as soon cease to be holy, as cease to hate Sin, Hab. 1. 13. Nor was Christ's death ever designed to this end: though Christ hath satisfied for the Sins of Believers, God still hates Sin in Believers. His hatred to their Sins, and love to their Persons, are not inconsistent. As a man may love his Leg or Arm, as they are Members of his own Body, and notwithstanding that love, hate the Gangrene which hath taken them; and lance or use painful corrosives for the cure of them.