A39674:971
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
Appendix 2 › Part 2 › Section 6 › Subsection 3: Concession III.
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1. That God lays his correcting Rod in this World upon the persons of Believers. This no man can have the face to deny that believes the Scriptures to be ⟨p. 370⟩the Word of God, or that the Troubles of good men in this life fall not out by casualty, but by the counsel and direction of Divine Providence. He that denies the hand of God to be upon the Persons of Believers in this life in the way of painful Chastisements and Sufferings, must either ignorantly, or wilfully, overlook that Scripture, Heb. 7. 8. What Son is he whom the Father chasteneth not? but if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye Bastards, and not Sons. Nor will any sober Christian deny these Troubles of Believers to be the effects of God's governing-Providence in the World, or once imagine or affirm them to be mere Casualties and Contingences: for affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground, Job 5. 6. In what Eutopia doth that good man live upon Earth, that feels not the painful Rod of God upon himself, nor hears the sad laments and moans of other Christians under it! This sure is undeniable, that the Rod of God is every-where upon the Persons and Tabernacles of the Righteous; and if any doubt it, his own sense and feeling may in a little time give him a painful demonstration of it.
2. And for the second, That this Rod of God is sometimes laid upon Believers for their Sins, methinks no sober modest Christian in the World should doubt, or deny it, when he considers, That 1. God himself hath so declared it. 2. The Saints in all Ages have freely confessed it to be so.
1. God himself hath fully and plainly declared it to be so,