A39674:976
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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Refutation.
These two Propositions will never go down with sound and Orthodox Christians. The first sinks and debases Christ too low, the other exalts the sinful Creature too high. The one represents the pure and spotless Lord Jesus as sinful: the other represents the sinful Creature as pure and perfect: and both these Propositions seem evidently to be built upon these two Hypotheses. (1.) That the righteousness of Christ is subjectively and inherently in us, in the same fullness and Perfection it is in Christ: grant that, and then it will follow indeed, That Christ himself is not more righteous than the Believer is. (2.) That not only the guilt and punishment of sin was laid on Christ by way of imputation; but sin it self, the very transgression, or sinfulness it self, was transferred from the Elect to Christ: and that by God's laying it on him, the sinfulness or fault it self was essentially transfused into him; and so sin it self did transire à subjecto in subjectum. Grant but this, and it can never be ⟨p. 377⟩denied but Christ became as completely sinful as we.
These two Propositions will never go down with sound and Orthodox Christians. The first sinks and debases Christ too low, the other exalts the sinful Creature too high. The one represents the pure and spotless Lord Jesus as sinful: the other represents the sinful Creature as pure and perfect: and both these Propositions seem evidently to be built upon these two Hypotheses. (1.) That the righteousness of Christ is subjectively and inherently in us, in the same fulness and Perfection it is in Christ: grant that, and then it will follow indeed, That Christ himself is not more righteous than the Believer is. (2.) That not only the guilt and punishment of sin was laid on Christ by way of imputation; but sin it self, the very transgression, or sinfulness it self, was transferr'd from the Elect to Christ: and that by God's laying it on him, the sinfulness or fault it self was essentially transfused into him; and so sin it self did transire à subjecto in subjectum. Grant but this, and it can never be