A39674:984
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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(4.) We likewise grant, That as the Guilt of our Sins was by God's Imputation laid upon Christ, so the Righteousness of Christ is by God imputed to Believers by virtue of their Union with Christ; and becomes thereby as truly and fully theirs, for the justification of their ⟨p. 379⟩particular Persons before God, as if they themselves had in their own Persons fulfilled all that the Law requires, or suffered all that it threatened: No inherent Righteousness in our own Persons, is, or can be more truly our own for this end and purpose, than Christ's imputed Righteousness is our own. He is the Lord our Righteousness, Jer. 23. 6. We are made the righteousness of God in him, 1 Cor. 5. 21. Yea, the righteousness of the Law is fulfilled in them that believe, Rom. 8. 4.
(4.) We likewise grant, That as the Guilt of our Sins was by God's Imputation laid upon Christ, so the Righteousness of Christ is by God imputed to Believers by virtue of their Union with Christ; and becomes thereby as truly and fully theirs, for the justification of their ⟨p. 379⟩particular Persons before God, as if they themselves had in their own Persons fulfilled all that the Law requires, or suffered all that it threatned: No inherent Righteousness in our own Persons, is, or can be more truly our own for this end and purpose, than Christ's imputed Righteousness is our own. He is the Lord our Righteousness, Jer. 23. 6. We are made the righteousness of God in him, 1 Cor. 5. 21. Yea, the righteousness of the Law is fulfilled in them that believe, Rom. 8. 4.
But notwithstanding all this, we cannot say, (1.) That Christ became as completely sinful as we. Or (2.) That we are as completely righteous as Christ; and that over and above the Guilt and Punishment of Sin, (which we grant was laid upon Christ) Sin it self simply considered, or the very Transgression it self, became the Sin or Transgression of Christ; and consequently that we are as completely Righteous as Christ, and Christ as completely Sinful as we are.