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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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(2.) Besides the Transgression of the Preceptive part of the Law, there is an obnoxiousness unto Punishment, arising from the Sanction of the Law, which we call the Guilt of Sin; and this (as Judicious Dr. Owen observes) is separable from sin:1 And if it were not separable from the former, no sinner in the world ⟨p. 381⟩could either be pardoned or saved: Guilt may be made another's by Imputation, and yet that other not rendered formally a sinner thereby: Upon this ground we say, the Guilt and Punishment of our Sin, was that only which was imputed unto Christ; but the very Transgression of the Law it self, or Sin formally and essentially considered, could never be communicated or transfused from us into him. I know but two ways in the world by which one man's sins can be imagined to become another's, viz. Either by Imputation, which is Legal, and what we affirm; or by Essential Transfusion from subject to subject (as our Adversaries fancy) which is utterly impossible; and we have as good ground to believe the absurd Doctrine of Transubstantiation, as this wild notion of the Essential Transfusion of Sin. Guilt arising from the Sanction of the Law, may and did pass from us to Christ by Legal Imputation; but sin it self, the very Transgression it self, arising from the very Preceptive part of the Law, cannot so pass from us to Christ: For if we should once imagine that the very acts and habits of sin, with the odious deformity thereof, should pass from our Persons to Christ, and subjectively ⟨p. 382⟩to inhere in him, as they do in us; then it would follow,
(2.) Besides the Transgression of the Preceptive part of the Law, there is an obnoxiousness unto Punishment, arising from the Sanction of the Law, which we call the Guilt of Sin; and this (as Judicious Dr. Owen observes) is separable from sin:1 And if it were not separable from the former, no sinner in the world ⟨p. 381⟩could either be pardoned or sav'd: Guilt may be made another's by Imputation, and yet that other not rendred formally a sinner thereby: Upon this ground we say, the Guilt and Punishment of our Sin, was that only which was imputed unto Christ; but the very Transgression of the Law it self, or Sin formally and essentially consider'd, could never be communicated or transfused from us into him. I know but two ways in the world by which one man's sins can be imagined to become another's, viz. Either by Imputation, which is Legal, and what we affirm; or by Essential Transfusion from subject to subject (as our Adversaries fancy) which is utterly impossible; and we have as good ground to believe the absurd Doctrine of Transubstantiation, as this wild notion of the Essential Transfusion of Sin. Guilt arising from the Sanction of the Law, may and did pass from us to Christ by Legal Imputation; but sin it self, the very Transgression it self, arising from the very Preceptive part of the Law, cannot so pass from us to Christ: For if we should once imagine that the very acts and habits of sin, with the odious deformity thereof, should pass from our Persons to Christ, and subjectively