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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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First, That our Salvation would thereby be rendered utterly impossible. For such an inhesion of Sin in the Person of Christ, is absolutely inconsistent with the Hypostatical Union, which Union is the very Foundation of his Satisfaction, and our Salvation. Tho the Divine Nature can, and doth dwell in Union with the pure and Sinless human Nature of Christ, yet it cannot dwell in Union with Sin.
First, That our Salvation would thereby be rendred utterly impossible. For such an inhesion of Sin in the Person of Christ, is absolutely inconsistent with the Hypostatical Vnion, which Union is the very Foundation of his Satisfaction, and our Salvation. Tho the Divine Nature can, and doth dwell in Union with the pure and Sinless human Nature of Christ, yet it cannot dwell in Union with Sin.
Secondly, This Supposition would render the Blood of the Cross altogether unable to satisfy for us. He could not have been the Lamb of God to take away the Sins of the World, if he had not been perfectly pure and spotless, 1 Pet. 1. 19.
Secondly, This Supposition would render the Blood of the Cross altogether unable to satisfie for us. He could not have been the Lamb of God to take away the Sins of the World, if he had not been perfectly pure and spotless, 1 Pet. 1. 19.
Thirdly, Had our Sins thus been essentially transfused into Christ, the Law had had a just and valid Exception against him; for it accepts of nothing but what is absolutely pure and perfect. I admire, therefore, how any good Man dares to call our Doctrine which teaches the Imputation of our Guilt and Punishment to Christ, a simple Doctrine; and assert, that the Transgression it self became Christ's; and that thereby Christ became as completely sinful as we. And,