A39674:995
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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That we are as completely Righteous as Christ is; or, that Christ is not more Righteous than a Believer.
That we are as compleatly Righteous as Christ is; or, that Christ is not more Righteous than a Believer.
I cannot imagine what should induce any Man so to express himself, unless it be a groundless conceit and fancy, that there is an essential Transfusion of Christ's justifying Righteousness into Believers, ⟨p. 385⟩whereby it becomes theirs by way of subjective inhesion, and is in them in the very same manner it is in him: And so every individual Believer becomes as completely Righteous as Christ. And this conceit they would fain establish upon that Text, 1 Joh. 3. 7. He that doth righteousness, is righteous, even as he is righteous.
I cannot imagine what should induce any Man so to express himself, unless it be a groundless conceit and fancy, that there is an essential Transfusion of Christ's justifying Righteousness into Believers, ⟨p. 385⟩whereby it becomes theirs by way of subjective inhesion, and is in them in the very same manner it is in him: And so every individual Believer becomes as compleatly Righteous as Christ. And this conceit they would fain establish upon that Text, 1 Ioh. 3. 7. He that doth righteousness, is righteous, even as he is righteous.
But neither this expression, nor any other like it in the Scriptures, gives the least countenance to such a general and unwary Position. It is far from the mind of this Scripture, That the righteousness of Christ is formally and inherently ours, as it is his. Indeed it is ours relatively, not formally and inherently; not the same with his for quantity, though it be the same for verity. His Righteousness is not ours in its Universal value, though it be ours, as to our particular use and necessity. Nor is it made ours to make us so many causes of Salvation to others; but it is imputed to us as to the Subjects, that are to be saved by it our selves.