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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
(1.) It is most absurd to imagine that the Righteousness of Christ should formally inhere in the person of all, or any Believer, as it doth in the person of the Mediator. The impossibility hereof appears plainly from the incapacity of the Subject. The Righteousness of Christ is an Infinite Righteousness, because it is the Righteousness of God-man, and can therefore be subjected in no other person beside him. It is capable of being imputed to a finite creature, and therefore in the way of imputation we are said to be made the righteousness of God in him: but though it may be imputed to a finite creature, it inheres only in the person of the Son of God, as in its proper subject. And indeed,
(2.) If it should be inherent in us, it could not be imputed to us as it is, Rom. 4. 6, 23. Nor need we go out of our selves for justification, as now we must, Phil. 3. 9. but may justify our ⟨p. 387⟩selves by our own inherent Righteousness. And
(3 dly,) What should hinder, if this Infinite Righteousness of Christ were infused into us, and should make us as completely righteous as Christ; but that we might justify others also, as Christ doth: and so we might be the Saviours of the Elect, as Christ is? Which is most absurd to imagine. And
(3 dly,) What should hinder, if this Infinite Righteousness of Christ were infused into us, and should make us as compleatly righteous as Christ; but that we might justify others also, as Christ doth: and so we might be the Saviours of the Elect, as Christ is? Which is most absurd to imagine. And