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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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Of Knowledge there are divers sorts and kinds; some is Humane, and some Divine; some Speculative, and some Practical; some Ingrafted, as the Notions of Morality, and some Acquired by painful search and Study: But of all knowledge none like that Divine and Supernatural knowledge of saving truths revealed by Christ in the Scriptures; from whence ariseth the different degrees both of the Sinfulness and danger of Errors; those Errors being always the worst, which are committed against the most important Truths revealed in the Gospel.
Of Knowledg there are divers sorts and kinds; some is Humane, and some Divine; some Speculative, and some Practical; some Ingrafted, as the Notions of Morality, and some Acquired by painful search and Study: But of all knowledg none like that Divine and Supernatural knowledg of saving truths revealed by Christ in the Scriptures; from whence ariseth the different degrees both of the Sinfulness and danger of Errors; those Errors being always the worst, which are committed against the most important Truths revealed in the Gospel.
These Truths lye infolded either in the plain words, or evident and necessary consequences from the words of the Holy Scriptures; Scripture-Consequences are of great use for the refutation of Errors; ⟨p. 10⟩it was by a Scripture-consequence, that Christ successfully proved the Resurrection against the Sadducees, Matth. 22. The Arians and other Heretics rejected consequential proofs, and required the express words of Scripture only, hoping that way to defend and secure their Errors, against the arguments and assaults of the Orthodox.
These Truths lye infolded either in the plain words, or evident and necessary consequences from the words of the Holy Scriptures; Scripture-Consequences are of great use for the refutation of Errors; ⟨p. 10⟩it was by a Scripture-consequence, that Christ successfully proved the Resurrection against the Sadduces,