A39674:1012
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
Appendix 2 › Part 2 › Section 8 › Subsection 1: Proposition I.
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. Formally. 2. Effectively. 3. Reductively.
First, Formally, as a transgression of the Preceptive part of the Law of God, and under that consideration it is the most formidable evil in the whole World. The evil of evils, at which every gracious heart trembles, and ought rather to choose Banishment, Prison, and Death it self in the most terrible form, than Sin, or that which is most tempting in Sin, the pleasures of it; as Moses did, Heb. 11. 25.
First, Formally, as a transgression of the Preceptive part of the Law of God, and under that consideration it is the most formidable evil in the whole World. The evil of evils, at which every gracious heart trembles, and ought rather to chuse Banishment, Prison, and Death it self in the most terrible form, than Sin, or that which is most tempting in Sin, the pleasures of it; as Moses did, Heb. 11. 25.
Secondly, Sin may be considered Effectively, with respect to the manifold mischiefs and calamities it produceth in the World, and the Spiritual and Corporeal Evils it infers upon Believers themselves: Though it cannot Damn their Souls, yet it makes War against their Souls, and brings them into miserable Bondage and Captivity, Rom. 7. 23. It wounds their Souls, under which wounds they are feeble and sore broken; yea, they roar by reason of the disquietness of their hearts, Psal. 38. 5, 8. Is War, Captivity, Festering painful Wounds, causing them to roar, no hurt to Believers? It breaks their very Bones,