A39674:1014
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.
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, Ps. 51. 8. And is that no hurt? It draws off their Minds from God, interrupts their Prayers and Meditations, Rom. 7. 18, 19, 20, 21. ⟨p. 393⟩And is there no hurt in that? It causeth their Graces to decline, wither, and languish to that degree, that the things which are in them are ready to die, Rev. 3. 1. and Rev. 2. 4. And is the loss of Grace and Spiritual strength, no hurt to a Believer? It hides the Face of God from them, Isa. 59. 2. And is there no hurt in spiritual withdrawments of God from their Souls? Why then do deserted Saints so bitterly lament and bemoan it? It provokes innumerable afflictions and miseries, which fall upon our Bodies, Relations, Estates; and if Sin be the cause of all these inward and outward miseries to the People of God, sure then there is some hurt in Sin, for which the Saints ought to be afraid of it.
Secondly, Sin may be consider'd 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,