A39674:1020
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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First, Ends in Duty; There are two ends in Duties: one supreme and ultimate, viz. the glorifying of God, which must, and ought to take the first place of all other ends. Another secondary and subordinate, viz. the good and benefit of our selves. To invert these, and place our own good in the room of God's ⟨p. 396⟩Glory, is sinful and unjustifiable; and he that aims only at himself in Religion, is justly censured as a mercenary Servant, especially if it be any external good he aims at; but spiritual good, especially the enjoyment of God, is so involved in the other, viz. the glory of God, that no man can rightly take the Lord for his God, but he must take him for his Supreme Good, and consequently therein may, and must have a due respect to his own happiness.
First, Ends in Duty; There are two ends in Duties: one supream and ultimate, viz. the glorifying of God, which must, and ought to take the first place of all other ends. Another secondary and subordinate, viz. the good and benefit of our selves. To invert these, and place our own good in the room of God's ⟨p. 396⟩Glory, is sinful and unjustifiable; and he that aims only at himself in Religion, is justly censured as a mercenary Servant, especially if it be any external good he aims at; but spiritual good, especially the enjoyment of God, is so involv'd in the other, viz. the glory of God, that no man can rightly take the Lord for his God, but he must take him for his Supream Good, and consequently therein may, and must have a due respect to his own happiness.
Secondly, Self-ends must also be distinguished into 1. Corrupt, or carnal Self-ends. 2. Pure and spiritual Self-ends.