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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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Secondly, Self-ends must also be distinguished into 1. Corrupt, or carnal Self-ends. 2. Pure and spiritual Self-ends.
As to carnal and corrupt Self-ends, inviting and moving men to the performance of Religious Duties: when these are the only Ends men aim at, they bewray the Hypocrisy of the Heart: and accordingly God charges Hypocrisy upon such Persons, Hosea 7. 14. They have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their Beds: they assemble themselves for Corn and Wine, &c. God reckons not the most solemn Duties animated by such Ends, to be done unto him, Zech. 7. 5. Did ye at all fast to me?
But beside these, Man hath a best self, a spiritual self, to regard in duty, viz. The conformity of his Soul to God in holiness, and the perfect fruition of God in glory. Such holy Self-ends as these, are often commended, but nowhere condemned in Scripture. 'Twas the Encomium of Moses, That he had respect unto the recompense of reward, Heb. 11. 26. These ordinate respects to our spiritual best self, are so far from being our sin, that God both appoints and allows them for great uses and advantages to his People in their way to glory. They are (1.) Singular Encouragements to the Saints under Persecution, Straits and Distresses, Heb. 10. 34. And to that end Christ proposes them, Luke 12. 32. And so the best of Saints have made use of them,