A39674:1046
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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He hath also expressly commanded us to examine and prove our selves: upbraided the neglectors of that duty, and enforced their duty upon them by a thundering Argument, 2 Cor. 13. 5. Examine your selves whether ye be in the faith, prove your own selves; know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be Reprobates. In a word, For this end and purpose, amongst others, were the Scriptures written, 1 John 5. 13. These things have I written to you, that believe on the name of the Son of God, that ye may know that ye have eternal life. And therefore to neglect this duty, is exceeding dangerous; but to deny, and deride it, intolerable. It may justly be feared, such men will be drowned in perdition, who fall into the waters, by making a bridge over them with their own shadows.
He hath also expresly commanded us to examine and prove our selves: upbraided the neglectors of that duty, and enforced their duty upon them by a thundring Argument, 2 Cor. 13. 5. Examine your selves whether ye be in the faith, prove your own selves; know ye not your own selves, how that Iesus Christ is in you, except ye be Reprobates. In a word, For this end and purpose, amongst others, were the Scriptures written, 1 Iohn 5. 13. These things have I written to you, that believe on the name of the Son of God, that ye may know that ye have eternal life. And therefore to neglect this duty, is exceeding dangerous; but to deny, and deride it, intolerable. It may justly be feared, such men will be drown'd in perdition, who fall into the waters, by making a bridge over them with their own shadows.
For my own part, I verily believe that the sweetest hours Christians enjoy in this World, is, when they retire into their Closets, and sit there concealed from all ⟨p. 408⟩