A39674:1052
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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The Primitive and Purest Churches of Christ, consisted of imperfect Members, who notwithstanding they were knit together by the same internal bond of the Spirit, and the same external bonds of common Profession, and common Danger, and enjoyed extraordinary helps for uniting, in the Presence and Doctrine of the Apostles among them; yet quickly discovered a Schismatical Spirit, dividing both in Judgment and Affection, to the great Injury of Religion, and Grief of the Apostle's Spirits. To check and heal this growing-Evil in the Church at Corinth, the Apostle addresses his Pathetical Exhortation to them, and to all future Churches of Christ, whom it equally concerns, in the words of my Text. Now I beseech you, brethren, &c. Where note 1. The Duty exhorted to. 2. The Arguments enforcing the Duty.
1. The Duty exhorted to; namely, Unity; the Beauty, Strength, and Glory, as well as the Duty of a Church. This Unity he describes two ways, 1. As it is Exclusive of its opposite, Schism or Division. All Rents, and rash Separations, ⟨p. 411⟩are contrary to it, and destructive of it: I beseech you, brethren, that there be no Divisions [or Schisms] among you. 2. As it is inclusive of all that belongs to it; namely, the Harmony and Agreement of their Judgments, Hearts, and Language. (1.) That ye all speak the same thing. (2.) That ye be perfectly joined together in one Mind. And (3.) In the same Judgment. This threefold Union in Judgment, Affection, and Language, includes all that belongs to Christian Concord, makes the Saints [Greek or Hebrew], men of one Heart and Soul, the loveliest sight this World affords, Acts 2. 46, 47.
1. The Duty exhorted to; namely, Unity; the Beauty, Strength, and Glory, as well as the Duty of a Church. This Unity he describes two ways, 1. As it is Exclusive of its opposite, Schism or Division. All Rents, and rash Separations, ⟨p. 411⟩are contrary to it, and destructive of it: I beseech you, brethren, that there be no Divisions [or Schisms] among you. 2. As it is inclusive of all that belongs to it; namely, the Harmony and Agreement of their Judgments, Hearts, and Language. (1.) That ye all speak the same thing. (2.) That ye be perfectly joined together in one Mind. And (3.) In the same Judgment. This threefold Union in Judgment, Affection, and Language, includes all that belongs to Christian Concord, makes the Saints , men of one Heart and Soul, the loveliest sight this World affords,