A39674:1054
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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(2.) The Arguments enforcing this Duty upon them, comes next under consideration. And these are Three. (1.) I beseech you. (2.) I beseech you, Brethren. (3.) I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. These Arguments are not of equal Force and Efficacy: The first is great: The second greater: The last the most efficacious, and irresistible, of all the rest: But all together should come with such Power, and irresistible Efficacy upon the Judgments, Consciences, and Hearts of Christians, as should perfectly knit them together, and defeat all the Designs of Satan, and his Agents, ⟨p. 412⟩without them, or of their own Corruptions within them, to rend asunder their Affections or Communion.
(2.) The Arguments enforcing this Duty upon them, comes next under consideration. And these are Three. (1.) I beseech you. (2.) I beesech you, Brethren. (3.) I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Iesus Christ. These Arguments are not of equal Force and Efficacy: The first is great: The second greater: The last the most efficacious, and irresistible, of all the rest: But all together should come with such Power, and irresistible Efficacy upon the Judgments, Consciences, and Hearts of Christians, as should perfectly knit them together, and defeat all the Designs of Satan, and his Agents, ⟨p. 412⟩without them, or of their own Corruptions within them, to rend asunder their Affections or Communion.
And first,1 he enforces the Duty of Unity by a solemn Apostolical Obsecration and Adjuration; I beseech you, saith he; he had Power to command them to this Duty, and threaten them for the neglect of it: He had in readiness to revenge all Disobedience, and might have shaken that Rod over them; but he chooseth rather to entreat and beseech them: Now I beseech you, Brethren: Here you have, as it were, the great Apostle upon his knees before them, Meekly and Pathetically entreating them to be at perfect Unity among themselves. 'Tis the entreaty of their Spiritual Father, that had begotten them to Christ. Now [I] beseech you, brethren, I who was the Instrument in Christ's hand, of your Conversion to him: I, that have planted you a Gospel-Church, and assiduously watered you: I beseech you by all the spiritual ties and endearments betwixt me and you, that there be no Divisions among you. This is the first Argument, wrapped up in a solemn Obsecration.