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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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The natural qualifications desirable in the Subject, are clearness of Apprehension, solidity of Judgment, and fidelity of Retention. These are desirable requisites to make the Understanding susceptible of knowledge; but the irradiation of the mind by the Spirit of God, is principally necessary, Joh. 16. 13. He shall guide you into all truth: The clearest and most comfortable light he giveth to men, is in the way of Sanctification, called the teachings of the Anointing, 1 John 2. 27.
The natural qualifications desirable in the Subject, are clearness of Apprehension, solidity of Judgment, and fidelity of Retention. These are desirable requisites to make the Understanding susceptible of knowledg; but the irradiation of the mind by the Spirit of God, is principally necessary, Joh. 16. 13. He shall guide you into all truth: The clearest and most comfortable light he giveth to men, is in the way of Sanctification, called the teachings of the Anointing, 1 Iohn 2. 27.
When this spiritual sanctifying light shines upon a mind, naturally enriched and qualified with the three forementioned requisites, that Mind excels others in the riches of knowledge. And yet the teachings of the Spirit in the way of Sanctification, do very much supply and recompense the defects and weaknesses of the forementioned qualifications. Whence two things are highly remarkable:
When this spiritual sanctifying light shines upon a mind, naturally enriched and qualified with the three forementioned requisites, that Mind excels others in the riches of knowledg. And yet the teachings of the Spirit in the way of Sanctification, do very much supply and recompence the defects and weaknesses of the forementioned qualifications. Whence two things are highly remarkable: