A39674:1061
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
GOSPEL-UNITY Recommended to the CHURCHES OF CHRIST: IN A SERMON Pre… › DOCT.
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How desirable a Mercy it is, and how necessary a Duty, let the same Apostle, who presseth it upon the Corinthians in my Text, be heard again, enforcing the same Duty with the same warmth, upon the Church at Philippi, chap. 2. v. 1, 2. If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship ⟨p. 415⟩of the spirit, if any bowels of mercies, fulfil ye my joy, that ye be like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. In handling this Point, I will show, 1. What Unity among Believers is. 2. How the necessity and desirableness of it, may be evinced. 3. And then lay down the Motives and Directions about it.
How desirable a Mercy it is, and how necessary a Duty, let the same Apostle, who presseth it upon the Corinthians in my Text, be heard again, enforcing the same Duty with the same warmth, upon the Church at Philippi, chap. 2. v. 1, 2. If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship ⟨p. 415⟩of the spirit, if any bowels of mercies, fulfil ye my joy, that ye be like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. In handling this Point, I will shew, 1. What Unity among Believers is. 2. How the necessity and desirableness of it, may be evinced. 3. And then lay down the Motives and Directions about it.
(1.) What Unity amongst Believers is, and more particularly such Believers as stand in particular Church-Relation to each other.
There is a twofold Union, one Mystical, betwixt Christ and Believers; another Moral, betwixt Believers themselves: Faith knits them all to Christ, and then Love knits them one to another. Their common relation to Christ their Head, endears them to each other as Fellow-Members in the same Body. Hence they become Sanguine Christi conglutinati; Glued together by the Blood of Christ. Union with Christ is fundamental to all Union among the Saints. Perfect Union would flow from this their common Union with Christ their Head, were they not here in an imperfect state, where their