A39674:1064
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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Unity amongst those that hold not the Head, is rather a Conspiracy, than a Gospel-unity. Believers and unbelievers may have a Political or Civil union; but there's no Spiritual unity, but what flows from joint-membership in Christ. I will not deny, but in particular Churches there may be, and still are some Hypocrites, who hold Communion with the Saints, and pretend to belong unto Christ, the same Head with them; but as they have no real Union with Christ, so neither have they any sincere affection to the Saints; and these for the most part, are they that raise tumults and divisions in the Church, as disloyal Subjects do in the Commonwealth. Of these the Apostle speaks, 1 Joh. 2. 19. They went out from ⟨p. 417⟩us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us; but they went out, that it might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
Unity amongst those that hold not the Head, is rather a Conspiracy, than a Gospel-unity. Believers and unbelievers may have a Political or Civil union; but there's no Spiritual unity, but what flows from joint-membership in Christ. I will not deny, but in particular Churches there may be, and still are some Hypocrites, who hold Communion with the Saints, and pretend to belong unto Christ, the same Head with them; but as they have no real Union with Christ, so neither have they any sincere affection to the Saints; and these for the most part, are they that raise tumults and divisions in the Church, as disloyal Subjects do in the Commonwealth. Of these the Apostle speaks, 1 Ioh. 2. 19. They went out from ⟨p. 417⟩us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us; but they went out, that it might be made manifest that they were not all of us.