A39674:1066
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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It hath indeed been said, That it's never better with the Church, than when there are most Hypocrites in it; but then you must understand it only with respect to the external tranquillity and prosperity of the Church; for as to its real, spiritual advantage, they add nothing: And therefore it behoves Church-Officers and Members to be exceeding careful ⟨p. 418⟩(especially in times of Liberty and Prosperity) how they admit Members, as the […] Solomon• time were of admitting Proselytes. 'Tis said, Amos 3. 3. How can two walk together except they be agreed? I deny not but persons that differ in some lesser points as to their Judgment, may, and ought to be one in Affection: But of this I am sure, that when Sanctified persons, agreed in Judgments and Principles, do walk together under pious and judicious Church-officers, in tender affection, and the exercise of all duties tending to mutual edification, glorifying God with one mouth, Rom. 15. 6. and cleaving together with oneness of heart, Acts 2. 42. This is such a Church-unity as answers Christ's end in the ••stitution of particular Churches, and greatly tends to their own comfort, and the propagation of Christianity in the World. Tongue-unity flows from Heart-unity; Heart-unity, in a great measure, from Head-unity; and all three from Union with the Lord Jesus Christ. The divisions of our Tongues come mostly from the divisions of our Hearts; were Hearts agreed, Tongues would quickly be agreed; And then what ble••ed times might be expected? ⟨p. 419⟩And so much briefly for the nature of Unity. Next,
It hath indeed been said, That it's never better with the Church, than when there are most Hypocrites in it; but then you must understand it only with respect to the external tranquillity and prosperity of the Church; for as to its real, spiritual advantage, they add nothing: And therefore it behoves Church-Officers and Members to be exceeding careful