A39674:1067
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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(2.) Let us evince both the necessity and desirableness of this Unity among Believers; and this will appear in a threefold respect: viz.
1. With respect to the Glory of God. 2. The Comfort and Benefit of our own Souls. 3. The Conversion and Salvation of the World.
(1.) With respect to the Glory of God. The manifestative Glory of God (which is all the Glory we are capable of giving him, is the very end of our Being, and should be dearer to us than our Lives) is exceedingly advanced by the Unity of his people. Hence is the Apostle's Prayer, Rom. 15. 5, 6. Now the God of patience and consolation, grant you to be like minded one towards another, according to Christ Jesus, that you may with one mind and one mouth glorify God. 'Tis highly remarkable, That the Apostle in this Petition for the Unity of the Saints, doth not only describe that Unity he ⟨p. 420⟩prays for, one Mouth and one Mind, and shows how much God would be glorified by such an Union; but he also addresses himself to God for it, under these two remarkable Titles, the God of patience and consolation; thereby intimating two things; (1.) How great need and exercise there is of patience, in maintaining Unity among the Saints: They must bear one another's burdens; they must give allowance for mutual infirmities: For the Church here is not an Assembly of Spirits of just Men made perfect. The Unity of the Saints therefore greatly depends upon the exercise of Patience one towards another; and this he begs the God of Patience to give them. And to endear this Grace of Patience to them, He (2.) joins with it another Title of God, viz. the God of Consolation, wherein he points them to that abundant comfort which would result unto themselves from such a blessed Unity continued and maintained by the mutual exercises of patience and forbearance one towards another. And to set home all, he lays before them the pattern and example of Christ; The God of patience and consolation grant you to be like minded according to Christ. How many Thousand