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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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Fourth Observation.
Among the manifold impediments to the obtaining of true Knowledge, and settling the mind in the truth and faith of the Gospel, these Three are of special remark and consideration, viz. Ignorance, Curiosity, and Error.
Among the manifold impediments to the obtaining of true Knowledg, and setling the mind in the truth and faith of the Gospel, these Three are of special remark and consideration, viz. Ignorance, Curiosity, and Error.
Ignorance slights it, or despairs of attaining it. Truth falls into contempt among the ignorant, from sluggishness and apprehension of the difficulties that lye in the way to it, Prov. 24. 7. Wisdom is too high for a fool. Curiosity runs beside or beyond it. This Pride and Wantonness of the mind puffs it up with a vain conceit, that it is not only able to penetrate the deepest Mysteries revealed in the Scripture, but even unrevealed secrets also, Col. 2. 18. intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind. But Error militates directly against it, contradicts and opposeth Truth, ⟨p. 14⟩especially when an Error is maintained by pride against inward convictions, or means of better information. 'Tis bad to maintain an Error for want of light; but abundantly worse to maintain it against light. This is such an affront to the Spirit of God, as he usually punishes with Penal Ignorance, and gives them up to a spirit of Error.