A39674:1070
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.) Secondly, The necessity and desirableness of this Unity farther appears, by the deep interest that the comfort and benefit of our Souls have in it. A great example hereof we have in Acts 2. 46, 47. Oh! what cheeriness, strength, and pleasure, did the Primitive Christians reap from the Unity of their Hearts in the ways and worship of God? Next unto the pleasure and delight of immediate Communion with God himself, and the shedding abroad of his Love into our Hearts by the Holy-Ghost; none like that which ariseth from the harmonious exercises of the graces of the Saints in their mutual Duties and Communions one with another. How are their Spirits dilated and refreshed by it? What ⟨p. 422⟩a lively emblem is here of Heaven! the Courts of Princes afford no such delights. Whereas on the other side, when Schisms have rent Churches a-sunder, they go away from each other exasperated, grieved and wounded, crying out, Oh, that I had a Cottage in the Wilderness! or, oh! that I had the Wings of a Dove, that I might flee away, and be at rest
(3.) Lastly, The necessity and desirableness of this Union further appears with respect unto the World, who are allured to Christ by it, and scared off from Religion by the feuds and divisions of Professors. To this the Prayer of Christ hath respect, Joh. 17. 23. That they may be made perfect in one, that the world may know that thou hast sent me. q. d. This, O Father, will be a convincing evidence to the World, of the Divinity both of my Person and Doctrine, and a great ordinance for their conversion to me, when they shall see my people cleaving inseparably unto me by Faith, and to one another by Love. And on the other side, it will be a fatal stumbling-block in the way of their conversion, to observe my followers biting and devouring, rending and tearing one another.
(3.) Lastly, The necessity and desireableness of this Union further appears with respect unto the World, who are allured to Christ by it, and scared off from Religion by the feuds and divisions of Professors. To this the Prayer of Christ hath respect,