A39674:1071
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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The only improvement I shall make of this point, shall be for, ⟨p. 424⟩1. Exhortation to Unity. 2. Directions for the maintaining of it.
And first, having briefly discoursed the nature, necessity and desirableness of Unity among all Christians, and especially of those in particular Church-relation, I do in the Bowels of Christ, and in the words of his Apostle, Phil. 2. 1, 2. earnestly and humbly entreat all my Brethren, That if there be any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the spirit, if any bowels of mercies, fulfil ye my joy; that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. He speaketh not as one doubting; but as one disputing, when he saith, If there be any consolation in Christ: And 'tis as if he had said, I passionately and earnestly entreat you by all that comfort and joy you have found in your mutual Communion from Christ, and his Ordinances, wherein you have comfortably walked together, by all that comfort resulting from the mutual exercises, and fruits of Christian Love; by the unspeakable joys and delights the Spirit of God hath shed