A39674:1075
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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Motive 1.
Reflect upon the late long and continued troubles you have been under, as the just rebukes of God for your former contentions and follies.
I need not tell you, you are but lately plucked as brands out of the burning, and that the smell of Fire is yet upon ⟨p. 426⟩you. The time lately was, when you gat your Bread with the peril of your lives; when God handed it to you behind your Enemies backs; when your eyes did not, could not behold your former Teachers, except in Corners or Prisons, when your Souls were sorrowful for the solemn Assemblies; when you mournfully confessed before the Lord, that these were the just and deserved punishments for your wantonness, barrenness, and provoking animosities. These things were not only the matter of your humble confessions; but the reformation of those evils was what you solemnly promised the Lord, when he should again restore you to your liberty. What! And is the Rod no sooner off your backs, but you will to the old work again? Read Ezra 9. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. and view the face of this Sin in that glass. Have we been so many years in the furnace, and our dross not purged? Such sharp and long-continued afflictions produce no better effects? It may be said of our troubles, as of the Siege of Tyre, Ezek. 29. 18. Every head was made bald, and every shoulder peeled. Some of us went young Men into persecution and trouble, and are come forth old; and which is