A39674:1079
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 II.
Consider the common imminent danger that now threatens us, both from Enemies upon our Borders, and within our own Bowels. The Canaanites are in the Land, let there be no strife therefore betwixt Brethren; our natural, civil, and spiritual comforts are all shaking and trembling about us. If wanton Children fall out and quarrel at a full Table, our Enemies stand ready to take away the Cloth. They are not so far from us, and out of sight, but God can ⟨p. 428⟩call them in a few hours to end the strife amongst us. We act not only beneath the Rules of Religion, but of Reason also. Brute creatures will depose their very Antipathies in a common danger. Mr. Tho. Fuller, in his History of the Worthies of England, tells us, That when the Severn-Sea overflowed the lower Grounds of Somersetshire, it was observed that Dogs and Hares, and Cats and Rats, swimming to the Burroughs and Hills to preserve their lives, stood quiet during the Flood; not offering the least injury one to another. 'Tis pity that sense should do more with Beasts, than Reason and Religion with Men.