A39674:1087
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 IV.
Consider the contrariety of such Practices to that solemn and fervent Prayer of Jesus Christ, recorded in John 17. 'Tis highly remarkable, how in that Prayer, which he poured out a little before his death with such a mighty Pathos, and fervency of Spirit, he insists upon nothing more than Unity among his People. He returns upon his Father again and again, for the obtaining of this one thing: Four times doth he beg for Unity among them, and every time he seems to rise higher and higher, beseeching his Father, (1.) That they may be one. (2.) That they may be one in us. (3.) That they may be one as thou and I are one. and lastly, That they may be made ⟨p. 433⟩perfect in one; By all this showing how intent his Spirit was upon this one thing.
Consider the contrariety of such Practices to that solemn and fervent Prayer of Jesus Christ, recorded in Iohn 17. 'Tis highly remarkable, how in that Prayer, which he poured out a little before his death with such a mighty Pathos, and fervency of Spirit, he insists upon nothing more than Unity among his People. He returns upon his Father again and again, for the obtaining of this one thing: Four times doth he beg for Unity among them, and every time he seems to rise higher and higher, beseeching his Father, (1.) That they may be one. (2.) That they may be one in us. (3.) That they may be one as thou and I are one. and lastly, That they may be made ⟨p. 433⟩perfect in one; By all this shewing how intent his Spirit was upon this one thing.