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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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Fifth Observation.
Error is binding upon the Conscience, as well as Truth; and altogether as much and sometimes more influential upon the Affections and Passions, as Truth is.
For it presents not it self to the Soul in its own name and nature, as Error; but in the name and dress of Truth; and under that notion binds the Conscience, and vigorously influences the passions and affections; and then being more indulgent to lust than Truth is, it is for that so much the more embraced and hugged by the deceived soul, Acts 22. 4, 5. The heat that Error puts the soul into, differs from Religious Zeal, as a Feverish doth from a Natural heat, which is not indeed so benign and agreeable, but much more fervent and scorching. A mind under the ⟨p. 15⟩power of Error, is restless and impatient to propagate its Errors to others, and these heats prey upon, and eat up the vital Spirits and Powers of Religion.
For it presents not it self to the Soul in its own name and nature, as Error; but in the name and dress of Truth; and under that notion binds the Conscience, and vigorously influences the passions and affections; and then being more indulgent to lust than Truth is, it is for that so much the more embraced and hugg'd by the deceived soul, Acts 22. 4, 5