A39674:1101
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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Direction II.
Let all Officers and Members of Church study their Duties, and keep themselves within the bounds of their proper places. Ordinate Motions are quiet Motions, 1 Thes. 4. 11. Study to be quiet, and do your own business, and work with your own hands, as we commanded you. In which words he condemns two vices, which disturb and distract the Churches of Christ, viz. Curiosity in matters which pertain not to us, and Idleness in the Duties of our particular Callings. Two things I will drop by way of Caution:
(1.) Let it be for Caution to Ministers that they mind their proper work,1 study the Peace of the Church, impartially dispense their respects to the Saints committed to their charge, not siding with a Party. There be few Schisms in Churches, in which Ministers have not some hand. Jerome upon those words, Hosea 9. 8. hath this memorable note; Veteres scrutans historias, invenire non possum scidisse Ecclesiam, praeter eos qui Sacerdotes a Deo positi fuerunt. Searching the Ancient Histories (saith he) I can find none that hath more rent the Church ⟨p. 441⟩