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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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Direction III.
Let all Christians govern their tongues and keep them under the command of the law of kindness in their mutual converses with one another. A soft answer (saith Solomon) Prov. 15. 1. turneth away wrath; but grievous words stir up anger: Hard to hard will never do well: How easily did Abigail disarm angry David by a gentle Apology? What more boisterous than the wind? Yet a gentle Rain will allay it. It may be strongly presumed that a meek and gentle answer will more easily allay the Passions of a godly man than of one that is both ungodly and full of Enmity towards us; and yet sometimes it hath done the latter. A company of vain wicked men having inflamed their Blood in a Tavern at Boston in New-England, and seeing that Reverend, Meek, and Holy Minister of Christ, Mr. Cotton coming along the street, one of them tells his companions, I'll go (saith he) and put a trick upon the old Cotton; down he goes, and crossing ⟨p. 443⟩his way, whispers these words into his ear, Cotton (said he) thou art an old fool: Mr. Cotton replied, I confess I am so; the Lord make both me and thee wiser than we are, even wise to salvation: He relates this passage to his wicked companions, which cast a great damp upon their spirits in the midst of a frolic: What peaceful Societies should we have, if our lips transgressed not the laws of love and kindness?
Let all Christians govern their tongues and keep them under the command of the law of kindness in their mutual converses with one another. A soft answer (saith Solomon) Prov. 15. 1. turneth away wrath; but grievous words stir up anger: Hard to hard will never do well: How easily did Abigail disarm angry David by a gentle Apology? What more boisterous than the wind? Yet a gentle Rain will allay it. It may be strongly presumed that a meek and gentle answer will more easily allay the Passions of a godly man than of one that is both ungodly and full of Enmity towards us; and yet sometimes it hath done the latter. A company of vain wicked men having inflamed their Blood in a Tavern at Boston in New-England, and seeing that Reverend, Meek, and Holy Minister of Christ, Mr. Cotton coming along the street, one of them tells his companions, I'le go (saith he) and put a trick upon the old Cotton; down he goes, and crossing