A39674:1106
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 IV.
Respectful Deportments to those that are beneath us in Gifts or Estates, is an excellent conservative of Church-Peace. Lofty and Contemptuous carriages towards those that are beneath us in either respect, is a frequent occasion of bitter Jars and Animosities. The Apostle chargeth it upon the Corinthians, That no one be puffed up for one against another; for who maketh thee to differ from another? 1 Cor. 4. 6, 7. What respectful language did Holy Mr. Brewen give to his own godly servants? Remember, Christians, that there is neither rich nor poor, bond nor free, but all are one in Christ Jesus. This indeed destroys not the civil differences God hath made between one and another. ⟨p. 444⟩Grace will teach the godly servant to give double honour to a Religious Master or Mistress, the private Christian to a godly Magistrate or Minister. It will teach the People to know them which labour among them, and are over them in the Lord, and admonish them, and to esteem them very highly in love for their works sake, and to be at peace among themselves, 1 Thes. 5. 12, 13. and it will also teach Superiors to condescend to men of low degree, and not to think of themselves above what they ought, but with all lowliness, meekness and long suffering to forbear one another in love, keeping (this way) the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace, Eph. 4. 2, 3.