A39674:1115
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 VII.
Be deeply affected with the mischievous effects and consequents of Schisms and Divisions in the Societies of the Saints, and let nothing beneath a plain necessity divide you from Communion one with another; hold it fast till you can hold it no longer without Sin. At the fire of your contentions your enemies warm their hands, and say, aha, so would we have it: Your Prayers are obstructed, Mat. 5. 24. First be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift. Edification is hindered: Feverish bodies thrive not, Eph. 4. 15. God is provoked to remove his Gracious presence from among you. Be of one mind (saith the Apostle) live in peace, and the God of peace shall be with you, 1 Cor. 13. 11. implying that their contentions would deprive them of his blessed company with them. The glory of your society is clouded; if ye have bitter envyings and strife in you hearts, glory not, James 3. 14. Glory not in your Church Privileges, personal gifts and attainments; whatever you think of your selves you ⟨p. 447⟩are not such Christians as you vogue your selves for, living in a Sin so directly contrary to Christianity. The name of Christ is dishonoured. You are taken out of the world, to be a people for his name, that is, for his honour; but there's little credit to the name of Christ from a dividing, wrangling people. The alluring beauty of Christianity, by which the Church gains upon the world,