A39674:1118
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 VIII.
Let all Church-Members see that they have Union with Christ, evidencing it self in daily sweet Communion with him. Lines drawn from a Circumference come ⟨p. 448⟩nearest to one another in the Centre. When God intends to make the hearts of men one, he first makes them new, Ezek. 11. 19. I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. And the more any renewed heart tastes the sweetness of Communion with God, by so much it is disposed for Unity and Peace with his People. Our frowardness and peevishness plainly discovers all is not well betwixt God and us. Nothing so opposite to, or abhorred by a soul that enjoys sweet Peace and Communion with Christ, than to live in sinful jars and contentions with his people. Return therefore to the Primitive Spirit of Love and Unity; forbear one another; forgive one another; mortify your dividing Lusts; cherish your Uniting Graces; mark them which cause divisions and offences, contrary to the doctrine ye have learned, and avoid them, Rom. 16. 17. In a Word, and that the Word of the Apostle in the Text, I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind, and in the same judgment.
Let all Church-Members see that they have Union with Christ, evidencing it self in daily sweet Communion with him. Lines drawn from a Circumference come