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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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Sixth Observation.
'Tis exceeding difficult to get out Error, when once it is imbibed, and hath rooted it self by an open profession.
'Tis exceeding difficult to get out Error, when once it is imbib'd, and hath rooted it self by an open profession.
Errors, like some sorts of Weeds, having once seeded in a Field or Garden, 'tis scarce possible to subdue and destroy them, especially if they be hereditary Errors, or have grown up with us from our youth; à teneris assuescere multum est, faith Seneca; 'tis a great advantage to Truth or Error, to have an early and long possession of the mind. The Pharisees held many erroneous opinions about the Law, as appears by their corruptive Commentaries upon it, refuted by Christ, Matth. 5. but did he root them out of their heads and hearts thereby? No, no; they sooner rid him out of the world. The Sadducees held a most dangerous Error about the Resurrection; Christ disputed with them to the admiration of others; and proved it clearly against them; and yet we find the Error remaining ⟨p. 16⟩long after Christ's Death,