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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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Ninth Observation.
'Tis a pernicious Evil, to advance a mere Opinion into the place and seat of an Article of Faith; and to lay as great a stress upon it, as they ought to do upon the most clear and fundamental Point. To be as much concerned for a Tile upon the Roof, as for the Corner-stone, which unites the Walls, and sustains the Building.
'Tis a pernicious Evil, to advance a meer Opinion into the place and seat of an Article of Faith; and to lay as great a stress upon it, as they ought to do upon the most clear and fundamental Point. To be as much concerned for a Tile upon the Roof, as for the Corner-stone, which unites the Walls, and sustains the Building.
Opinion (as one truly saith) is but Reason's Projector, and the Spy of Truth: It makes in its fullest discovery no more than the dawning and twilight of Knowledge; and yet I know not how it comes to pass, but so it is, that this Idol of the Mind holds such a sway and Empire over all we hold, as if it were all the Day we had. Matters of mere opinion, are every where cried up by some Errorists, for Mathematical Demonstration, and Articles of Faith, written with a Sun-beam; worshipping the Fancies and Creatures of their own minds, more than God; and putting more trust in their ill-founded Opinions, than in the surer word of Prophecy. Much like that Humorist that would not ⟨p. 22⟩