A39674:13
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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
THE Reverend Author of the ensuing Treatises, having in them explained and defended several Gospel-Truths, unto which divers things in the Writings of the Reverend Dr. Crisp deceased, do seem very opposite; Whereas some of us who subscribed a Paper, the design whereof was only to testify, That we believed certain Writings of the Doctor's never before Published, were faithfully transcribed by his Son, the Publisher of them; which Paper is now, by the Bookseller, prefixed to the whole Volume, containing a large Preface, which we never saw till after the publication, together with all the Doctor's former Works that were published many years before; And are hereupon, by some weak People, misunderstood, as if by that Certificate, we intended an Approbation of all that is contained in that Volume. We declare, we had no such intention: As the Paper we subscribed hath no word in it that gives any such intimation: But are well pleased these later Writings ⟨image 3⟩are Published (in reference whereto▪ We only certified our belief, which we fixedly retain, of the Publisher's fidelity) as they contain many passages in them, that may in some measure remedy the hard and hurtful construction that many expressions were more liable to in the former; whereof the Doctor seemed apprehensive himself, when in the beginning of his Discourse, on Tit. 2. 11, 12. he speaks thus: [Beloved, I am jealous of you with an holy jealousy, 1 Cor. 11. 2, 3. Lest after the sweet wooing of you in Christ's Name, that you might be espoused unto him; I say, I am jealous, and fear, lest as the Serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, namely, bewitching her to a presumptuous, licentious adventuring on God's gentleness, while she tasted the forbidden Fruit; so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in him, namely, by presuming too much upon him, and adventuring to continue in Sin, in hope that Grace may abound. For the preventing of which dangerous miscarriage, which hath been the dangerous lot of many Thousands, I thought good to step in with this Text, which I am persuaded will prove a seasonable warning to some at least. And ⟨image 3⟩this Pio•• caution of the Author […], lest he should be misunderstood, gives us some grounds to believe, that be intended them not in the more exceptionable […]. 'Tis best, if any unwary Reader receive hurt, that he receive his healing also from the same hand;