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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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As Providence is observed in every Climate and Island of the World to have provided Antidotes against the poisonous Plants and Animals of the Country; and the one is never far from the other: So is the care of his Providence much more conspicuous in the case now before us. When, or wheresoever venomous Errors and deadly Heresies do arise, he hath his servants at hand with Antidotes against them.
As Providence is observed in every Climate and Island of the World to have provided Antidotes against the poisonous Plants and Animals of the Countrey; and the one is never far from the other: So is the care of his Providence much more conspicuous in the case now before us. When, or wheresoever venomous Errors and deadly Heresies do arise, he hath his servants at hand with Antidotes against them.
When Arrius, that cunning and deadly Enemy to the Deity of Christ, struck at the very heart of our Religion, Faith and Comfort; a man of subtle Parts, and Blameless Life, which made his Heresy much the more spreading and taking; the Lord had his well-furnished Athanasius in a readiness to resist and confound him. And as he had his Athanasius to defend the Deity of Christ; so he wanted not his Basil to defend the Doctrine of the Holy Spirit against Macedonius.
When Arrius, that cunning and deadly Enemy to the Deity of Christ, struck at the very heart of our Religion, Faith and Comfort; a man of subtil Parts, and Blameless Life, which made his Heresie much the more spreading and taking; the Lord had his well-furnished Athanasius in a readiness to resist and confound him. And as he had his Athanasius to defend the Deity of Christ; so he wanted not his Basil to defend the Doctrine of the Holy Spirit against Macedonius.
so when Pelagius was busily advancing Free-will into the Throne of Free-grace, Providence wanted not its Mallet in Learned and Ingenious Augustin, to break him and his Idol to pieces: And it is highly remarkable (as the Learned Dr. Hill observes) that Augustin was born in Africa the same day that Pelagius was born in Britain.