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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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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.
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 Brittain.
When Gotteschalcus published his dangerous Doctrine about Predestination, the Lord drew forth Hincmarus to detect and confute that Error, by evincing clearly, that God's Predestination forces no man to Sin.
So from the beginning and first rise of Popery, that centre and sink of Errors, ⟨p. 27⟩we have a large Catalogue of the Learned and Famous Witnesses, which in all Ages have faithfully resisted and opposed it; and when notwithstanding all, it had even over-run Europe like a rapid Torrent, or rather Inundation of the Ocean: And Germany was brought to that pass, that if the Pope had but Commanded it, they would have eaten Grass or Hay more pecudum. Then did the Lord bring forth Invincible Luther, and with him a troop of Learned Champions, into the field against him; since which time the Cause of Popery is become desperate.