A39674:167
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.
Sixteenth Observation.
Nothing gives more countenance and increase to Error, than a weak and feeble defence of the Truth against it.*
- *Quidam verò non satìs coelestibus literis eruditi, cùm veritatis accusatoribus respondere non possent, objicientibus, vel impossibile, vel incongruens esse, ut Deus in uterum see mulieris includeret, &c. quae omnia cùm neque ingenio, neque doctrinâ defendere ac refutare possent (nec enim vim rationèmque penitùs pervidebant) depravati sunt ab itinere recto, & coelestes literas corrupêrunt, ut novam sibi doctrinam sine ullâ radice ac stabilitate componerent. Lactan. lib. 4. cap. 30. De Haeresibus.Quidam verò non satìs coelestibus literis eruditi, cùm veritatis accusatoribus respondere non possent, objicientibus, vel impossibile, vel incongruens esse, ut Deus in uterum se mulieris includeret, &c. quae omnia cùm neque ingenio, neque doctrinâ defendere ac refutare possent (nec enim vim rationèmque penitùs pervidebant) depravati sunt ab itinere recto, & coelestes literas corrupêrunt, ut novam sibi doctrinam sine ullâ radice ac stabilitate componerent. Lactan. lib. 4. cap. 30. De Haeresibus.
The strength of Error lieth much in the weakness of the Advocates and Defendants of Truth. Every Friend of Truth is not fit to make a Champion for it. Many love it, and pray for it, that cannot defend and dispute for it. I can dye for the Truth (said the Martyr) but I cannot dispute for it. Zuinglius blamed Carolostadius for undertaking the Controversy of that Age, because (said he) non habuit satìs humerorum, his shoulders were too weak for the burden.