A39674:172
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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Errors of Judgment are not cured by compulsion and external force, but by rational conviction, and proper spiritual Remedies.
Errors of Iudgment are not cured by compulsion and external force, but by rational conviction, and proper spiritual Remedies.
Bodily sufferings rather spread than cure intellectual Errors. I deny not but fundamental Heresies breaking forth into open Blasphemies against God, and Seditions in the Civil State, ought to be restrained. 'Tis no way fit men should be permitted to go up and down the World with Plague-sores running upon them. Nor do I understand why men ⟨p. 37⟩should be more cautious to preserve their Bodies than their Souls. But I speak here of such Errors as may consist with the foundations of the Christian Faith, and are not destructive to Civil Government. They take the ready way to spread and perpetuate them, that think to root them out of the World by such improper and unwarrantable means as external force and violence. The Wind never causes and Earth-quake, till it be pent in, and restrained from motion.
We neither find, nor can imagine, That those Church or State Exorcists should ever be able to effect their end, who think to confine all the Spirits of Error within the Circle of a severe Uniformity. Fires, Prisons, Pillories, Stigmatizings, &c. are the Popish Topics to confute Errors. 'Tis highly remarkable, that the World long ago consented for the avoiding of dissenting judgment, to enslave themselves and their Posterity to the most fatal and destructive Heresy that ever it groaned under.
We neither find, nor can imagine, That those Church or State Exorcists should ever be able to effect their end, who think to confine all the Spirits of Error within the Circle of a severe Uniformity. Fires, Prisons, Pillories, Stigmatizings, &c. are the Popish Topicks to confute Errors. 'Tis highly remarkable, that the World long ago consented for the avoiding of dissenting judgment, to enslave themselves and their Posterity to the most fatal and destructive Heresie that ever it groaned under.