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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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Eighteenth Observation.
Erroneous Doctrines producing Divisions and fierce Contentions amongst Christians, prove a fatal Stumbling-block to the World; fix their Prejudices, and obstruct their conversion to Christ.*
- *Many Enemies to Christianity flocked to the Nicene Synod, odio Christianorum, propter abolitam Gentilium superstitionem, ut haberent in quos illuderent. Say the Centurists.Many Enemies to Christianity flockt to the Nicene Synod, odio Christianorum, propter abolitam Gentilium superstitionem, ut haberent in quos illuderent. Say the Centurists.
They dissolve the lovely union of the Saints, and thereby scare off the World from coming into the Church. This is evidently implied in that Prayer of Christ, John 17. That all his People might be one, that the World might believe the Father had sent him. There is indeed no just cause for any to take offence at the Christian Reformed Religion, because so many Errors and Heresies spring up among the Professors of it, and divide them into so many Sects and Parties: for in all this we find no more than what was ⟨p. 39⟩predicted from the beginning, 1 Cor. 11. 18, 19. I hear there be divisions among you, and I partly believe it: for there must be also Heresies among you, &c. And again,