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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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Twentieth Observation.
If ever Errors be cured, and the Peace and Unity of the Church established, men must be convinced of, and acquainted with the Occasions and Causes both within and without themselves, from whence ⟨p. 43⟩their Errors do proceed; and must both know and apply the proper Rules and Remedies for the prevention or cure of them.
If ever Errors be cured, and the Peace and Vnity of the Church established, men must be convinced of, and acquainted with the Occasions and Causes both within and without themselves, from whence ⟨p. 43⟩their Errors do proceed; and must both know and apply the proper Rules and Remedies for the prevention or cure of them.
There is much difference betwixt an Occasion, and a proper Cause; these two are heedfully to be distinguished. Critical and exact Historians, as Polybius and Tacitus, distinguish betwixt the [Greek or Hebrew], and the [Greek or Hebrew], the beginning Occasions, and the real Causes of a War; and so we ought in this case of Errors carefully to distinguish them. The most excellent and innocent things in the World, such as the Scriptures of Truth, the Liberty of Christians, the Tranquility and Peace of the Church (as you will hear anon) may, by the Subtlety of Satan working in conjunction with the Corruptions of mens hearts, become the Occasions, but can never be the proper culpable Causes of Errors.