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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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The Occasion.
The holy God, who is a God of Truth,1 Deut. 32. 4. and hateth Errors, Rev. 2. 6. the God of Order, and hates Confusions and Schisms in his Church, 1 Cor. 14. 33. is yet pleased to permit Errors and Heresies to arise, without whose permission they could never spring. And this he doth for the trial of his Peoples Faith and Constancy, and for a spiritual punishment upon some men for the abuse of his known Truths; and by the permission of these Evils he advanceth his own Glory, and the good of his Church and People. Augustine answers that Question, Why doth not God, since he hates Errors, sweep them out of the World? Because (saith he) it is an act of greater power to bring good out of evil, than not to suffer Evils to be at all.
The holy God, who is a God of Truth,1 Deut. 32. 4. and hateth Errors, Rev. 2. 6. the God of Order, and hates Confusions and Schisms in his Church, 1 Cor. 14. 33. is yet pleased to permit Errors and Heresies to arise, without whose permission they could never spring. And this he doth for the tryal of his Peoples Faith and Constancy, and for a spiritual punishment upon some men for the abuse of his known Truths; and by the permission of these Evils he advanceth his own Glory, and the good of his Church and People. Augustine answers that Question, Why doth not God, since he hates Errors, sweep them out of the World? Because (saith he) it is an act of greater power to bring good out of evil, than not to suffer Evils to be at all.