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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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Though Heresies and Errors must (for the Reasons assigned) break forth into the World, and God will turn them eventually into his own glory, and the benefit of his Church: yet it is a dreadful judgment to be delivered over to a spirit Error, to ebb the Authors and Abetters of them; this is a judicial stroke of God: and as ever we hope to escape, and stand clear out of the way of it, let us carefully shun these three following Causes and Provocations thereof.
Though Heresies and Errors must (for the Reasons assigned) break forth into the World, and God will turn them eventually into his own glory, and the benefit of his Church: yet it is a dreadful judgment to be delivered over to a spirit Error, to eb the Authors and Abetters of them; this is a judicial stroke of God: and as ever we hope to escape, and stand clear out of the way of it, let us carefully shun these three following Causes and Provocations thereof.
(1.) Want of love to the Truth, which God hath made to shine about us in the means, or into us by actual illumination under the means of knowledge. ⟨p. 46⟩2 Thess. 2. 10, 11. Because they received not the love of Truth, God gave them up to strong Delusions. They are justly plagued with Error that slight Truth. False Doctrines are fit Plagues for false Hearts.
(2.) Beware of Pride and Wantonness of Mind. 'Tis not so much the Weakness as the Wantonness of the Mind, which provokes God to inflict this Judgment. None likelier to make Seducers than Boasters, Jude 16. Arrius gloried that God had revealed some things to him, which were hidden from the Apostles themselves. Simon Magus boasted himself to be the mighty Power of God. The erroneous Pharisees loved the praises of Men. When the Papist reproached Luther that he affected to have his Disciples called Lutherans, he replyed, Non sic, ô fatue, non sic; oro ut nomen meum taceatur: he disdained that the Children of Christ should be called by so vile a name as his.