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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 First Cause.
We shall next speak of the Causes of Error found in the evil Dispositions of the Subjects, which prepare and incline them to receive Erroneous Doctrine and Opinions, and even catch at the Occasions and least Sparkles of Temptation, as dry Tinder: and amongst these is found,
(1.) A perverse wrangling Humour at the pretended OBSCURITY of the Scriptures. The Romish Party snatch at this Occasion, and make it the proper Cause, when indeed it is but a picked Occasion, of the Errors and Mistakes among men. They tell us the Scriptures are so difficult, obscure, and perplexed, that if private men will trust to them as their only Guide, they will inevitably run into Errors, and their only relief is to give up their Souls to the conduct of their Church; whereas indeed the true Cause of Error is not so much in the Obscurity of the Word, as in the corruption of the mind, 1 Tim. 6. 5. 2 Tim. 3. 8.
(1.) A perverse wrangling Humour at the pretended OBSCURITY of the Scriptures. The Romish Party snatch at this Occasion, and make it the proper Cause, when indeed it is but a pickt Occasion, of the Errors and Mistakes among men. They tell us the Scriptures are so difficult, obscure, and perplext, that if private men will trust to them as their only Guide, they will inevitably run into Errors, and their only relief is to give up their Souls to the conduct of their Church; whereas indeed the true Cause of Error is not so much in the Obscurity of the Word, as in the corruption of the mind,