A39674:206
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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Rule II.
Never put a new sense upon words of Scripture in favour of your preconceived Notions and Opinions, nor wrest it from its general and common use and sense. This is not to interpret, but to rack the Scriptures, as that word [Greek or Hebrew] signifies, 2 Pet. 3. 16. Interpretis officium est, non quid ipse velit, sed quid censeat ille, quem interpretatur, exponere, as Hieron. against Ruff. speaks. We are not to make the Scriptures speak what we think, but what the Prophet or Apostle thought, whom we interpret. In 1 Cor. 7. 14. we meet with the word [holy] applied to the Children of Believers; that word is above 500 times used for a ⟨p. 52⟩state of separation to God: Therefore to make it signify in that place nothing but Legitimacy, is a bold and daring practising upon the Scripture.
Never put a new sense upon words of Scripture in favour of your preconceived Notions and Opinions, nor wrest it from its general and common use and sense. This is not to interpret, but to rack the Scriptures, as that word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 signifies, 2 Pet. 3. 16. Interpretis officium est, non quid ipse velit, sed quid censeat ille, quem interpretatur, exponere, as Hieron. against Ruff. speaks. We are not to make the Scriptures speak what we think, but what the Prophet or Apostle thought, whom we interpret. In