A39674:208
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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Rule III.
Whenever you meet with an obscure place of Scripture, let the Context of that Scripture be diligently and throughly searched; for 'tis usual with God to set up some light there to guide us through the obscurity of a particular Text. And there is much truth in the Observation of the Rabbines, Nulla est objectio in Lege, quae non habet solutionem in l•tere. There's no scruple or objection in the Law, but it hath a solution at the side of it.
Rule IV.
Let one Testament freely cast its light upon the other; and let not men undervalue or reject an Old Testament Text, as no way useful to clear and establish a New-Testament Point of Faith or Duty. Each Testament reflects light upon the other. The Jews reject the New-Testament, and many among us sinfully slight the Old: But without the help of both, we can never understand the mind of ⟨p. 53⟩God• in either. 'Tis a good Rule in the Civil-Law, Turpe est de Lege judicare, tota lege nondum inspectâ. We must inspect the whole Law, to know the sense of any particular Law.