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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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This is a glorious acquisition, and blessed fruit of Reformation, to vindicate ⟨p. 54⟩and recover that just Right, and gracious Grant made to us by Christ and the Apostles, out of the injurious hands of our Popish Enemies, who had usurped and invaded it. The exercise of this Liberty, is at once a Duty commanded by Christ, and commended in Scripture. 'Tis commanded by Christ, John 5. 39. Search the Scriptures, saith Christ to the people. 1 Cor. 10. 15. I speak as to wise men; judge you what I say. And the exercise of this private judgment of discretion by the people, is highly commended by St. Paul in the Bereans, Acts 17. 11. These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the Word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily whether those things were so. This Liberty is not allowed in that latitude in any Religion, as it is in the Christian Religion, nor enjoyed in its full liberty, as it is in the Reformed Religion, whose glory it is that it allows its Principles and Doctrines to be critically examined and tried of all Men by the Rule of the Word, as well knowing, the more it is sifted and searched by its Professors, the more they will be still confirmed and satisfied in the truth of it.
This is a glorious acquisition, and blessed fruit of Reformation, to vindicate ⟨p. 54⟩and recover that just Right, and gracious Grant made to us by Christ and the Apostles, out of the injurious hands of our Popish Enemies, who had usurped and invaded it. The exercise of this Liberty, is at once a Duty commanded by Christ, and commended in Scripture. 'Tis commanded by Christ, Iohn 5. 39. Search the Scriptures, saith Christ to the people. 1 Cor. 10. 15. I speak as to wise men; judge you what I say. And the exercise of this private judgment of discretion by the people, is highly commended by St. Paul in the Bereans,