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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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Limitation II.
Though there be no part of Scripture shut up or restrained from the knowledge or use of any Christian; yet Jesus Christ hath recommended to Christians of different abilities, the study of some parts of Scripture rather than others, as more proper and agreeable to their Age and Stature in Religion.
Though there be no part of Scripture shut up or restrained from the knowledg or use of any Christian; yet Jesus Christ hath recommended to Christians of different abilities, the study of some parts of Scripture rather than others, as more proper and agreeable to their Age and Stature in Religion.
Christians are by the Apostle ranked into three Classes, Fathers, Young-men, and Little Children, 1 John 2. 13. and accordingly the Wisdom of Christ hath directed to that sort of food which is proper to either: For there is in the Word all sorts of Food suitable to all Ages in Christ; there's both Milk for Babes, and strong Meat for grown Christians, Heb. 5. 13, 14. Those that are unskilful in the Word of Righteousness, should feed upon Milk, that is, the easy, plain, but most nutritive and pleasant practical Doctrines of the Gospel. But strong Meat