A39674:236
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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There is also another evil disposition in the Subject, rendering it easily receptive of Errors, and that is spiritual SLOTHFULNESS and carelessness in a due and serious search of the whole Scripture, with a sedate and rational consideration of every part and particle therein, which may give us any, though the least light to understand the mind of God in those obscure and difficult points we search after the knowledge of.
There is also another evil disposition in the Subject, rendring it easily receptive of Errors, and that is spiritual SLOTHFVLNESS and carelesness in a due and serious search of the whole Scripture, with a sedate and rational consideration of every part and particle therein, which may give us any, though the least light to understand the mind of God in those obscure and difficult points we search after the knowledg of.
Truth lies deep, as the rich Veins of Gold do, Prov. 2. If we will get the treasure, we must not only beg, as he directs, vers. 3. but dig also vers. 4. else as he speaks, Prov. 14. 23. The talk of the lips tends only to poverty. We are not to take up with that which lies uppermost, and next at hand upon the surface of the Text; but to search with the most sedate and considerative mind into all parts of the written Word, examining every Text which hath any respect to the truth we are searching for, heedfully to observe the Scope, Antecedents, and Consequents, and to value every Apex, Tittle, and Iota; for each of these are of ⟨p. 62⟩Divine Authority, Matt. 5. 18. and sometimes greater weight is laid upon a small word, yea, upon the addition or change of a Letter in a word, as appears in the names of Abram and Sarai.