A39674:237
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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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.
It will require some strength of mind, and great sedulity, to lay all parts of Scripture before us, and to compare words with words, and things with things, as the Apostle speaks, 1 Cor. 2. 13. comparing spiritual things with spiritual. And though it be true that some important Doctrines, as that of Justification by Faith, are methodically disposed, and throughly cleared and settled in one and the same Context; yet it is as true, that very many other points of Faith and Duty are not so digested, but are delivered sparsinì, here a little, and there a little, as he speaks, Isa. 28. 10. You must not think to find all that belongs to one Head or Point of Faith, or Duty, laid together in a System, or common place in Scripture; but scattered abroad in several pieces, some in the Old Testament, and some in the New, at a great distance one from another.