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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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If a Man would see the entire discovery that was made of Christ, to the Fathers, under the Old-Testament, he shall not find it laid together in any one Prophet; but shall find that one speaks to one part of it, and another to another.
Moses gives the first general hint of it, Gen. 3. 15. The seed of the woman shall break the serpents head. But then if you would know more particularly of whose Seed according to the flesh, he should come, you must turn to Gen. 22. 18. In thy seed (saith God to Abraham) shall all nations of the earth be blessed. And if you yet doubt what Seed God means there, you must go to the Apostle, Gal. 3. 16. To thy seed, which is Christ. If you would further know the place of his Nativity, the Prophet Micah must inform you of that, Mic. 5. 2. it should be Bethlehem-Ephrata. If you inquire of the quality of his Parent, another Prophet gives you that, Isa. 7. 14. Behold, a Virgin shall conceive, and bear a Son, and call his name Immanuel. If the time of his Birth be ⟨p. 64⟩inquired after, Moses and Daniel must inform you of that, Gen. 49. 10. Dan. 9. 24.
Moses gives the first general hint of it, Gen. 3. 15. The seed of the woman shall break the serpents head. But then if you would know more particularly of whose Seed according to the flesh, he should come, you must turn to