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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
There is an Expression in Vol. 1. p. 46. That Salvation is not the end of any good work we do, which is like that of another; we are to act from Life, not for Life. Neither of which are to be rigidly taken, as 'tis likely they were never meant in the strict sense. For the former, this Reverent Author gives us himself the handle, for a gentle interpretation, in what he presently subjoins, where he makes the end of our good works to be the manifestation of our Obedience and Subjection; the setting forth the praise of the glory of the Grace of God; which seems to imply, that he meant the foregoing negation in a comparative, ⟨image 6⟩not in an absolute sense; understanding the glory of God to be more principal; and so that by end, he meant the very ultimate end: so for the other 'tis likely it was meant, that we should not act or work for life only, without aiming and endeavouring, that we might come to work from life also.
There is an Expression in Vol. 1. p. 46. That Salvation is not the end of any good work we do, which is like that of another; we are to act from Life, not for Life. Neither of which are to be rigidly taken, as 'tis likely they were never meant in the strict sense. For the former, this Reverent Author gives us himself the handle, for a gentle interpretation, in what he presently subjoyns, where he makes the end of our good works to be the manifestation of our Obedience and Subjection; the setting forth the praise of the glory of the Grace of God; which seems to imply, that he meant the foregoing negation in a comparative, ⟨image 6⟩not in an absolute sense; understanding the glory of God to be more principal; and so that by end, he meant the very ultimate end: so for the other 'tis likely it was meant, that we should not act or work for life only, without aiming and endeavouring, that we might come to work from life also.
For it is not with any tolerable charity supposable, that one would deliberately say the one or the other of these in the rigid sense of the words; or that he would not, upon consideration, presently unsay it, being calmly reasoned with. For it were in effect to abandon Humane Nature, and to sin against a very Fundamental Law of our Creation, not to intend our own felicity; it were to make our first and most deeply Fundamental Duty, in one great essential branch of it, our sin, viz. To take the Lord for our God: For to take him for our God most. essentially includes our taking him for our supreme good; which we all know, is included in the notion of the last end; it were to make it unlawful to strive against all sin, and particularly against sinful aversion from God; wherein lies the very death of the Soul, or the sum of its misery; or to strive after perfect conformity to God in holiness, and the full