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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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Consideration I.
The most sedate, impartial, and diligent inquiries after the Will of God revealed in his Word, is a Duty expressly enjoined by his Sovereign Command, which immediately and indispensably binds the Conscience of every Christian to the practice of it.
The most sedate, impartial, and diligent inquiries after the Will of God revealed in his Word, is a Duty expresly enjoyned by his Soveraign Command, which immediately and indispensibly binds the Conscience of every Christian to the practice of it.
Remarkable is that Text to this purpose, Rom. 12. 2. And be not conformed to this world; but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God. Here you find this Duty, not only associated with, but made the very end of our Non-conformity to the World, and renovation of our minds, the very things which constitute a Christian.
And to sweeten our pains in this work, that Will of God, for the discovery whereof we search, is presented to us under three illustrious and alluring properties, viz. Good, Acceptable, and Perfect. Good it must needs be, because the Will and Essence of God, the chief Good, are not two things, but one and the same. And Perfect it must needs be, because it is the Beam and Standard, by which the Actions of all reasonable Creatures ought to be weighed and tried, as to the moral good or evil of them. And being both good and perfect, How can it choose but, upon both accounts, be highly Acceptable and grateful to an upright Soul, as that Epithet [Greek or Hebrew] there imports. Search the Scriptures, saith Christ,