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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 II.
No act of ours can be good and acceptable to the Lord, further than it is agreeable to his Will revealed in the Word.
No Man can be a Rule to himself. He can be no more his own Rule than his own End. One Man cannot be a Rule to another. The best of Men, and their Actions, and Examples, are only so far a rule of imitation to us, as they themselves are ruled by the Divine revealed Will, 1 Cor. 11. 1. uncommanded acts of Worship are abominable to God, and highly dangerous to our selves; they kindle the fire of his jealousy to the ruin and destruction of the presumptuous Sinner, Levit. 10. 1, 2. So that if the beauty and excellency of the Will of God be not enough to allure us, the danger of acting without the knowledge of it may justly terrify us.
No Man can be a Rule to himself. He can be no more his own Rule than his own End. One Man cannot be a Rule to another. The best of Men, and their Actions, and Examples, are only so far a rule of imitation to us, as they themselves are ruled by the Divine revealed Will, 1 Cor. 11. 1. uncommanded acts of Worship are abominable to God, and highly dangerous to our selves; they kindle the fire of his jealousie to the ruin and destruction of the presumptuous Sinner, Lvit. 10. 1, 2. So that if the beauty and excellency of the Will of God be not enough to allure us, the danger of acting without the knowledg of it may justly terrify us.