A39674:263
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 IV.
Every discovery of the Will of God by fervent Prayer, diligent and impartial search of the Scriptures, and all other allowed helps, gives the highest pleasure the mind of Man is capable of in this World.
If Archimedes▪ upon the discovery of a Mathematical Truth, was so transported and ravished, that he cried out, [Greek or Hebrew], I have found it, I have found it; what pleasure then must the investigation and discovery of a Divine Truth give to a sanctified Soul! Thy words were found of me (saith Jeremiah) and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart, Jer. 15. 16. as pleasant food to a Famished Man; for now Conscience is quieted, comforted, and cheered in the way of Duty. A Man walks not at adventure with God, as that word signifies, Levit. 26. 40, 41.
If Archimedes▪ upon the discovery of a Mathematical Truth, was so transported and ravished, that he cried out, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, I have found it, I have found it; what pleasure then must the investigation and discovery of a Divine Truth give to a sanctified Soul! Thy words were found of me (saith Ieremiah) and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoycing of my heart,