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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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It were to teach us to violate the great Precepts of the Gospel; Repent, that your sins may be blotted out. Strive to enter in at the strait Gate.—Work out your salvation with fear and trembling. To obliterate the Patterns and Precedents set before us in the Gospel. We have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified.—I beat down my body, lest I should be a castaway— That thou mayest save thy self, and them that hear thee
It were to teach us to violate the great Precepts of the Gospel; Repent, that your sins may be blotted out. Strive to enter in at the strait Gate.—Work out your salvation with fear and trembling. To obliterate the Paterns and Precedents set before us in the Gospel. We have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified.—I beat down my body, lest I should be a castaway— That thou mayest save thy self, and them that hear thee
It were to suppose one bound to do more for the salvation of others, than our own salvation. We are required to save others with fear, plucking them out of the fire. Nay, we were not (by this rule, strictly understood) so much as to pray for our own salvation; (which is a doing of somewhat) when no doubt, we are to pray for the success of the Gospel, to this purpose, on behalf of other me•.
Twere to make all the threatenings of Eternal Death, and promises of Eternal Life, we find in the Gospel of our Blessed Lord, useless, as motives to shun the one, and obtain the other: For they can be motives no way but as the escaping of the former, ⟨image 7⟩and the attainment of the other have with us the places and consideration of an end.
Twere to make all the threatnings of Eternal Death, and promises of Eternal Life, we find in the Gospel of our Blesed Lord, useless, as motives to shun the one, and obtain the other: For they can be motives no way but as the escaping of the former,