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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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Fourth Cause.
Besides the slothfulness of the mind, there is found in many Persons another evil Disposition preparing them easily to receive Erroneous Impressions; namely, the INSTABILITY and Fickleness of the Judgment, and Unsettledness of mind about the Truth of the Gospel.
Besides the slothfulness of the mind, there is found in many Persons another evil Disposition preparing them easily to receive Erroneous Impressions; namely, the INSTABILITY and Fickleness of the Judgment, and Unsetledness of mind about the Truth of the Gospel.
Of this the Apostle warns us, Eph. 4. 14. That we henceforth be no more Children tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of Doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in weight to deceive. None are so constant and steady in the profession of ⟨p. 73⟩the Truth, as those that are fully convinced of, and well satisfied with the grounds of it. Every Professor, like every Ship at Sea, should have an [Greek or Hebrew], a ballast and steadiness of his own, 2 Pet. 3. 17. ready and prepared to render a reason of the hope that is in him, 1 Pet. 3. 15. able upon all occasions to give an account of those inward motives which constrained his assent to the Truth.