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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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He that professeth a Truth ignorantly, cannot be rationally supposed to adhere to it constantly. He that is but half convinced of a truth, when he engages in the profession of it, must needs be [Greek or Hebrew], a double-minded Man, as the Apostle calls him, Jam. 1. 8. half the mind hangs one way, and half another, and so it is easily moveable this way or that, with the least breath of temptation. And hence it comes to pass they are so often at a loss about their Duty and their Practise; for Animi volutatio pendentem reddit vitam. A doubtful Mind must needs make a staggering and uncertain Practice.
He that professeth a Truth ignorantly, cannot be rationally supposed to adhere to it constantly. He that is but half convinced of a truth, when he engages in the profession of it, must needs be 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, a double-minded Man, as the Apostle calls him, Iam. 1. 8. half the mind hangs one way, and half another, and so it is easily moveable this way or that, with the least breath of temptation. And hence it comes to pass they are so often at a loss about their Duty and their Practise; for Animi volutatio pendentem reddit vitam. A doubtful Mind must needs make a staggering and uncertain Practice.
Erroneous Teachers are called wandering Stars, Jude 13. which keep no certain course as the fixed Stars do, but are sometimes nearer and sometimes remoter one from another. Thus Errorists ⟨p. 74⟩first imbibe unsettling Opinions, and then discover them in their inconstant Practises. Ber•ius wrote a Book de Apostatià Sanctorum, and soon after turned Papist. The Socinians and Libertines teach, That a Man of any Persuasion in Religion may be saved, so that he walk not contrary to his own Light: such Doctrine directly tends to Scepticism in Religion.