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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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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.
Erroneous Teachers are called wandring 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 unsetling 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 Perswasion in Religion may be saved, so that he walk not contrary to his own Light: such Doctrine directly tends to Sceptecism in Religion.
And this Instability of the Judgment proceeds either from Hypocrisy, or weakne•• Sometimes from Hypocrisy All Hypocrites are [Greek or Hebrew], double-minded Men: Jam. 4. 8. The double-minded man (that is the Hypocrite) is unstable in all his ways. One of that number was not ashamed to say, See duas habere animas in eodem corpore, unam Deo dicatam, alteram unicuique illam vellet: That he had two Souls in one Body, one for God, and another for whosoever would have it.