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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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Rule IV.
Lastly, Be throughly sensible of the benefit and good of establishment, and of the evil and danger of a wavering Mind and Judgment.
Be not carried about with divers and strange Doctrines (saith the Apostle) for it is a good thing that the heart be established, &c. Heb. 13. 9. Established Souls are the honour of Truth. It was the honour of Religion in the primitive days, that when the Heathens would proverbially express an Impossibility, they used to say, You may as soon turn a Christian from Christ, as do it.
The Fickleness of Professors is a stumbling-block to the World. They'll say as Cato of the Civil Wars betwixt Caesar and Pompey, quem fugiam, video, quem sequar, non video: they know whom to avoid, but not whom to follow. And as ⟨p. 79⟩the honour of Truth, so the flourishing of your own Souls depends on it. A Tree often removed from one Soil to another, can never be expected to be fruitful, 'tis well if it make a shift to live.
The Fickleness of Professors is a stumbling-block to the World. They'l say as Cato of the Civil Wars betwixt Caesar and Pompey, quem fugiam, video, quem sequar, non video: they know whom to avoid, but not whom to follow. And as