A39674:302
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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This seems to be the thing which led those poor distressed Wretches, intimated Micah 6. 6. into their gross Mistakes and Errors about the method of the remission of their Sins. Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and •ow my self before the high God? shall I come before him with Burnt-offerings, with Calves of a year old? Will the Lord be pleased with thousand of Rams▪ or with ten thousand of Rivers ⟨p. 80⟩of Oil? Shall I give my First-born for my Transgression, the Fruit of my Body for the Sin of my Soul? They were ready to purchase inward peace, and buy out their pardon at any rate. Nothing but the twinges of Conscience could have extorted these things from them. Great is the efficacy and torment of a guilty Conscience.
This seems to be the thing which led those poor distressed Wretches, intimated Micah 6. 6. into their gross Mistakes and Errors about the method of the remission of their Sins. Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and •ow my self before the high God? shall I come before him with Burnt-offerings, with Calves of a year old? Will the Lord be pleased with thousand of Rams▪ or with ten thousand of Rivers ⟨p. 80⟩of Oyl? Shall I give my First-born for my Transgression, the Fruit of my Body for the Sin of my Soul? They were ready to purchase inward peace, and buy out their pardon at any rate. Nothing but the twinges of Conscience could have extorted these things from them. Great is the efficacy and torment of a guilty Conscience.
Satan, who feels more of this in himself than any other Creature in the World, and knows how ready poor ignorant, but distressed Sinners, are to catch at any thing that looks like ease or comfort, and being jealous what these troubles of Conscience may issue into, prepares for them such Erroneous Doctrines and Opinions under the names of Anodynes and quieting Recipe's, by swallowing of which they feel some present ease; but their Disease is thereby made so much the more incurable.