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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
This is a disposition fitted to receive any impression Seducers please to make upon them: they are said to deceive the hearts of the simple, [Greek or Hebrew], i. e. credulous, but well-meaning People that suspect no harm. 'Tis said, Prov. 14. 15. the simple believeth every word. Through this Sluice or Floodgate, what a multitude of Errors in Popery have overflowed the People! They are told, they are not able to judge for themselves, but must take the matters of their Salvation upon trust from their Spiritual Guides; and so the silly People are easily seduced, and made easily receptive of the grossest Absurdities their ignorant Leaders please to impose upon them.
This is a disposition fitted to receive any impression Seducers please to make upon them: they are said to deceive the hearts of the simple, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, i. e. credulous, but well-meaning People that suspect no harm. 'Tis said, Prov. 14. 15. the simple believeth every word. Through this Sluce or Floodgate, what a multitude of Errors in Popery have overflowed the People! They are told, they are not able to judge for themselves, but must take the matters of their Salvation upon trust from their Spiritual Guides; and so the silly People are easily seduced, and made easily receptive of the grossest Absurdities their ignorant Leaders please to impose upon them.
And it were to be wished, That those two Points, viz. Ministrorum mut a officia, & populi caeca o•sequia, the dumb Services of their Ministers, and the blind Obedience of the People had stayed within the Popish Confines. But alas, alas! how many simple Protestants be there, who may be said to carry their Brains in other mens Heads? and like silly Sheep follow the next in the tract before them; especially if their Leaders have but wit and art enough to hide their Errors under specious and plausible Pretences. How ⟨p. 87⟩