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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.
Seventh Cause.
The next Evil Disposition that I shall note in the Subject, is a vain CURIOSITY of mind, or an itching desire to pry into things unrevealed, at least above our ability to search out and discover.
The next Evil Disposition that I shall note in the Subject, is a vain CVRIOSITY of mind, or an itching desire to pry into things unrevealed, at least above our ability to search out and discover.
'Tis an Observation as true as ancient, Pruritus aurium scabies Ecclesiae, itching Ears come to a Scab upon the face of the Church. The itch of Novelty produceth the Scab of Error. Of this Disease the Apostle warns us, 2 Tim. 4. 3. For the time will come, when they will not endure sound Doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves Teachers, having itching ears. Nothing will please them but new Notions, and new modes ⟨p. 91⟩of Language and Method, Tone and Gesture.