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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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Remedy I.
Due Reflection upon the manifold mischiefs that have entered into the World this way.
It was this Curiosity and desire to know, that overthrew our first Parents, Gen. 3. 6. When the Woman saw that the Tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a Tree to be desired to make one wise; she took of the fruit thereof. The very same way by which he let in the first Error, he hath let thousands into the World since that day. Nothing is more common in the World, than for an old Error to obtain afresh under the name of new Light. Satan hath the very art of turkening stale Errors after the mode of the present times, and make them currant and passable, as new Discoveries and rare Novelties.
Thus he puts off Libertinism, the old Sin of the World, under the Title of Christian Liberty. What a Troop of Pagan Idolatrous Rites were by this means introduced among the Papists? A great part of Popery is but Ethnicismus redivivus, Heathenism revived. The Pagans Pontifex Maximus was revived under the new Title of Pope. The Gentiles Lustrations, in the Popish Holy-water. Their Novendiale sacrum, or Sacrifice nine days after the burial of the Party, in the Popish Masses for the dead. Their Alvarium Fratrum, in Cloisters of Monks and Friars