A39674:351
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 III.
Vain Curiosity is a dangerous Snare of Satan. By such trifles as these, he devours our time, eats up our strength, and diverts our minds from the necessary and most important business of Religion. Whilst we immerse our thoughts in these pleasing, but barren Contemplations, Heart-work, Closet-work, Family-work, lie by neglected. Whilst we are employed ⟨p. 95⟩in garnishing the Dish with Flowers, and curious Figures, the cunning Cheat takes away the meat our Souls should subsist by.
Eighth Cause.
Pride and Arrogancy of HUMANE REASON, is another Evil Disposition, moulding and preparing the mind for Errors. When men are once conceited of the strength and perspicacity of their own carnal Reasons and Apprehensions, nothing is more usual than for such men to run mad with Reason into a thousand Mistakes and Errors. To this cause Ecclesiastical Historians ascribe the Errors that infest the Church.