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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.
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.*
Pride and Arrogancy of HVMANE REASON, is another Evil Disposition, molding 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.*
- *Deindé, & humanae rationis sapientia quae religioni plurimùm semper nocuit, seu Philosophia, non paucas ex sese produxit haereses. Námque eo tempore Philosophica studia maximè vigebant; & suis argutiis, seu (ut ipsi putabant) demonstrationibus, in suâ sententiâ ità confirmati erant: ut nihil verum existimarent, quod ab eorum conceptis jamdudum opinionibus discreparet. Magdeb. in Cent. 2. cap. 5. pag. 56.
Reason indeed is the highest natural excellency of man: it exalts him above all Earthly Creatures, and in its primitive perfection almost equalized him with Angels, Heb. 2. 7. The Pleasures which result from its exercises and experiments,