A39674:363
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.
That it is the will of God, that Reason in all Believers should resign to Faith, and all Ratiocination submit to Revelation.
Reason is no better than an Usurper, when it presumes to arbitrate matters belonging to Faith and Revelation. *Reason's proper place is to sit at the feet of Faith, and instead of searching the secret grounds and reasons, to adore and admire the great and unsearchable Mysteries of the Gospel. None of God's works are unreasonable, but many of them are above Reason. It was as truly, as ingenuously said by one; Never doth Reason show it ⟨p. 99⟩self more reasonable, than when it ceaseth to reason about things that are above Reason. Where is the Wise? where is the Scribe? where is the Disputer of this World? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this World? For after that, in the wisdom of God, the World by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe, 1 Cor. 1. 20, 21. 'Tis not Reason, but Faith that must save us.
Reason is no better than an Usurper, when it presumes to arbitrate matters belonging to Faith and Revelation. *Reason's proper place is to sit at the feet of Faith, and instead of searching the secret grounds and reasons, to adore and admire the great and unsearchable Mysteries of the Gospel. None of God's works are unreasonable, but many of them are above Reason. It was as truly, as ingenuously said by one; Never doth Reason shew it