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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.
The last Evil Disposition I shall here take notice of in the Subject, is rash and ignorant ZEAL; a temper preparing the mind both to propagate furiously, and receive easily Erroneous Doctrines and Opinions.
When there is in the Soul more heat than light; when a fervent Spirit is governed by a weak Head, such a temper of Spirit Satan desires, and singles out as fittest for his purpose, especially when the Heart is graceless, as well as the Understanding weak. A blind Horse of an high mettle will carry the Rider into any Pit, and venture over the most dangerous Precipices.
Such were the Superstitious Jewish Zealots: they had a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. This [Greek or Hebrew] blind zeal, St. Paul charges justly upon ⟨p. 102⟩the Jewish Bigots, Rom. 10. 2. as the proper cause of their dangerous Errors about the great point of Justification: and surely no man understood the evil of it more than he, who in his unregenerate state was transported by it to the most furious persecution of the Saints, Acts 26. 11. and even to dotage, and extreme fondness upon the Erroneous Traditions of his Fathers, Gal. 1. 14.
Such were the Superstitious Iewish Zealots: they had a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. This 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 blind zeal, St. Paul charges justly upon ⟨p. 102⟩