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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.
Revolve Church-histories, and you shall find, that scarce any cruel Persecution hath flamed in the World, which hath not been kindled by blind Zeal. Turn over all the Records, both of Pagan and Popish Persecutions, and you shall still find these two Observations confirmed and verified.
First, That ignorant Zeal hath kindled the fires of Persecution; and secondly, That the more zealous any have been for ⟨p. 510⟩the ways of Error and Falsehood, still the more implacably fierce and cruel they have been to the sincere Servants of God. None like a Superstitious Devoto to manage the Devil's work of Persecution throughly, and to purpose. They'll rush violently and head-long into the blood of their dearest Relations, or most eminent Saints, to whose sides the Devil sets this sharp Spur. Superstitious Zeal draws all the strength and power of the Soul into that one Design; and woe to him that stands in the way of such a man, if God interpose not betwixt him and the stroke. It was a rational wish of him that said, Liberet me Deus ab homine unius tantùm negotii, God deliver me from a man of one only Design.
First, That ignorant Zeal hath kindled the fires of Persecution; and secondly, That the more zealous any have been for ⟨p. 510⟩the ways of Error and Falshood, still the more implacably fierce and cruel they have been to the sincere Servants of God. None like a Superstitious Devoto to manage the Devil's work of Persecution throughly, and to purpose. They'l rush violently and head-long into the blood of their dearest Relations, or most eminent Saints, to whose sides the Devil sets this sharp Spur. Superstitious Zeal draws all the strength and power of the Soul into that one Design; and wo to him that stands in the way of such a man, if God interpose not betwixt him and the stroke. It was a rational wish of him that said, Liberet me Deus ab homine unius tantùm negotii, God deliver me from a man of one only Design.