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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
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Second Defensative.
Consider what mischief zeal for an Error will do thine own Soul, as well as others.
It will wholly engross thy time, thoughts and strength; so that if there be any gracious principle in thee, it shall not be able to thrive and prosper: For look, as a Fever takes off the natural appetite from Food, so will erroneous Zeal take off thy Spiritual Appetite from Meditation, Prayer, Heart-examination, and all other the most necessary and nourishing Duties of Religion, by reason whereof thy grace must languish.
It will wholly ingross thy time, thoughts and strength; so that if there be any gracious principle in thee, it shall not be able to thrive and prosper: For look, as a Fever takes off the natural appetite from Food, so will erroneous Zeal take off thy Spiritual Appetite from Meditation, Prayer, Heart-examination, and all other the most necessary and nourishing Duties of Religion, by reason whereof thy grace must languish.
When thy Soul, with David's, should be filled and feasted, as with marrow and fatness, by delightful meditations of God upon thy Bed, thou wilt be rolling in thy mind thy barren and insipid notions, which yield no food or spiritual strength to thy Soul; thou wilt lye musing how to dissolve the Arguments and Objections against thine Errors, when thou shouldst rather be employed in solving the just and weighty Objections that lye against thy sincerity and interest in Christ, which were time far better improved.