A39674:402
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.
Cause X.
Come we next in the proper order, to consider the Principal Impulsive Cause of Errors; which is SATAN working upon the predisposed matter he finds in the corrupt Nature of Man.* The Centurists speaking of the strange and sudden growth of Errors and Heresies, immediately after the planting of the Gospel by Christ, and the Apostles, ascribe it to Satan.
- *Quae quidem res abundè docet diram esse Diaboli malitiam: qui victus, atque prostratus à Christo, nihilominus ausus est ejus verbum ac totam religionis formam, tetris opinionibus ac blasphemiis conspurcare, lacerare, & propemodum evertere. Ut autem portenta hujus maligni spiritùs in conspectu sint & quasi primae scaturigines plurimarum haeresium, quae postea, veluti aliis in se receptis rivis mirum in modum excreverunt, &c. Hist. Magdeb. Cent. 1. Lib. 2. Cap. 5. p. 368.
Satan is a Liar from the beginning,1 and abode not in the Truth: He hates it with a deadly hatred, and all the Children and Friends of Truth. And this hatred he manifesteth sometimes by raising furious storms of persecution against the sincere Professors of it,