A39674:407
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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And 'tis worth observation, that he introduceth multitudes of Errors into the World, under the unsuspected notions of admirable Prophylactics, and approved Preservatives from all mischiefs and dangers from himself. Under this notion, he hath neatly and covertly slided into the World, Holy-water, Crossings, Relics of Saints, and almost innumerable other superstitious Rites.
And 'tis worth observation, that he introduceth multitudes of Errors into the World, under the unsuspected notions of admirable Prophylacticks, and approved Preservatives from all mischiefs and dangers from himself. Under this notion, he hath neatly and covertly slided into the World, Holy-water, Crossings, Reliques of Saints, and almost innumerable other superstitious Rites.
Erroneous Teachers are the Ministers of Satan, however they transform themselves ⟨p. 112⟩into Ministers of Righteousness, 2 Cor. 11. 15. and the subtle dangerous Errors they broach, are fitly styled by the Spirit of God, [Greek or Hebrew], the depths of Satan, Rev. 2. 24. The corrupt Teachers, the Gnostics, &c. called them Depths, i. e. great mysteries, high and marvellous attainments in knowledge; but the Spirit of God fits a very proper Epithet to them, They are Satanical depths, and Mysteries of Iniquity. Now the level and design of Satan herein is double:
Erroneous Teachers are the Ministers of Satan, however they transform themselves ⟨p. 112⟩into Ministers of Righteousness, 2 Cor. 11. 15. and the subtil dangerous Errors they broach, are fitly stiled by the Spirit of God, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the depths of Satan,