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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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Caus• XI.
Having considered and dispatched the several internal Causes of Error, found in the evil dispositions of the seduced, as also the Impulsive Cause, viz. Satan, who fits suitable baits to all these sinful humours and evil tempers of the heart; we come next to consider the Instrumental Cause employed by Satan in this work, viz. the FALSE TEACHER, whom Satan makes use of as his Seedsman, to disseminate and scatter erroneous Doctrines and Principles into the minds of Men, Ploughed up and prepared by those evil tempers forementioned, as a fit Soil to receive them.
The choice of Instruments is a principal part of Satan's policy. Every one is not fit to be employed in such a Service as this. All are not fit to be of the Council of War, who yet take their places of Service in the Field. A Rustic carried out of the Field, on Board a Ship at Sea, though he never learned his Compass, nor saw a Ship before, can by another's direction tug lustily at a Rope; but he had need be an expert Artist, that sits at the Helm, and steers the course. The worst Causes need the smoothest Orators; and bad Ware a cunning Merchant to put it off*
The choice of Instruments is a principal part of Satan's policy. Every one is not fit to be employed in such a Service as this. All are not fit to be of the Council of War, who yet take their places of Service in the Field. A Rustick carried out of the Field, on Board a Ship at Sea, though he never learned his Compass, nor saw a Ship before, can by another's direction tug lustily at a Rope; but he had need be an expert Artist, that sits at the Helm, and steers the course. The worst Causes need the smoothest Orators; and bad Ware a cunning Merchant to put it off