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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.
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*
- *Subtiles & astutas fuisse Montani fraudes, & quae blandâ specie quibusvis imponere facilè potuerint; indè liquet quòd totam propemodùm Scripturam suscepit; ac de Deo Patre, Filio, & Spiritu sancto, (ut Epiphanius scribit) eadem docuit quae Ecclesia Christi. Magdeb. Cent. 2. Cap. 5. p. 77. De Haeresibus sub Commodo.
Deep-parted Men are coveted by Satan to manage this design. None like an eloquent Tertullus to confront a Paul, Acts 24. 1. A subtle Eccius to enter the List in defence of the Popish Cause, against the Learned and Zealous Reformers. When the Duke of Buckingham undertook to Plead the bad Cause of Richard the third, the Londoners said, They never thought it had been possible for any Man