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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 first Instrument chosen by Satan to deceive Man, was the Serpent; because that Creature was more subtle than any Beast of the Field. There is not a Man of eminent parts, but Satan courts and solicits him for this service. St. Austin told an ingenious, but unsanctified Scholar, Cupit abs te ornari Diabolus, The Devil covets thy Parts to adorn his Cause. He surveys the World, and where-ever he finds more than ordinary strength of Reason, pregnancy of Wit, depth of Learning, and elegance of Language, that is the Man he looks for.
The first Instrument chosen by Satan to deceive Man, was the Serpent; because that Creature was more subtil than any Beast of the Field. There is not a Man of eminent parts, but Satan courts and sollicites him for this service. St. Austin told an ingenious, but unsanctified Scholar, Cupit abs te ornari Diabolus, The Devil covets thy Parts to adorn his Cause. He surveys the World, and where-ever he finds more than ordinary strength of Reason, pregnancy of Wit, depth of Learning, and elegancy of Language, that is the Man he looks for.
These are the Men that can almost indiscernibly sprinkle their Errors among many precious Truths, and wrap up their poisonous Drugs in Leaf-gold or Sugar. Maresius notes of Crellius and his Accomplices, That by the power of their Eloquence, and sophistry of their Arguments, they were able artificially to clothe horrible Blasphemies to allure the simple.*.
These are the Men that can almost indiscernably sprinkle their Errors among many precious Truths, and wrap up their poisonous Drugs in Leaf-gold or Sugar. Maresius notes of Crellius and his Accomplices, That by the power of their Eloquence, and sophistry of their Arguments, they were able artificially to cloath horrible Blasphemies to allure the simple.*.
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