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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.
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.*.
- *Tectorio fucatae eloquentiae, argutiísque Sophisticis è Scripturâ perniciosè detortâ, ac fallaci fallentéque ratione horrendae blasphemiae artificiosè circumvestiuntur ad inescandos simpliciores. Praefatio ad Hydr. Socin.
And like the Hyena, they can counterfeit the voices of the Shepherds, to deceive and destroy the Sheep. There is (saith a late* Worthy) an erudita nequitia, a Learned kind of wickedness, a subtle art of deceiving the minds of others. Upon which account the Spirit of God sometimes compares them, 2 Pet. 2. 3.2 to cunning and cheating Tradesmen, who have the very art to set a gloss upon their bad Wares with fine words, [Greek or Hebrew], they buy and sell the people with their ensnaring and feigned words. And sometimes he compares them to cunning Gamesters, that have the art and sleight of hand to Cog the Die, to deceive the unskilful, and win their Game,