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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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Labour to acquaint your selves with the sleights and artifices Satan's Factors and Instruments generally make use of, to seduce and draw Men from the Truth. The knowledge of them is a good defensative against them. Now there are two common Artifices of Seducers, which it is not safe for Christians to be ignorant of
Labour to acquaint your selves with the sleights and artifices Satan's Factors and Instruments generally make use of, to seduce and draw Men from the Truth. The knowledg of them is a good defensative against them. Now there are two common Artifices of Seducers, which it is not safe for Christians to be ignorant of
First, They usually seek to disgrace and blast the reputations of those Truths and Ministers set for their defence, which they design afterwards to overthrow and ruin; and to beget credit and reputation to those Errors which they have a mind to introduce. How many precious truths ⟨p. 122⟩of God are this day, and with this design defamed as legal and carnal Doctrines; and those that defend them, as Men of an Old Testament spirit?
Humiliation for Sin, Contrition of Spirit, &c fall under disgrace with many, and indeed all qualifications and pre-requisites unto coming to Christ, as things not only needless, but pernicious unto the Souls of Men, although they have not the least dependence upon them: Yea, Faith it self, as a pre-requisite unto Justification, as no better than a Condition pertaining to Adam's Covenant.
Humiliation for Sin, Contrition of Spirit, &c fall under disgrace with many, and indeed all qualifications and pre-requisites unto coming to Christ, as things not only needless, but pernicious unto the Souls of Men, although they have not the least dependance upon them: Yea, Faith it self, as a pre-requisite unto Justification, as no better than a Condition pertaining to Adam's Covenant.