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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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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.
And so for the persons of Orthodox Ministers; you see into what contempt the false Teachers would have brought both the Person and Preaching of Paul himself, 2 Cor. 10. 10. His bodily presence (say they) is weak, and his speech contemptible.
Secondly, Their other common Artifice is, to insinuate their false Doctrines among many acknowledged and precious Truths, which only serve for a convenient vehicle to them; and besides that, to make their Errors as palatable and gustful as they can to the vitiated Appetite of corrupt Nature.1 The forementioned Worthy hath judiciously observed ⟨p. 123⟩how artificially Satan hath blended his baneful Doses, to please the Palate of Carnal Reason, Spiritual Pride, and the desire of Fleshly Liberty.