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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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Cause XII.
Having considered the several Causes of Errors, found in the evil dispositions of the seduced, as also the impulsive and instrumental Causes, namely Satan and false Teachers employed by him; I shall next proceed to discover some special, and most successful Methods frequently used by them, to draw the minds of Men from the Truth. Amongst which, that which comes first to consideration, is the great skill they have in representing the ABUSES of the Ordinances of God, and Duties of Religion, by wicked Men, to scare tender and weak Consciences from the due use of them, and all further attendance upon them.
Having considered the several Causes of Errors, found in the evil dispositions of the seduced, as also the impulsive and instrumental Causes, namely Satan and false Teachers employed by him; I shall next proceed to discover some special, and most successful Methods frequently used by them, to draw the minds of Men from the Truth. Amongst which, that which comes first to consideration, is the great skill they have in representing the ABVSES of the Ordinances of God, and Duties of Religion, by wicked Men, to scare tender and weak Consciences from the due use of them, and all further attendance upon them.
The abuse of Christ's holy Appointments are so cunningly improved to serve this design, that the minds of many well-meaning persons receive such deep disgust at them, that they are scarce ever to be reconciled to them again. A strong prejudice is apt to drive Men from one ⟨p. 125⟩extreme upon another, as thinking they can never get far enough off from that which hath been so scaringly represented to them. Thus making good the old Observation, Dumb vitant stulti vitia, in contraria currunt; they run from the troublesome smoke of Superstition, into the Fire of an irreligious contempt of God's Ordinances, split themselves upon Charybdis to avoid Scylla. Ex. gra.