A39674:451
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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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.
The abuse of Christ's holy Appointments are so cunningly improved to serve this design, that the minds of many wellmeaning 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⟩extream 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, Dum vitant stulti vitia, in contraria currunt; they run from the troublesome smoak of Superstition, into the Fire of an irreligious contempt of God's Ordinances, split themselves upon Charybdis to avoid Scylla. Ex. gra.
The Papists having deeply abused the Ordinance of Baptism, by their corruptive mixtures and additions of the superstitious Cross, Chrism, &c. part whereof is not sufficiently purged to this day by the Reformation; and finding also multitudes of carnal Protestants dangerously resting upon their supposed baptismal Regeneration, to the great hazard of their Salvation; which mistake is but too much countenanced by some of its Administrators: They take from hence such deep offence at the administration of it to any Infants at all (though the Seed of God's Covenanted People) that they think they can never be sharp enough in their invectives against it; nor have they patience to hear the most rational defences of that Practise.