A39674:452
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 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.
So, for that Scriptural Heavenly Duty of Singing: What more commonly alleged against it, than the abuse and ill effects of that precious Ordinance? How often is the Nonsense and Error of the common Translation, the rudeness and dullness of the Metre of some Psalms, as Psal. 7. 13. as also the cold formality, with which that Ordinance is performed by many who do but Parrotize? I say, How often are these things buzzed into the ears of the people, to alienate their hearts from so sweet and beneficial a Duty?
So, for that Scriptural Heavenly Duty of Singing: What more commonly alledged against it, than the abuse and ill effects of that precious Ordinance? How often is the Nonsense and Error of the common Translation, the rudeness and dulness of the Metre of some Psalms, as Psal. 7. 13. as also the cold formality, with which that Ordinance is performed by many who do but Parrotize? I say, How often are these things buz'd into the ears of the people, to alienate their hearts from so sweet and beneficial a Duty?