A39674:464
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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Remedy III.
Before you part with any Ordinance or practice in Religion, bethink your selves whether you never found any spiritual blessings or advantages in that path which you are now tempted to forsake.
Had you never any spiritual meltings of your hearts and affections in that Heavenly Ordinance of Singing? And may there not be now Thousands of Mercies in your possession in consequence to, and as the fruit of your solemn dedication to ⟨p. 131⟩God in Baptism by your Covenanted Parents? For my own part, I do heartily and solemnly bless God for it upon this account; and so I hope Thousands besides my self have cause to do. However, such a Practice may by no means be deserted by you, because abused by others.
Cause XIII.
Another Method and Artifice, by which false Teachers draw multitudes of Disciples after them, is, by granting to their Ignorant and Ambitious Followers the LIBERTY of PROPHESYING; flattering them into a conceit of their excellent Gifts and Attainments, when God knows they had more need to be Catechised and taught the Principles of Christianity, than undertake to expound and apply those profound Mysteries unto others.