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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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Satan hath filled the Church and World with Errors and Troubles this way.* When ignorant and unexperienced Persons begin to think it a low and a dull thing to sit from year to year under other mens teachings, and to ⟨p. 132⟩fancy that they are wiser than their Teachers; their Pride will quickly tempt them to show their Ignorance, and that mischievous Ignorance will prove dangerous to the Truth, and troublesome to the Church. The Apostle forbids the Ordination of a Novice, lest he be puffed up, and fall into the condemnation of the Devil: and in 1 Tim. 1. 7. he shows us the reason why some swerved and turned aside unto vain jangling; and it was this, That they desired to be Teachers of the Law, neither understanding what they said, nor whereof they affirmed. That is, They affected to be Preachers, though not able to speak congruously, with tolerable sense and reason.
Satan hath filled the Church and World with Errors and Troubles this way.* When ignorant and unexperienced Persons begin to think it a low and a dull thing to sit from year to year under other mens teachings, and to ⟨p. 132⟩fancy that they are wiser than their Teachers; their Pride will quickly tempt them to shew their Ignorance, and that mischievous Ignorance will prove dangerous to the Truth, and troublesome to the Church. The Apostle forbids the Ordination of a Novice, lest he be puffed up, and fall into the condemnation of the Devil: and in 1 Tim. 1. 7. he shews us the reason why some swerved and turned aside unto vain jangling; and it was this, That they desired to be Teachers of the Law, neither understanding what they said, nor whereof they affirmed. That is, They affected to be Preachers, though not able to speak congrucusly, with tolerable sense and reason.
- *Stultissimiatque impiissimi homines, non intelligentes nihil contrarium in rebus iisdem ab eodem dictum fuisse, verbis tantùm inhaerentes. causas ipsas dictorum reliquêrunt. Et diversa quidem Scripturae dicta videntes, ad impietatem reciderunt, divinorum dictorum incapaces. Hilarius, Lib. 1. de Trinit.