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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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I do not here censure and condemn the use and exercise of the Gifts of all private Christians. There are to be found amongst them some Persons of raised parts, and answerable modesty and humility, who may be very useful, when called to service, in extraordinary Cases, by the Voice of Providence; or exercise their Gifts in a probationary way, or in due subordination unto Christ's public Officers and Ordinances, by, and with the consent of the Pastor, and Congregation.
I do not here censure and condemn the use and exercise of the Gifts of all private Christians. There are to be found amongst them some Persons of raised parts, and answerable modesty and humility, who may be very useful, when called to service, in extraordinary Cases, by the Voice of Providence; or exercise their Gifts in a probationary way, or in due subordination unto Christ's publick Officers and Ordinances, by, and with the consent of the Pastor, and Congregation.
But when unqualified and uncalled Persons undertake such a work out of the conceit and pride of their own hearts, or are allured to it by the crafty Designs of Erroneous Teachers, partly to overthrow a public, regular and standing Ministry in the Church, to which end the Scriptures are manifestly abused, such as Jer. 31. 34. Rom. 12. 6. 1 Cor. 14. 1 Pet. 4. 10. with many others; This is the practise I here censure, which like a Trojan Horse, hath sent forth multitudes of Erroneous Persons into the City of God to infest and defile it.
But when unqualified and uncalled Persons undertake such a work out of the conceit and pride of their own hearts, or are allured to it by the crafty Designs of Erroneous Teachers, partly to overthrow a publick, regular and standing Ministry in the Church, to which end the Scriptures are manifestly abused, such as