A39674:480
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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Consideration II.
What daring Presumption is it to intrude our selves into so great and weighty an Employment without any Call or Warrant of Christ! Rom. 10. 14. How shall they call upon him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a Preacher? and how shall they preach except they be sent?
These Mysteries must be committed to faithful Men, who shall be able to teach others. Those Abilities must be examined, 1 Tim. 3. 10. and the Exercise of them warranted by a due and orderly appointment thereunto, 1 Tim. 4. 14. else (as one well observes) In tàm praeposterâ disciplinae ruinâ tot essent sensus, quot capita; tot dissensus, quot sensus; We shall have as many senses of Scripture, as we have Preachers, &c.
If every Phaeton, that thinks himself able, shall undertake to drive the Chariot of the Sun, no wonder if the World be set on fire. Gifts and Abilities of Mind are not of themselves sufficient to make a Preacher. Some Lawyers at the Bar may be as skilful as the Judge upon the Bench, but without a Commission they dare not sit there.