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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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Consideration III.
The honour you affect, to vent your unsound Notions with liberty, is in Scripture-account your greatest dishonour.
The Scripture reckons false Teachers among the basest of the People: The Prophet that teacheth lies, he is the Tail, i. e. the basest part of the whole body of the People, Isa. 9. 15. And so far is due Gospel-Liberty from countenancing such dangerous Irregularities, that we find in a clear Prophecy of Gospel-times, what shame God will pour upon them, Zech. 13. 4, 5. They shall be brought with shame enough to confess, I am no Prophet, I am an Husband-man; for man taught me to keep Cattle from my youth.
The Scripture reckons false Teachers among the basest of the People: The Prophet that teacheth lyes, he is the Tayl, i. e. the basest part of the whole body of the People, Isa. 9. 15. And so far is due Gospel-Liberty from countenancing such dangerous Irregularities, that we find in a clear Prophecy of Gospel-times, what shame God will pour upon them,