A39674:492
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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Cause XIV.
False Teachers also propagate their Errors by a Spirit of ENTHUSIASM, the usual concomitant of Erroneous Doctrine; and draw away multitudes after them, by pretending to extraordinary Revelations, Visions, and Voices from Heaven, which seem to give great credit to their Way and Party.*
False Teachers also propagate their Errors by a Spirit of ENTHVSIASM, the usual concomitant of Erroneous Doctrine; and draw away multitudes after them, by pretending to extraordinary Revelations, Visions, and Voices from Heaven, which seem to give great credit to their Way and Party.*
- *Nonnulli autem falsorum Prophetarum vaticinio illecti de quibus & veri Prophetae, & ipse praedixerat, exciderunt à doctrinâ Dei, & traditionem veram reliquerunt. Sed illi omnes daemoniacis fraudibus irretiti, quas prospicere & cavere debuerant, divinum nomen & cultum per imprudentiam perdiderunt. Lact. lib. 4. cap. 30. de Haeresibus.
This was an old trick and practice of Deceivers, Deut. 13. 1. to give Signs and Wonders in confirmation of their Way, which Signs the Lord may permit to fall out to prove his People, vers. 2. 3. tho, for the most part, they are confuted by their unanswerable Events.