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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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Remedy II.
Consider how often the World hath been abused by the Tricks and Cheats of that officious Spirit, the Devil, in such ways as these.
What hath propagated Idolatry among Heathens and Christians more than this? Hinc fluxerunt multae peregrinations, Monasteria, delubra, dies festi & alia, saith Lavater, in Job 33. Pilgrimages, Monasteries, Shrines of Saints, Holidays, &c. have been introduced by this Trick. 'Twere endless to give Instances of it in the Histories of former Ages.*
What hath propagated Idolatry among Heathens and Christians more than this? Hinc fluxerunt multae peregrinationnes, Monasteria, delubra, dies festi & alia, saith Lavater, in Iob 33. Pilgrimages, Monasteries, Shrines of Saints, Holydays, &c. have been introduced by this Trick. 'Twere endless to give Instances of it in the Histories of former Ages.*
- *Of the Prophesies, Visions and pretended Inspirations of Stork, Pfeiffer, Becold, Warendorp, &c. with the efficacy of them on the deluded People, and fatal consequences of them both to the Deceived, and Deceivers: See Mr. Samuel Rutherford's survey of the Spiritual Antichrist, p. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.