A39674:516
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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Another way in which False Teachers discover their Subtlety with great success, is, in TIMING their Assaults, and nicking the proper Season, when the minds of men are most apt and easy to be drawn away by their fair and specious Pretences.
Another way in which False Teachers discover their Subtilty with great success, is, in TIMING their Assaults, and nicking the proper Season, when the minds of men are most apt and easy to be drawn away by their fair and specious Pretences.
Such a Season as this, they find about the time of mens first Conversion, or soon after their Implantation into Christ. Now it is that their Affections are most lively and vigorous, though their Judgments be but weak. They have now such strong and deep apprehensions of the Grace and Love of Christ, and such transcendent zeal for him, that they easily embrace any thing whereby they conceive he may be honoured and exalted. They have also such deep Apprehensions and powerful Aversations as to Sin, that they are in danger to fly even from Truth and Duty it self, when it shall be artificially represented to them as Sin. For not only that which is malum per se, Sin indeed; but that which is male coloratum, painted with Sin's Colours, is apt to scare and fright them.
Such a Season as this, they find about the time of mens first Conversion, or soon after their Implantation into Christ. Now it is that their Affections are most lively and vigorous, though their Judgments be but weak. They have now such strong and deep apprehensions of the Grace and Love of Christ, and such transcendent zeal for him, that they easily embrace any thing whereby they conceive he may be honoured and exalted. They have also such deep Apprehensions and powerful Aversations as to Sin, that they are in danger to fly even from Truth and Duty it felf, when it shall be artificially represented to them as Sin. For not only that which is malum per se, Sin indeed; but that which is male coloratum, painted with Sin's Colours, is apt to scare and fright them.