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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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Besides, These young Converts or Novices have not had time to confirm and root themselves in the Truth; and Trees newly planted are much more easily drawn up, than those that have spread and fastened their Roots in the Earth. 'Tis observable what a swarm of false Teachers troubled the Churches of Corinth, Galatia and Philippi, at, and newly after their first planting: and what danger those young Christians were in, abundantly appears in the Apostle's frequent Cautions and holy Jealousy over them: he bids them beware of Dogs, beware of Evil Workers, beware of the Concision, Phil. 3. 2. I fear lest by any means as the Serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ, 2 Cor. 11. 3. he was afraid of the Galatians, lest he had bestowed upon them labour in vain, Gal. 4. 11. he would not give place to false Brethren, no not for an hour, Gal. 2. 5. charges the Romans to receive them that were weak in the faith, but not to doubtful Disputations, Rom. 14. 1. All which, and many more Expressions, discover his grounded jealousy, and their extraordinary danger of seduction at their first plantation. A Novice in Christianity ⟨p. 147⟩is the Person Satan seeks for: strong Believers are not in such apparent danger as little ones in Christ, 1 John 5. 21. Little Children, keep your selves from Idols.
Besides, These young Converts or Novices have not had time to confirm and root themselves in the Truth; and Trees newly planted are much more easily drawn up, than those that have spread and fastened their Roots in the Earth. 'Tis observable what a swarm of false Teachers troubled the Churches of Corinth, Galatia and Philippi, at, and newly after their first planting: and what danger those young Christians were in, abundantly appears in the Apostle's frequent Cautions and holy Jealousy over them: he bids them beware of Dogs, beware of Evil Workers, beware of the Concision,