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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 I.
Consider, that hasty engagements in weighty and disputable matters, have cost many Souls dear.
As hasty Marriages have produced long and late repentance; so hath the clapping up of an hasty Match betwixt the Mind and Error. By entertaining strange persons, Men sometimes entertain Angels unaware; but by entertaining of strange Doctrines, many have entertained Devils unawares. 'Tis not safe to open the door of the Soul to let in strangers in the night; let them wait till a clear daylight of information show you what they are.
As hasty Marriages have produced long and late repentance; so hath the clapping up of an hasty Match betwixt the Mind and Error. By entertaining strange persons, Men sometimes entertain Angels unaware; but by entertaining of strange Doctrines, many have entertained Devils unawares. 'Tis not safe to open the door of the Soul to let in strangers in the night; let them wait till a clear daylight of information shew you what they are.