A39674:544
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.
Weighty Actions require answerable Deliberations. It was the worthy saying of Augustus Caesar*, That's soon enough, that's well enough. There be many things to be considered, and throughly ⟨p. 156⟩weighed, before a Man change his judgment, and embrace a new Doctrine or Opinion. Luther, in his Epistle to the Ministers of Nuremberg, cites an excellent passage out of Basil*, He that is about to separate himself from the society of his Brethren, had need to consider many things even unto anxiety; to beg of God the demonstration of Truth with many tears, and to pass many solitary nights with waking eyes, before he attempt, or put such a matter in execution. By the vote of the whole rational World, Time and Consideration ought to be proportionate to the weight of an Undertakement.
Weighty Actions require answerable Deliberations. It was the worthy saying of Augustus Caesar*, That's soon enough, that's well enough. There be many things to be considered, and throughly ⟨p. 156⟩weighed, before a Man change his judgment, and embrace a new Doctrine or Opinion. Luther, in his Epistle to the Ministers of Norimberg, cites an excellent passage out of Basil