A39674:545
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 III.
The only season Men have to weigh things judiciously and impartially, is before their affections be too far engaged, and their credit and reputation too much concerned.
Men are better able to weigh Doctrines and Opinions, whilst they are other mens, than when they have espoused them and made them their own. Before an Opinion be espoused,1 the Affections do not blind and pervert the Judgment, as they do afterward. Self-love ⟨p. 157⟩Love pulls down the balance at that end which is next us. If therefore by hasty resolution, you lose this only proper and advantageous season of deliberation, you are not like to find such another.
Men are better able to weigh Doctrines and Opinions, whilst they are other mens, than when they have espoused them and made them their own. Before an Opinion be espoused,1 the Affections do not blind and pervert the Judgment, as they do afterward. Selflove ⟨p. 157⟩Love pulls down the balance at that end which is next us. If therefore by hasty resolution, you lose this only proper and advantagious season of deliberation, you are not like to find such another.