A39674:552
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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Consectary I.
From all that hath been said about Errors, we see in the first place, the great usefulness and plain necessity of an able, faithful, standing Ministry in the Church.
One special end of the Ministry, is the establishment of the peoples Souls against the Errors of the times, Eph. 4. 11, 14. He gave some Apostles, &c. that we henceforth be no more children tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the sleight of men, &c. Ministers ⟨p. 159⟩are Shepherds, and without a Shepherd, how soon will the flock go astray? Moses was absent but a few days from the Israelites, and at his return found them all run into the snares of Idolatry. A Sheep is animal sequax, a creature that follows a Leader. One straggler may mislead a whole flock. A Minister's work is not only to feed, but to defend the flock. I am set (saith Paul) for the defence of the Gospel, Phil. 1. 17. An Orthodox and Faithful Minister, is a double blessing to the people; but woe to that people, whose Ministers, instead of securing them against Errors, do cause them to err, Isa. 9. 16. they are the Dogs of the Flock. Some in Scripture are called dumb dogs, who, instead of barking at the Thief, bite the Children: But faithful Ministers give warning of spiritual dangers. So did the worthy Ministers of London, Worcestershire, Devon, &c. in their Testimonies against Errors.