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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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Consectary II.
This discourse shows us also how little quietness and peace the Church may expect, till a greater degree of light and unity be poured out upon it; what by ⟨p. 160⟩persecutions from without it, and troubles from within, little tranquility is to be expected. 'Tis a Note of St. Bernards, that the Church hath sometimes had pacem à Paganis, sed rarò aut nunquam à filiis, peace sometimes from Pagan Persecutors, but seldom or never any peace from her own Children.
This discourse shews us also how little quietness and peace the Church may expect, till a greater degree of light and unity be poured out upon it; what by ⟨p. 160⟩persecutions from without it, and troubles from within, little tranquility is to be expected. 'Tis a Note of St. Bernards, that the Church hath sometimes had pacem à Paganis, sed rarò aut nunquam à filiis, peace sometimes from Pagan Persecutors, but seldom or never any peace from her own Children.
We read, Zech. 14. 7. the whole state of the Christian Church, from the primitive days, to the end of the World, set forth under the notion of one day, and that a strange day too, the light of it shall neither be clear nor dark, nor day nor night, but at evening time it shall be light; i. e. a day full of interchangeable and alternate providences. Sometimes persecutions, heresies and errors prevail, and these make that part of the day dark and gloomy; and then Truth and Peace break forth again, and clear up the day. Thus it hath been, and thus it will be until the evening of it, and at even-time it shall be light; then light and love shall get the ascendant of error and divisions. Most of our scuffles and contentions are for want of greater measures of both these.