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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 IV.
By this discourse we may further discover one great and special cause and reason of the lamentable decay of the spirit and power of Religion, amongst the Professors of the present Age.
'Tis a complaint more just than common, That we do all fade as a leaf. And what may be the Cause? Nothing more probable than the wasting of our time and spirits in vain janglings and fruitless controversies, which the Apostle tells us, Heb. 13. 9. have not profited, i. e. they have greatly damnified and injured them that have been occupied therein. Many Controversies of these times grow up about Religion, as Suckers from the Root and Limbs of a Fruit-tree, which spend the vital Sap that should make it fruitful.
*'Tis a great and sad Observation made upon the state of England by some judicious persons, That after the greatest increase of Religion, both intensively in the power of it, and extensively in the number of Converts, what a remarkable ⟨p. 163⟩decay it suffered both ways, when about the year Forty-four, Controversies and Disputations grew fervent among Professors. Since that time our strength and glory have very much abated.