A39674:585
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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When I received these Sheets from him, in vindication of his Solemn Call, I was at a stand in my own Resolutions, whether to let it pass (without any Animadversions upon it) as a passionate Clamour for a desperate Cause; or give a short and full Answer to his confused and impertinent Rejoinder. But considering that I had under hand at the same time the foregoing Treatise of the Causes and Cures of Mental Errors; and that though my honest Neighbour discovers much weakness in his way of Argumentation, yet it was like to meet with some interested Readers, to whom, for that reason, it would be the more suitable; and how apt such Persons are to glory in the last word; but especially considering that a little time and pains would suffice (as the Case stands) to end the unseasonable Controversy betwixt us, and both clear and confirm many great and weighty Points of Religion: I was upon these ⟨p. 173⟩Considerations prevailed with, against my own Inclination, to cast in these few Sheets as a Mantissa to the former seasonable and necessary Discourse of Errors, resolving to fill them with what should be worth the Reader's time and pains.
When I received these Sheets from him, in vindication of his Solemn Call, I was at a stand in my own Resolutions, whether to let it pass (without any Animadversions upon it) as a passionate Clamor for a desperate Cause; or give a short and full Answer to his confused and impertinent Rejoinder. But considering that I had under hand at the same time the foregoing Treatise of the Causes and Cures of Mental Errors; and that though my honest Neighbour discovers much weakness in his way of Argumentation, yet it was like to meet with some interested Readers, to whom, for that reason, it would be the more suitable; and how apt such Persons are to glory in the last word; but especially considering that a little time and pains would suffice (as the Case stands) to end the unseasonable Controversy betwixt• us, and both clear and confirm many great and weighty Points of Religion: I was upon these ⟨p. 173⟩Considerations prevailed with, against my own Inclination, to cast in these few Sheets as a Mantissa to the former seasonable and necessary Discourse of Errors, resolving to fill them with what should be worth the Reader's time and pains.