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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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As for the rude Insults, uncomely Reflections, and passionate Expressions of my discontented Friend, I shall not throw back the dirt upon him, when I wipe it off from my self: I can easily forgive and forget them too. The best men have their Passions, Jam. 5. 17. even Sweet-briers and Holy-Thistles have their offensive Prickles. I consider my honest Neighbour under the strength of a Temptation. It disquiets him to see the Labours of many years, and the raised Expectations of so great a conquest and triumph over men of Renown, all frustrated by his Friend and Neighbour, who had done his utmost to prevent it; and often foretold him of the folly and vanity of his Attempt. Every thing will live as long as it can, and natura vexat a prodit seipsam. But certainly it had been more for Truth's honour, and Mr. C's comfort, to have confessed his Follies humbly to God, and have laid his hand upon his mouth.
As for the rude Insults, uncomely Reflections, and passionate Expressions of my discontented Friend, I shall not throw back the dirt upon him, when I wipe it off from my self: I can easily forgive and forget them too. The best men have their Passions, Iam. 5. 17. even Sweet-briers and Holy-Thistles have their offensive Prickles. I consider my honest Neighbour under the strength of a Temptation. It disquiets him to see the Labours of many years, and the raised Expectations of so great a conquest and triumph over men of Renown, all frustrated by his Friend and Neighbour, who had done his utmost to prevent it; and often foretold him of the folly and vanity of his Attempt. Every thing will live as long as it can, and natura vexat a prodit seipsam. But certainly it had been more for Truth's honour, and Mr. C's comfort, to have confessed his Follies humbly to God, and have laid his hand upon his mouth.
The things in controversy betwixt us, are great and weighty, viz. The true nature of the Sinai Laws, in their complex body; the quality of God's Covenant with Abraham; and the dispensation of the New Covenant we are now under. These are things of great weight in themselves; and their due Resolutions are at this time somewhat the more weighty, because my Antagonist hath adventured the whole Controversy of Infants Baptism upon them.