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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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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.
I have in my Vindiciae Legis, &c. stated the several Questions clearly and distinctly. Shown Mr. C. what is no part of the Controversy, and what is the very hinge upon which it turns; desired him, if he made any Reply, to keep close to the just and necessary Rules of Disputation, by distinguishing, limiting, or denying any of my Propositions; that the matters in Controversy might be put to a fair and speedy issue. But instead of that, I meet with a flood of words rolling sometimes to this part, and then to another part of my Answer, and so back again, without the steady direction of Art or Reason. There may, for ought I know, be some things of weight in Mr. Cary's Reply, if a man could fee ⟨p. 175⟩them for words: but without scoff or vanity I must say of the rational part of it, as the Poet said of the overdressed Woman,—Pars minima est ipsa Puella sui, 'tis the least part of it. To follow him in his irregular and extravagant way of writing, were to make my self guilty of the same folly I blame him for. I am therefore necessitated to perstringe them, and reduce all I have to say, under three general Heads.
I have in my Vindiciae Legis, &c. stated the several Questions clearly and distinctly. Shewn Mr. C. what is no part of the Controversy, and what is the very hinge upon which it turns; desired him, if he made any Reply, to keep close to the just and necessary Rules of Disputation, by distinguishing, limiting, or denying any of my Propositions; that the matters in Controversy might be put to a fair and speedy issue. But instead of that, I meet with a flood of words rolling sometimes to this part, and then to another part of my Answer, and so back again, without the steddy direction of Art or Reason. There may, for ought I know, be some things of weight in Mr. Cary's Reply, if a man could fee