A39674:64
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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Let one Testament freely cast its light upon the other, the Old on the New, and the New on the Old, ibid. R. 5. Observe the sense which the current of Expositors do agree in, and which naturally agrees with the scope of the place, 53▪ Cause 2. The abuse of the Liberty given by Christ to all his People to read the Scriptures, and to judge of the sense of them by a private judgment of Discretion, ibid. Remedy of it, is to observe the limits which Christ hath set to this Liberty; which Limitations are, 1. A liberty to read and study, but not publicly to expound and preach the Word, 57. 2. Christians of different Abilities ought to study some parts of Scripture rather than others, 59. ⟨image 18⟩Cause 3. Slothfulness in a due and serious search of the Scripture, 61. How to find the institution of the Sabbath in the Scripture, 64. How to find the institution of the Baptism of Infants there, 65. Several Considerations to cure this slothfulness, 67. Viz. A serious search of the Scriptures is our duty, ibid. No action of ours that is not agreeable to God's will, is acceptable to him, 68. This is the path in which the wisest and best of men have gone before us, 69. Every discovery of the Will of God obtained in this method, is highly pleasant, 70. Confirms our Faith, 71. An impartial search into the Will of God will be a testimony of our Integrity and▪ Sincerity, ibid. Cause 4. Instability of judgment, and unsettledness of mind about the truth of the Gospel, 72. This is the effect sometimes of Hypocrisy, sometimes of weakness, 74. To prevent which, some Rules, 76. viz. R. 1. To get a real inward implantation into Christ, ibid. R. 2. To labour for an experimental Taste of the Truths professed, p. 77. ⟨image 18⟩R. 3. To study hard, and pray earnestly, p. 77. R. 4. To be sensible of the benefit of a good establishment, and the evil and danger of a wavering mind, p. 78. Cause 5. Eagerness to snatch at any Doctrine or Opinion that promiseth ease to an Anxious Conscience, 79. For the cure of which some Queries propounded, viz. Qu. 1. Whether a good trouble be not better than a false Peace? 82. Qu. 2. Whether Troubles so laid asleep, will not revive again with a double force? 83. Q. 3. Whether the Saints in Scripture, that have been under terrors, have not found peace by those very methods which the Principles that quiet you, exclude? 84. Cause 6. An easy Credulity. 85.