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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 Remedies against this. 1. The consideration, that it is beneath a man, 88. 2. That the privilege of trying all things, is of too great a value to be thus slighted, 89. 3. Observe the Practices and Lives of those men whose Opinions you are so ready to embrace, 90. Cause 7. A vain Curiosity, 90. Remedies. 1. A due consideration of the mischiefs that have entered into the World by this, 92. 2. God hath not left his people to seek their Salvation among curious, but solid and plainly revealed Truths, 94. 3. 'Tis a dangerous snare of Satan, ibid. Cause 8. Pride and Arrogancy of Humane Reason, 95. Remedies. 1. 'Tis the Will of God, that Ratiocination should submit to Revelation, and Reason to Faith, 98. 2. A sense of the weakness and corruption of Natural Reason, 99. ⟨image 19⟩3. Consider the manifold mischiefs flowing from the pride of Reason. Cause 9. Ignorant Zeal, 101. Defensatives. 1. A Reflection upon the mischiefs occasioned by it in all Places and Ages, 104. 2. A consideration how hurtful it may prove to your own Soul, 106. 3. How prejudicial is hath been to Human Society, 107. 4. That Opinion is to be suspected which comes in by the Affections, 108. Cause 10. Impulsive of spreading Errors, Satan, 110. Rules for Cure. 1. Pray for a sound Conversion, 113. 2. Acquaint your selves with the Devices of Satan, ibid. 3. Resign your Souls to the conduct of Christ and his Spirit, 114. 4. Live in the practice of the truths and duties God hath revealed already, 115. Cause 11. Instrumental, the false Teacher, ibid. Remedies. 1. Pray for strength of Grace, and solidity of Judgment, and use all means to obtain it, 119. 2. Acquaint your selves with the Artifices of such as these, 121. Such as are, their endeavours to blast the reputation of faithful Teachers, ibid. the mixing their Errors among solid Truths, 122. Cause 12. The methods used by False Teachers to draw men from the truth; among which the first is, their representing the Abuses of the Ordinances of God in such a manner as to scare tender Consciences from the use of them, 124. Remedies. 1. Nothing so great and sacred in Religion, but what hath been vilely corrupted and abused, 127. ⟨image 19⟩2. 'Tis the temper of a gracious Soul to love those Ordinances which are most abused and disgraced, 129. 3. Before you forsake any Ordinance, consider whether you have found no advantage by it, 130. Cause 13.
The Remedies against this. 1. The consideration, that it is beneath a man, 88. 2. That the priviledge of trying all things, is of too great a value to be thus slighted, 89. 3. Observe the Practices and Lives of those men whose Opinions you are so ready to imbrace, 90. Cause 7. A vain Curiosity, 90. Remedies. 1. A due consideration of the mischiefs that have entred into the World by this, 92. 2. God hath not left his people to seek their Salvation among curious, but solid and plainly revealed Truths, 94. 3. 'Tis a dangerous snare of Satan, ibid. Cause 8. Pride and Arrogancy of Humane Reason, 95. Remedies. 1. 'Tis the Will of God, that Ratiocination should submit to Revelation, and Reason to Faith, 98. 2. A sense of the weakness and corruption of Natural Reason, 99.