A39674:795
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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Had your Answers been just, you would have observed the Rules of a Respondent, which you have not done: And if they had been sober, you had never ⟨p. 298⟩been so free in your reproaches, and sparing in your Arguments as you have been. Is this the Man, of whom it is said in the Epistle to his Solemn Call, That his Lines are free from reflection and reproach towards those of the persuasion he contends with? Is this my old friendly Neighbour? It calls to my mind the Italian Proverb, God keep us from our Friends, and we will do what we can to keep our selves from our Enemies. And though you act the part of an Enemy, you shall be my Friend whether you will or no. If you will not be my Friend out of Love, I will make you so by a good improvement of your Hatred.
Had your Answers been just, you would have observed the Rules of a Respondent, which you have not done: And if they had been sober, you had never ⟨p. 298⟩been so free in your reproaches, and sparing in your Arguments as you have been. Is this the Man, of whom it is said in the Epistle to his Solemn Call, That his Lines are free from reflection and reproach towards those of the perswasion he contends with? Is this my old friendly Neighbour? It calls to my mind the Italian Proverb, God keep us from our Friends, and we will do what we can to keep our selves from our Enemies. And though you act the part of an Enemy, you shall be my Friend whether you will or no. If you will not be my Friend out of Love, I will make you so by a good improvement of your Hatred.
I have been musing with my self, what might be the true cause of all your rage against my Book; One while I thought it proceeded from want of discretion, that you were not able to distinguish betwixt an Adversary in a Controversy, and an Adversary to the Person; but thought every blow that was given to your Error, must needs be a mortal wound to your Reputation. But, Sir, how close and smart soever my Discourses against your Errors be, I'm sure they are more full of civility and respect to you, than such a Reply as you have made deserves: And