A39674:796
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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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 ⟨p. 299⟩if in exposing your Errors, your Reputation be exposed, you must blame them for occasioning it, and not me.
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 Controversie, 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 ⟨p. 299⟩if in exposing your Errors, your Reputation be expos'd, you must blame them for occasioning it, and not me.
Some times I thought it an effect of your Policy, that when followed close, and hard put to it, you endeavoured an escape this way. Camero speaking of this kind of subtlety in his Adversaries, saith, Faciunt quod quarundam ferarum ingenium est, ut foetore & graveolenti•, defectae jam viribus, ac fractae venatorem abigunt. Some cunning Animals, as Foxes, &c. when pursued at the heels, drive away both Dogs and Huntsmen with their intolerable stench. And Hierom long ago told Helvidius, his Adversary, Arbitror te veritate convictum, ad maledicta converti; being vanquished by Truth, he betook himself to ill Language. After the same manner you act here, being no longer able to defend your self by solid and sober ratiocination, you trust to your faculty in crimination. Bad Causes only drive Men into such refuges.