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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
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.
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.
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 subtilty 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.
In a word, I am satisfied nothing but your extravagant zeal for your Idolized Opinion, could have thrown you into such disingenuous Methods and Artifices as these. The Ephesians were quiet enough till their Diana began to totter. ⟨p. 300⟩Your passionate Outcries signify to me, something is touched to the quick, which you are more fondly in love with than you ought. When one told Luther what hideous Out-cries his Enemies made against him, and how they reviled him in their Books: I know by their roaring (said he) that I have hit them right.