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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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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.
You tell me in your Reply, p. 24. That you perceive I have a mighty itch to find out your Absurdities. I wish, Sir, you were no more troubled with the itch after them, than I am after the discovery of them. Had I affected such Employments, I could easily have gathered three to one out of your Book, more than I did: And have represented those I gathered, much more odiously (and yet justly) than I did. But Friendship constrained me to handle them (because yours) as gently as I could.
You tell me in your Reply, p. 24. That you perceive I have a mighty itch to find out your Absurdities. I wish, Sir, you were no more troubled with the itch after them, than I am after the discovery of them. Had I affected such Employments, I could easily have gathered three to one out of your Book, more than I did: And have represented those I gather'd, much more odiously (and yet justly) than I did. But Friendship constrain'd me to handle them (because yours) as gently as I could.
I might have justly charged you from what you say, p. 174, 175. of your Solemn Call: where you place all the Believers on Earth, without exception of any, under the Covenant of Works, as a ministration of Death and Condemnation; and the severest Penalties of a dreadful Curse: I might thereupon have