A39674:799
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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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 ⟨p. 301⟩justly charged you for presenting to the World such a monstrous Sight as was never seen before since the Creation, viz. A whole Church of condemned and cursed Believers. This I might as well have charged upon your Position, and done it no wrong.
I might have justly charg'd 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 ⟨p. 301⟩justly charg'd you for presenting to the World such a monstrous Sight as was never seen before since the Creation, viz. A whole Church of condemned and cursed Believers. This I might as well have charged upon your Position, and done it no wrong.