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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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THE Design of the following Sheets, cast in as a Mantissa to the foregoing Discourse of Errors, is principally to discharge and free the Free-grace of God from those dangerour Errors, which fight against it under its own Colours; partly to prevent the seduction of some that stagger; and lastly, (though least of all) to vindicate my own Doctrine, the scope and current whereof hath always been, and shall ever be, to exalt the Free-grace of God in Christ, to draw the vilest of Sinners• ⟨p. 308⟩to him, and relieve the distressed Consciences of Sin-burdened Christians.
THE Design of the following Sheets, cast in as a Mantissa to the foregoing Discourse of Errors, is principally to discharge and free the Free-grace of God from those dangerour Errors, which fight against it under its own Colours; partly to prevent the seduction of some that stagger; and lastly, (though least of all) to vindicate my own Doctrine, the scope and current whereof hath always been, and shall ever be, to exalt the Free-grace of God in Christ, to draw the vilest of Sinners• ⟨p. 308⟩to him, and relieve the distressed Consciences of Sin-burthened Christians.
But notwithstanding my utmost care and caution, some have been apt to censure it, as if in some things it had a tang of Antinomianism: But if my public or private Discourses be the faithful Messengers of my Judgment and Heart, (as I hope they are) nothing can be found in any of them casting a friendly aspect upon any of their Principles, which I here justly censure as erroneous.
But notwithstanding my utmost care and caution, some have been apt to censure it, as if in some things it had a tang of Antinomianism: But if my publick or private Discourses be the faithful Messengers of my Judgment and Heart, (as I hope they are) nothing can be found in any of them casting a friendly aspect upon any of their Principles, which I here justly censure as erroneous.