A39674:815
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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Of the Rise of Antinomianism.
The Scriptures foreseeing there would arise such a sort of Men in the Church as would wax wanton against Christ, and turn his Grace into lasciviousness; hath not only precautioned us in general to beware of such Opinions as corrupt the ⟨p. 309⟩Doctrine of Free-grace, Rom. 6. 1, 2. Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? God forbid: but hath particularly indigitated and marked those very Opinions by which it would be abused, and made abundant provision against them; as namely,
1. All slighting and vilifying Opinions or Expressions of the Holy Law of God, Rom. 7. 7, 12.
2. All Opinions and Principles inclining men to a careless disregard and neglect of the Duties of Obedience, under pretence of Free-grace and Liberty by Christ,