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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
A Blow at the Root: OR, THE CAUSES and CURES OF Mental Errors. › Introduction: The INTRODUCTION.
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The INTRODUCTION.
FINDING by sad Experience what I before justly feared, that Errors would be apt to spring up with Liberty (though the restraint of just Liberty, being a practical Error in Rulers, can never be the cure of Mental Errors in the Subjects;) I judged it necessary at this Season to give a Succinct account of the Rise, Causes, and Remedies of several ⟨p. 2⟩Mistakes and Errors, under which even the Reformed Churches among us, as well as others, do groan at this Day.
I will not stay my Reader long upon the Etymology and Derivations of the Word. We all know that Etymologies are no Definitions▪ Yet because they cast some light upon the Nature of the thing we enquire after, it will not be lost labour to observe that this word ERROR derives it self from three Roots in the Hebrew Language.
(1.) The First word Primitively signifies to deviate or decline from the true Scope or path,