A39674:823
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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This perversion and abuse of Free-grace and Christian-liberty, is justly chargeable (though upon different accounts) both upon wicked, and good Men. Wicked Men corrupt it designedly, that by entitling God to their Sins, they might sin the more quietly and securely. So the Devil instigated the Heathens to sin against the Light and Law of Nature, by representing their gods to them as drunken and lascivious Deities. So the Nicolaitans, and School of Simon, and after them the Gnostics, and other Heretics, in the very dawning of Gospel Light and Liberty, began presently to loose the bond of restraint from their Lusts, under pretence of Grace and Liberty. The Aetiani blushed not to teach,1 That Sin, and perseverance in Sin, could hurt the Salvation of none, ⟨p. 312⟩so that they would embrace their Principles.
This perversion and abuse of Free-grace and Christian-liberty, is justly chargeable (though upon different accounts) both upon wicked, and good Men. Wicked Men corrupt it designedly, that by entitling God to their Sins, they might sin the more quietly and securely. So the Devil instigated the Heathens to sin against the Light and Law of Nature, by representing their gods to them as drunken and lascivious Deities. So the Nicolaitans, and School of Simon, and after them the Gnosticks, and other Hereticks, in the very dawning of Gospel Light and Liberty, began presently to loose the bond of restraint from their Lusts, under pretence of Grace and Liberty. The Aetiani blushed not to teach,1 That Sin, and perseverance in Sin, could hurt the Salvation of none, ⟨p. 312⟩so that they would embrace their Principles.
- 1August. de Haeres. Tom. 6. Haeres. 54.