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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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How vile and abominable Inferences the Manichaeans, Valentinians, and Cerdonites, drew from the Grace and Liberty of the Gospel in the following Ages, I had rather mourn over, than recite. And if we come down to the 15 th Century, we shall find the Libertines of those days as deeply drenched in this Sin, as most that went before them.1 Calvin mournfully observes, That under pretence of Christian-liberty, they trampled all Godliness under foot. The vile Courses their loose Opinions soon carried them into, plainly discovered for what intents and purposes they were projected and calculated: and he that reads the Preface to that Grave and Learned Mr. Thomas Gataker's Book, entitled, God's Eye upon Israel, will find, That some Antinomians of our days are not much behind the worst and vilest of them. One of them cries out, Away with the Law, away with the Law, it cuts off a man's Legs, and th•n bids him walk. Another saith, Tis as possible for Christ himself to sin, as for a Child of God to sin. That if a man by the Spirit know himself to be in the state of grace, though he be drunk, or commit murder, ⟨p. 313⟩God sees no sin in him: with much more of the same Bran, which I will not transcribe.
How vile and abominable Inferences the Manichaeans, Valentinians, and Cerdonites, drew from the Grace and Liberty of the Gospel in the following Ages, I had rather mourn over, than recite. And if we come down to the 15 th Century, we shall find the Libertines of those days as deeply drenched in this Sin, as most that went before them.1 Calvin mournfully observes, That under pretence of Christian-liberty, they trampled all Godliness under foot. The vile Courses their loose Opinions soon carried them into, plainly discovered for what intents and purposes they were projected and calculated: and he that reads the Preface to that Grave and Learned Mr. Thomas Gataker's Book, entituled, God's Eye upon Israel, will find, That some Antinomians of our days are not much behind the worst and vilest of them. One of them cries out, Away with the Law, away with the Law, it cuts off a man's Legs, and th•n bids him walk. Another saith, Tis as possible for Christ himself to sin, as for a Child of God to sin. That if a man by the Spirit know himself to be in the state of grace, though he be drunk, or commit murther,