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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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But others there be, whose Judgments are unhappily tainted and leavened with these loose Doctrines; yet being in the main godly persons, they dare not take liberty to sin, or live in the neglect of known duties, though their Principles too much incline that way. But though they dare not, others will, who imbibe corrupt notions from them; and the renowned Piety of the Authors will be no antidote against the danger, but make the Poison operate the more powerfully, by receiving it in such a vehicle. Now it is highly probable such men as these might be charmed into such dangerous Opinions upon such accounts as these.
(1.) 'Tis like some of them might have felt in themselves the anguish of a perplexed Conscience under sin; and not being able to live with these terrors of the Law, and dismal fears of Conscience, might too hastily snatch at those Doctrines which promise them relief and ease, as I noted before in the 5th Cause of my Treatise of Errors. And that this is not a guess at random, will appear from the very Title-page of Mr. Saltmarsh's ⟨p. 314⟩marsh's Book of Free-grace, where (as an inducement to the Reader to swallow his Antinomian Doctrine) he shows him this curious Bait. It is (saith he) an experiment of Jesus Christ upon one who hath been in the bondage of a troubled Conscience at times for the space of about twelve years, till now upon a clearer discovery of Jesus Christ in the Gospel, &c.
(1.) 'Tis like some of them might have felt in themselves the anguish of a perplexed Conscience under sin; and not being able to live with these terrors of the Law, and dismal fears of Conscience, might too hastily snatch at those Doctrines which promise them relief and ease, as I noted before in the 5th Cause of my Treatise of Errors. And that this is not a guess at random, will appear from the very Title-page of Mr. Saltmarsh's ⟨p. 314⟩marsh's Book of Free-grace, where (as an inducement to the Reader to swallow his Antinomian Doctrine) he shews him this curious Bait. It is (saith he) an experiment of Iesus Christ upon one who hath been in the bondage of a troubled Conscience at times for the space of about twelve years, till now upon a clearer discovery of Iesus Christ in the Gospel, &c.