A39674:826
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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(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.
(2.) Others have been induced to espouse these Opinions from the excess of their Zeal against the Errors of the Papists, who have notoriously corrupted the Doctrine of Justification by Free-grace; decried imputed, and exalted inherent Righteousness above it. The Papists have designedly and industriously sealed up the Scriptures from the People, lest they should there discover those sovereign and effectual Remedies which God hath provided for their distressed Consciences, in the riches of his own Grace, and the meritorious Death of Christ; and so all their Masses, Pilgrimages, Auricular Confessions, with all their dear Indulgences, should lie upon their hands as stale and cheap Commodities. Oh, (said Stephen Gardiner) let not this gap of Free-grace be opned to the People.