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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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(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 op•ned to the People.
(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 Iustification by Free-grace; decried imputed, and exalted inberent 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-grce be op•ned to the People.
But as soon as the Light of Reformation had discovered the Free-grace of God to Sinners, (which is indeed the only effectual remedy of distressed Consciences) and by the same Light the horrid Cheats of the Man of Sin were discovered; all good men, who were enlightened by the Reformation, justly and deeply abhorred Popery, as the Enemy of the Grace of God, and true Peace of Conscience, and fixed themselves upon the sound and comfortable Doctrines of Justification by Faith through the alone Righteousness of Christ. Mean while thankfully acknowledging, that they which believe, ought also to maintain good Works. But others there were, transported by an indiscreet Zeal, who have almost bended the Grace of God as far too much the other way, and have both spoken and written many things very unbecoming the Grace of God, and tending to looseness and neglect of Duty.