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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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They frequently call the People of God to the examination and trial of their Interest in Christ by marks and signs; and accordingly furnish them with variety of such marks from the divers parts or branches of Sanctification in themselves.
They earnestly, and every-where, press Believers to strictness and constancy in the duties of Religion, as the way wherein God would have them to walk. They infer Duties from Privileges; and therefore the Antinomian Dialect is a wild note, which the generality of serious Christians do easily distinguish from the Scripture-stile and Language.
(2.) The Experience and Practice of the Saints recorded in Scripture, as well as our Contemporaries, or those whose Lives are recorded for our imitation, do greatly secure us from the spreading malignity of Antinomianism. Converse with the living, or read the Histories of dead Saints, and you shall find, That in their Addresses to God, they still bless and praise him for that great and wonderful change of state which was made upon them when they first believed in Christ, and on their believing passed from death to life; freely acknowledging before God, they were before their conversion equal in sin and misery with the vilest Wretches in the World: They heartily mourn for their daily Sins; fear nothing more than Sin; no Afflictions in the World go so near their heart as Sin doth. They mourn for the hardness of their hearts, that they can mourn no more for Sin. They acknowledge the Rods of God that are upon them, are not only the evidences of his displeasure against them for their Sins; but the fruits of their uneven walking with him. And that the greatest of their Afflictions is less than the least of their Iniquities deserve. They fall at their Father's feet ⟨p. 326⟩as oft as they fall into sin, humbly and earnestly suing for pardon through the Blood of Christ. They are not only sensible that God sees Sin in them; but that he seeth such, and so great evils in them, as makes them admire at his patience that they are not consumed in their Iniquities. They find cause enough to suspect their own sincerity: doubt the truth of their Faith, and of their Graces: and are therefore frequent and serious in the trial and examination of their own states by Scripture-marks and signs. They urge the Commands and Threatenings, as well as the Promises, upon their own hearts, to promote Sanctification. Excite themselves to duty and watchfulness against Sin. They also encourage themselves by the rewards of obedience, knowing their labour is not in vain in the Lord. And all this while they look not for that in themselves, which is only to be found in Christ: nor for that in the Law, which is only to be found in the Gospel: nor for that on Earth, which is only to be found in Heaven. This is the way that they take.