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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
A Blow at the Root: OR, THE CAUSES and CURES OF Mental Errors. › Introduction: The INTRODUCTION.
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An Error then is any departure or deviation in our Opinions or Judgments from the perfect Rule of the Divine Law: And to this all men by nature are not only liable, but inclinable. Indeed man by Nature can do nothing else but Err, Psal. 58. 3. he goeth astray as soon as ⟨p. 4⟩born; makes not one true step till renewed by Grace, and many false ones after his Renovation. The Life of the Holiest man is a Book with many Errata's; but the whole Edition of a wicked man's Life is but one continued Error; he that thinks he cannot Err, manifestly Errs in so thinking. The Pope's supposed and pretended Infallibility hath made him the great deceiver of the World. A good man may Err, but is willing to know his Error, and will not obstinately maintain it, when he once plainly discerns it.
Error and Heresy among other things differ in this; Heresy is accompanied with pertinacy; and therefore the Heretic is [Greek or Hebrew], self-condemned; his own Conscience condemns him, whilst men labour in vain to convince him. He doth not formally and in terms Condemn himself, but he doth so equivalently, whilst he continues to own and maintain Doctrines and Opinions which he finds himself unable to defend against the evidence of Truth. Humane frailty may lead a man into the first, but Devilish Pride fixes him in the last.
Error and Heresy among other things differ in this; Heresie is accompanied with pertinacy; and therefore the Heretick is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, sels-condemned; his own Conscience condemns him, whilst men labour in vain to convince him. He doth not formally and in terms Condemn himself, but he doth so equivalently, whilst he continues to own and maintain Doctrines and Opinions which he finds himself unable to defend against the evidence of Truth. Humane frailty may lead a man into the first, but Devilish Pride fixes him in the last.