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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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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.
The word of God which is our rule, must therefore be the only Test and Touchstone to try and discover Errors; ⟨p. 5⟩for Regula est index sui & obliqui. 'Tis not enough to convince a man of Error, that his Judgment differs from other mens; you must bring it to the Word, and try how it agrees or disagrees therewith; else he that charges another with Error, may be found in as great or greater an Error himself. None are more disposed easily to receive and tenaciously to defend Errors, than those who are the Antesignani, Heads or Leaders of Erroneous Sects, especially after they have fought in defence of bad Causes, and deeply engaged their Reputation.