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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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Twenty general Observations, about the rise and increase of the Errors of the times.
First Observation.
Truth is the proper Object, the natural and pleasant food of the Understanding, Job 12. 11. Doth not the ear (that is, the understanding by the ear) try words, as the mouth tasteth meat? Knowledge is the assimilation of the Understanding to the truths received by it. Nothing is more natural to man, than a desire to know: Knowledge never cloys the Mind, as food doth the natural Appetite; but as the one increaseth, the other is proportionably sharpened and provoked. The Minds of all (that are not wholly immersed in Sensuality) spend their Strength in the laborious search and pursuit of Truth. Sometimes climbing up from the Effects to the Causes, and then descending again from the Causes to the Effects; and all to discover Truth. Fervent Prayer, sedulous Study, fixed Meditations, are the labours of inquisitive Souls after Truth. All the Objections ⟨p. 8⟩and Counter-arguments the mind meets in its way, are but the pauses and hesitations of a bivious Soul, not able to determine whether Truth lies upon this side, or upon that.
TRuth is the proper Object, the natural and pleasant food of the Understanding, Iob 12. 11. Doth not the ear (that is, the understanding by the ear) try words, as the mouth tasteth meat? Knowledg is the assimilation of the Understanding to the truths received by it. Nothing is more natural to man, than a desire to know: Knowledg never cloys the Mind, as food doth the natural Appetite; but as the one increaseth, the other is proportionably sharpened and provoked. The Minds of all (that are not wholly immers'd in Sensuality) spend their Strength in the laborious search and pursuit of Truth. Sometimes climbing up from the Effects to the Causes, and then descending again from the Causes to the Effects; and all to discover Truth. Fervent Prayer, sedulous Study, fixed Meditations, are the labours of inquisitive Souls after Truth. All the Objections