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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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Reason II.
This is a very dangerous Error, and it is the more dangerous, because it leaves no way to recover a presumptuous Sinner out of his dangerous mistakes; but confirms and fixes him in them, to the great hazard of his eternal ruin. It cuts off all means of conviction or better information, and Nails them fast to the carnal state in which they are. According to this Doctrine 'tis impossible for a Man to think himself something, when he is nothing; or to be guilty of such a Paralogism and cheat, put by himself upon his own Soul, Jam. 1. 22. this in effect bids a Man keep on right or wrong; he is sure enough of Heaven, if he be but strongly persuaded that Christ died for him, and he shall come thither at last. Certainly this was not the Counsel Christ gave to the self-deceived Laodiceans, Rev. 3. 17, 18. but instead of dissuading them from self-jealously and suspicion of their condition, whether their Faith and State were safe or not, he rather counsels them to buy Eye-salve, that is, to labour after better information of ⟨p. 353⟩the true state and condition they were in, and not cast away their Souls by false persuasions and vain confidences.
This is a very dangerous Error, and it is the more dangerous, because it leaves no way to recover a presumptuous Sinner out of his dangerous mistakes; but confirms and fixes him in them, to the great hazard of his eternal ruin. It cuts off all means of conviction or better information, and Nails them fast to the carnal state in which they are. According to this Doctrine 'tis impossible for a Man to think himself something, when he is nothing; or to be guilty of such a Paralogism and cheat, put by himself upon his own Soul,