A39674:929
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 III.
This Doctrine cannot be true, because it supposes every persuasion, or strong conceit of a Man's own heart, to be as infallibly sure and certain, as the very fundamental Doctrine of Christianity. No truth in the World can be surer than this, That Jesus Christ died for Sinners. This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, 1 Tim. 1. 15. This is a Foundation stone, a tried, precious Corner-stone, a sure foundation laid by God himself, Isa. 28. 16. and shall the strong conceits and confidences of Men's hearts vie and compare in point of certainty with it? As well may probable and merely conjectural Propositions compare with Axioms that are self-evident, or demonstrative Arguments, that leave no doubts behind them. Know we not, that the heart is deceitful above all things, the most notorious cheat and impostor in the World, Jer. 17. 9? Does it not deceive all the formal hypocrites in the World in this very point? And shall every strong conceit and presumptuous confidence, ⟨p. 354⟩begotten by Satan upon a deceitful heart, and nursed up by self-love, pass without any examination or suspicion for as infallible and assured a truth, as that Jesus Christ came into the World to save sinners? The Lord sweep that Doctrine out of the World by Reformation, which is like to sweep so many Thousand Souls into Hell by a remediless Self-deception.
This Doctrine cannot be true, because it supposes every persuasion, or strong conceit of a Man's own heart, to be as infallibly sure and certain, as the very fundamental Doctrine of Christianity. No truth in the World can be surer than this, That Jesus Christ died for Sinners. This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all accepation,