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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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(2.) It is neither true nor tolerable to say there is no considerable evil in the sins of Believers, deserving a mournful confession or petition for pardon. The desert of Sin is Hell; 'tis an artifice of Satan to draw men to Sin by persuading them there is no great evil in it; but none except Fools will believe it. Fools, indeed, make a mock of Sin; but all that understand either the intrinsic evil of it, or the sad and dismal effects produced by it, are far from thinking it a light or inconsiderable evil. The sins even of Believers greatly wrong and offend their God, Psal. 51. 4. and is that a light thing with us? They interrupt and clog our Communion with God, Rom. 7. 21. They grieve the good Spirit of God, Ephes. 4. 30. Certainly these are no inconsiderable mischiefs.
(2.) It is neither true nor tolerable to say there is no considerable evil in the sins of Believers, deserving a mournful confession or petition for pardon. The desert of Sin is Hell; 'tis an artifice of Satan to draw men to Sin by persuading them there is no great evil in it; but none except Fools will believe it. Fools, indeed, make a mock of Sin; but all that understand either the intrinsick evil of it, or the sad and dismal effects produced by it, are far from thinking it a light or inconsiderable evil. The sins even of Believers greatly wrong and offend their God, Psal. 51. 4. and is that a light thing with us? They interrupt and clog our Communion with God, Rom. 7. 21. They grieve the good Spirit of God, Ephes. 4. 30. Certainly these are no inconsiderable mischiefs.
(3.) Now if there be sin in Believers, and so much evil in their sins (neither of which any sober Christian will deny) then undoubtedly it is their duty to confess it freely, mourn for it bitterly, and pray for the pardon of it earnestly, unless God have any where discharged them from those Duties, and told them these are none of their concernments, and that he expects not these things from justified persons; but that these are Duties properly and only belonging to other Men. But on the contrary, you find the whole current of Scripture running strongly and constantly in direct opposition to such idle and sinful notions. For first,