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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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1. By its repugnancy to God's Omniscience. 2. By its inconsistency with his Dispensations. 3. By its want of a Scripture-foundation. 4. By its contradictoriness to their other Principles.
'Tis true, and we thankfully acknowledge it, that God sees no Sin in Believers, as a Judge sees Guilt in a Malefactor, to condemn him for it; that's a sure and comfortable truth for us: but to say he sees no Sin in his Children as a displeased Father to correct and chasten them for it, is an Assertion repugnant to Scripture, and very injurious to God. For,
(1.) 'Tis injurious to God's Omniscience, Psal. 139. 2. Thou (saith holy David) knowest my down-sitting, and my uprising, and understandest my thoughts of afar off, and art acquainted with all my ways. Job 28. 24. He looketh to the ends of the Earth, and seeth under the whole Heavens. Prov. 15. 3. The Eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good. Psal. 33. 14, 15. From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the Inhabitants ⟨p. 362⟩of the Earth; he fashioneth their hearts alike, he considereth all their works. He that denies that God seeth his most secret Sins, therein in consequentially denies him to be God.