A25470:1001
The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved
The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers, September 1661.
London: printed for Joshua Kirton and Nathaniel Webb, 1661
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. Because otherwise we shall sever mercy from justice, which should always go hand in hand; God hath put them together; Prov. 21.21. Dan. 4.27. & we must not put them asunder; indeed they are two links of one & the same chain, of which other virtues and graces are also other links; So many virtues, so many links; Now if one link of a chain fall off, the whole chain is broken, and down falls that which is drawn or held up by it; so we that are held out of the pit of destruction by the Chains of graces, are in danger to fall into it, if one grace be violated, and severed from the rest.
1. Because otherwise we shall sever mercy from justice, which should alwaies go hand in hand; God hath put them together; Prov. 21.21. Dan. 4.27. & we must not put them asunder; indeed they are two links of one & the same chain, of which other vertues and graces are also other links; So many vertues, so many links; Now if one link of a chain fall off, the whole chain is broken, and down falls that which is drawn or held up by it; so wee that are held out of the pit of destruction by the Chains of graces, are in danger to fall into it, if one grace bee violated, and severed from the rest.
2. By giving that which is not our own,1 the excellency and glory of Charity is lost, of such charity it may be said Ichabod, where is the glory? The glory of Charity consists in this, that we are willing to part with our own, and therein to damnify our selves, for the relief and succour of others.
2. By giving that which is not our own,