A25470:1027
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. Be well informed in the benefit that compassion bringeth and that not only to thy distressed Brother, who is succoured; but also to thy self, to whom in this case a promise of mercy is made;1 Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy; Mercy from other men, and mercy from God himself.
1. Bee well informed in the benefit that compassion bringeth and that not onely to thy distressed Brother, who is succoured; but also to thy self, to whom in this case a promise of mercy is made;1 Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy; Mercy from other men, and mercy from God himself.
- 1Mat. 5.7.
2. Well weigh the common condition of all, 1how All things come a•ike to all; as the Wise-man speaketh, so as thou also art subject to the same distress, whereunto others are brought; and therefore as Aquinas saith, we should have compassion on other mens misery,2 for the possibility of suffering the like; Which Argument the Apostle useth to the Hebrews, saying, Remember them which suffer adversity, as being your selves also in the body; that is, say some, as being members of the same body, but ⟨p. 280⟩rather, as Beza and others interpret the place, as being your selves in the body of flesh and frailty,