A25470:1070
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.
This is that hospitality, which is both commanded and commended to us in the holy Scriptures. It is commanded in those known Precepts of the Apostle Paul, Rom. 12.13. Be given to hospitality, and be not forgetful to entertain strangers, Heb. 13.2. Which is as much as to say, Forget not Hospitality which is an entertaining of strangers. And the Apostle Peter commands the faithful to whom he writes,1 to use hospitality without grudging or repining.
This is that hospitality, which is both commanded and commended to us in the holy Scriptures. It is commanded in those known Precepts of the Apostle Paul, Rom. 12.13. Bee given to hospitality, and be not forgetful to entertain strangers, Heb. 13.2. Which is as much as to say, Forget not Hospitality which is an entertaining of strangers. And the Apostle Peter commands the faithful to whom hee writes,1 to use hospitality without grudging or repining.
It is commended to us in the practice of Gods people; as of Abraham, of whom it is recorded,1 that he sate at his Tent door looking and waiting as it were for strangers to entertain them; and so soon as he saw three men, whom he took for such, he ran to invite them. And of Lot, that as he sate in the gate of Sodom, he saw two whom he conceived to be strangers,