A25470:1152
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.
4. The Damage which followeth upon the neglect thereof.
4. The Dammage which followeth upon the neglect thereof.
1. The first Motive or Inducement to Charity may be taken from the Excellency thereof. I suppose that all will grant that the greatest excellency that a creature can attain unto, is to be like his Creator. That excellency wherein man was at first created, is thus set out,1 God created man in his own Image; that is, in his own likeness. And that excellency wherewith we shall be glorified in Heaven is set out by our likeness to Christ; for it is said,2 Our bodies shall then be fashioned like unto his glorious body, yea in the whole man, when he shall appear, 3then we shall be like him.
1. The first Motive or Inducement to Charity may be taken from the Excellency thereof. I suppose that all will grant that the greatest excellency that a creature can attain unto, is to be like his Creator. That excellency wherein man was at first created, is thus set out,1 God created man in his own Image; that is, in his own likeness. And that excellency wherewith wee shall be glorified in Heaven is set out by our likeness to Christ; for it is said,2 Our bodies shall then bee fashioned like unto his glorious body, yea in the whole man, when hee shall appear, 3then wee shall bee like him.