The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved

The Exhortation in these words, is backed with a reason of great, yea the greatest strength, viz. Life, turn and live, that is, ye shall live comfortably here, and happily for ever hereafter.

The Exhortation in these words, is back'd with a reason of great, yea the greatest strength, viz. Life, turn and live, that is, ye shall live comfortably here, and happily for ever hereafter.

There be four Propositions deducible from these words: 1. That man is turned from God. 2. That it's mans duty to turn unto God again. 3. That the Lords willingness that men should rather live then die, should be a strong Argument to move them to turn. 4. That those who do turn shall live.

There be four Propositions deducible from these words: 1. That man is turn'd from God. 2. That it's mans duty to turn unto God again. 3. That the Lords willingness that men should rather live then die, should be a strong Argument to move them to turn. 4. That those who do turn shall live.

I shall wave all those great Truths and come to that which the words seem to import, viz. A power in man to turn himself. It is a good rule which Glassius in his Philology gives us,¹ That active Verbs are given to those things which do not properly & by immediate influx, do that which they signifie, Sed certa tantum ratione concurrunt. God, said to Moses, Lift up thy rod stretch out thy hand over the sea and divide it, Exod. 14.16. Moses had not power to divide the sea; but, because there was a certain concurrence of Moses using the rod according to divine direction, therefore it is attributed unto Moses, whereas it was the work of God alone, for vers. 21. its said, The Lord caused the sea to go back. So in the work of Conversion, because man doth something about it, therefore he is said to turn himself although the action be peculiar to the Lord,