A25470:1210
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. That a believer without extraordinary revelation, might certainly know that he hath justify ng faith, and unfeigned love to Christ, and that he is upright and sincere with God.
1. That a beleever without extraordinary revelation, might certainly know that he hath justify ng faith, and unseigned love to Christ, and that hee is upright and sincere with God.
2. That there is an infallible connection, between these special graces, and future glory. That a man may certainly know his sincerity, faith, and love, is evidenced by these Particulars.
2. That there is an infallible connexion, between these special graces, and future glory. That a man may certainly know his sincerity, faith, and love, is evidenced by these Particulars.
1.1 God hath laid down in his word certain infallible [Greek or Hebrew] Characters, Signs, Discoveries, of sincerity, Justifying faith, and Unfeigned love to God, besides other topical heads, we may know it from the effects which it doth always produce, that where I see such an effect of faith, I know there is faith: And Papists must make us cast away all Logic, if we shall not have this granted. I see the broad clear light shining in mine eyes, therefore I know the Sun is risen; and when we see any sign, that is concomitant, or consequent, inseparable and proper to the thing of which it is a sign, we know that that thing is. A man that is sick and weak, yet feels his heart to leap and pant, he knows he is a living man, a man that discourseth, and rationally inferreth one thing from another, knoweth that he hath a reasonable soul, and that he is a man. There are as certain Characters in the word of God of sincerity, faith and love, as there are plain injunctions that we should be sincere, believe and love; Would God command a man to examine himself whether he be in the faith, if there were not rules suitable and sufficient, to direct us to know the nature of faith, and wherein it doth consist?