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

So much Heathens have spoken of conscience.^*

1. *[Greek or Hebrew]. Hierocl. Comment in Pytha. Carm. Unfeigned willingness to part with, and mortify every sin, a sure sign of saving grace.〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Hierocl. Comment in Pytha. Carm. Unfeigned willingness to part with, and mortify every sin, a sure sign of saving grace.

Now that the Scripture containeth Characters of sincerity, and that a man comparing himself by those Characters, might certainly know that he is sincere; will be evidenced by these Scriptures. Psal. 19.13. Keep back thy servant from presumptuous sins, let them not have dominion over me: then mark [then] shall I be upright. When there is no one known sin, but a man is really willing should be mortified and parted with, his most beloved sin that is nearest to him, which by way of propriety he may call his own, in an especial manner, which is the last sin a man parteth with, and if there be any sin which a man is unwilling to part with, and will keep a man off from Christ, it is his bosom sin, his darling; and the truth is, that if any man keep, love any one sin, which he will not let go, to close fully with Christ, let his profession be never so great, he is an hypocrite. Some men part with Christ for one lust, for one sin, Luke 18.22. When Jesus heard these things, how far he had gone, how much he had done, he said unto him, yet lackest thou one thing. Love to his riches, and prizing them more than Christ was his ruin; one stab at the heart ⟨p. 309⟩with a Pen-knife, will as certainly kill a man, as a thousand wounds with a sword; one disease that is mortal, will as certainly bring a man to his grave, as twenty; and one leak in a ship, will sink it, as more. Herod did many things, but yet he would not let go his Herodias.