A25470:1285
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.
5. Direction.
5. Be well acquainted and informed in the nature of the Covenant of Grace, and the conditions thereof. Whatsoever are thy doubts, there is something in the Covenant of Grace that would be ground of satisfaction to thee; is it thine own unworthiness? here rich and free Grace is laid open; is it thy long delay of coming in to God, that now thou thinkest it is too late? the Gospel will tell thee, that Christ will not cast thee off, if now thou come un•o him; is it thy ragged, torn, imperfect obedience? the Covenant of Grace accepts of sincerity, though there be many infirmities, the intention of the heart for the work of the hand, the purpose for the performance, where the sincere soul cannot do so much as he doth really desire to do.
5. Bee well acquainted and informed in the nature of the Covenant of Grace, and the conditions thereof. Whatsoever are thy doubts, there is something in the Covenant of Grace that would be ground of satisfaction to thee; is it thine own unworthiness? here rich and free Grace is laid open; is it thy long delay of coming in to God, that now thou thinkest it is too late? the Gospel will tell thee, that Christ will not cast thee off, if now thou come un•o him; is it thy ragged, torn, imperfect obedience? the Covenant of Grace accepts of sincerity, though there be many infirmities, the intention of the heart for the work of the hand, the purpose for the performance, where the sincere soul cannot do so much as hee doth really desire to do.