A25470:1337
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
Sermon 13: What difference is there between the Conflict in Natural, AND Spiritual Persons?
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.
In the words note 1. An Act of Observation; Godly men are great observers,1 especially of themselves, vers. 18. I know, v. 21. I find, and in the Text, I see.
- 1Division of the Text.
2. The matter observed (a Combat or Conflict) In which note 1. The Combatants or Champions, the Law of the mind and the Law of the members. The form of a Being Naturalists call a Law, Bac. de forma Calidi Aphor. 7. because forms like Laws, and Laws like forms do ordinate and constitute Natural and Politic Bodies in their Being, distinctions and operations. Vatablus calls it aliam vim, Laws as forms being principles of action. Grotius distinguisheth of a fourfold Law. 1. Lex Dei recorded in Scripture. 2. Lex Mentis the Judgment between things honest and dishonest. 3. Lex Membrorum, the carnal or sensual Appetite. 4. Lex Peccati, the Custom of sinning; to complete which heads, we must (with the leave of that Learned Author) add two other distinctions, namely, 1. The Law of Original Sin propagated by Generation, which is strengthened by custom in evil, and together with our sensual appetite depraved, makes up the Law of sin. Secondly, The Law of sanctifying Grace infused in Regeneration, which completes the Law of the mind.
2. The matter observed (a Combate or Conflict) In which note 1. The Combatants or Champions, the Law of the mind and the Law of the members. The form of a Being Naturalists call a Law, Bac. de forma Calidi Aphor. 7. because forms like Laws, and Laws like forms do ordinate and constitute Natural and Politick Bodies in their Being, distinctions and operations. Vatablus calls it aliam vim, Laws as forms being principles of action. Grotius distinguisheth of a fourfold Law. 1. Lex Dei recorded in Scripture. 2. Lex Mentis the Judgment between things honest and dishonest. 3. Lex Membrorum, the carnal or sensual Appetite. 4. Lex Peccati, the Custome of sinning; to compleat which heads, we must (with the leave of that Learned Author) add two other distinctions, namely, 1. The Law of Original Sin propagated by Generation, which is strengthned by custome in evil, and together with our sensual appetite depraved, makes up the Law of sin. Secondly, The Law of sanctifying Grace infused in Regeneration, which compleats the Law of the mind.