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

4. The dubiousness of the fight, both parties often fighting as it were aequo Mart; sometimes one, sometimes the other seeming to get the better, as in the battle between Israel and Amaleck, Exod. 17.11.

4. The dubiousness of the fight, both parties often fighting as it were aequo Marte; sometimes one, sometimes the other seeming to get the better, as in the battel between Israel and Amaleck, Exod. 17.11.

5. The sad event too often on the better side which is led Captive; in which term yet there is a mixture of comfort; Sin when in Triumph acting as a Tyrant, not as a Lawful Sovereign: The Law of the mind may be overborne by, but never indents with the Law of the members; as a person enslaved by force but not by contract; or as Schoolboys in a misrule may shut their Master for a while out of doors; but at last he gets in and they pay dearly for that affront. Withal, note in the Text a mixture of civil and military terms to illustrate the spiritual conflict; there being a Law-suit, as well as a pitched Battle, between Grace and Corruption.

5. The sad event too often on the better side which is led Captive; in which term yet there is a mixture of comfort; Sin when in Tryumph acting as a Tyrant, not as a Lawful Soveraign: The Law of the mind may be overborn by, but never indents with the Law of the members; as a person inslaved by force but not by contract; or as Schoolboyes in a misrule may shut their Master for a while out of doors; but at last he gets in and they pay dearly for that affront. Withal, note in the Text a mixture of civil and military terms to illustrate the spiritual conflict; there being a Law-suit, as well as a pitch't Battel, between Grace and Corruption.