A25470:1342
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.
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.
The Text is limited by the Apostle to the Regenerate;1 yet may in a good and true sense be extended to the unregenerate also, in whom there is a Law of the mind; namely, the Law of Reason though not of Regeneration. Yea, Porphyrius lib. 1. [Greek or Hebrew] uses the Apostles phrase, calling it [Greek or Hebrew]. Taking therefore the Law of the mind and the Law of the members in a large sense, may not every one take up this complaint of the Apostle? Thence note,
The Text is limited by the Apostle to the Regenerate;1 yet may in a good and true sense be extended to the unregenerate also, in whom there is a Law of the mind; namely, the Law of Reason though not of Regeneration. Yea, Porphyrius lib. 1. uses the Apostles phrase, calling it . Taking therefore the Law of the mind and the Law of the members in a large sense, may not every one take up this complaint of the Apostle? Thence note,