A25470:1354
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.
4. The natural conflict is in every godly man, the spiritual conflict is in no wicked or natural man. This I note, to allay the fears of drooping Saints, who finding a conflict between Conscience and Corruption, conclude they are in the state of Nature, and search not for the conflict between Grace and Corruption. This is, as if a man should conclude he is a Beast, because he hath sense like a Beast, not considering that he hath reason superadded, which a Beast is not capable of.
5. There is a vast difference between the natural and the spiritual conflict. This will appear in the resolution of the case.
6. The mistake about these two conflicts. 1. Undoes natural men, who feeling a Combat in themselves, fondly apprehend it to be the fight between the flesh and the spirit, and thereupon rest secure in a natural estate. 2. It troubles regenerate persons, and that in reference both to duty and comfort, making them drive heavily, because they doubt whither they be Israelites or Egyptians.
6. The mistake about these two conflicts. 1. Undoes natural men, who feeling a Combate in themselves, fondly apprehend it to be the fight between the flesh and the spirit, and thereupon rest secure in a natural estate. 2. It troubles regenerate persons, and that in reference both to duty and comfort, making them drive heavily, because they doubt whither they be Israelites or Aegiptians.