A25470:1357
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?
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7. As the great Wisdom of God lies in Governing the Great-world made up of contraries; so the great wisdom of a Godly-man lies in Governing the Little-world made up of like contraries.
7. As the great Wisdom of God lyes in Governing the Great-world made up of contraries; so the great wisdom of a Godly-man lies in Governing the Little-world made up of like contraries.
8. This Government lies principally in discerning these conflicting contraries, and improving their contrariety for the Advantage of the Outward and Inward-man. He is the wisest Physician who can Govern the Body made up of contraries, and he is the wisest Christian who can rule his Soul in the midst of contraries, In this Government Christ is Principal, Psalm 110.2. A Saint Instrumental. Hos. 11.12.
8. This Government lyes principally in discerning these conflicting contraries, and improving their contrariety for the Advantage of the Outward and Inward-man. He is the wisest Physician who can Govern the Body made up of contraries, and he is the wisest Christian who can rule his Soul in the midst of contraries, In this Government Christ is Principal, Psalm 110.2. A Saint Instrumental. Hos. 11.12.
9. This singular wisdom is attainable in the use of ordinary means, and that by the meanest who have Grace to follow Christs conduct: yet not by the power of free-will or humane industry, but by the bounty of free and Special Grace.