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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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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. 2 Tim. 3.15. Jam. 1.5. Rom. 9.16.
10. It cannot be expected that any Unregenerate person should understand to purpose the difference between these two conflicts; because he hath no experience of this double State and double Principle. No wonder then if such say of me as the Jews did of the Prophet, Ezek. 20.49. Doth he not speak Parables? How ever, for the sake of the Unregenerate to convince them, and for the sake of the Regenerate to comfort them, I shall endeavour (ploughing with Christs Heifer) to find out this great Riddle. And so I come to the Case, and a case of the highest concernment.
10. It cannot be expected that any Unregenerate person should understand to purpose the difference between these two conflicts; because he hath no experience of this double State and double Principle. No wonder then if such say of me as the Jews did of the Prophet, Ezek. 20.49. Doth he not speak Parables? How ever, for the sake of the Unregenerate to convince them, and for the sake of the Regenerate to comfort them, I shall indeavour (plowing with Christs Heifer) to find out this great Riddle. And so I come to the Case, and a case of the highest concernment.