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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?
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.
On the other hand; In the Regenerate the combat ariseth from the Antipathy of two contrary Natures perfectly hating each other, Gal. 5.17. Of all affections (as one notes well) Love and hatred are first, and most uncompoundable. A Godly man hates sin as God hates it, not so much for its danger as for its Loathsomeness; as some creatures hate filth so that they will rather dye then defile themselves. One Wolf may snarl at another, but the quarrel is not laid in their Natures as it is in the Wolf and Lamb, which therefore cannot be reconciled. God in Paradise first sounded the Trumpet to this All-arm, Gen. 3.15. proclaiming an eternal War between this seed of the Woman and of the Serpent. As in persons, so much more in principles, there is a mutual abomination. Compare Psalm 139.22. Prov. 29.29. Psal. 97.10. and 119.128. and Rom. 8.7. Enemies may, but Enmity can never be reconciled.
On the other hand; In the Regenerate the combat ariseth from the Antipathy of two contrary Natures perfectly hating each other, Gal. 5.17. Of all affections (as one notes well) Love and hatred are first, and most uncompoundable. A Godly man hates sin as God hates it, not so much for its danger as for its Loathsomnesse; as some creatures hate filth so that they will rather dye then defile themselves. One Wolf may snarl at another, but the quarrel is not layd in their Natures as it is in the Wolf and Lamb, which therefore cannot be reconciled. God in Paradise first sounded the Trumpet to this All-arme, Gen. 3.15. proclaiming an eternal Warr between this seed of the Woman and of the Serpent. As in persons, so much more in principles, there is a mutual abomination. Compare Psalm 139.22. Prov. 29.29.