A25470:1399
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
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.
II. You may farther say, are wicked men bound to pray, since their Prays are an abomination, and they cannot ask in Faith?
II. You may farther say, are wicked men bound to pray, since their Prayes are anabomination, and they cannot ask in Faith?
I answer. 1. Inability to pay a debt, doth not acquit one from it, nor Cancel the Obligation. If one blows out the Candle, one cannot excuse ones self for not working, by saying that they could not work in the dark; nor can a boy excuse himself from saying the Lesson he hath torn out of his Book.
2. Because wicked men break others of Gods Commandments, it cannot justify them in the breaking of this, sin doth super-induce a new Obligation, viz. to punishment, but doth not cancel their former, viz. to Duty.
2. Because wicked men break others of Gods Commandments, it cannot justifie them in the breaking of this, sin doth super-induce a new Obligation, viz. to punishment, but doth not cancel their former, viz. to Duty.