A25470:1407
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.
2. If Unbelievers could pray better than Saints, yet God might acquit ⟨p. 337⟩the Saint and condemn the Unbeliever, as a Judge may pass Sentence against one who hath paid ninety and nine pounds of an hundred, and acquit another who hath not paid a farthing, if his surety hath paid it.
2. If Unbelievers could pray better than Saints, yet God might acquit ⟨p. 337⟩the Saint and condemn the Unbeliever, as a Judge may passe Sentence against one who hath paid ninty and nine pounds of an hundred, and acquit another who hath not paid a farthing, if his surety hath paid it.
3. Though in matter of Justice we are not to respect persons, Levit. 19.15. yet in matters of favour we may, Gal. 6.10. This may be the first meaning of the words, but not the only, nor as I conceive the chief. Therefore,
II. To ask in Faith, is, to believe, that all we say in Prayer is true, when we confess our selves to be grievous sinners, we are to think our selves to be as great sinners as we say we are; when we call God Almighty our Father, we are to believe him to be so.
II. To ask in Faith, is, to believe, that all we say in Prayer is true, when we confesse our selves to be grievous sinners, we are to think our selves to be as great sinners as we say we are; when we call God Almighty our Father, we are to believe him to be so.