A25470:1458
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.
1. The Leper was cured though he prayed with an if thou wilt.
2. Those in desertion should put up no acceptable Prayers, since they have not Faith of assurance of obtaining.
2. Those in disertion should put up no acceptable Prayers, since they have not Faith of assurance of obtaining.
3. Christ when he comes at the day of Judgment, he shall not find this Faith on the Earth, Luke 18.8. and yet vers. 7. it is said, God will hear those Prayers.
4. The Apostle forbids this Faith vers. 7. therefore it is not the Faith here commanded, for then it should run thus, you must believe you shall receive the thing you ask for, but if you do not you must no•; many more arguments may be brought to prove this, but these shall suffice, besides what shall be sid in the Positive handling this Question, viz. What Faith is required as to our believing absolutely and undoubtedly, in kind the very thing we ask, which I shall Answer in several Propositions.