A25470:1464
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.
III. Though we cannot nor ought not certainly to believe the obtaining the thing we ask, if it be Temporal by virtue of the Promise, yet by virtue of an immediate assurance God may give us of receiving the very thing we ask, we may and indeed cannot choose but expect it. We read of Gods dealings so with several of his Saints (with Mr. Fox and many others.)
III. Though we cannot nor ought not certainly to believe the obtaining the thing we ask, if it be Temporal by virtue of the Promise, yet by virtue of an immediate assurance God may give us of receiving the very thing we ask, we may and indeed cannot chuse but expect it. We read of Gods dealings so with several of his Saints (with Mr. Fox and many others.)
IV. As for Spiritual blessings they are of four sorts. 1. Of Edification as gifts, such as speaking with Tongues, and Prophesying in the Primitive Church, and the gifts of Preaching and Praying now, or
2. Of Consolation as assurance, and the Comforts of the Spirit, the Privileges of the Kingdom of God, as Peace, and Joy, in Believing.
2. Of Consolation as assurance, and the Comforts of the Spirit, the Priviledges of the Kingdom of God, as Peace, and Joy, in Believing.