A25470:1474
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.
3. As the immediate Testimony of the Spirit comes with more evidence then the Testimony of our own Spirits, so the immediate assurance that God gives that we shall receive the things we pray for, is clearer and fuller then that which we have by our relying upon the Power and goodness of God, or to speak more properly, we do more fully rely upon the goodness and Power of God when God doth immediately enable us so to do, then when we work out this Confidence by our own endeavours, assisted by the ordinary concurrence of the Spirit.
3. As the immediate Testimony of the Spirit comes with more evidence then the Testimony of our own Spirits, so the immediate assurance that God gives that we shall receive the things we pray for, is clearer and fuller then that which we have by our relying upon the Power and goodnesse of God, or to speak more properly, we do more fully rely upon the goodnesse and Power of God when God doth immediately enable us so to do, then when we work out this Confidence by our own endeavours, assisted by the ordinary concurrence of the Spirit.
4. As it is not our sin to want the immediate Testimony of the Spirit, so it is not our sin not to have this particular assurance of receiving what we ask. These Parallels may be far more enlarged, and will hold as I think in all particulars.
4. As it is not our sin to want the imme•iate Testimony of the Spirit, so it is not our sin not to have this particular assurance of receiving what we ask. These Parallels may be far more enlarged, and will hold as I think in all particulars.
The Use of this is, 1. For Consolation to all that love and fear God; for thy not believing God will grant thy Prayers, shall not hinder thy Prayers from being accepted and granted; for although if thine unbelief were built upon thy not believing Gods Power or goodness to do what thou prayest for would hinder thee, yet since thy diffidence proceeds from thy not believing that thou art such an one as the Promises are made to, such thine unbelief shall not make the promise of