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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
Sermon 2: What must, and can Persons do Towards their own CONVERSION?
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. They may sit under a powerful Ministry, coming with reverence before God, not offering the sacrifice of fools, but hear the Truth without being contentious against it as they were, Rom. 2.8. They may let the Truth have a full stroke at them and their corruptions, They may receive the love of the truth, 2 Thes. 2.10. and not hold it in unrighteousness, Rom. 1.18. So that they will not suffer it to have influence into their affections, and to break out into action.
2. They may sit under a powerfull Ministry, coming with reverence before God, not offering the sacrifice of fools, but hear the Truth without being contentious against it as they were, Rom. 2.8. They may let the Truth have a full stroak at them and their corruptions, They may receive the love of the truth, 2 Thes. 2.10. and not hold it in unrighteousnesse, Rom. 1.18. So that they will not suffer it to have influence into their affections, and to break out into action.
3. They may hearken to the voice of Gods judgements and rods, when they are abroad upon themselves and others. No man should despise the chastisement of the Lord, but every one should hear the voice of the Rod, and who hath appointed it. The Prophet Isaiah tells us,1 That the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness, when the judgements of the Lord are in the earth. 2