A25470:1584
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 15: Of the cause of Inward Trouble, and how a Christian should behave himself when Inward a…
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3. Wrath for the abuse of that forbearance: O! what wilt thou do in the day of thy visitation.
5. The former admonitions, &c. nips of Conscience will come again, and they with the present will be unsufferable, beyond all that can be expressed: This is their terror here, say they, he besought us and we would not hear; and saith Reuben, Said I not to you, did I not tell you, warn you what it would come to, and ye would not hear. O! he which hardens his neck to reproof shall surely be destroyed. O! timely and fair checks and warnings, obstinately rejected, are the wracks of Conscience, the sharp sting and teeth of the worm thereof.
5. The former admonitions, &c. nips of Conscience will come again, and they with the present will be unsufferable, beyond all that can be expressed: This is their terrour here, say they, he besought us and we would not hear; and saith Reuben, Said I not to you, did I not tell you, warn you what it would come to, and ye would not hear. O! he which hardens his neck to reproof shall surely be destroyed. O! timely and fair checks and warnings, obstinately rejected, are the wracks of Conscience, the sharp sting and teeth of the worm thereof.
6. And what will now become of thee! as the Lord lives thou wilt come to thy distracting, misgiving thoughts, Yea but, and verily we are guilty, &c. Methinks, saith Luther, every cloud is loynd with thunder against me: Thou wilt take every visitation from God as a messenger of death; nay that God himself sets in against thy life. Suppose you saw two desperate enemies grappling, closing in upon each other; O! […] ⟨p. 364⟩