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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.
The Lord hath two great ends in saying thus: Turn your selves and live ye, although he know man is not able to do it.
The Lord hath two great ends in saying thus: Turn your selves and live yee, although he know man is not able to do it.
1. That we may see how corrupt and impotent our nature is, and so break the strength of humane confidence thereby,1 and bring us to be sensible of, and throughly to bewail our condition. It is not so as some think and speak, viz. that whatever God commands, man hath power to do: what man ever kept the Law since the fall of Adam? and is not the Law given by way of command? if man could keep the Law, we might be justified and have life by it, Rom. 8.3. Gal. 3.21. but the Law can neither do the one nor the other, and why? because man hath not power or strength to keep it.
1. That we may see how corrupt and impotent our nature is, and so break the strength of humane confidence thereby,1 and bring us to be sensible of, and throughly to bewayl our condition. It is not so as some think and speak, viz. that whatever God commands, man hath power to do: what man ever kept the Law since the fall of Adam? and is not the Law given by way of command? if man could keep the Law, we might be justified and have life by it, Rom. 8.3. Gal. 3.21. but the Law can neither do the one nor the other, and why? because man hath not power or strength to keep it.