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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 3: How may beloved Lusts be discovered and Mortified.
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.
How may beloved Lusts be discovered and Mortified.
MAT. 5.29, 30. And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for is profitable for thee, that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into Hell. And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into Hell.
MY Text is a part of Christs Sermon on the Mount: I shall not hold you long in the Context or portal, but only pass through unto the words that I have read.
MY Text is a part of Christs Sermon on the Mount: I shall not hold you long in the Context or portall, but onely passe through unto the words that I have read.
In the verse before our Saviour tells us, that Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed Adultery with her already in his heart. This was spoken in opposition to the Scribes & Pharisees, and may be urged against many carnal Protestants, that have but gross conceits concerning the Law of God; and in particular, that the outward act of uncleanness only is the breach of the seventh Commandment; Thou shalt not commit adultery. Now our Saviour corrects this mistake: That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed Adultery