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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.
1. That we our selves must engage in the mortifying of our lusts: Sinners with their own hands, must pull out their own eyes. Tis not enough ⟨image 30⟩to cry unto God for help, and in the mean time, to be careless and idle, as if nothing were to be done on our part: mortification is a work incumbent upon us, although we are empowered thereunto by the Spirit: If ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live, Rom. 8.13.1 we must mortify, although by the Spirit; the duty is ours, though the strength be Gods: so here, if thy right eye offend thee, thou thy self pluck it out, and cast it from thee.
1. That we our selves must engage in the mortifying of our lusts: Sinners with their own hands, must pull out their own eyes. Tis not enough ⟨image 30⟩to cry unto God for help, and in the mean time, to be careless and idle, as if nothing were to be done on our part: mortification is a work incumbent upon us, although we are impowred thereunto by the Spirit: If ye through the Spirit do mortifie the deeds of the body, ye shall live, Rom. 8.13.1 we must mortifie, although by the Spirit; the duty is ours, though the strength be Gods: so here, if thy right eye offend thee, thou thy self pluck it out, and cast it from thee.