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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 › Application 3: Use 3.Sermon 3 › Application 3: Ʋse 3.
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.
Use 3.
Ʋse 3.
Is for Exhortation, and Direction,1 to press you to the mortification of your beloved sin, and show you how it may be mortified: let me take up that Scripture again, mortify your members, which are upon the earth, that is, let every sin be mortified; for you must know, as death is to the members of the natural body, so is mortification to the members of the sinful body. Now in death the soul is separated not only from one member, as it is in a paralysis, or numb Palsy, but from all, even from the principal parts of the body as well as others: so tis in spiritual death, there is a separation of the soul not only from this or that sinful member, but from the whole body of sin, from the principal parts and members of this body, as well as others: the right eye is dead, the right hand is dead, it must needs be so, the one is plucked out, and the other is cut off.
Is for Exhortation, and Direction,1 to press you to the mortification of your beloved sin, and shew you how it may be mortified: let me take up that Scripture again, mortifie your members, which are upon the earth, that is, let every sin be mortified; for you must know, as death is to the members of the natural body, so is mortification to the members of the sinful body. Now in death the soul is separated not only from one member, as it is in a paralysis, or numb Palsey, but from all, even from the principal parts of the body as well as others: so tis in spiritual death, there is a separation of the soul not only from this or that sinful member, but from the whole body of sin, from the principal parts and members of this body, as well as others: the right eye is dead, the right hand is dead, it must needs be so, the one is pluckt out, and the other is cut off.