The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved

As these sins are the greatest hindrances of the souls closing with Christ, so they prove the greatest trouble to the soul afterwards. Your Eye-sin will prove your eye-sore, yea and your heart-sore: My meaning is, your conscience will suffer most upon the account of this sin all your days. Thus Job, cap. 13.26. Thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth. When a mans conscience is disquieted and tormented for the sins of his youth, then he may be said to possess them: yea it may occasion not only grief, but guilt. Of all sins, this is many times most unmortified even after Mortification: Soldiers that have received wounds and bruises when young, have smarted by them when they have been old. There are many good souls, that after cure have gone to heaven, halting on the old maim.

As these sins are the greatest hindrances of the souls closing with Christ, so they prove the greatest trouble to the soul afterwards. Your Eye-sin will prove your eye-sore, yea and your heart-sore: My meaning is, your con•cience will suffer most upon the account of this sin all your dayes. Thus Job, cap. 13.26. Thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possesse the iniquities of my youth. When a mans conscience is disquieted and tormented for the sins of his youth, then he may be said to possesse them: yea it may occasion not only griefe, but guilt. Of all sins, this is many times most unmortified even after Mortification: Souldiers that have received wounds and bruises when young, have smartd by them when they have been old. There are many good souls, that after cure have gone to heaven, halting on the old maim.