A25470:297
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
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.
What Relapses are inconsistent with Grace?
HEB. 6.4, 5, 6. For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost; And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come: If they shall fall away, to renew them again to repentance, seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
HEB. 6.4, 5, 6. For it is impossible for those who were once enlightned, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost; And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come: If they shall fall away, to renew them again to repentance, seeing they crucifie to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
I Could say (Beloved) of the Interpretation and Application of this Scripture, before I begin to open it (containing the Doom and sad Sentence pronounced against Apostates and Relapsarians) as once Daniel did to the King, before he opened his mouth to give the sense of his Ominous Dream,1 The Dream be to them that hate thee, and the Interpretation, to thine enemies; yet shall I not wish so much ill to our worst enemies; but the Text, be to them that hate God and the Interpretation, only to the enemies and despisers, or despitors of his grace.