A25470:303
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.
It was indeed once a joyful sight which Jacob beheld at Bethel, Gen 28.12. A ladder whose foot stood on the earth and the top reached to heaven, and Angels ascending and descending upon it.
It was indeed once a joyfull sight which Jacob beheld at Bethel, Gen 28.12. A ladder whose foot stood on the earth and the top reached to heaven, and Angels ascending and descending upon it.
But here we see a Ladder whose top spires toward heaven, but the foot resteth in hell, where (seeming) Angels of light ascend, or such new strange Gods ascend as the Witch once saw out of the earth) but black Apostate Angels descend, Intrat Angelus, Exit daemon.1
I am to speak of the Case of Relapses, and my Text is the fairest glass to discover so foul a sight as I know.