A25470:304
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.
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.
Here we have the rise and fall, the first and the last, the better and worse part of an Apostate-hypocrite described.
1. The former, his Rise, his first and Better part set out in five Particulars. 1. Enlightening. 2. Tasting the heavenly gift, as of some common faith, or repentance, or the like. 3. Partaking of the Holy Ghost (which is not to be understood of the sanctifying graces of the Holy Ghost, but the common, or extraordinary gifts, as of Tongues, &c. of the sanctifying Spirit) 4. Tasting the good word of God, 5. And the powers of the life to come.