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

Doct. Our Observation is: It is the most fearful and dangerous condition in the world, to begin in the Spirit, and end in the Flesh, to rise and fall in Religion, to decay and Apostatize from grace. To have had some work of the Spirit, and the Word upon their hearts, so as to have light, and love, and taste, and gifts, and savour, and seriousness, and hopes, and fears, and after all to cool and give over: Oh how desperate is such a case!

To go to hell with so much of heaven, Oh what a hell is that! Heb. 10.26, 27. For if we sin wilfully, after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin. But a certain fearful looking for of judg•ment, &c. 2 Pet 2.20, 21, 22. For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them then the beginning; for it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, then after they have ⟨p. 67⟩known to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them, &c.

To go to hell with so much of heaven, Oh what a hell is that! Heb. 10.26, 27. For if we sin willfully, after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin. But a certain fearfull looking for of judg•ment, &c. 2 Pet 2.20, 21, 22. For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again intangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them then the beginning; for it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, then after they have ⟨p. 67⟩