A25470:316
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.
Such a thing there may be; possibly the Text supposeth it that such may fall, and fall away, totally and finally, only pronounceth an impossibility of their rising again.
Some are said to fall from grace, Gal. 5.4. the stony and thorny ground did so in a parable. Demas, Judas, Saul, Hymenaeus did so in good earnest. A great Apostasy was foretold in the first days to let in Antichrist, 2 Thes. 2.3. And in the reign of Antichrist more. 1 Tim: 4.1. all are warned, Let him that standeth take heed lest he fall, 1 Cor. 10.12. Heb. 12.15. Look diligently lest any fail of, or fall from the grace of God. Some of Johns hearers after a while left him, Joh. 5.35. Many of our Saviours hearers quite left him, Joh. 6.66. Many of Pauls supposed converts were turned away, all they of Asia, 2 Tim. 1.15.
Some are said to fall from grace, Gal. 5.4. the stony and th•rny ground did so in a parable. Demas, Judas, Saul, Hymenaeus did so in good earnest. A great Apostacy was foretold in the first days to let in Antichrist, 2 Thes. 2.3. And in the reign of Antichrist more. 1 Tim: 4.1. all are warned, Let him that standeth take heed lest he fall,