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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.
We are none of us Supralapsarians in this sense, but Sub-lapsarians all, yea and Relapsarians too. The just falleth seven times a day, by this infirmity and riseth again, and taketh no harm, but is kept humble and depending thereby. Every son and daughter of Abraham is kept bound under this spirit of infirmity, to their dying day.
This first fall is but like the fall of a mist in a winter morning, the Sun gets up and it is a fair day after.
This is the first fall: The second is worse, which is
2. An actual & visible stumble as to offence of others, yet occasioned by some surreptitious surprise of temptation, for want of that due consideration which we should always have, this Gal. 6.1. the Apostle calls a mans being overtaken with a fault, who is to be restored with a spirit of meekness, considering we also may be tempted: such falls (or slips rather) all or most are subject to [Greek or Hebrew],