A25470:331
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.
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], Jam. 3.2. In many things we offend all. We sometimes trip, or slip, or miss our hold, so the word signifies, and so down we come, but not out of choice. Thus did Peter slip or halt, Gal. 2.14. when he did Judaise, out of too much compliance with the Jews, whom therefore Paul did rebuke and restore. Thus the Disciples slipped, when they in zeal to Christ would have fire fetched down from heaven upon those that would not receive them,1 whom Christ set right with a spirit of meekness.
2. An actual & visible stumble as to offence of others, yet occasioned by some surreptitious surprize 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 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Jam. 3.2. In many things we offend all. We sometimes trip, or slip, or misse our hold, so the word signifies, and so down we come, but not out of choice. Thus did Peter slip or halt, Gal. 2.14. when he did Judaise, out of too much complyance with the Jewes, whom therefore Paul did rebuke and restore. Thus the Disciples slipt, when they in zeale to Christ would have fire fetcht down from heaven upon those that would not receive them,