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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.
These are the fallings of the children of God, and there are four worse than these follow, of the unregenerate, and each worse than other.
11. The first whereof is a final fall (but not a Total at first) but insensible by degrees, sensim sine sensu, grow worse and worse, as the Thorny ground, choked with cares, or drowned with the pleasures of the world. This proves like Eli's fall, they fall backward, break their necks, and dye of it, and may with him be much lamented and pitied, but they are dead and lost.
11. The first whereof is a finall fall (but not a Totall at first) but insensible by degrees, sensim sine sensu, grow worse and worse, as the Thorny ground, choaked with cares, or drowned with the pleasures of the world. This proves like Elies fall, they fall backward, break their necks, and dye of it, and may with him be much lamented and pittyed, but they are dead and lost.
- 1The 4 falls of the ungenerate. 1 Sam 4.18.
2. Some fall totally and finally, but not premoditately and voluntarily at first, but are driven back by the lion of Persecution and Tribulation in the way,1 and they retreat. These endure for a season, as the stony ground; and leaving God, they are for ever left and forsaken of him.