A25470:342
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.
3. Some more fearfully, Totally, finally, voluntarily, deliberately, but not yet maliciously. Thus Demas is supposed to fall, who of a forward Disciple or Teacher, is said to have become after an Idol Priest at Thessalonica (so Dorotheus reports of him.) Thus fell Saul, who having rejected the Word of the Lord,1 the Lord rejected him, and the spirit of God departed from him, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him.
3. Some more fearfully, Totally, finally, voluntarily, deliberately, but not yet maliciously. Thus Demas is supposed to fall, who of a forward Disciple or Teacher, is said to have become after an Idol Priest at Thessalonica (so Dorotheus reports of him.) Thus fell Saul, who having rejected the Word of the Lord,1 the Lord rejected him, and the spirit of God departed from him, and an evill spirit from the Lord troubled him.
Of these three last I may say as Elisha to Hazael of Benhadad, 2 King. 8.10. These may certainly recover, howbeit, saith he; the Lord hath showed me that he shall surely dye. These have not yet crucified the Son of God afresh, nor done despite to the Spirit of grace, therefore it is not impossible they should be renewed again to repentance.
Of these three last I may say as Elisha to Hazael of Benhadad, 2 King. 8.10. These may certainly recover, howbeit, saith he; the Lord hath shewed me that he shall surely dye. These have not yet crucified the Son of God afresh, nor done despight to the Spirit of grace, therefore it is not impossible they should be renewed again to repentance.