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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.
4. The fourth and last fall follows, which is like the opening of the fourth Seal,1 and the fourth horse appears, a pale horse, and he that sate ⟨p. 71⟩on him is called Death, and Hell followed with him. When men fall Totally, finally, voluntarily, and maliciously: Thus Simon Magus, Julian the Apostate, Hymaeneus and Alexander, whose names are in Gods black book. Here the Gulf is fixed, and thee is a nulla retrorsum hence. These are not to be renewed by repentance.
4. The fourth and last fall follows, which is like the opening of the fourth Seal,1 and the fourth horse appears, a pale horse, and he that sate ⟨p. 71⟩on him is called Death, and Hell followed with him. When men fall Totally, finally, voluntarily, and maliciously: Thus Simon Magus, Julian the Apostate, Hymaeneus and Alexander, whose names are in Gods black book. Here the Gulfe is fixed, and thee is a nulla retrorsum hence. These are not to be renewed by repentance.
- 1Rev. 6.8.
This fall is like that of Jericho's walls,1 they fell down flat with a curse annexed, or as Babylons walls, with a Vengeance, both without hope of repairing. Or like the fall of Lucifer the first Apostate without offer, or hope of offer of grace any more for ever; or like the fall of Judas, who falling headlong burst asunder in the midst, 2