A25470:360
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. They were only wicked ones as Ahab, Pharaoh, Saul, Jeroboam, who persist and return to sinful courses, from drunkenness to thirst, from thirst to drunkenness. Of Jeroboam it is said; After this (the Prophets warning, his Arm smitten, his prayer thereupon, the recovery upon the Prophets prayer) Did he return again, 1and made of the lowest of the people Priests of his high places, &c. Neither warning, nor judgements, nor mercies could work any amendment in him.
4. They were only wicked ones as Ahab, Pharaoh, Saul, Jeroboam, who persist and return to sinful courses, from drunkenness to thirst, from thirst to drunkenness. Of Jeroboam it is said; After this (the Prophets warning, his Arme smitten, his prayer thereupon, the recovery upon the Prophets prayer) Did he return again, 1and made of the lowest of the people Priests of his high places, &c. Neither warning, nor judgements, nor mercies could work any amendment in him.
15. It is as certain that he who is born of God doth not commit sin, so as to make a trade of it, returning to his Vomit: But he that is born of God keepeth himself, 2and the wicked one toucheth him not. He hath paid too dear for such a miscarriage, it was not so light a matter to lye under Gods wrath, lose his former peace, nor was his comfort so soon restored, and Gods favour regained, that he should hazard all anew, and buy Repentance at so dear a rate.