The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved

8. Yet it is not to be denied, but there are some sins of humane infirmity ⟨p. 73⟩which though repented of, a godly person may be again overtaken with and foiled, yet not his last end worse then his beginning. Thus was Jonah overtaken with his passion a second time, Abraham with his excusatory lye,¹ the Disciples after a former rebuke a second time contending for superiority.

8. Yet it is not to be denyed, but there are some sins of humane infirmity ⟨p. 73⟩which though repented of, a godly person may be again overtaken with and foyled, yet not his last end worse then his beginning. Thus was Jonah overtaken with his passion a second time, Abraham with his excusatory lye,¹ the Disciples after a former rebuke a second time contending for superiority.

1. 1Mat. 20.25. with Luk. 22.25.

The first fall in this kind I should liken to a sad and dangerous fall, by which one hath broken a bone in his leg or arm, which though it put him to much pain is well set again, and he becomes as strong as before, but more wary while he lives, David speaks of his fall into sin, that it was as a breaking of his bones. But a second fall,¹ is like the breaking of the bone the second time, which is more hardly set, and put to more pain, and it may be the man feels it at times to his dying day.