A25470:385
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.
Therefore are the Godly as firm and safe from utter falling away, as Mount Zion from being removed, or an house on a rock from being subverted.
Therefore are the Godly as firm and safe from utter falling away, as Mount Sion from being removed, or an house on a rock from being subverted.
Here follows an Use of Terror, and speaks to four Sorts.
11. This Text is thunder and lightning against Apostates. Awake you drowsy Professors. There is no sin like Apostasy: Adulteries, Man-slaughter, Theft, Idolatries, &c. nothing to this, No impossible written over them, they have been renewed to repentance, 1 Cor. 6.10, 11. Mary Magdalens seven unclean spirits; and Manasseh ten or more, not so bad as the unclean spirit going out, and a return with an Ogdeas malorum spirituum, as Irenaeus calls it, with seven other spirits more besides it self. Thou art in the high-way to perdition, to the sin against the Holy Ghost. Sins and judgements meet together in this sin. The Cataracts of upper and nether springs, all the windows of heaven and fountains of the great deep, (as in that great deluge, Gen. 11.) are broken up to drown thee in perdition. Thy sins making way for more judgements, and this judgement making way for more sins, till between these two seas thy soul (as that vessel, Act. 27.41.) is eternally shipwrecked.