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

The Case of Conscience to be discussed this Morning from these words, is—How a Christian may be able to check sin in the first risings of it?

THe Case of Conscience to be discussed this Morning from these words, is—How a Christian may be able to check sin in the first risings of it?

And without controversy great is this Myst- of godliness, and if any other, of inestimable use and moment in the practise of Christianity. As the title which Solomon inscribes on the Frontise-piece of that divine Poem of his, the Canticles, is, [Greek or Hebrew], the Song of Songs, and as Aristotle calls the Hand the Instrument of Instruments, and the Mind the Form of Forms: so may we with as just a reason style this holy skill, of arresting, and intercepting sin in its earliest motions and overtures, the Art of Arts. Could the Chemists ever compass their grand Elixir, it were but a poor and cheap trifle, in comparison of this grand Secret of the School of Christ. So that the Case of Conscience before us, (like Diana of the Ephesians) is great and illustrious amidst it's fellows.

And without controversie great is this Myste- of godliness, and if any other, of inestimable use and moment in the practise of Christianity. As the title which Solomon inscribes on the Frontise-piece of that divine Poem of his, the Canticles, is, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the Song of Songs, and as Aristotle calls the Hand the Instrument of Instruments, and the Mind the Form of Forms: so may we with as just a reason style this holy skill, of arresting, and intercepting sin in its earliest motions and overtures, the Art of Arts. Could the Chymists ever compass their grand Elixir, it were but a poor and cheap trifle, in comparison of this grand Secret of the School of Christ. So that the Case of Conscience before us, (like Diana of the Ephesians) is great and illustrious amidst it's fellows.