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

3 Here are the terms and bounds of the Spirits conquests in this present life, at which a Christians hopes and endeavours must take aim, not the extirpating, but subduing, not the not having, but the not fulfilling the lusts of the flesh; the flesh will be lusting, that accursed womb will be conceiving in the regenerate themselves. But here is the Christians privilege, that while he walks in the Spirit, those conceptions shall prove abortive.

3 Here are the terms and bounds of the Spirits conquests in this present life, at which a Christians hopes and endeavours must take aim, not the extirpating, but subduing, not the not having, but the not fullfilling the lusts of the flesh; the flesh will be lusting, that accursed womb will be conceiving in the regenerate themselves. But here is the Christians priviledge, that while he walks in the Spirit, those conceptions shall prove abortive.

4. The words entirely, and in sum, present us with the method and way of conquering, with the art of circumventing sin in the first avenues, and approaches of it. Walk in the Spirit, &c. this is the [Greek or Hebrew], the great and Achillaean Stratagem against the powers of darkness, the true and only course we are to take, if we would strangle the brats of night and hell in their very birth, and crush the Cockatrice's egg, whilst it is hatching, and before it excludes the Serpent.

4. The words entirely, and in sum, present us with the method and way of conquering, with the art of circumventing sin in the first avenues, and approaches of it. Walk in the Spirit, &c. this is the 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the great and Achillaean Stratagem against the powers of darkness, the true and only course we are to take, if we would strangle the brats of night and hell in their very birth, and crush the Cockatrice's egge, whilst it is hatching, and before it excludes the Serpent.