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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
Sermon 5: How may we be so Spiritual, as to check Sin in the first risings of it?
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.
Labour to cure thy lustings and affections in the first beginning of Rule. 5 their disorders, by Revulsion, by drawing the stream and tide another way. As Physicians stop an an Haemorrhagic or bleeding at the Nose by breathing the basilic vein in the arm, or opening the Saphena in the foot, so may we check our carnal affections, by turning them into spiritual ones, and those e•ther,
Labour to cure thy lustings and affections in the first beginning of Rule. 5 their disorders, by Revulsion, by drawing the stream and tide another way. As Physitians stop an an Haemorragic or bleeding at the Nose by breathing the basilique vein in the arm, or opening the Saphaena in the foot, so may we check our carnal affections, by turning them into spiritual ones, and those e•ther,
1 Of the same nature, Ex. gr. Catch thy worldly sorrow at the rise, and turn thy mourning into godly sorrow. If thou must needs weep, weep for some what that deserves it. Be the occasion of thy grief what it will, loss of estate, relations, &c. I am sure thy sins are a juster occasion, for they brought that occasion of mourning upon thee, be it what it will, that thou art now in tears for. Art thou troubled at ⟨p. 102⟩any danger, full of fears, heart-aching, and confusion? O forget not the Mother-evil, sin, let that have but it's due share, and there will not be much left to spare of these affections for other things.
1 Of the same nature, Ex. gr. Catch thy worldly sorrow at the rise, and turn thy mourning into godly sorrow. If thou must needs weep, weep for some what that deserves it. Be the occasion of thy grief what it will, losse of estate, relations, &c. I am sure thy sins are a juster occasion, for they brought that occasion of mourning upon thee, be it what it will, that thou art now in tears for. Art thou troubled at ⟨p. 102⟩