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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.
Much wiser than either of the two former, was the conjecture of the Pythagoreans and Platonists, though Heathens, who having nothing else to consult (as wanting the divine Revelation of holy Scripture) but their own faculties embraced the conceit, that all humane souls were created in the beginning upright, and placed by God in happier mansions, in purer and higher regions of the Universe, until at length they did [Greek or Hebrew] as Hierocles phraseth it, i. e. till they fell from the divine life, and became inhabitants of earthly Tabernacles, bringing their fallen and degenerate natures along with them. This opinion had of old the general consent of the Jews, as appeareth Jo. 9.2. and yet hath, as Men. Ben Israel in his Book De Resurrectione mortuorum, witnesseth. Among the Christians Origen is in the number of it's Sectaries, in his books [Greek or Hebrew], and some few of the Ancients.
Much wiser than either of the two former, was the conjecture of the Pythagoreans and Platonists, though Heathens, who having nothing else to consult (as want•ng the divine Revelation of holy Scripture) but their own faculties embraced the conceit, that all humane souls were created in the beginning upright, and placed by God in happier mansions, in purer and higher regions of the Universe, untill at length they did 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 as Hierocles phraseth it, i. e. till they fell from the divine life, and became inhabitants of earthly Tabernacles, bringing their fallen and degenerate natures along with them. This opinion had of old the generall consent of the Jewes, as appeareth Jo. 9.2. and yet hath, as Men. Ben Israel in his Book De Resurrectione mortuorum, witnesseth. Among the Christians Origen is in the number of it's Sectaries, in his books 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, and some few of the Ancients.