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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.
2. It is the quarrel of the Lord of Hosts, in which thou fightest,1 let thy courage rise in proportion to the goodness of thy cause, and the honour of that great Prince & Captain under whose banner thou servest. Upon thy good behaviour and address in Arms, depends much of the renown and honour of Christianity. A cowardly Soldier is the reproach of his Commanders. Thou hast a noble General, O Christian, that hath done, and finished perfectly what ever concerns thy Redemption from the powers of darkness. To him that over cometh will he give to sit on his throne, even as he overcame, and is set down on his fathers throne, Rev. 3.23. Do valiantly and worthily. Follow thy victorious Leader, let all that know thee, see that Religion is no mean and feeble thing, that the School of Christ breeds the excellent of the earth, that the Divine life is the most powerful principle in the world, that the Spirit of God in thee, and his grace, […] stronger then all thy lusts and corruptions. Not he that talks m•st, or professeth most, but he that acts and lives most as a Christian, shall be the man whom the King delights to honour.
2. It is the quarrel of the Lord of Hosts, in which thou fightest,1 let thy courage rise in proportion to the goodnesse of thy cause, and the honour of that great Prince & Captain under whose banner thou servest. Upon thy good behaviour and address in Arms, depends much of the renown and honour of Christianity. A cowardly Souldidier is the reproach of his Commanders. Thou hast a noble General, O Christian, that hath done, and finished perfectly what ever concerns thy Redemption from the powers of darkness. To him that over cometh will he give to sit on his throne, even as he overcame, and is set downe on his fathers throne, Rev. 3.23. Do valiantly and worthily. Follow thy victorious Leader, let all that know thee, see that Religion is no mean and feeble thing, that the School of Christ breeds the excellent of the earth, that the Divine life is the most powerfull principle in the world, that the Spirit of God in thee, and his grace, 〈…〉 stronger then all thy lusts and corruptions. Not he that talks m•st, or professeth most, but he that acts and lives most as a Christian, shall be the man whom the King delights to honour.