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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.
3. The lusts of the flesh are thy greatest enemies, as well as Gods, they war against thy soul, 1 Pet. 2.11. To resist them feebly, is to do, not only the work of the Lord, but of thy Soul negligently.
3. The lusts of the flesh are thy greatest enemies, as well as Gods, they warre against thy soul, 1 Pet. 2.11. To resist them feebly, is to do, not only the work of the Lord, but of thy Soul negligently.
4ly. It is easy vanquishing at first in comparison, a fire newly kindled is soon quenched, and a young thorn or bramble easily pulled up. The fierce Lyon may be tamed, when a whelp: but if thou stay a little, there will be no dealing with a Lust any more, than with […] salvage Beast of prey. Grace will lose, and corruption get strength continually by delaying.
4ly. It is easie vanquishing at first in comparison, a fire newly kindled is soon quenched, and a young thorn or bramble easily pulled up. The fierce Lyon may be tamed, when a whelp: but if thou stay a little, there will be no dealing with a Lust any more, than with 〈…〉 salvage Beast of prey. Grace will lose, and corruption get strength continually by delaying.
Fifthly, If thou resistest, the victory is thine, James 4.7. And […] my Text, Walk, &c. and ye shall not fulfil the lusts of the f••sh Tho canst never be conquered, if thou wilt not yield. Stand but […] thou art invincible, while thou art unwilling, all the Devil in hell