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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 6: How Ministers or Christian Friends may, and ought to apply themselves to Sick Persons,…
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. The spring of it, Gods grace, he is gracious.
3. The meritorious cause of it, I have found a ransom.
4. The declaration of it, he saith, &c.
The difficulties are neither many nor great, yet some things there are which need explication, If a messenger] an Angel, i. e. by office, not by nature, for so the word is oft used in Scripture, both in the Old Testament, Mal. 3.1. Behold I will send my messenger, Heb. [Greek or Hebrew] my Angel, which the infallible interpreter, the Lord Jesus, tells us was meant of John the Baptist, Mat. 11.10. This is he of whom it is written, Behold I send a messenger, &c. and in the New Testament. Rev. 2. and 3. where the Pastors of the several Churches are called Angels, and so it is most fitly understood here, both because, God did then and still doth most generally use the Ministry of men rather then Angels in counselling and comforting afflicted men, and because he is called one of a thousand, a phrase which implies as his excellency and fitness for that work, so the insufficiency of most of the same kind for it, which must not be charged upon the meanest of Gods elect Angels.