The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved

1. Difference of tempers whether tender, or rough & stubborn, as you read it is the husbandmans discretion that the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is the cart-wheel turned upon the cummin, but the fitches are beaten out with a staff and the cummin with a rod, Isa. 28.27. so it must be the discretion of a Minister, to have respect to the different tempers of men, in his applications to them: it is said of Christ he taught the Disciples as they were able to bear.

1. Difference of tempers whether tender, or rough & stubborn, as you read it is the husbandmans discretion that the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is the cart-wheel turned upon the cummine, but the fitches are beaten out with a staff and the cummine with a rod, Isa. 28.27. so it must be the discretion of a Minister, to have respect to the different tempers of men, in his applications to them: it is said of Christ he taught the Disciples as they were able to bear.

2. Difference of education and conversation, some have been nuzzled in ignorance, others brought up in the knowledge of the truth, not considering of this, occasions much mischief: Discourse to an ignorant person of the necessity of faith and repentance, you lose your labour oft times, he conceits he hath believed and repented; for he takes faith to be a believing, though without any grounds, that God hath pardoned him, and repentance a crying God mercy, &c. one must consider where foundations must be laid—and where we need only raise superstructions: some have had a loose and profane education, others civil and religious: the former require more terror, the latter more caution, lest they deceive themselves.

2. Difference of education and conversation, some have been nuzzled in ignorance, others brought up in the knowledge of the truth, not considering of this, occasions much mischief: Discourse to an ignorant person of the necessity of faith and repentance, you lose your labour oft times, he conceits he hath believed and repented; for he takes faith to be a believing, though without any grounds, that God hath pardoned him, and repentance a crying God mercy, &c. one must consider where foundations must be laid—and where we need only raise superstructions: some have had a loose and profane education, others civil and religious: the former require more terrour, the latter more caution, lest they deceive themselves.