A25470:595
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
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.
Answ. Out of a threefold Principle.
1. Out of a Principle of Charity to our Brethren.
2. Out of a Principle of Pity to our selves.
2. Out of a Principle of Pitty to our selves.
3. Out of a Principle of Piety to God.
1. Out of charity to our brethren, that we be not means and instruments to promote their ruin and destruction: for, to partake of other mens Sins, though it does more burden us, yet it does never a whit ease them, but does rather harden them, and confirm them in their practises, for company in sin makes men act it with the greater confidence. Now this is to do the Devils part in the habit of a friend. Sirs, we must be charitable, Charity is the golden rule, charity is the bond of perfection; now if it be a piece of charity to help up our brothers Ox or Ass when he's fallen into a ditch,