A25470:683
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.
Ans. In answer therefore to it, I shall spend the principal part of my time, and that I may handle it the more distinctly; I shall rank such as may desire satisfaction and direction in this weighty and excellent case under three forms or orders: Such as are either Superiors, Equals, or Inferiors. But before I enter into the main body of the Answer, I shall crave leave to premise three things.
Ans. In answer therefore to it, I shall spend the principal part of my time, and that I may handle it the more distinctly; I shall rank such as may desire satisfaction and direction in this weighty and excellent case under three forms or orders: Such as are either Superiours, Equals, or Inferiors. But before I enter into the main body of the Answer, I shall crave leave to premise three things.
1. That this Question is not to be understood of persons in public capacity and concernment, as Magistrates or Ministers: but of Family-Relations, Kindred, Co-habitants, Neighbours, Friends, and Acquaintance, of such as have frequent converse together in Civil Societies and often commerce in dealings; but principally of Economical Relatives, or such as are nigh to each other by blood or affinity.
1. That this Question is not to bee understood of persons in publick capacity and concernment, as Magistrates or Ministers: but of Family-Relations, Kindred, Co-habitants, Neighbours, Friends, and Acquaintance, of such as have frequent converse together in Civil Societies and often commerce in dealings; but principally of Oeconomical Relatives, or such as are nigh to each other by blood or affinity.
2. That Saving-Conversion is in the power of God alone to effect, as being the primary and principal efficient cause of all those gracious works that accompany salvation. There is none able to kindle Grace in the heart, but he who hath his fire in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem. Yet not withstanding all of us in our several stations, as subordinate instruments, may and must use all wholesome means that are of Divine Appointment, conducing to such a blessed end.