A25470:685
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.
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.
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 hee 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.
3. That there are different states, conditions, capacities and qualifications among such Relations, whose conversion we should endeavour. Some being perhaps enormously and outrageously wicked; others morally civil, and yet further, others possibly may be conformable to the institutions of the external worship of God. Of these I may speak Sparsim, opere inter•exto as the particulars will hear, together with such other appendant cases that may hold some consanguinity with the General Question.
3. That there are different states, conditions, capacities and qualifications among such Relations, whose conversion wee should endeavour. Some being perhaps enormously and outragiously wicked; others morally civil, and yet further, others possibly may bee conformable to the institutions of the external worship of God. Of these I may speak Sparsim, opere inter•exto as the particulars will hear, together with such other appendant cases that may hold some consanguinity with the General Question.