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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 1: How may we be universally and exactly Conscientious?
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.
The difference between a doubting Conscience & a scrupulous Conscience is this; A doubting Conscience assents to neither part of the question, a scrupulous Conscience consents, but with some vexation.
1I shall name but two causes (forbearing to mention our ignorance and pride which have a great influence upon all kind of Error, Doubts, and Scruples.
1I shall name but two causes (forbearing to mention our ignorance and pride which have a great influence upon all kind of Errour, Doubts, and Scruples.
- 1Causes.
1. The first cause of scrupulousness is naturalx, viz. a cold complexion which is always timorous, those that are phlegmatic, and melancholy are naturally fearful; and the reason is, that through the defect of natural heat, the spirits about the heart are as it were congealed, and the heart it self is straitened, whence by way of sympathy the imagination hath sad apprehensions of things, and such persons are pussy lanimous and fearful.
1. The first cause of scrupulousness is naturalx, viz. a cold complexiion which is alwayes timerous, those that are phlegmatick, and melancholy are naturally fearful; and the reason is, that through the defect of naturall heat, the spirits about the heart are as it were congealed, and the heart it self is straitned, whence by way of sympathy the imagination hath sad apprehensions of things, and such persons are pusi lanimous and fearfull.