A25470:804
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.
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If it sticks not barely in the person of Christ, but reacheth to all, that have an union with him; if it be to Christ mystical, as well as personal; 1if you love their persons, their graces, their fellowship, &c. Tell me (saith the Spouse) where thou causest thy flocks to rest at Noon, She delights to be led forth with them into the green Pastures of his ordinances, and to feed together with them; If she hath any thing, it's all theirs,2 who have an equal interest in Christ with her self, she will make use of her graces, substance, and all, that fellow-members may be refreshed. It makes them of Catholic spirits. The Apostle is peremptory, and brandeth them all as liars, that pretend to the one ⟨p. 237⟩of these without the other. See 1 Joh. 4.19. & 5.1. & John 13.34.35.
If it sticks not barely in the person of Christ, but reacheth to all, that have an union with him; if it bee to Christ mystical, as well as personal; 1