A25470:857
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.
7. Direction.
Be much in attendance on those means or Ordinances, wherein Christ is evidently set forth, and by his Spirit wooing souls to love him. If Faith comes by hearing, so no less certainly doth love. Christ most commonly honours his own Ordinances, and Officers, in making up the match between himself and souls; so he did Paul, 2 Cor. 11.2.
Bee much in attendance on those means or Ordinances, wherein Christ is evidently set forth, and by his Spitit wooing souls to love him. If Faith comes by hearing, so no less certainly doth love. Christ most commonly honours his own Ordinances, and Officers, in making up the match between himself and souls; so hee did Paul, 2 Cor. 11.2.
8. Direction.
Go to God and Christ for love: When you have gotten your hearts well warmed with the use of all the fore-mentioned means, then go to God and Christ, and turn thy Meditations into Petitions. Plead hard, and heartily all those moving Considerations which were set down to usher in these Directions. God delights to honour prayer in this great work of his, in drawing souls to Christ: No Prayer, no Faith: And it is as true; No Prayer, no Love, no Marriage to Christ.