A25470:888
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.
1. A seeming contradiction in the rule.
2. Partiality in judging of the circumstances of other mens conditions and our own.
1. A seeming Contradiction in the rule; which you will see in these instances; if I desire a thing, I would not have another stand in competition with me for it, if another desire a thing, I would not have him think much, that I stand in competition with him; if I be indebted to another, I would not have him arrest me; if another be indebted to me, I would not have him think much that I arrest him; when we sell we care not how dear, when we buy we care not how cheap; now if this were a real contradiction in the rule, it were impossible it should be put in practice, but it is only a contradiction in our wills, which must thus be reconciled to the rule.
1. A seeming Contradiction in the rule; which you will see in these instances; if I desire a thing, I would not have another stand in competition with mee for it, if another desire a thing, I would not have him think much, that I stand in competition with him; if I bee indebted to another, I would not have him arrest mee; if another bee indebted to mee, I would not have him think much that I arrest him; when wee sell wee care not how dear, when wee buy wee care not how cheap; now if this were a real contradiction in the rule, it were impossible it should bee put in practice, but it is only a contradiction in our wills, which must thus bee reconciled to the rule.