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A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…
A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1676
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. That Christ doth exempt his Disciples from observing those fasts that the Pharisees and John's Disciples were in the practice of.1 And the rather because they were observed, especially on the Pharisees part, Ex simulato pietatis studio, out of ostentation of piety, and for self-justification. As he did exempt them from their other traditions, so also from their fasts.
- 1Chemnitiu Harm. in loco.
2. That the Bridegroom was to be taken away, which is to be understood of Christ's fleshly presence, for his spiritual presence never was, nor never will be taken away from his Church.
And this presence discontinues till his coming to judg the world, and then the cry will be heard at Midnight, Behold the Bridegroom cometh. 1The Bridegroom that was once visibly present on earth with his Disciples, is so taken away that he will not be in that manner present with them again till his return from heaven.