A25478:1267
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.
Now this frame of soul consists in, 1. Self-debasement. 2. Godly sorrow. 3. Filial fear. 4. Ingenuous shame. 5. Inward purity. 6. Evangelical faith and hope.
I shall speak briefly to them all.
1. Is self-debasement. God complains of the Jews fasting, Isa. 58.5. they did hang down their heads like a bulrush, but their souls did not bow down within them. We call a fast day a day of humiliation, but we have the name but not the thing, if the soul be not humbled: What is it for the body to wear sackcloth, if Pride cover the heart; or to spread ashes under us, if the soul lye not down in the dust, or to fast from bodily food, if the soul be not emptied of self-fullness.
1. Is self-debasement. God complains of the Jews fasting, Isa. 58.5. they did hang down their heads like a bulrush, but their souls did not bow down within them. We call a fast day a day of humiliation, but we have the name but not the thing, if the soul be not humbled: What is it for the body to wear sackcloth, if Pride cover the heart; or to spread ashes under us, if the soul lye not down in the dust, or to fast from bodily food, if the soul be not emptied of self-fulness.