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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.
3. There is a formal abuse of it, when men have not such sinful ends as I mentioned, but yet rest in the externals of the day, and care not to reach the spiritual part of the duty. They go along with the several duties of the day; but deest aliquid intùs: there is that wanting within that is the proper work of the day. They sit before God as his people, as if they were humbling themselves before him,1 but there is nothing in their hearts that answers before God to the outward show they make before men. Religious duties according to Scripture-language are not done, if not done aright: so that as ⟨p. 263⟩the Apostle tells the Corinthians, This is not to eat the Lord's supper, because they did not eat aright, so when men are formal in fasting, this is not keeping a fast.
3. There is a formal abuse of it, when men have not such sinful ends as I mentioned, but yet rest in the externals of the day, and care not to reach the spiritual part of the duty. They go along with the several duties of the day; but deest aliquid intùs: there is that wanting within that is the proper work of the day. They sit before God as his people, as if they were humbling themselves before him,1 but there is nothing in their hearts that answers before God to the outward shew they make before men. Religious duties according to Scripture-language are not done, if not done aright: so that as ⟨p. 263⟩the Apostle tells the Corinthians, This is not to eat the Lord's supper, because they did not eat aright, so when men are formal in fasting, this is not keeping a fast.