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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.
Now therefore let us take a view of the present face of the times, and consider whether this Extraordinary Duty of Fasting be not now in season.
Now therefore let us take a view of the present face of the times, and consider vvhether this Extraordinary Duty of Fasting be not now in season.
If we consider the several occasions which call for this duty, are they not all found at this day amongst us?
1. Is the abounding of sin an occasion? Pray consider whether wickedness is not grown up to a greater height and impudence than in former ages in this Nation? what shameful, and yet shameless whoredom and drunkenness are among us, and Oaths that our Fathers knew not.
How many of these fools have we amongst us, which Solomon speaks of, that make a mock of sin, Prov. 14.9. and mock at Religion as Fanaticism, deny Providence, and dispute against a Deity. That now it becomes necessary with respect to many, instead of leading them to the higher points of Religion, to convince their reasons of the Being of God, and to awake the innate notices of a Deity in their hearts, which are even extinguished by a course of sin.