A25478:1677
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
Sermon 15 › Question 3 › Direction 8 › Direction 4 › Direction 7: Direction 7.
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.
Q. 13 Will dead and careless praying yield me comfort, when I review it when I come to die? Or should I not so pray now, that I might have comfort then?
Q. 14 Should I cozen and deceive my self in matters of the greatest weight? Shall I crawl to Hell upon my knees? What! pray now and be damned hereafter! Awake my heart, and mind thy business.
Q. 15 Will God be mocked? And is not heartless praying a mocking of God?
Q. 16 Should I not do more than Hypocrites do? Or shall I not be damned if I do not? But may not an Hypocrite pray at that rate, as I have too often done?
Q. 17 Doth not the same God that commands me to pray, command me also to give him my heart in Prayer? and to do it with life and fervency? Do I obey him in the one, and shall I not in the other? in the lesser, and not in the greater? and if I do not, do I not rebel upon my knees?