A25478:1737
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.
Obj. 4. But I am not ashamed of the duty, but of my own weakness; I have not gifts and parts to manage this duty. If I were gifted as other men be, I would perform it as other men do.
Answ. 1. Where do you live? in London? What! an old housekeeper in London, or where there hath been much means of Grace, and are you so ignorant, that you are not qualified to pray in your Family? This is your sin; and will one sin be pleadable to excuse you from another? One of the Ancients of the Parish, and plead ignorance! are you not ashamed?
Answ. 1. Where do you live? in London? What! an old housekeeper in London, or where there hath been much means of Grace, and are you so ignorant, that you are not qualified to pray in your Family? This is your sin; and will one sin be pleadable to excuse you from another? One of the Ancients of the Parish, and plead ignorance! are you not asham'd?
2. It is not parts and gifts and florid expressions that God looks at, but an humble, penitent, broken, and believing heart. Have you not this neither? If you have not, get it quickly, or you must to Hell: If you have, God will accept of such a Sacrifice; bring it then.