A25478:1786
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.
This is the Dictate of our Creator both by the Light of Nature and of Scripture. This is the constant language both of the Old Testament and of the New. And is more purposely handled and pressed by the two great Apostles of the Jews and Gentiles, that so all Christians, however descended, should submit unto it. The Apostle Paul, Ephes. 5.22. &c. Col. 3.18. &c. The Apostle Peter, 1 Pet. 3.1. &c.
This is the Dictate of our Creator both by the Light of Nature and of Scripture. This is the constant language both of the Old Testament and of the New. And is more purposely handled and prest by the two great Apostles of the Jews and Gentiles, that so all Christians, however descended, should submit unto it. The Apostle Paul, Ephes. 5.22. &c. Col. 3.18. &c. The Apostle Peter, 1 Pet. 3.1. &c.
Not that these are all their respective Duties; but these are specified either 1.(n) Because in these are the most frequent failings. Husbands too commonly being defective in their Love, and Wives most defective in their Reverence and Subjection. Or 2. Because these two are the sum of the rest, and no other Duties are either Possible or Acceptable without them.
- (n)Mr. Byfield on Col p. 111.