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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
Sermon 5: What Spiritual knowledge they ought to seek for that desire to be saved, and by what me…
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3. These things premised, I come to answer the case in some propositions; of which the first shall be this,
Prop. 1. That supposing it were certainly defined, how much knowledge, and the knowledge of what truths, were sufficient to Salvation; Yet no man, that is in a capacity of getting more knowledge, ought to acquiesce in just so much. Luk. 12.48. To whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required. For the more full understanding of this proposition, take these following rules.
11. By how much the better means men have for the getting of knowledge, so much the more they ought to know. There is more knowledge required in them ⟨p. 111⟩that have more means, than in them that have less. Every servant's improvement is to be according to his talent; and the gain of one is not sufficient for him that hath received five, nor the gain of five for him that hath received ten. According to the means men have, so their duty is to be judged of, and their accounts will be expected. I suppose it can scarce be doubted but that,
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