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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…
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.
2. With the Doctrine of the Trinity; three Persons in the Godhead, the Father, Son, and Spirit,1 each Person having his proper part in the Salvation of sinners. The Father as the Original and Fountain of it; the Son as the Manager; and the Holy Ghost as the Applier.
3. With their own natural state, and condition, their being by nature in a state of sin and misery; as having sinned against this Holy, Righteous,1 Powerful God, and thereby exposed themselves to his wrath and curse. They that would be delivered from the curse, must know themselves to be obnoxious to it. They that would not perish, must know themselves to be in danger of it. Men are not like to enjoy God's favour, unless they know that they have lost it.
3. With their own natural state, and condition, their being by nature in a state of sin and misery; as having sin'd against this Holy, Righteous,1 Powerful God, and thereby exposed themselves to his wrath and curse. They that would be delivered from the curse, must know themselves to be obnoxious to it. They that would not perish, must know themselves to be in danger of it. Men are not like to enjoy God's favour, unless they know that they have lost it.
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