A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…

And in the beginning of the reformation of Religion, in the last age, the first truths God called those Worthies that then lived to the Preaching of, were those especially which concern the Lord Jesus Christ in his Prophetical and Priestly offices, such as the Authority, Perfection, &c. of the Scripture, and the Sufficiency of Christ's satisfaction and intercession. And to come nearer to our selves, one great truth which hath been more clearly known and published in our age is, the Doctrine of Christ's Kingly office and legislative power in relation to his Church, in opposition to the usurpations and impositions of Men. Now then we say, that Men are called at such times especially to study such truths; because God doth then give them the best means and advantages for the knowing of them, or they may then do him best service in maintaining them and bearing testimony to them, when the Devil and his instruments do most oppose them It is a shame for Professors not to see, when the World is so full of light, not to have the knowledge of those truths in the minds, the talk of which is in every Man's mouth.

And in the beginning of the reformation of Religion, in the last age, the first truths God called those Worthies that then lived to the Preaching of, were those especially which concern the Lord Jesus Christ in his Prophetical and Priestly offices, such as the Authority, Perfection, &c. of the Scripture, and the Sufficiency of Christ's satisfaction and intercession. And to come nearer to our selves, one great truth which hath been more clearly known and published in our age is, the Doctrine of Chist's Kingly office and legislative power in relation to his Church, in opposition to the usurpations and impositions of Men. Now then we say, that Men are called at such times especially to study such truths; because God doth then give them the best means and advantages for the knowing of them, or they may then do him best service in maintaining them and bearing testimony to them, vvhen the Devil and his instruments do most oppose them It is a shame for Professors not to see, when the World is so full of light, not to have the knowledge of those truths in the minds, the talk of which is in every Man's mouth.

Prop. 5. Men should labour for such knowledge as may defend them from the errors of the times, and places in which they live. This I add to second the former Proposition, from whence it follows. Thus Paul labours to establish the Saints, to whom he writes, chiefly the Churches before mentioned, against the then prevailing errors of those, whether Jews, or false Brethren among themselves, who endeavoured to bring in the Ceremonial Law upon the Professors of the Gospel; and therefore bids the