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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 8: How we may Read the Scriptures with most Spiritual Profit. Serm. VIII.
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.
These rules observed, the Word written would through God's blessing be [Greek or Hebrew], an engrafted Word, Jam. 1.22. A good Cion grafted into a bad stock changeth the nature of it, and makes it bear sweet and generous fruit: So when the Word is grafted savingly into mens hearts, it doth sanctify them, and make them bring forth the sweet fruits of Righteousness, Phil. 1.11.
These rules observed, the Word written would through God's blessing be 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, an ingraffed Word, Jam. 1.22. A good Cyens grafted into a bad stock changeth the nature of it, and makes it bear sweet and generous fruit: So when the Word is graffed savingly into mens hearts, it doth sanctifie them, and make them bring forth the sweet fruits of Righteousness, Phil. 1.11.
Thus I have answered this question, how we may read the Scriptures with most Spiritual profit.
I shall conclude all with two Corollaries.