AT CRIPPLEGATE, ST. GILES IN THE FIELDS, AND IN SOUTHWARK: BEING DIVERS SERMONS, PREACHED A.D. MDCLIX-MDCLXXXIX. BY SEVERAL MINISTERS OF THE GOSPEL IN OR NEAR LONDON. FIFTH EDITION. CAREFULLY COLLATED AND CORRECTED. WITH NOTES AND TRANSLATIONS, BY JAMES NICHOLS, EDITOR OF FULLER'S "CHURCH HISTORY OF BRITAIN," &c. IN SIX VOLUMES. VOL. II. CONTAINING THE CONCLUSION OF THE SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON: PRINTED FOR THOMAS TEGG, 73, CHEAPSIDE. 100. 3. 201. A SUPPLEMENT TO THE MORNING EXERCISE AT CRIPPLEGATE: OR, SEVERAL MORE CASES OF CONSCIENCE PRACTICALLY RESOLVED, BY SUNDRY MINISTERS. Our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world.-2 Corinthians i. 12. Conscientiaest nescio quid divinum, et nunquam perit, officium nostrum nobis semper ad memoriam revocat.—DOROTHEUS, Biblioth. Patrum tom. iv. "Conscience is an inexpressible and divine something, which never dies, but which is constantly employed in recalling our duty to our recollection."-EDIT. Querimus, quomodo animus semper æqualis, secundoque cursu eat, et propitius sibi sit, et sua lætus adspiciat ; et hoc gaudium non interrumpat, sed placido statu maneat, nec attollens se unquam, nec deprimens.-SENECA De Tranquillitate Animæ, p. 678. "This, then, is the subject of our inquiry: How the mind of man may be always calm and equable, proceed onward in a prosperous course, may not be vindictive but benignant toward itself, and may contemplate its endowments and possessions with a joy of complacency; how it may avoid the interruption of this joy, and may itself continue in a state of placid tranquillity, being at no time unduly elated or depressed.”—EDIT. (CONCLUSION.) CONTENTS. SUPPLEMENT TO THE MORNING EXERCISE (CONCLUSION.) For it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will show them no favour.- If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken |