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Deliverance-obstruction
Deliverance-obstruction: or, The set-backs of reformation. Discovered in a sermon before the Right Honourable the House of Peers, in Parliament now assembled. Upon the monthly fast, March 25. 1646. / By Tho. Case, preacher in Milkstreet London, and one of the Assembly of Divines.
London: printed by Ruth Raworth for Luke Fawne, 1646
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They were both the sins of as famous a Reformer as ever the Church of God knew, Hezekiah's; for which the work of Reformation and the whole Kingdom, suffered deeply: I'll but read you the Text; But Hezekiah RENDERED NOT AGAIN ACCORDING TO THE BENEFIT DONE UNTO HIM;1 for his heart was lifted up: therefore THERE WAS WRATH upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem. Unthankfulness and Pride had like to have undone all that he had done. Oh when Reformers forget old Mercies, and old Deliverances (and them it may be that God hath used as Instruments of them) and new mercies and successes serve but to make them secure, and swell them with pride, to overlook their Brethren, and overvalue themselves; to think themselves ⟨p. 17⟩no longer Stewards, but Lords; not only petty kings, but little gods, to do what they PLEASE in the work and with the people of God: this shakes the very foundation of Church and State. God is highly displeased. You have a sad instance in Uzziah, of whom the holy Ghost records,2 He was marvellously helped till he was strong.
They were both the sins of as famous a Reformer as ever the Church of God knew, Hezekiah's; for which the work of Reformation and the whole Kingdom, suffer'd deeply: I'll but read you the Text; But Hezekiah RENDRED NOT AGAIN ACCORDING TO THE BENEFIT DONE UNTO HIM;1 for his heart was lifted up: therefore THERE WAS WRATH upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem. Unthankfulnesse and Pride had like to have undone all that he had done. Oh when Reformers forget old Mercies, and old Deliverances (and them it may be that God hath used as Instruments of them) and new mercies and successes serve but to make them secure, and swell them with pride, to overlook their Brethren, and overvalue themselves; to think themselves ⟨p. 17⟩no longer Stewards, but Lords; not onely petty kings, but little gods, to do what they PLEASE in the work and with the people of God: this shakes the very foundation of Church and State. God is highly displeased. You have a sad instance in Ʋzziah, of whom the holy Ghost records,