A81239:112
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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Oh, when the enemies of the Churches Peace and Reformation can spy such tempers and dispositions among the Heads of the Tribes, they will be sure to be tampering with and operating upon them; ply them with suitable and powerful temptations:1 Just the Kings plot, KING ANTIOCHUS; Such as deal treacherously against the Covenant, he shall corrupt by flatteries. Observe mens tempers, and boil up your temptation ⟨p. 19⟩to the height; spice it well with rich and sparkling ingredients; an hundred to one but it will take; promise Offices, Honours, Estates, Pleasures, you may easily make your party strong; they shall warp, cool, grow flat, be no more like the men they were, then if they were not the same. Others that will not serve the design, let them be discountenanced, crossed, obscured, unless they be men of high principles and ponderous spirits; in time they will be discouraged; and if they do not come up to act with you, they will have no great stomach to act against you; they will sit still, and let things work as they may. I do not know I Cease ye indeed from man, &c.
Oh, when the enemies of the Churches Peace and Reformation can spie such tempers and dispositions among the Heads of the Tribes, they will be sure to be tampering with and operating upon them; ply them with sutable and powerful temtations:1 Just the Kings plot, KING ANTIOCHUS; Such as deal treacherously against the Covenant, he shall corrupt by flatteries. Observe mens tempers, and boyl up your temptation ⟨p. 19⟩to the height; spice it well with rich and sparkling ingredients; an hundred to one but it will take; promise Offices, Honours, Estates, Pleasures, you may easily make your party strong; they shall warp, cool, grow flat, be no more like the men they were, then if they were not the same. Others that will not serve the designe, let them be discountenanc'd, cross'd, obscur'd, unlesse they be men of high principles and ponderous spirits; in time they will be discouraged; and if they do not come up to act with you, they will have no great stomack to act against you; they will sit still, and let things work as they may. I do not know I Cease ye indeed from man, &c.