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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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A company of young, giddy-headed fellows, that never knew any more of true Policy or Religion then a few Complements in both, came to, lost Rehoboam, a King as wise in taking their counsel, as they in giving, his Kingdom: which makes me think that Woe to thee, O Land, when thy King is a child, 1was the Legacy which his father SOLOMON left behind him, by a kind of Prophetical spirit, as well as a Caution to after-ages. And when God would plague a people to purpose, he says but this; I will give children to be their Princes, 2and babes shall rule over them.
A company of young, giddy-headed fellows, that never knew any more of true Policie or Religion then a few Complements in both, came to, lost Rehoboam, a King as wise in taking their counsel, as they in giving, his Kingdom: which makes me think that Wo to thee, O Land, when thy King is a childe, 1was the Legacie which his father SOLOMON left behinde him, by a kinde of Prophetical spirit, as well as a Caution to after-ages. And when God would plague a people to purpose, he says but this; I will give children to be their Princes, 2and babes shall rule over them.
In the tenth and last place, Irreformednesse in Reformers doth exceedingly trouble and hinder their work; when they that should reform a people are Swearers, or Drunkards, or Unclean persons, or Haters of the power of Godliness, &c. this is an obstruction of a double influence.