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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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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.
Oh what a glorious sight it is to see a people come with exercised graces to take poss sion of the Land of promise!
Oh what a glorious sight it is to see a people come with exercised graces to take poss ssion of the Land of promise!
1Fourthly, In the mean time while Deliverance is thus delayed, God gives the enemies warning: He sets them a day as it were to come in: He sets Kings their day, when Parliaments do not:2 KISS THE SON, saith he to the Kings and Princes that are in conspiracy against his Holy Child JESUS: Will ye, 3or will ye not? AS YET EXALTEST THOU THY SELF AGAINST ME? said he to the Egyptian Tyrant after the sixth plague; AS YET? Wilt thou not come in for all th•se warnings? Come in by such a day, or thou art but a dead man. And thus he bespeaks the briars and thorns that come against him in battle; Let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me, and he shall make peace with me; else I will go through them, 4I will burn them together.
1Fourthly, In the mean time while Deliverance is thus delayed, God gives the enemies warning: He sets them a day as it were to come in: He sets Kings their day, when Parliaments do not:2 KISSE THE SON, saith he to the Kings and Princes that are in conspiracie against his Holy Childe JESƲS: Will ye, 3or will ye not? AS YET EXALTEST THOU THY SELF AGAINST ME? said he to the Egyptian Tyrant after the sixth plague; AS YET? Wilt thou not come in for all thse warnings? Come in by such a day, or thou art but a dead man. And thus he bespeaks the briars and thorns that come against him in battel; Let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me, and he shall make peace with me; else I will go thorow them,