A81239:143
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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1Sixthly, by new oppositions, he wastes and destroys them by degrees; every plague devours some: The Frogs some, and the Lice some, the Locusts some, & sic in cat. So, Edge-hill some, Newbury some, York some, Salt-heath some, Alton-heath some, Naseby-field some. A man might reckon you a good many hundred sums; and so God sums them out by degrees, and thereby gratifies his peoples prayers, as well as promotes his work.
1Sixthly, by new oppositions, he wastes and destroys them by degrees; every plague devours some: The Frogs some, and the Lice some, the Locusts some, & sic in cat. So, Edge-hill some, Newbery some, York some, Salt-heath some, Alton-heath some, Naseby-field some. A man might reckon you a good many hundred somes; and so God somes them out by degrees, and thereby gratifies his peoples prayers, as well as promotes his work.
- 16. To destroy them by degrees.
God shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies (saith the1 ⟨p. 25⟩Church.) What is her desire? Slay them not at once, lest my people forget it. 2If all the enemies of God had been destroyed at Edge-hill, it had been forgotten by this time. Scatter them by thy power, and bring them down, O Lord our Shield: so he hath pretty well, blessed be his Name. And by this means,3 he hath made his wonderful works to be remembered: The deliverance out of Egypt shall never be forgotten: no nor England's out of our Episcopal Bondage, while the world stands.