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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
The Address indeed is first in the order of words; but the Distress is first in the order of time and sense: And this it was briefly:
The Addresse indeed is first in the order of words; but the Distresse is first in the order of time and sence: And this it was briefly:
Moses and Aaron according to their Commission, had been now with Pharaoh to deliver their Embassy and Command from God concerning Israel's dismission: Let my people go, &c.1
Moses and Aaron according to their Commission, had been now with Pharaoh to deliver their Embassie and Command from God concerning Israel's dismission: Let my people go, &c.1
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The Israelites wait to hear what news from Court, full of glad expectations of a speedy and present Deliverance from the Egyptian servitude, 1under which they had groaned now these Four hundred and thirty years. But the tidings doth not answer their expectations:2 Pharaoh will not let Israel go; he knows no God but himself, neither shall Israel stir. Yea their hopes of enlargement, are turned into the doubling of their bondage: in stead of keeping Holy-day in the wilderness, they must to work again in the Brick-kilns of Egypt: yea, make Bricks they must,