A81239:43
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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These are of such a various nature, that they well deserve to be handled distinctly: But fullness of matter, and straits of time, will necessitate me to handle them both together; ⟨p. 4⟩which yet may be easilier done in the instances then in the Reasons of the Doctrine; they being of a most differing account; and therefore when I come to the Reasons, I must take leave of the Second Branch, to pursue the account of the first only.
These are of such a various nature, that they well deserve to be handled distinctly: But fulnesse of matter, and straits of time, will necessitate me to handle them both together; ⟨p. 4⟩which yet may be easilier done in the instances then in the Reasons of the Doctrine; they being of a most differing account; and therefore when I come to the Reasons, I must take leave of the Second Branch, to pursue the account of the first onely.
Instances indeed there be that will reach both.
This in hand doth: For here, you see, is a Deliverance of Gods own promising: Four hundred years before, it was promised to Abraham, as you may see, Gen. 15.13, 14. At the end whereof, God himself set it on foot, by singling out Moses and Aaron for this service,1 and promising his presence with them, and his blessing so upon them, that they should undoubtedly do the work; which yet meets with such fierce opposition, and desperate discouragements, that not the Israelites only, but Moses himself gives it up for a LOST DESIGN; Thou hast not delivered thy people at all.