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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.
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.
This in hand doth: For here, you see, is a Deliverance of Gods own promising: Four hundred yeers 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 onely, but Moses himself gives it up for a LOST DESIGNE; Thou hast not delivered thy people at all.
- 1Chap. 3 & 4.
But alas, it was early days when Moses made this complaint; this was but the beginning of the sorrows of their travel; Israel must endure sharper pains and harder throws, before she be delivered, that shall make her even despair of Life. Oh how doth the Deliverance after this hover up and down between Hopes and Fears? Good news to day; the plague of the Frogs hath made Pharaoh another man;1