A81239:56
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.
It fares with the Church in both these respects, as it doth with travellers who are going toward a City or House; peradventure they may have it in their eye Twenty or Thirty miles off; yet by reason of Valleys and Woods through which they travel, lose the sight of it Twenty times before they come at it; yea, perhaps their way too; so that they even despair of coming safe to their journeys end. So, &c.
It fares with the Church in both these respects, as it doth with travellers who are going toward a City or House; peradventure they may have it in their eye Twenty or Thirty miles off; yet by reason of Valleys and Woods thorow which they travel, lose the sight of it Twenty times before they come at it; yea, perhaps their way too; so that they even despair of coming safe to their journeys end. So, &c.
But I must hold you no longer in the Instances, lest I fall short of mine own design; I hasten therefore to the Reasons or Grounds.
But I must hold you no longer in the Instances, lest I fall short of mine own designe; I hasten therefore to the Reasons or Grounds.
Wherein I must now (as I said) sever these Two branches, and follow only the account of the first, viz.
Wherein I must now (as I said) sever these Two branches, and follow onely the account of the first, viz.