A81239:78
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 sins.
11. Unhumblednesse of spirit, Pride of heart: It was not Pharaoh only that knew not the Lord; surely Israel himself knew not their God: what a world of pride, and stomachfulness, and selfwih'dnesse, and impatience they expressed not in Egypt only,2 but in the wilderness too? Sometime they will make ⟨p. 11⟩them a Captain to return into Egypt; anon, they will advance forward,3 they will up into the mountain whether God will or no: and yet the Text tells us, verse 39, The people mourned greatly; but alas, they were unhumbled in their mournings; their hearts were not broken: on they will, against an express Command, Go not up, for the Lord is not among you: 4But they they presumed to go, &c. and for this they smarted.
11. Ʋnhumblednesse of spirit, Pride of heart: It was not Pharaoh onely that knew not the Lord; surely Israel himself knew not their God: what a world of pride, and stomackfulnes, and selfwih'dnesse, and impatience they exprest not in Egypt onely,2 but in the wildernesse too? Sometime they will make ⟨p. 11⟩them a Captain to return into Egypt; anon, they will advance forward,3 they will up into the mountain whether God will or no: and yet the Text tells us, verse 39, The people mourned greatly; but alas, they were unhumbled in their mournings; their hearts were not broken: on they will, against an expresse Command, Go not up, for the Lord is not among you: