A81239:86
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.
A Fourth sin is Adultery Corporal, Spiritual.1
- 14. By Adultery bodily and spiritual.
I put them both together, because they both go together for the most part; the one, whereby a people or person take in a false Lover; the other, whereby they take in a false God, or a false Worship of the true God. And into both these that witch Balaam bewitched the people in the wilderness,1 to a great not abstruction only, but destruction, as you may read in the story. And how often afterward these two bastned their Captivity, and hindered their enlargement out of it, I cannot stand to tell you: the whole Prophecy of Hosea inculcates it over and over.
I put them both together, because they both go together for the most part; the one, whereby a people or person take in a false Lover; the other, whereby they take in a false God, or a false Worship of the true God. And into both these that witch Balaam bewitcht the people in the wildernesse,1 to a great not abstruction onely, but destruction, as you may read in the story. And how often afterward these two bastned their Captivity, and hindred their enlargement out of it, I cannot stand to tell you: the whole Prophecle of Hosea inculcates it over and over.