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Elijah's abatementEliah's abatement
Elijah's abatement: or, Corruption in the saints. Discovered and distinguished in a sermon, preached at Chatham in Kent, at the Funeral of that faithful minister of the Gospel, Mr. Gaulter Roswell, M.a. late preacher there. / By Tho. Case, M.A. and rector of Giles in the Fields.Eliah's abatement: or, Corruption in the saints. Discovered and distinguished in a sermon, preached at Chatham in Kent, at the Funeral of that faithful minister of the Gospel, Mr. Gaulter Roswell, M.a. late preacher there. / By Tho. Case, M.A. and rector of Giles in the Fields.
London: printed by E.T. for Luke Fawn, 1658
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Elijah had his passions, but Elijah was a mighty man in prayer; he could shut and open heaven at ⟨p. 35⟩his pleasure. He could do what he would with God, [Greek or Hebrew]: in praying, 1he prayed: the righteous pray, and are fervent in prayer: their very infirmities set them a praying; to pray down their passions, and to pray out their sinful distempers.
Elias had his passions, but Elias was a mighty man in prayer; he could shut and open heaven at ⟨p. 35⟩his pleasure. He could do what he would with God, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉: in praying, 1he prayed: the righteous pray, and are fervent in prayer: their very infirmities set them a praying; to pray down their passions, and to pray out their sinful distempers.
- 1Rom. 12.
Carnal persons are full of passions, but empty of prayers; they can swear, but they cannot pray, they can curse, but they cannot pray; say prayers possibly they may (as they call it) but they cannot make prayers; they may say Our Father, &c. but they have not the spirit of adoption, to cry Abba Father: to pour out their souls to God in childlike supplications and importunities.