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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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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.
Yea some there be, that instead of making prayers, are more ready to Curse prayer, & tantum non, to blaspheme the spirit of prayer in the children of adoption. This evidences them to ⟨p. 36⟩be under the power and command of sin.
And now to apply our selves and the Text, 1to the sad occasion before us, the death of our dear and Reverend brother; Mr. Walter Roswell.
And now to apply our selves and the Text, 1to the sad occasion before us, the death of our dear and Reverend brother; Mr. Walter Roswel.
- 1The Application to the particular occasion.