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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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And this the best of Gods Saints and servants have not been without. 1Moses, whom before you saw defective in faith, at another time you may behold excessive in his passion. He smiteth the rock, when he was but to speak to it: and his anger maketh him double his stroke. He smote the rock twice. He revileth the people, ⟨p. 37⟩when he should have convinced them; hear ye Rebels. And, offended (as it seems) at his Commission, he hardly forbeareth to murmur, must we bring water out of this rock? MUST WE? And thus while he smiteth water out of the rock, he striketh fire out of his own heart.
And this the best of Gods Saints and servants have not been without. 1Moses, whom before you saw defective in faith, at another time you may behold excessive in his passion. He smiteth the rock, when he was but to speak to it: and his anger maketh him double his stroke. He smote the rock twice. He revileth the people, ⟨p. 37⟩when he should have convinced them; hear ye Rebells. And, offended (as it seems) at his Commission, he hardly forbeareth to murmur, must we bring water out of this rock? MƲST WE? And thus while he smiteth water out of the rock, he striketh fire out of his own heart.
Behold and tremble, 1The meekest man upon the face of the earth is transported into passion, and his passion hurrieth him into such indecencies,