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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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David was under a very sinful passion, 1when he would have the people numbered: all the rational and religious dissuasives which ⟨p. 38⟩Joab (the then General of his army) did use, could not allay the storm, nor divert him from his sinful purpose. Nothing can stand before the flame of his passion; 2The Kings word prevailed against Joab, though that flame consumed seventy thousand of his Subjects. vers. 16. Nor was that the only instance of Davids distempered anger, there was a time when the same fire had devoured and burnt down an whole innocent family to the ground, 3for the unnaturalness of a Churlish Master, had not the wisdom of a prudent Governess timely intervened.
David was under a very sinful passion, 1when he would have the people numbred: all the rational and religious dissuasives which ⟨p. 38⟩Joab (the then Generall of his army) did use, could not allay the storm, nor divert him from his sinful purpose. Nothing can stand before the flame of his passion; 2The Kings word prevailed against Joab, though that flame consumed seventy thousand of his Subjects. vers. 16. Nor was that the onely instance of Davids distempered anger, there was a time when the same fire had devoured and burnt down an whole innocent family to the ground, 3for the unnaturalnesse of a Churlish Master, had not the wisdom of a prudent Governesse timely intervened.