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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
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.
1. They were both but Men. The Text says Elijah was [Greek or Hebrew], A man of like passions with us. It is no in jury to persons of the highest sanctity, to look upon them as men like our selves: since the Holy Ghost himself is here our president.
1. They were both but Men. The Text saies Elias was 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, A man of like passions with us. It is no in jury to persons of the highest sanctity, to look upon them as men like our selves: since the Holy Ghost himself is here our president.
2. It is the same Grace of God which we eye, & honour in both? One star differs from another in glory, yet it is the same light which fills the stars, though of different magnitude.
3. 1Such comparisons do not level them in full and just proportions, but compareth them in a gradual and Evangelical Analogy and likeness.
- 1Sic parvis componere magna solebam.