Elijah's abatementEliah's abatement

Name: Elijah's abatement
Author: Thomas Case

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.

Thomas Case 1598–1682London: printed by E.T. for Luke Fawn, 1658

[32], 135, [1] p. · 23k words · Wing C828 · ESTC R209895

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[ Earlier:145–160 of 331

:145p. 53

I hope in this place, there be many living monuments of the power of God, in his Ministry. As his preaching bare witness to God, so God bare witness to his preaching, in raising up a spiritual seed thereby, to his elder Brother, the Lord Jesus.

:146p. 53–54

I am confident there be many here, as in other places, to whom he might say, ¹The seal of ⟨p. 54⟩my Apostleship are ye in the Lord: and that may say again of him, ²My Father, my Father; who drew their first spiritual breath under his Ministry. Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.

11 Cor. 9.2.
22 Cor. 9.15.

:147p. 54

Fifthly, Elijah was faithful in standing up for the Lord even when he thought himself alone; against the tide and torrent of the Apostasy of that generation: which might justly wonder to see it self turned Baalist.

Fifthly, Elias was faithful in standing up for the Lord even when he thought himself alone; against the tide and torrent of the Apostacy of that generation: which might justly wonder to see it self turned Baalist.

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