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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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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.
But the holy Prophet wanted neither zeal nor courage to appear, 1and protest against them and their Idolatry to their very faces; I say, alone; The prophets of Baal are four hundred and fifty men, but I, even I ALONE, am a Prophet of the Lord; let them therefore give us two bullocks, &c. His zealous spirit could not bear their halting between two opinions, and therefore provokes them to the dispute, before all the people; the God that answereth by fire, let him be God.
But the holy Prophet wanted neither zeal nor courage to appear, 1and protest against them and their Idolatry to their very faces; I say, alone; The prophets of Baal are four hundred and fifty men, but I, even I ALONE, am a Prophet of the Lord; let them therefore give us two bullocks, &c. His zealous spirit could not bear their halting between two opinions, and therefore provokes them to the dispute, before all the people; the God that answeareth by fire, let him be God.
- 11 King 19.14. Ingemuit terrarum orbis see Arrianum invenisse. As it was in Athanasius his time. 1 Kings 8.22.