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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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This he could not bear with seducers, nor they with him; so that by this means he became a man of contention, 1his righteous ⟨p. 58⟩soul was vexed from day to day, in seeing and hearing.
Sixthly, Paral. 6 Elijah was a man of a very tender spirit: tender of the glory of God. I have been very jealous for the Lord of Hosts. Tender of his Saints and servants, and ordinances; so he continueth his complaint. The children of Israel have forsaken thy Covenant, 1destroyed thine altars, and slain thy Prophets with the sword: his soul bled within him, over the precious things and servants of God; though he had his own life for a prey, I only am left; this could not satisfy his zealous spirit.
Sixthly, Paral. 6 Elias was a man of a very tender spirit: tender of the glory of God. I have been very jealous for the Lord of Hosts. Tender of his Saints and servants, and ordinances; so he continueth his complaint. The children of Israel have forsaken thy Covenant, 1destroyed thine altars, and slain thy Prophets with the sword: his soul bled within him, over the precious things and servants of God; though he had his own life for a prey, I onely am left; this could not satisfie his zealous spirit.