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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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And surely our Brother was a man of prayer, much in prayer, both with the people of God, and for them: in public, in private, in their houses, and in his own house and closet, he poured out his soul to God night and day. Surely England hath lost one of her Intercessors, one of the Lords remembrancers, a Moses, a Samuel, a Jacob, a wrestler with God, who stood in the gap, and helped to turn away the wrath of God from a sinful nation.
And surely our Brother was a man of prayer, much in prayer, both with the people of God, and for them: in publick, in private, in their houses, and in his own house and closet, he poured out his soul to God night and day. Surely England hath lost one of her Intercessors, one of the Lords remembrancers, a Moses, a Samuel, a Jacob, a wrestler with God, who stood in the gap, and helped to turn away the wrath of God from a sinfull nation.
Elijah was much in fasting, Paral. 9 as well as in prayer, 1he fasted forty days and forty nights, at one time. This holy man was frequent in this duty, he joined fasting with prayer not seldom; so that he might well, with the Apostle, put it into his Catalogue, 2I cannot call it, the Catalogue of sufferings, ⟨p. 64⟩because he counted such days as his feasting days, in fastings often. It was his meat and drink, thus to do the will of his heavenly Father.
Elijah was much in fasting, Paral. 9 as well as in prayer, 1he fasted forty dayes and forty nights, at one time. This holy man was frequent in this duty, he joyned fasting with prayer not seldom; so that he might well, with the Apostle, put it into his Catalogue, 2