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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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It is time for Christians to close, and to make up their breaches. Is not Religion, tantum non, destroyed by our divisions? Ah! that all such as love Jesus Christ in CHATHAM would here in be exemplary; that you would lay by all your differences, and animosities, and unite, as one man, in this work, wherein the glory of God, the honour of the Gospel, your good, and the good of your posterity is so highly concerned; ⟨image 10⟩the choice of a Minister. And, for the guiding of your choice, propound to your selves, I beseech you, some such Scripture-qualifications; as follow.
It is time for Christians to close, and to make up their breaches. Is not Religion, tantum non, destroyed by our divisions? Ah! that all such as love Jesus Christ in CHATHAM would here in be exemplary; that you would lay by all your differences, and animosities, and unite, as one man, in this work, wherein the glory of God, the honour of the Gospel, your good, and the good of your posterity is so highly concerned; ⟨image 10⟩the choise of a Minister. And, for the guiding of your choise, propound to your selves, I beseech you, some such Scripture-qualifications; as follow.
1. Let him be a learned man: I am confident it is one of the policies of Antichrist amongst us, To cry down learning, as knowing that an ignorant and illiterate Ministry would easily betray the Protestant Religion into his hands; Who should not be able to discover their impostures, nor evade their Sophistry. I do ⟨image 10⟩verily believe none are enemies to learning, 1but such as are friends to that design. Moses was skilled in all the learning of the Egyptians; Saint Paul brought up at the feet of Gamaliel, and, versed in Heathen learning; he was able to confute them out of their own