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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
I come now to the second thing, propounded for the just vindication of our Brother, & of the truth it self, and that is to show you.
I come now to the second thing, propounded for the just vindication of our Brother, & of the truth it self, and that is to shew you.
That the affection of Anger ⟨p. 70⟩rightly qualified, and managed, is of singular use and advantage in the life and work of a Christian, especially of a Minister of the Gospel, which ought in no wise to be branded with the usual scandal of choler and passion.
I make no question, the false prophets, and their seduced proselytes, stuck not to blast the holy Prophet in my Text, with the same reproach, a furious man, a man of an intemperate and unbridled spirit, that valued not mens lives, but in his anger would not stick to call down fire from Heaven to destroy an hundred men at a time, &c.
The very meek Spirit of God records it here, in my Text; that he was [Greek or Hebrew], of like passions with us; and yet without any disparagement to his memorial in the land of the living.