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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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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.
The very meek Spirit of God records it here, in my Text; that he was 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, of like passions with us; and yet without any disparagement to his memorial in the land of the living.
To which end let me, 1. in general, put you in mind of this, viz. That the passion of anger, with other affections in nature, at what ⟨p. 71⟩time the person in whom they are is regenerate; they do change their nature, and become regenerate too: and being baptized with the blood and spirit of Jesus Christ, they receive Divine impressions, and so pass into the catalogue of gracious affections and dispositions, and become instruments of exceeding honour and service in the hand of Jesus Christ, 1who is pleased to make use of them in his own work: ex gr.