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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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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.
WIT, regenerate, becometh Heavenly wisdom. LOVE, sanctified, 1becomes an active principle in the hand of Faith. FEAR, besprinkled with the blood of Christ, becomes a notable Antidote and preservative against sin.2 HATRED, spiritualized, an holy Antipathy with any thing or person contrary to God. ⟨p. 72⟩COURAGE, sanctified by the Holy Ghost, 3is turned into a kind of Angelical fortitude. And thus to be short. PASSION, born again of water and the spirit, becometh the grace of Zeal; and holy jealousy for God, and for the interest of Jesus Christ.
WIT, regenerate, becometh Heavenly wisdom. LOVE, sanctified, 1