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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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Secondly, Qual. 2 He must be also a man of a sound judgement, and well versed in the Controversies of the times, that so he may not only, be able to preach truth; but, to confute error, 1and convince the gain-sayer: One that may ⟨image 11⟩be able to stop the mouth of seducers; 2to *muzzle them (as the word signifieth) that they may not, boldly, 4and blasphemously, bark against the truth. Such an one was your late, and worthy, ROSWELL; the hammer of the Heretics, of this generation: The Heretics were as much afraid of his name, as the Devil in poor possessed JOHN FOX of Nottingham-shire was lately of a man of a like name, and Spirit; famous ROTHWELL.
Secondly, Qual. 2 He must be also a man of a sound judgement, and well verst in the Controversies of the times, that so he may not only, be able to preach truth; but, to confute errour, 1and convince the gain-sayer: One that may ⟨image 11⟩be able to stop the mouth of seducers; 2to *muzzle them (as the word signifieth) that they may not, boldly, 4and blasphemously, bark against the truth. Such an one was your late, and worthy, ROSWELL; the hammer of the Hereticks, of this generation: The Hereticks were as much afraid of his name, as the Devil in poor possessed JOHN FOX of Nottingham-shire was lately of a man of a like name, and Spirit; famous ROTHWELL.