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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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Because indeed, even where this affection is sanctified, it is not sanctified quite through; but may have even in the best of Saints, and without question in this servant of Christ, had some mixtures of the old corrupt nature, troubling and distempering it sometimes, which makes the Saints go mourning and sighing within themselves, and wishing to be dissolved, and to be with Christ; Let me come now in the second place.
To a more distinct and particular resolution of the question;
Quest. When, and in what Cases, Anger and passion in the Saints is to be adjudged as sanctified zeal, a pure flame of divine love?
Answ. For Resolution of this query, I shall give you four or five Notes or Rules, (and very briefly) for to guide your judgments in this particular.
First, I must tell you, 1