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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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But, secondly; When the vehemency of a mans spirit is acted against sin, then it is not to be accounted passion so much as zeal. It is the Apostles rule.
But, secondly; When the vehemency of a mans spirit is acted against sin, then it is not to be accompted passion so much as zeal. It is the Apostles rule.
Be ye angry and sin not; q. d. If ye would not sin in your anger; 1be angry only against sin. It is sin which teacheth men to call it anger, when it self is reproved; for this is the deceit; do but call the reproof passion and malice, and then men think they need not regard it: the guilt is translated upon the reprover, and the delinquent is justified. What judgement would the tame spirits of our times have passed upon that act of Phinehas, in that severe execution done, upon those impudent adulterers, 2Zimri and […] in that generation? How would they have ⟨p. 79⟩sentenced it to the pit of hell, as an act of furious cruelty. What? to execute before trial! To make himself, both witness, judge & executioner? An that in the very act of sin? thereby cutting them off from the hope or possibility of repentance, (in humane probability) he destroyed both body and Soul at once, passion above all hyperbole! I, but the Searcher of hearts, the Righteous Judge of Heaven and earth; He calleth it zeal: 3an act of justice whereby Phinehas prevented the execution of divine justice, upon the whole Congregation; and for a reward whereof, God entails upon Phineis and his seed the Covenant of an everlasting Priesthood.
Be ye angry and sin not; q. d. If ye would not sin in your anger; 1