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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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Away with such a fellow, 1it is not fit he should live.
But brethren, it is a small thing for us to be judged by mans judgement. The Meek Apostle, by the meek Spirit of God, 1hath commanded us, to rebuke them ⟨p. 82⟩sharply, cuttingly; a metaphor borrowed from Chirurgeons who cut, and search, and lance, and apply corrosives, 2that they may eat out the dead and putrefied flesh, that the whole body may not perish. This is not to kill, but to save, not to wound, but to Cure; that they may be sound in the faith. The meekness, the love, the mercy, the gentleness lieth in the tendency of such bitter Corrosives. In this case tenderness in the Mediums would be cruelty in the End, 3hatred, and not love.
But brethren, it is a small thing for us to be judged by mans judgement. The Meek Apostle, by the meek Spirit of God, 1hath commanded us, to rebuke them ⟨p. 82⟩sharply, cuttingly; a metaphor borrowed from Chirurgions who cut, and search, and lance, and apply corrasives,