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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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Fourthly, Anger is no longer Anger, but zeal, when it is in the cause of God, & for his glory: this rule differs not from the former in substance, but in notion only, as somewhat more general. 1It is good to be zealously affected in a good thing always: the word signifies to be red hot, to be boiling over; this is a temper becoming the servants, & the work of a jealous God. It is good when every passion is made to serve the interest of Christ. We ⟨p. 83⟩should be cold in our own Cause, but hot in Gods. Zeal in our own concerns, is passion, passion in Gods affairs is zeal; The temper of meek Moses; 2who was silent in his own reproach, though by a Brother and a Sister, (and therefore less portable. Psal. 55.12.) or if he spake, it was in prayer for them, verse 13. not in passion against them.
Fourthly, Anger is no longer Anger, but zeal, when it is in the cause of God, & for his glory: this rule differs not from the former in substance, but in notion only, as somewhat more general. 1It is good to be zealously affected in a good thing always: the word signifies to be red hot, to be boyling over; this is a temper becoming the servants, & the work of a jealous God. It is good when every passion is made to serve the interest of Christ. We ⟨p. 83⟩should be cold in our own Cause, but hot in Gods. Zeal in our own concerns, is passion, passion in Gods affaires is zeal; The temper of meek Moses; 2who was silent in his own reproach, though by a Brother and a Sister, (and therefore lesse portable. Psal. 55.12.) or if he spake, it was in prayer for them, verse 13. not in passion against them.