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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, 1when a man or a woman is never troubled with their corruptions, but when wrath is upon them, then they are more then infirmities. The godly go mourning ⟨p. 90⟩under their secret corruptions, when the Sun shines upon their Tabernacles with the warmest influences, yea when God is pleased to shine into their hearts, with the clearest beams of love; the more sensible the Saints are of Gods love, the more they hate their own corruptions, because they make them unlike to God.
- 1Fourth note.
They that are never troubled with corruption, but when wrath is upon them, it is wrath that troubles them, and not corruption. this is not infirmity. Carnal people are never good but when they are under the rod: and then, not because their sins displease God, but because Gods judgements displease them.
Fifthly, when Infirmities serve men only for apologies, they are more then infirmities, when a man can say of any corruption, it is my infirmity, and acquiesce there, it is very dangerous. This is certain, men (in nature) do not sit down patient under infirmities, ⟨p. 91⟩because infirmities, Corruption is all wed where infirmity is the apology, and allowed corruption is more then infirmity: The Saints infirmities are their afflictions, their burdens, not their apologies. Oh wretch that I am, 1