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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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Object. Then are not my corruptions infirmities, will some poor soul be ready to object; ⟨p. 93⟩for they grow stronger and stronger, and not weaker and weaker; my sinful passions, and distempers, get ground of me, I do not get ground of my passions.
Object. Then are not my corruptions infirmities, will some poore soule be ready to object; ⟨p. 93⟩for they grow stronger and stronger, and not weaker and weaker; my sinful passions, and distempers, get ground of me, I do not get ground of my passions.
Answ. To this I answer.
I. It is not usual for them that lye under the power and command of their lusts, to make such complaints; they of whom lust and corruption gets ground, seldom say so; they study apologies, (ut supra) not aggravations. Such poor Christians therefore that thus object against themselves, are not easily to be believed.
I. It is not usuall for them that lye under the power and command of their lusts, to make such complaints; they of whom lust and corruption gets ground, seldome say so; they study apologies, (ut supra) not aggravations. Such poor Christians therefore that thus object against themselves, are not easily to be believed.