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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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A second general Caution.1
- 1A second general Caution.
Take heed of making the Saints infirmities, your encouragements in sin.
For first, They are not for our imitation, but our admonition, Ut sup. use. 1. make not the infirmities of the godly, 1patrons of your wickedness. Say not in your hearts, why not I? Why may not I be drunk as well as Noah? And commit adultery as well as David?
- 1Cur non ego? Salvian.
2. There is no such folly in nature; was there ever any so sottish as to imitate other mens deformities in nature, or misfortunes in the world? Did ye ever hear ⟨p. 98⟩of any man so mad, as to put out his eyes, because another man was blind? Or to throw away his riches, because other men are poor?