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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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1. Thou seest their infirmities; ⟨p. 101⟩their failings; thou seest not what they cost them. Little dost thou know what broken bones, what sharp corrections, what bleeding Souls, what buckets of tears they pour out before the Lord, 1because of their corruptions. Oh! wretch that I am! &c. How do they shame themselves before the Lord for their failings? So foolish was, I and so ignorant, and like a beast before thee; they cannot find language bad enough to revile themselves withal in Gods presence.
1. Thou seest their infirmities; ⟨p. 101⟩their failings; thou seest not what they cost them. Little dost thou know what broken bones, what sharp corrections, what bleeding Souls, what buckets of tears they pour out before the Lord, 1because of their corruptions. Oh! wretch that I am! &c. How do they shame themselves before the Lord for their failings? So foolish was, I and so ignorant, and like a beast before thee; they cannot find language bad enough to revile themselves withall in Gods presence.
Surely if thou didst know what the Saints infirmities cost them, thou wouldst reflect upon thy self, and be ashamed; and smiting upon thy breast cry out with self-abhorrency, oh! wretch that I am; I have sinned as these servants of God have done, but I have never mourned as they have done: I have sinned as David, but I have not repented as David: I have denied Jesus Christ with Peter, but I have ⟨p. 102⟩