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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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There is no difference in the nature of sin in the godly and in the wicked: all the difference is in their persons; the one is regenerate, the other is not; but sin remains sin still, in the one as well as in the other. Is not this matter of deep humiliation, to the Saints?
Thirdly, Cons. 3 As infirmities in the godly are of the same nature, so they are of the same merit with sin in the wicked. All sin is damning. And thus should the children of God, Smiting upon their thighs, say in Gods presence, It were just with God to damn me ⟨p. 108⟩for my infirmities. And that he doth not, is not from the smallness of my sin, but from the greatness of his mercy; not from the nature of my sin, but from the goodness of his nature: 1not BECAUSE they are but infirmities, but BECAUSE He hath made with me an everlasting Covenant, ordered in all things and sure. Is not this an humbling consideration?
Thirdly, Cons. 3 As infirmities in the godly are of the same nature, so they are of the same merit with sin in the wicked. All sin is damning. And thus should the children of God, Smiting upon their thighs, say in Gods presence, It were just with God to damn me ⟨p. 108⟩for my infirmities. And that he doth not, is not from the smalness of my sin, but from the greatness of his mercy; not from the nature of my sin, but from the goodness of his nature: 1not BECAƲSE they are but infirmities, but BECAƲSE He hath made with me an everlasting Covenant, ordered in all things and sure. Is not this an humbling consideration?