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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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Hence, that security given, 1sin shall not reign in your mortal bodies; it is an Exhortation, verse •2. let not sin reign: to show it is our duty, to bring sin to the Cross, to do execution upon every lust; but it is a promise in the fourteenth verse, sin shall not reign, to assure the believer, that what Christ ⟨p. 124⟩hath purchased with his blood, he will accomplish by his Spirit: sc. the final and total destruction of the body of sin, whereof this is the pledge and first fruits, the dethroning of sin in the soul, so that though it be, yet it shall not be as a Lord: sin shall not reign in your mortal bodies: for ye are not under the Law but under Grace.
Hence, that security given, 1sin shall not reign in your mortal bodies; it is an Exhortation, verse •2. let not sin reign: to shew it is our duty, to bring sin to the Crosse, to do execution upon every lust; but it is a promise in the fourteenth verse, sin shall not reign, to assure the believer, that what Christ ⟨p. 124⟩hath purchased with his blood, he will accomplish by his Spirit: sc. the final and total destruction of the body of sin, whereof this is the pledge and first fruits, the dethroning of sin in the soul, so that though it be, yet it shall not be as a Lord: sin shall not reign in your mortal bodies: for ye are not under the Law but under Grace.
When the Lord turned again the Captivity of Zion,