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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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ELIJAH'S ABATEMENT: Or, CORRUPTION In the SAINTS.ELIAH'S ABATEMENT: Or, CORRUPTION In the SAINTS.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
In this place it may very well be extended to all: in my discourse I shall manage it specially in the two latter references, and in the doctrinal part, more largely, as importing sinful perturbations; ⟨p. 5⟩in the application to our present occasion, to the particular passion of anger.
First, I shall handle it in the larger signification of sinful perturbations; which, without injury to this holy Prophet, we may understand are ascribed to him, by the Holy Ghost in this place: and that first, because Elijah is here called a Man; and secondly, because levelled with the rest of the sons and daughters of men, [Greek or Hebrew]; of like passions with us. The same minoration and abatement which Saint Paul useth to restrain the superstitious Lystrians, 1from giving himself and Barnabas divine worship, saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? we also are men of like passions with you.
First, I shall handle it in the larger signification of sinful perturbations; which, without injury to this holy Prophet, we may understand are ascribed to him, by the Holy Ghost in this place: and that first, because Elias is here called a Man; and secondly, because level'd with the rest of the sons and daughters of men, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; of like passions with us. The same minoration and abatement which Saint Paul useth to restrain the superstitious Lystrians, 1from giving himself and Barnabas divine worship, saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? we also are men of like passions with you.
- 1Act. 14. from vers. 11. to vers. 16. [Greek or Hebrew].