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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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What may be the Grounds or Reasons of the point? Grounds.
1. The first is, Saints and sinners are all one mans Sons; we are all tainted in our Original, and deeply poisoned with the venom of Adams first transgression: The Nature which we have traduced from his loins, is a ⟨p. 12⟩Dung-hill full of Vermin; 1a Sea full of Monsters; an hell full of unclean spirits: a very bottomless pit of corruption. 2All blood is of a colour. And though in Regeneration, the new creature is made partaker of the divine nature: 3yet it is not with the utter abolition of the Old man. In Conversion, Corruption is mortified, but not annihilated: the Covenant of Grace hath taken order for the conquering of Corruption, not for the extinction of it; Sin shall not reign. 4Blessed be God for that, till more comes. And blessed be God, the time is coming when it shall not be; sin shall not be cast down only, but cast out; not lose its dominion only, but its entity and existence. In the mean time, the best of Saints carry about them a body of death; 5the remains of a cursed enmity against God, which makes them weary of themselves, and willing to groan their very lives out with their complaints. 6Oh wretch that I ⟨p. 13⟩am, who shall deliver me!