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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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If the best of Saints have their infirmities and sinful perturbations. Cant. 2 Take heed of Censuring them for their failings. The world condemns the generation of Gods children for censuring others, while there are no such censorious persons upon the face of the earth, as themselves.
If a professor of Religion do ⟨p. 17⟩but slip, it is a fall; and if he fall, it is a fall of hypocrisy, not of infirmity: while they themselves do live, and lye, and wallow in sin, and allow themselves in all manner of brutish excesses, they do most uncharitably judge and condemn the Saints, for their failings and infirmities.
If a professor of Religion do ⟨p. 17⟩but slip, it is a fall; and if he fall, it is a fall of hypocrisie, not of infirmity: while they themselves do live, and lye, and wallow in sin, and allow themselves in all manner of bruitish excesses, they do most uncharitably judge and condemn the Saints, for their failings and infirmities.
Their own gross sins must pass for infirmities, but the Saints infirmities must be censured as gross sins: yea, not only the person, but the whole Profession, must suffer for it; I, these are your professors, these be your Puritans, your Precisians, they are all hypocrites, never a barrel better herring. God shall smite such whited walls, who under the pretence of Law, judge their brethren contrary to Law; Contrary to the Law of equity, Contrary to the Law of Charity, Contrary to that royal Law, 1