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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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An Use of Examination. Use. 2 In which for your help, let me give you these Marks and Signs.
An Use of Examination. Ʋse. 2 In which for your help, let me give you these Marks and Signs.
First, 1sinful perturbations are then but infirmities, when accompanied with converting grace.
- 11. Evidence of Infirmities.
Corruption in the men of the world springs from an unmortified, ⟨p. 20⟩root, 1a root of bitterness, as the Scripture calls it; or a root bringing forth a poysonful leaf: original sin is whole in every unregenerate person, whereby it erecteth a full power and dominion; further then as it is restrained by an external power. Sin is in every unconverted man and woman, as Rex in regno; as a King in his throne; upon which account no sin that an unregenerate person committeth, (though never so small,) is to be reputed as a sin of infirmity; but a reigning sin; sin in the full force and vigour of it; so far as the act extends.
Corruption in the men of the world springs from an unmortified, ⟨p. 20⟩root, 1