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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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Carnal people plead for their lusts, and make Apologies for their corruptions; did ever any godly man do so? This is a sign, it is more then infirmity.
Third Evidence: Evid. 3 In the next place; Corruption is then infirmity when we labour to have them cured: gracious Souls carry their spiritual distempers to the great Physician, with the Prophet Jeremiah his petition, 1Heal me O Lord, and I shall be healed. Unregenerate persons under a pang of conviction may go to God for pardon, but not for healing; ⟨p. 25⟩they can live without a cure, though they cannot die without a pardon; Yea, let but the tempest be a little allayed in the conscience, they will quickly forget pardon also. This is that which I say; Quiet will satisfy a natural conscience, nothing but cure will satisfy a renewed conscience; and for this it striveth, and this it pursueth to the very death: suffering any thing, and doing any thing, and denying it self any thing, so it may have spiritual infirmity healed. It is a good sign — passions are but infirmities, when Christians are much in the duties of mortification: prayer, and fasting, meditation, & mourning; drawing power and influence from Jesus Christ his Resurrection and Sufferings, by vital acts of faith: with the holy Apostle, Phil. 3.10. and Gal. 6.14.
Third Evidence: Evid. 3 In the next place; Corruption is then infirmity when we labour to have them cured: gracious Souls carry their spiritual distempers to the great Physician, with the Prophet Jeremiah his petition, 1Heal me O Lord, and I shall be healed. Unregenerate persons under a pang of conviction may go to God for pardon, but not for healing; ⟨p. 25⟩