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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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Fourthly, Evidential diff, Infirmities in the Saints, if no more, are medicinal; God makes use of their passions for the mortifying ⟨p. 26⟩of corruption. The Diamond is cut by a Diamond; Corruption is curative to Corruption: God makes oil of scorpions: and turns poison into an antidote. As,
Fourthly, Evidential diff, Infirmities in the Saints, if no more, are medicinal; God makes use of their passions for the mortifying ⟨p. 26⟩of corruption. The Diamond is cut by a Diamond; Corruption is curative to Corruption: God makes oil of scorpions: and turns poysoninto an antidote. As,
First, God makes use of the infirmities of the Saints to cure them of their Pride. 1The infirmities of the Children of promise, serve to keep them humble; whether they be the Ministers of the Gospel or private Christians: I am confident all the afflictions in the world are not so influential to the mortifying of their pride as their Corruptions: Whence an holy Minister of great eminence, both for grace and parts, answered a friend that demanded of him, what he did to keep his heart humble under such eminent abilities? I will warrant you, said he, I have corruptions enough to keep me humble. It was upon the same account that the great Apostle of the Gentiles, was exercised with a thorn in his flesh; ⟨p. 27⟩(which some conceive to have been some inward extimulations of concupiscence,) 2lest through the abundance of revelation, he should have been exalted above measure.
First, God makes use of the infirmities of the Saints to cure them of their Pride.