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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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Thirdly. By this means also, God weans his people from the love of the world. Look what extraordinary sore-pressing afflictions do upon men, made up only of Sense and Reason; that the sense of Corruption doth upon the godly; it makes them weary of the world, and forceth from them Davids complaint, 1Woe is me that I sojourn in Mesech, and have my habitation in the tents of Keder: the Septuagint render it, Woe is me, that my pilgrimage is prolonged. Wicked men their lusts are so far from making weary of the world, that there is nothing makes them so unwilling to die. They would fain live for ever here, that they might sin for ever. But under the burden of Corruption it is, that the Saints groan; die they would, that they might sin no more.
Thirdly. By this meanes also, God weans his people from the love of the world. Look what extraordinary sore-pressing afflictions do upon men, made up only of Sense and Reason; that the sence of Corruption doth upon the godly; it makes them weary of the world, and forceth from them Davids complaint, 1Woe is me that I sojourn in Mesech, and have my habitation in the tents of Keder: the Septuagint render it, Woe is me, that my pilgrimage is prolonged. Wicked men their lusts are so far from making weary of the world, that there is nothing makes them so unwilling to die. They would fain live for ever here, that they might sin for ever. But under the burden of Corruption it is, that the Saints groan; die they would, that they might sin no more.
- 1Psal. 20.5. [Greek or Hebrew]. Haec sunt quae homines faciunt invitos mori. 2 Cor. 5.2, 3, 4.Psal. 20.5. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Haec sunt quae homines faciunt invitos mori. 2 Cor. 5.2, 3, 4.