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The quarrel of the covenant, with the pacification of the quarrel. Delivered in three…The quarrell of the covenant, with the pacification of the quarrell. Delivered in three…
The quarrel of the covenant, with the pacification of the quarrel. Delivered in three sermons on Levit. 26. 25. and Jere. 50. 5. / By Thomas Case, preacher of the Word in Milk-street, London; and one of the Assembly of Divines.The quarrell of the covenant, with the pacification of the quarrell. Delivered in three sermons on Levit. 26. 25. and Jere. 50. 5. / By Thomas Case, preacher of the Word in Milk-street, London; and one of the Assembly of Divines.
London: printed for Luke Fawne, 1643
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Sermons › Sermon 1: The first Sermon Preached at Laurence Church, on the Fast-day, Septem. 27. 1643.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Zedekiah sware to Nebuchadnezzar, and did not keep his Oath; But for this, God swears the death of Zedekiah, and will be sure to keep his Oath.
Zed•kiah sware to Nebuchadnezzar, and did not keep his Oath; But for this, God swears the death of Zedekiah, and will be sure to keep his Oath.
This Accession of an Oath to the Covenant, a people or person swearing, By the most high God, and calling so holy and dreadful a Majesty to Witness, must needs wonderfully heighten the sin, and aggravate the quarrel; by this means, Covenant Breach, becometh a double sin; a sin twisted of two sins (and those, no small ones, neither) of lying and swearing: 1The lye being the profanation of the truth of God, and the Oath the profanation of the God of trueth; sins for which (take them singly) a Land doth often mourn; 2Of how much higher provocation are they, when they meet, yea, when they meet, and are met into one, communicating their malignity one unto another, and thereby bigning, and aggravating one another: The Lye making the Oath greater, and the Oath making the Lye greater; and out of both there ariseth an aliquod tertium, a third sin of a monstrous nature; namely, perjury, which is a blasphemy against the Truth of God, and against the God of Truth, while His Sacred Name is sworn by, and himself called in, to witness to a Lye, and so that sin, or sins, which in reference to the Law of God, is disobedience; in reference to love of God, inviting, pardoning, healing, is rebellion; in reference to our promise, is treachery; is now at last in reference to the Oath, aggravated into perjury and blasphemy.
This Accession of an Oath to the Covenant, a people or person swearing, By the most high God, and calling so holy and dreadfull a Majestie to Witnesse, must needs wonderfully heighten the sin, and aggravate the quarrell; by this means, Covenant Breach, becometh a double sin; a sin twisted of two sins (and those, no small ones, neither) of lying and swearing: