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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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1 Chron. 15.13. For because ye did it not at first, The Lord our God made a breach upon us (yea many breaches in the West, and in the North, &c.) For that we sought him, not (herein) after the due order.
We keep our Fasts (for the most part) as if nothing were required, but to hang down our head for a day; and we take Covenants, as if all that is to be done, were but to hold up the hand for a day.
2. Again, How many have taken it, 1Rottenly and Hypocritically, their hearts not being *upright with God in this matter, while some have come with their Idols in their hearts, with their base Lusts in their bosoms. Some have taken it, if not with a purpose to break it, yet with no purpose to keep it; They did but flatter him with their mouth, and lye to him with their tongues. And others have taken it with their own evasions and limitations, and reservations; such a Jesuitical spirit is got in among us; by which means it comes to pass, that by that time men have pared off, and left one, and put what interpretations they frame to themselves, there is little left worth the name of a Covenant.
2. Again, How many have taken it, 1Rottenly and Hypocritically, their hearts not being *upright with God in this matter, while some have come with their Idols in their hearts, with their base Lusts in their bosomes. Some have taken it, if not with a purpose to break it, yet with no purpose to keep it; They did but flatter him with their mouth, and lye to him with their tongues. And others have taken it with their own evasions and limitations, and reservations; such a Jesuiticall spirit is got in among us; by which means it comes to passe, that by that time men have pared off, and left one, and put what interpretations they frame to themselves, there is little left worth the name of a Covenant.