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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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Answ. So cry some indeed, That yet like the men, as well as their calling, and would justify the persons, as well as the Office, but that their wickedness is made so manifest, that impudency it self cannot deny it.
Answ. So cry some indeed, That yet like the men, as well as their calling, and would justifie the persons, as well as the Office, but that their wickednesse is made so manifest, that impudency it self cannot deny it.
But is it indeed only the fault of the men, 1not of the calling? What meant then that saying of Queen Elizabeth, That when she had made a Bishop, she had spoiled a Preacher? Was it only a jest.
But is it indeed onely the fault of the men, 1not of the calling? What meant then that saying of Queen Elizabeth, That when she had made a Bishop, she had spoiled a Preacher? Was it onely a jest.
- 1The abas••in the Church, not the fault of the persons the Prelates, only but of the calling.The abas••in the Church, not the fault of the persons the Prelates, onely but of the calling.
2. And I wish we had not too just cause to add, The man too. Surely of the most of them, we may say, as once Aencblus spake of the Gentiles, Apud vos optimi censerter ques comparatio pessimorum sic fait. Give me leave to vary it a little: He was a good Bishop that was not the worst man; but if thee were some of a better Complexion, who yet, apparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto, were very rarely discovered in their Episcopal Sea; yet