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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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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 fa•it. Give me leave to vary it a little: He was a good Bishop that was not the worst man; but if the•e were some of a better Complexion, who yet, apparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto, were very rarely discovered in their Episcopal Sea; yet
2. And I wish we had not too just cause to adde, 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 fa•it. Give me leave to vary it a little: He was a good Bishop that was not the worst man; but if the•e were some of a better Complexion, who yet, apparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto, were very rarely discovered in their Episcopall Sea; yet