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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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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
3. Look into their Families, and they were for the most part the vilest in the Diocese, a very nest of unclean Birds; And
3. Look into their Families, and they were for the most part the vilest in the Diocesse, a very nest of unclean Birds; And
4. If you had looked into their Courts and Consistories, you would have thought you had been in Caiaphas-Hall, where no other trade was driven, but the crucifying of Christ in his Members.