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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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In general I answer, 1There is nothing in the Body of this Covenant which is not either purely religious, or which lies not in a tendency to Religion, conducing to the securing and promoting thereof.
In generall I answer, 1There is nothing in the Body of this Covenant which is not either purely religious, or which lies not in a tendency to Religion, conducing to the securing and promoting thereof.
- 11. In general. Whatever is contained in the Covenant, is either religious or tending to Religion.1. In generall. Whatever is contained in the Covenant, is either religious or tending to Religion.
And as in the expounding the Commandments Divines take this Rule, That that Command which forbids a sin, forbids also all the conducibles and provocations to that sin, All the Tendencies to it: And that Command which enjoins a duty, enjoins all the mediums and advancers to that duty, as the Schools say, Modus cadit sub precepto. Circumstances fall within the ⟨p. 52⟩latitude of the Command; so in religious Covenants, not only those things which are of the substance and integrals of Religion, but even the collaterals and subserviencies, that tend either to the establishing or advancing of Religion, may justly be admitted within the Verge and Pale of the Covenant.
And as in the expounding the Commandments Divines take this Rule, That that Command which forbids a sin, forbids also all the conducibles and provocations to that sin, All the Tendencies to it: And that Command which enjoyns a duty, enjoyns all the mediums and advancers to that duty, as the Schools say, Modus cadit sub precepto. Circumstances fall within the