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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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This course not only the Rule of our Saviour in general, but the very words of the Covenant it self doth allow; (for though the clause be placed in the sixth Article, yet it hath reference to all:) viz. What we are not able our selves to suppress or overcome, we shall reveal and make known. So that if the Malignity fall within our own, or our friends ability to conquer, we have discharged our duty to God and the Kingdoms, and may sit down with comfort in our bosoms.
This course not only the Rule of our Saviour in generall, but the very words of the Covenant it self doth allow; (for though the clause be placed in the sixth Article, yet it hath reference to all:) viz. What we are not able our selves to suppresse or overcome, we shall reveal and make known. So that if the Malignity fall within our own, or our friends ability to conquer, we have discharged our duty to God and the Kingdoms, and may sit down with comfort in our bosomes.
That which remains in the other two Articles, I cannot see how it affords any occasion of an objection; and the reference and tendency it hath to the Reformation and preservation of Religion, is easy and clear to any eye, that is not wilfully blind; The preservation of Peace between the two Kingdoms, 1in the fifth Article, being the pillar of Religion; for how can Religion and Reformation stand, if any blind Malignant Sampson be suffered to pull down the pillars of Peace and Union.
That which remains in the other two Articles, I cannot see how it affords any occasion of an objection; and the reference and tendency it hath to the Reformation and preservation of Religion, is easie and cleer to any eye, that is not wilfully blinde; The preservation of Peace between the two Kingdoms, 1in the fifth Article, being the pillar of Religion; for how can Religion and Reformation stand, if any blinde Malignant Sampson be suffered to pull down the pillars of Peace and Ʋnion.