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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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Secondly, 1See that you come to this service with a Reverential frame of Spirit, with that Holy fear and awe, upon your hearts, as becomes the greatness and holiness of that God, and that Ordinance, with whom you have to do; remembering that you are this day to swear before God, by God, to God: either of which, singly considered, might justly make us fear and tremble; How much more may this threefold cord, bow, and bind our hearts down in an humble, and holy prosternation?
Secondly, 1See that you come to this service with a Reverentiall frame of Spirit, with that Holy fear and awe, upon your hearts, as becomes the greatnesse and holinesse of that God, and that Ordinance, with whom you have to do; remembring that you are this day to swear before God, by God, to God: either of which, singly considered, might justly make us fear and tremble; How much more may this threefold cord, bow, and binde our hearts down in an humble, and holy prosternation?
- 1The second Qualification. Holy fear.
It is said of Jacob, he sware by the fear of his father Isaac. 1Jacob in his Oath chooseth this title of Fear, to give unto God, to show with what fear he came, but to swear by this God; what should we do, when (as I say) we come to swear by him, and to him? Surely, when he is so especially the object of our Oath, he should then especially be the object of our fear.
It is said of Jacob, he sware by the fear of his father Isaac. 1Jacob in his Oath chuseth this title of Fear, to give unto God, to shew with what fear he came, but to swear by this God; what should we do, when (as I say) we come to swear by him, and to him? Surely, when he is so especially the object of our Oath, he should then especially be the object of our fear.