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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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When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month; even those seventy years, did ye fast to me, even unto me? In seventy years they kept seven score fasts in Babylon; and yet amongst them all, they kept not one day unto God; for though the duty looked upon God, they that did the duty, did not look upon God; that is, they did not set up God as their chief End, in Fasting and Praying: They mourned not so much for their sin, as for their Captivity; or, if for their sin, they mourned for it not so much as Gods dishonour, as the cause of their Captivity; they were not troubled so much, that they had by their sins walked contrary to God, 1as that God by his judgements had walked contrary to them: They fasted and prayed rather to get off their chains, then to get off their sins; to get rid of the bondage of the Babylonians, then to get rid of the servitude of their own base Lusts.
When yee fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh moneth; even those seventy yeers, did ye fast to me, even unto me? In seventy yeers they kept seven score fasts in Babylon; and yet amongst them all, they kept not one day unto God; for though the duty lookt upon God, they that did the duty, did not look upon God; that is, they did not set up God as their chief End, in Fasting and Praying: They mourned not so much for their sin, as for their Captivity; or, if for their sin, they mourned for it not so much as Gods dishonour, as the cause of their Captivity; they were not troubled so much, that they had by their sins walkt contrary to God, 1as that God by his judgements had walked contrary to them: They fasted and prayed rather to get off their chains, then to get off their sins; to get rid of the bondage of the Babylonians, then to get rid of the servitude of their own base Lusts.