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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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A most horrid and bloody, 1treachery, and cruelty, in them, which stands as a Brand of infamy upon their foreheads to this day; but a most just and righteous censure from God, and a caution to all succeeding generations of prostituting heavenly and holy Ordinances to earthly and sensual ends. Oh let it be our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come, to the end that we may not tempt God, 2as they also tempted; for if God so much abhorred, and so severely punished these worldly respects in the men of the world; if God was so angry with poor purblind Heathen, who had no other light for their guide, but the glimmering light of Nature; how, will his anger not only kindl•, ⟨p. 77⟩but flame in the avenging of such baseness upon Christians, a people of his own, who have the glorious light of the Gospel of […] Christ, to discover to them higher and heavenlier Ends and References? so that such a Kingdom, People, or Person, that should date to bring such base carnal Ends, to so spiritual and divine a contract, should be made a Monument of the wrath and vengeance of divine Justice; and while they propound to themselves, safety, or riches, or greatness, from such an excellent Ordinance, God makes it by a strange, but a righteous hand, an occasion of misery and ruin to them, and their posterity to many generations.
A most horrid and bloody, 1treachery, and cruelty, in them, which stands as a Brand of infamy upon their foreheads to this day; but a most just and righteous censure from God, and a caution to all succeeding generations of prostituting heavenly and holy Ordinances to earthly and sensuall ends. Oh let it be our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come, to the end that we may not tempt God, 2as they also tempted; for if God so much abhorred, and so severely punisht these worldly respects in the men of the world; if God was so angry with poor purblind H••then, who had no other light for their guide, but the glimmering light of Nature; how, will his anger not onely kindl,