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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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Sermons › Sermon 1: The first Sermon Preached at Laurence Church, on the Fast-day, Septem. 27. 1643.
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2. 1The second thing that I undertook, is to give you some Demonstrations, To show, That Covenant-Violation is matter of a high Quarrel between God and a People; which will appear if we consider.
2. 1The second thing that I undertook, is to give you some Demonstrations, To shew, That Covenant-Violation is matter of a high Quarrell between God and a People; which will appear if we consider.
- 1Demonstrations to prove the Doctrine. 1. The Saints bewailing t••s sin.Demonstrations to prove the Doctrine. 1. The Saints beway•ing t••s sin.
First, That the discerning servants of God in Scripture, such as have been acquainted with God, and have seen into the nature of sin, have bewailed this sin with their most brinish tears, and deepest groans, and agonies of spirit. It is enough to break ones heart, to read with what heart-breaking-sighs, those holy men of God, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Daniel, have bewailed this sin, lying in the dust at Gods feet. Ezra 9.6. O my God, I am ashamed, and •lush to list up my face to thee wy God, &c. So cries Ezra, &c. And again, Vers. 13. After all this is come upon us, for our evil deeds, for our great trespass; seeing that thou our God hath punished […] less, then our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this; should we again break thy Commandments, Vers. 15. O Lord God of Israel, thou art righteous, for we remain, yet escaped as it is this day: Behold, we are before thee in our trespasses, for we cannot stand before thee, because of this. Nehemiah is very Pathetical in the confession of this sin, all along the ninth Chapter of that Book, weeping out this godly sorrow, as it were with tears of blood. Daniel is covered with confusion of face, when he bewailed this sin of Covenant-Violation in the ninth Chapter of his Prophecy. O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, Ver. 7. And again, O Lord, to me belongs confusion of face, to our Kings, to our Princes, &c. Vers. 8. It is breach of Covenant he bewails