A81249:582
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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Thirdly, If you would make an unchangeable Covenant, with an unchangeable God, come furnished with, and maintain ⟨p. 87⟩upon your hearts, an abundant measure of self-distrust; Labour to be throughly convinct of your own nothingness and disability. 1By his own strength shall no man prevail. Surely, Thine own treachery may inform thee, and thine own back-slidings may convince thee, to confess with Jeremiah. Oh Lord I know (I know it by sad experience) the way of man is not in himself: It is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
Thirdly, If you would make an unchangeable Covenant, with an unchangeable God, come furnisht with, and maintain ⟨p. 87⟩upon your hearts, an •bundant measure of self-distrust; Labour to be throughly convinct of your own nothingnesse and disability. 1By his own strength shall no man prevail. Surely, Thine own treachery may informe thee, and thine own back-slidings may convince thee, to confesse with Jeremiah. Oh Lord I know (I know it by sad experience) the way of man is not in himself: It is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
- 11 Sam. 2.19. Je•. 2.19. Jere. 10.23.
Staupitius confessed to Luther, 1