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The root of apostasy, and fountain of true fortitude. Delivered in a sermon before…The root of apostacy, and fountain of true fortitude. Delivered in a sermon before…
The root of apostasy, and fountain of true fortitude. Delivered in a sermon before rhe [sic] Honourable House of Commons, on their late day of thanks-giving for the great victory given to Sir William Waller and the forces with him, against the army of Sir Ralph Hopton. By Thomas Case, Preacher at Milk-street, London, and one of the Assembly of Divines.The root of apostacy, and fountain of true fortitude. Delivered in a sermon before rhe [sic] Honourable House of Commons, on their late day of thanks-giving for the great victory given to Sir William Waller and the forces with him, against the army of Sir Ralph Hopton. By Thomas Case, Preacher at Milk-street, London, and one of the Assembly of Divines.
London: printed by J. R. for Luke Fawne, 1644
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Give me leave, the Text thus resolved into its parts, to open them unto you as they lie in this Analysis, and I shall then close with those doctrinal observations that do naturally offer themselves to us out of the words; I will be brief in the opening of them.
Give me leave, the Text thus resolved into its parts, to open them unto you as they lie in this Analysis, and I shall then close with those doctrinall observations that do naturally offer themselues to us out of the words; I will be brief in the opening of them.
First then, here you have the person practicing, He; And this, take him literally, or Historically, was Antiochus Epiphanes younger son to Antiochus Magnus that vile person, verse 21. where you have the first mention of him; There shall stand up a vile person to whom, &c. Whom for his vile and brutish, turbulent and treacherous disposition, 1Polybius with the change of a letter or two wittily nick-names Antiochus Epimanes; Antiochus the Furious or mad. This vile person as he obtained the Kingdom of Syria (which by right belonged to his Nephew Demetrius, 2then but young) by flatteries and treacherous insinuations; pretending that he designed nothing but the care and protection of his young Nephew; so he laboured to propagate and enlarge it, by the same operations and Artifices.
First then, here you have the person practizing, He; And this, take him literally, or Historically, was Antiochus Epiphanes younger son to Antiochus Magnus that vile person, verse 21. where you have the first mention of him; There shall stand up a vile person to whom, &c. Whom for his vile and bruitish, turbulent and treacherous disposition, 1Polybius with the change of a letter or two wittily nick-names Antiochus Epimanes; Antiochus the Furious or mad. This vile person as he obtained the Kingdom of Syria (which by right belonged to his Nephew Demetrius,