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Haman's vanity, or, A sermon displaying the birthlesse issues of church-destroying adversaries. Preached to…
Haman's vanity, or, A sermon displaying the birthlesse issues of church-destroying adversaries. Preached to the Honourable House of Commons at their late solemn thanksgiving, being on June 15. 1643. By Obadiah Sedgwick, Bachelor in Divinity, and Pastor of Coggeshall in Essex. Published by order of that House.Haman's vanity, or, A sermon displaying the birthlesse issues of church-destroying adversaries. Preached to the Honourable House of Commons at their late solemne thanksgiving, being on June 15. 1643. By Obadiah Sedgwick, Batchelor in Divinity, and Pastor of Coggeshall in Essex. Published by order of that House.
London: printed by R. Bishop for Samuel Gellibrand, 1643
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When the City of Leiden was so long, & so strictly besieged (as I think) by the Duke of Alva, that they were forced for their sustenance to search and scrape the dunghills, and boil old leather, &c. And the Duke in the language of Blasphemy threatened the defendants: Why That very night the winds turned, and the tide swelled, and the waters came in, and forced him to raise the siege.
When the City of Leyden was so long, & so strictly besiedged (as I think) by the Duke of Alva, that they were forced for their sustenance to search and scrape the dunghills, and boyle old leather, &c. And the Duke in the language of Blasphemy threatened the defendants: Why That very night the windes turned, and the tide swelled, and the waters came in, and forced him to raise the siedge.
Thirdly, You must distinguish twixt a particular person, and twixt a Church; It may ofttimes so fall out, that the cruel designs of wicked adversaries may prevail to the destruction of this or that individual person (If that may be styled a destruction, which yet eventually redounds to the enlarging of the Church: for seed when it is sown multiplies the more; and sanguis Martyrum is semen Ecclesiae: Faecundi sunt Martyrum 1cineres) but they shall never prevail to the ruin of the Church.
Thirdly, You must distinguish twixt a particular person, and twixt a Church; It may oftimes so fall out, that the cruell designes of wicked adversaries may prevaile to the destruction of this or that individuall person (If that may be stiled a destruction, which yet eventually redounds to the enlarging of the Church: for seed when it is sowne multiplies the more; and sanguis Martyrum is semen Ecclesiae: Faecundi sunt Martyrum 1cineres) but they shall never prevail to the ruine of the Church.
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