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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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Sennacherib (that Assyrian adversary) no less will serve his turn, then blasphemy against God, and a full ruin of Hezekiah and Jerusalem; and for this he prepares a mighty host: But then God puts his bridle into the mouth of this wild horse, smites his camp, turns back himself, and which is more, suffered him to be slain too.
Sennacharib (that Assyrian adversary) no lesse wil serve his turn, then blasphemy against God, and a full ruine of Hezekiah and Ierusalem; and for this he prepares a mighty host: But then God puts his bridle into the mouth of this wilde horse, smites his camp, turns back himselfe, and which is more, suffered him to be slaine too.
The like may be instanced in Antiochus Epiphanes, and in the Pagan persecutions of the Church, which when they were cast out like a flood to drown the 1Church. Constantine the Great was then raised up to stave off that destructive fury, and so he did by his conquests over Maxentius and Maximinus: Yea, that infamous Apostate Julian after all his successless plots and actings, at his death, blaspheamingly confessed, ⟨p. 12⟩Vicisti Galilaee! that Christ was too hard for him.
The like may be instanced in Antiochus Epiphanes, and in the Pagan persecutions of the Church, which when they were cast out like a flood to drowne the 1Church. Constantine the Great was then raised up to stave off that destructive fury, and so he did by his conquests over Maxentius and Maximinus: Yea, that infamous Apostate Iulian after all his successelesse plots and actings, at his death, blaspheamingly confessed, ⟨p. 12⟩Vicisti Galilaee! that Christ was too hard for him.