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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81240	Eliah's abatement: or, Corruption in the saints. Discovered and distinguished in a sermon, preached at Chatham in Kent, at the Funeral of that faithful minister of the Gospel, Mr. Gaulter Roswell, M.a. late preacher there. / By Tho. Case, M.A. and rector of Giles in the Fields.	Case, Thomas, 1598-1682.	1658 (1658)	Wing C828; Thomason E1882_1; ESTC R209895	50,345	165

you than he that is in the world 1 Joh. 4.4 And therefore Christian act faith upon the merit and upon the power of Christs Cross and believe down thy pride and believe out thy passion believe thy corruptions to death Faithfull is he that hath promised who alse will do it Let it not be the reproach of the Crosse of Christ that any corruption or lust should be too hard for it no there is enough and a redundancie in Christ only the Well is deep and therefore thou must bring the bucket of faith to it and then with joy thou mayst draw water out of this Well of salvation Caut. 5 Fifthly Be thankful O ye Saints servants of God if upon those scriptural discoveries already laid down you can evidence it to your own soules that the remainders of corruption in your natures are but infirmities that sin of a Lord is become a slave and of an obeyed Soveraigne is become a resisted Tyrant Oh! it is matter of great thankfulness that the dominion of sin is broken Although the Saints have cause to be humbled that they have infirmities cause to go mourning to the very death yet they have infinite cause to be thankful that they are but infirmities no longer domineering lusts but base underlings and vassals And therefore while the sence of Corruption maketh them complain with the holy Apostle Oh wretch that I am c. the consideration that sin is dethroned and remains now but as a blasted infirmity in the soul may cause them to triumph I thank God for Jesus Christ It was the merit of his Crosse that purchased this grace Rom. 8.3 Christ died that sin might not live He conlemned sin in the flesh He adjudged sin to death on his Crosse in his redeemed And by the power of his Crosse he puts the sentence into execution Gal. 5.24 they that are Christs have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts Hence that security given Rom. 6.14 sin shall not reign in your mortal bodies it is an Exhortation verse ●2 let not sin reign to shew it is our duty to bring sin to the Crosse to do execution upon every lust but it is a promise in the fourteenth verse sin shall not reign to assure the believer that what Christ hath purchased with his blood he will accomplish by his Spirit sc the final and total destruction of the body of sin whereof this is the pledge and first fruits the dethroning of sin in the soul so that though it be yet it shall not be as a Lord sin shall not reign in your mortal bodies for ye are not under the Law but under Grace When the Lord turned again the Captivity of Zion Psal 126.1 2. our mouth was fill'd with laughter and our tongue with singing The redeemed soul hath not less cause to rejoyce whose spiritual captivity the Lord hath turned made them to lead Captivity captive 2 Tim. 2.26 to lead captive those lusts which led them captive before take captive by the devil at his pleasure So much for the Cautions I come now in the last place to close with the Comforts Comforts to the Saints ever their infirmities 1. Comfort Amongst many take these 1. Thy infirmities shall not prejudice thy acceptance with God This is a Christians comfort Though the world either through blindnesse cannot or through malice will not distinguish between infirmities and allowed wickednesse in the godly yet God both can and will He will distinguish between the Gold and the drosse between the chaffe and the wheat He will not cast away the gold because there is some drosse mixt with it nor throw the heap into the fire because there is much chaffe in it if there be but some grains of good seed God doth not cast off his people for their infirmities when he finds any precions grains of sincerity and grace in them It is highly observable concerning Sarah David Asa Jehosaphat c. when the spirit of God comes in Scripture to give us their characters he puts a veile upon their infirmities and takes notice only of their graces Gen. 17.12 Sarah laughed through unbelief yet when the Holy Ghost makes mention of her in the New Testament he takes notice only of her obedience and reverence to her husband Sarah obeyed Abraham 1 Pet. 3.6 and called him Lord. David had two terrible falls able to make every one that readeth to tremble but in his character God only takes notice of his integrity 1 King 9.4.11.4 6 14.8 his perfection the Vniversality of his obedience He did ONLY that which was right in mine eyes Asa had his failings He was wroth with the Seer 2 Chron. 16.10 and again In his sickness he sought not to the Lord but to the Physitians ver 12. yet in the accompt of his reign you find nothing 2 Chron. 14.17 2 Chron. 20.35 36. but this high eulogie The heart of Asa was perfect all his days And his son Jehosaphat contracted a wicked affinity he left reformation imperfect verse 33. yet in the summa totalis he inherits the testimony of his Fathers sincerity He walked in the way of Asa his Father 2 Chron. 20.32 and departed not from it doing that which was right in the sight of the Lord. Oh what a Cordial is this for the fainting hearts of Gods dear children sinking under the sense of their corruptions When God comes to weigh them in the ballance of the Sanctuary he leaves out their infirmities and puts nothing into the scales but their graces He overlooks what is theirs and takes notice onely of what is his own and so holdeth them forth to the world as models of perfection God will not onely pardon Com. 2 but pitty the infirmities of his people When their infirmities are their afflictions they be the objects of Gods Compassion Of all the children in the Family the Father pitieth the weak child the lame child and the sick child when the poor child crieth Father take me Father help me Father hold me Father carry me the Fathers bowels melt within him and his compassions are rolled together Like as a Father pitieth his children Ps 103.13 so the Lord pitieth them that fear him Isa 63 9. In all their affliction he is afflicted and the Angel of his presence saveth them When God seeth a poor believer striving and wrestling and conflicting with his corruptions weeping and mourning over them like a dove of the valley sighing with the breaking of his loins and crying Lord help Lord rebuke my temptations Lord subdue my corruptions pleading and pressing the promise Lord thou hast said sin shall not have dominion over me Rom. 6.14 thou hast said I will heal their back-sliding Hos 14.4 I will love them freely c. Why now Lord Psal 119.49 Remember the word unto thy servant upon which thou hast caused me to hope and pressing it again and again Behold