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A model of true spiritual thankfulness. Delivered in a sermon before the Honourable House…A model of true spiritual thankfulnesse. Delivered in a sermon before the Honourable House…
A model of true spiritual thankfulness. Delivered in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons, upon their day of thanksgiving, being Thursday, Feb. 19. 1645, for the great mercy of God, in the surrender of the city of Chester into the hands of the Parliaments forces in Cheshire, under the command of Sir William Brereton. / By Tho. Case, preacher in Milkstreet London, and one of the Assembly of Divines.A model of true spiritual thankfulnesse. Delivered in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons, upon their day of thanksgiving, being Thursday, Feb. 19. 1645, for the great mercy of God, in the surrender of the citie of Chester into the hands of the Parliaments forces in Cheshire, under the command of Sir William Brereton. / By Tho. Case, preacher in Milkstreet London, and one of the Assembly of Divines.
London: printed by Ruth Raworth for Luke Fawne, 1646
Title page typeset from the transcription.
A Model of true SPIRITUAL THANKFULNESS.A Model of true SPIRITUAL THANKFULNESSE.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Her meat (how course soever) was served in in the great silver Charger of the Covenant. And this was the rise of Thankfulness in the Churches Grace; q. d. Blessed be God that hath fed me with bread of promise, that hath commanded his Covenant to bring me in provision.
Her meat (how course soever) was served in in the great silver Cha•ger of the Covenant. And this was the rise of Thankfulnesse in the Churches Grace; q. d. Blessed be God that hath fed me with bread of promise, that hath commanded his Covenant to bring me in provision.
And so for her deliverances and redemption from enemies temporal and eternal. He sent Redemption to his people, 1he hath commanded his Covenant for ever: holy and reverend is his Name. It was a Covenant-victory and Redemption, and for this she bows her head, and adores the Name of the Lord.
And so for her deliverances and redemption from enemies temporal and eternal. He sent Redemption to his people, 1he hath commanded his Covenant for ever: holy and reverend is his Name. It was a Covenant-victorie and Redemption, and for this she bows her head, and adores the Name of the Lord.
- 1Verse 9.
Now carnal people never look after these things, they be dry and empty notions to them; give them meat, so it be fat and dainty; give them Deliverances and Victories, so they be full and gallant; be it by promise or providence, come they in by sonship or creatureship; be it the Covenant that helps them, or Fortune, it is all one, they know no difference; and therefore rise no higher in their joy and gladness then the possession of their desirable good things. This is the first Rise.