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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
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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.
And so if they be personal mercies and deliverances, the people of. God enquire what portion will fall to the souls share, what improvement for grace they can find in their mercies. The living, the living shall praise thee, as I do this day; so sings Hezekiah.
And so if they be personal mercies and deliverances, the people of. God enquire what portion will fall to the souls share, what improvement for grace they can finde in their mercies. The living, the living shall praise thee, as I do this day; so sings Hezekiah.
That I may show forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion; so prays David: both, single out the Spiritual part of the Deliverance: in the mouth of it, they find food for the grace of Thankfulness to feed on: That I may show forth thy praises; and that they make the ground or rise of their rejoicing. Yea, the Prophet David is so intent upon the matter, that whereas with carnal hearts the lean kine eat up the fat, the earthly part of a mercy devours the heavenly and spiritual; with this man after Gods own heart (and if ever he was so, it was in this) the spiritual part devours and swallows up the earthly, where he doth encourage his soul: