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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.
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:1 Hope thou in God; for I ⟨p. 11⟩shall yet praise him, &c. He was waiting for a Deliverance from the persecutions of bloody Saul, and he hath forgot and lost both it and himself in the heavenly-soul-part of the mercy: he saw it would be fuel for the grace of love and thank fullness, and that so takes up all his thoughts, that he can speak nothing else but praise, praise: not, I shall yet be delivered: but, I shall yet praise him, &c. Oh happy Loss indeed I to lose Earth in Heaven I to lose the Creature in God I lose the mercy of God in the God of mercy I Surely he that so loseth a mercy, finds it with infinite advantage.