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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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Dedication: To the Honourable House of Commons in Parliament now assembled.
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To the Honourable House of Commons in Parliament now assembled.
NOBLE SENATORS,
TO serve Your and the Kingdoms Thankfulness for the late mercy of God, in putting Chester into your possession; give me leave from the Press to present unto your view what might have been burdensome from the Pulpit; a short List or Catalogue of some eminent Providences, wherewith the mercy of the day being clothed, will appear very rich and glorious.
TO serve Your and the Kingdoms Thankfulnesse for the late mercy of God, in putting Chester into your possession; give me leave from the Presse to present unto your view what might have been burdensom from the Pulpit; a short List or Catalogue of some eminent Providences, wherewith the mercy of the day being clothed, will appear very rich and glorious.
1. And first, you may please to observe, that the very lengthening of the Siege, was the advance of the Design, while in the issue it appears to have been nothing else but an ambushment of Providence laid of purpose to draw on the enemy to their own destruction: Surely their pride and power have not met with a more burdensome stone in all their bold and confident Adventures, then the Siege of Chester; upon which God bath broken them with breach upon breach, and blest you with victory upon victory worth many Chesters; and when he had done, cast that also in for an advantage. Thus many times do we look upon disappointments of our hopes, as frowns of displeasure, which afterwards we find to be Plots of Mercy. Who would not wait upon that God; who if be withhold a mercy for a while, pays interest for the forbearance, of more worth many times then the principal it self.