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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.
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But secondly,1 if a carnal heart go out of it self, it is not upward; it is but forward to the Creature: it looks no higher then the second causes; it eyes the Instruments, and cries up Commanders and Soldiers, and puts the bays and garland upon their heads; Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands. God hath little or no share in the triumph.
But secondly,1 if a carnal heart go out of it self, it is not upward; it is but forward to the Creature: it looks no higher then the second causes; it eyes the Instruments, and cries up Commanders and Souldiers, and puts the bays and garland upon their heads; Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands. God hath little or no share in the triumph.
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Or thirdly,1 if carnal Joy keep a day or Thanksgiving as the very Philistines did so much, when that strong Garrison, Samson, was surrendered up into their hands, and offered a great Sacrifice to Dagon their god, 2&c. I say, If Carnal joy go into the Temple, hear Sermons, sing Psalms, lift up the voice in Thanksgiving, in all these it gets no higher then the duty. The duty looks upon God, the heart doth not: or if God be propounded, God is not exalted: When ye fasted, &c. did ye at all fast unto me, 3even unto me? And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did ye not eat to your selves, and drink to your selves? In fasting and feasting, that is, in days of Humiliation and in days of Thanksgiving, they rested the in duty: self was uppermost in both: God was the object of the duty indeed, but self was the end: Ye did eat and drink to your selves.