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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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Secondly, it works heaven-ward and God-ward in holy prayer: David got safe to the Crown through all his wars,1 and troubles, and persecutions, resolves by way of Render, 2I will call upon the Name of the Lord: and, to bind the Sacrifice with Cords to the horns of the Altar, he doubles the engagement upon his own soul, Vers. 17. I will offer to thee the Sacrifice of Thanksgiving, and call upon the Name of the Lord. One would have thought he might now have given over praying; God had put an end to his troubles, and he might put an end to his prayers: nay, but that is the note of an Hypocrite, to cease praying when troubles cease. What is the hope of the hypocrite? &c. Will he always call upon God? No,3 there be two times when the Hypocrite will not call upon God: First, when troubles are too heavy: Secondly, when troubles are removed; despair will not suffer him to pray then, and laziness will not let him pray now. With the truly-thankful it is other wise: as prayer begets deliverance; so deliverance begets prayer; and so he shows that it is not necessity makes him pray only, but love. Love to prayer, and love to the God of prayer.
Secondly, it works heaven-ward and God-ward in holie prayer: David got safe to the Crown thorow all his wars,1 and troubles, and persecutions, resolves by way of Render, 2I will call upon the Name of the Lord: and, to binde the Sacrifice with Cords to the horns of the Altar, he doubles the engagement upon his own soul, Vers. 17. I will offer to thee the Sacrifice of Thanksgiving, and call upon the Name of the Lord. One would have thought he might now have given over praying; God had put an end to his troubles, and he might put an end to his prayers: nay, but that is the note of an Hypocrite, to cease praying when troubles cease. What is the hope of the hypocrite? &c. Will he always call upon God? No,3 there be two times when the Hypocrite will not call upon God: First, when troubles are too heavie: Secondly, when troubles are removed; despair will not suffer him to pray then, and lazinesse will not let him pray now. With the truely-thankful it is other wise: as prayer begets deliverance; so deliverance begets prayer; and so he shews that it is not necessitie makes him pray onely, but love. Love to prayer, and love to the God of prayer.