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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 therefore thirdly, this love doth express it self in glorying in God: So the Church in that Psalm of Thanksgiving, Psal. 48,1 when she had told all the world the great Victories God had given by Land and Sea; how he had routed mighty Kings and Princes, and made them glad to betake themselves to their heels; they came, and so went home again: after she had led the Spectator round about the Line of Communication, and invited him to behold the beauty and strength of her Towers and Fortifications; she concludes the Psalm with this triumph, as that which infinitely transcended all the rest: This God is our God for ever and ever;2
And therefore thirdly, this love doth expresse it self in glorying in God: So the Church in that Psalm of Thanksgiving, Psal. 48,1 when she had told all the world the great Victories God had given by Land and Sea; how he had routed mighty Kings and Princes, and made them glad to betake themselves to their heels; they came, and so went home again: after she had led the Spectator round about the Line of Communication, and invited him to behold the beautie and strength of her Towers and Fortifications; she concludes the Psalm with this triumph, as that which infinitely transcended all the rest: This God is our God for ever and ever;2
- 1Psal. 48.3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 12, 13.
- 2Verse 14.