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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.
1A Seventh operation of Thankfulness is, A well-ordering of the Conversation: He that offereth me praise, glorifieth me: but to him that ordereth his conversation aright, &c. It is a kind of honour done to God, to keep a day of Thanksgiving, to hear two Sermons, to sing Psalms, to pray and praise, &c. but the main work is the ordering of the Conversation, or, as the Hebrew signifies, disposing of ones way aright. Thankful lips do well, but thankful lives do better. A day of thanksgiving is somewhat, but a life of thanksgiving is all.
1A Seventh operation of Thankfulnesse is, A well-ordering of the Conversation: He that offereth me praise, glorifieth me: but to him that ordereth his conversation aright, &c. It is a kinde of honour done to God, to keep a day of Thanksgiving, to hear two Sermons, to sing Psalms, to pray and praise, &c. but the main work is the ordering of the Conversation, or, as the Hebrew signifies, disposing of ones way aright. Thankful lips do well, but thankful lives do better. A day of thanksgiving is somwhat, but a life of thanksgiving is all.
- 1Seventhly, in ordering the conversation. Psal. 50. ult.
1Eighthly a thankful heart is filled with enlarged desires that others, that all would be thankful. The holy Psalmist here cries out to all that receive mercies, that they would return praise•, &c. He observeth how much men take in from God, and how little men lay out for God, and is troubled at it. He cries out as a man in pain and grief of spirit, Oh that men would praise the Lord! He would not willingly have God be a loser by any of the wonders he doth for the children of men: and surely this an high expression of Thankfulness, when the heart travels with holy desires that all the world might come in and be tributary to the glory of God: it is the design of the