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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.
Ninthly,1 a thankful heart delights to be talking of the wonderful works of God. Thy Saints shall bless thee, they shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy power, to make known to the sons of men thy mighty acts. And the Psalmist doth not intend to bind this burden upon others, that he might might withdraw his own shoulders; no, he looks upon it as a privilege as well as a duty, and therefore engageth himself: I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty, 2and of thy wondrous works. A gracious heart delights to be spreading and publishing of the wonderful works of God, repeating and reckoning up all his loving kindnesses: I will mention the loving kindnesses of the Lord, and the praises of the Lord, 3according to all that the Lord hath bestowed on me, and the great goodness rewards the house of Israel which he hath bestowed on them, according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses: so sings the Church, Isa. 63.7. And this the Saints do, to the end that they may not only provoke one another to set forth his praises, but that they may render their God glorious to all the world, and propagate and perpetuate the memory of his wonderful works to all generations: One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts: that is, one generation shall make over the report and memorial of the glorious cts of God unto another; that so he may have the glory of what he doth in one age, in all the succeeding ages and generations of the Church to the end of the world:4 This was the testimony which the Lord established in Jacob, and the Law which he appointed in Israel; That they should make known to their children the strength and the wonderful works which God hath done; to what end? That the generation to come might know them, 5even the children which should be born, who should arise and declare them to their children, &c. according to this Law your may find them acting, Vers. 2, 3, 4.