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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.
Come on then, I say, and see whether in this one branch of Thankfulness we can approve our selves to God to be a thankful people.
Come on then, I say, and see whether in this one branch of Thankfulnesse we can approve our selves to God to be a thankful people.
I will not ravel into your bosoms to enquire with what dispositions of spirit, upon what grounds and interests; to what ends and references you entered into the Solemn League and Covenant; though I wish with all my heart that you would; perhaps you would find a pad in the straw; in your entrance into this Covenant, possibly you may discover rashness in opposition to judgement; hypocrisy, in opposition to truth and sincerity; it may be, base, low, carnal ends and aims, in opposition to Righteousness, which are the Qualifications of a religious Covenanter; 1perhaps such workings of heart as sometimes brought the Sichemites into Covenant with the sons of Jacob; 2Shall not their cattle, and their substance, and every beast of theirs be ours? &c. perhaps the gaining of such an office, securing the estate, the keeping of such a Living, was in the eye, &c. Oh let the Kingdoms enquire into this, and let every man look into his own heart: for if it were so, know of a certain, that this was first source and fountain of all that sin and mischief which hath broken in upon us since the day of our Covenanting with God and with one another. But this I leave: the thing that I would close upon with your Consciences, is this: How have you kept your Covenant with God?
I will not ravel into your bosoms to enquire with what dispositions of spirit, upon what grounds and interests; to what ends and references you entred into the Solemn League and Covenant; though I wish with all my heart that you would; perhaps you would finde a pad in the straw; in your entrance into this Covenant, possibly you may discover rashnesse in opposition to judgement; hypocrisie, in opposition to truth and sincerity; it may be, base, lowe, carnal ends and aims, in opposition to Righteousnesse, which are the Qualifications of a religious Covenanter;