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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.
If you shall say, Yea, we have paid our Vows, and (with Saul) We have obeyed the voice of the Lord; let me demand, with Samuel, What means then the lowing of the oxen, and the bleating of the sheep in mine ears? What means that brutish, and beastly noise of Heresy, and Schism, and Profaneness in mine ears?
If you shall say, Yea, we have paid our Vows, and (with Saul) We have obeyed the voice of the Lord; let me demand, with Samuel, What means then the lowing of the oxen, and the bleating of the sheep in mine ears? What means that brutish, and beastly noise of Heresie, and Schism, and Profanenesse in mine ears?
Did ye not indeed Covenant with God the preservation of Religion in the Church of Scotland, &c. and the Reformation of Religion in the Kingdoms of England and Ireland, in Doctrine, Worship, Discipline and Government, according to the Word of God, and the example of the best Reformed Churches? ⟨p. 24⟩Oh what is the reason then that to this day, the House of God lieth waste? in some places there being no Ministry for want of Ordination; in others, indeed in all places, there being no Discipline or Government for want of a Rule according to the Word: no Discipline, I say, unless it be amongst those whose impatient zeal suffers them not to wait for your civil Sanction. Will ye say The time is not come; 1the time for building the Lords House is not come? I cannot give you the Prophets answer; I must confess you have not spent your time in building your own houses, and ceiling them; nay, some of your houses have been pulled down to the ground, and the ceiling destroyed with axes and hammers, in the Psalmists language: But this I pray with all my soul, that you have not said so, long; The time is not come, the time is not come, we are not yet in a fitting posture, (Oh, my soul trembles to speak it) till God say The time is past, The time is past: Because I would have purged, and thou wast not purged;