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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.
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But further, how comes it to pass, I beseech you, since you are under the Covenant of God, to reform according to the Word, and example of the best Reformed Churches, that some are so startled at the very mention of such a Clause, According to the Word of God, and example of the best Reformed Churches, as if they saw a monster, some hideous apparition which had in it the face of Treason and Blasphemy?
But further, how comes it to passe, I beseech you, since you are under the Covenant of God, to reform according to the Word, and example of the best Reformed Churches, that some are so startled at the very mention of such a Clause, According to the Word of God, and example of the best Reformed Churches, as if they saw a monster, some hideous apparition which had in it the face of Treason and Blasphemie?
But I must proceed. Have you not Covenanted to extirpate Superstition, Heresy, Schism, Profaneness, and whatsoever shall be found contrary to sound Doctrine and the power of Godliness &c.? How comes it to pass then that these abound more then ever they did, and that under your Noses? while there is such a numerous increase of Errors and Heresies, as I blush to repeat what some have affirmed; namely, that there be no Ice then One hundred and eighty several Heresies propagated ⟨p. 25⟩and spread in this neighbouring City, which hitherto hath been so famous for soundness of Doctrine and the power of godliness: and many of them also of such a nature, as that I may say, in Galvin's language, The Errors and Innovations under which we so much groaned of later years, were but tolerabiles ineptiae, tolerable trifles, children's play, compared with these damnable Doctrines, Doctrines of devils as the Apostle calls them: Polygamy, Arbitrary Divorce, Mortality of the Soul, No Ministry, no Churches, No Ordinances, No Scripture; yea, the very Divinity of Christ and the holy Ghost questioned by some, denied by others: And the very foundation of all these laid in such a Schism of boundless liberty of Conscience, viz. Believe what you will, and preach what you believe, and such lawless Separation of Churches; and all these not only whispered in corners, but preached on the house top, yea, published in Print before your faces with so much virulency and impudence, that I verily believe no Age since the Apostles times could ever parallel.