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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.
Or else the words may relate to that other Covenant which Zedekiah, the Princes, the Priests, and the People of Judah had made with God, while this Captivity was yet threatened,1 concerning the letting of their servants go free at the end of Seven years, according to the Law:2 And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a Covenant before me in the house which is called by my Name. I say, To either or both of these Covenants, may the words refer; for in both these they sware falsely, not in regard of the matter of the Covenant• for it was lawful and good: but in respect of their managing of it: They have spoken words swearing falsely: there was nothing but words to be found in their covenanting; they were ⟨p. 28⟩not real and substantial with God in this solemn Service; they brake their Covenant as soon as they had made it; that was their swearing falsely: so you may find it laid to their charge in the former places:3 Ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, &c. but ye turned and polluted my Name, and caused every man his servant and every man his handmaid to return, and brought them into subjection. Ye were turned, but ye turned: here is one turn too much: In the first turn, they made a Covenant with God;4 in the second, they brake it: I will give the men that have transgressed my Covenant, which have not performed the words of the Covenant which they had made before me.
Or else the words may relate to that other Covenant which Zedekiah, the Princes, the Priests, and the People of Judah had made with God, while this Captivity was yet threatned,1 concerning the letting of their servants go free at the end of Seven yeers, according to the Law: