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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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As also, it is aggravated in both places, from the solemnity of the making of the Covenant; as in that place in Jeremiah: They have not performed the words of the Covenant which they had made before me, when they out the calf in twain, and passed between the parts thereof. And so again, vers. 19. The people of the land which passed between the parts of the calf: which kind of Ceremony or Sanction, was taken from Gods own command to Abraham when he made a Covenant with him,1 Gen. 15. from whence also even the Chaldeans and Romans borrowed it, as they had other parts and parcels of Religion; by which Ceremony they did as it were silently imprecate this Judgement upon themselves, that they might be so divided as those beasts were, if they did violate their Covenant: from ⟨p. 29⟩this solemnity, as from the other in Ezekiel, &c. giving the hand, 2or as with us, lifting up the hand to the most high God, doth God aggravate their Covenant-violation; when lo, he had given his hand! God speaks with indignation, as of an eminent and remarkable treachery and perfidiousness: When lo! he had given his hand.
As also, it is aggravated in both places, from the solemnity of the making of the Covenant; as in that place in Jeremiah: They have not performed the words of the Covenant which they had made before me, when they out the calf in twain, and passed between the parts thereof. And so again, vers. 19. The people of the land which passed between the parts of the calf: which kinde of Ceremony or Sanction, was taken from Gods own command to Abraham when he made a Covenant with him,1 Gen. 15. from whence also even the Caldeans and Romanes borrowed it, as they had other parts and parcels of Religion; by which Ceremony they did as it were silently imprecate this Judgement upon themselves, that they might be so divided as those beasts were, if they did violate their Covenant: from ⟨p. 29⟩