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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.
Men and Brethren, this I take to be the sense of the place; and I need say no more. Surely every one of you here before God, have with trembling hearts prevented me in the Application: only let me add this: If God were so angry, and threatens so furiously the breach of a Covenant made with an Heathenish Tyrant, an Infidel (with whom the other Babylon, Mystical Babylon, teacheth no faith is to be kept) because it was made before God, and by the Name of God; shall he prosper? shall he escape that doth such things? 1or shall he break the Covenant and be delivered? As I live, mine Oath that he hath despised, and my Covenant that he hath broken, even it will I recompense upon his own head, &c. Oh how shall she escape? yea, of how much sorer punishment shall we be thought worthy, if we be found guilty of so high a perjury in breaking and despising a Covenant made not only before God, in the Name ⟨p. 30⟩of God, but with God himself. In so solemn and sacred a manner, with Fasting, and Prayer, and Sermons, and lifting up our hands to the most high God.
Men and Brethren, this I take to be the sense of the place; and I need say no more. Surely every one of you here before God, have with trembling hearts prevented me in the Application: onely let me adde this: If God were so angry, and threatens so furiously the breach of a Covenant made with an Heathenish Tyrant, an Infidel (with whom the other Babylon, Mystical Babylon, teacheth no faith is to be k•pt) because it was made before God, and by the Name of God; shall he prosper? shall he escape that doth such things? 1or shall he break the Covenant and be delivered? As I live, mine Oath that he hath despised, and my Covenant that he hath broken, even it will I recompence upon his own head, &c. Oh how shall she escape? yea, of how much sorer punishment shall we be thought worthy, if we be found guilty of so high a perjury in breaking and despising a Covenant made not onely before God, in the Name ⟨p. 30⟩of God, but with God himself. In so solemn and sacred a manner, with Fasting, and Prayer, and Sermons, and lifting up our hands to the most high God.