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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Dedication: To the Honourable House of Commons in Parliament now assembled.
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10. And all this, whether it have not been the cheapest Purchase the Parliament hath made, since it was constrained to redeem this poor sold Nation with Money and Blood, I appeal to your Selves, and to that exhausted County, which in the pursuit of this Service hath, to their exceeding Honours, issued not much less (if I be not misinformed,) then 40000 l. the very last vital blood that was left in their veins.1 Surely the Lord made them a willing people in this day of his power. There is yet a passage or two wherein you shall behold Mercy and truth meeting together, Righteousness and peace kissing each other.
10. And all this, whether it have not been the cheapest Purchase the Parliament hath made, since it was constrained to redeem this poor sold Nation with Money and Blood, I appeal to your Selves, and to that exhausted County, which in the pursuit of this Service hath, to their exceeding Honours, issued not much lesse (if I be not misinformed,) then 40000 l. the very last vital blood that was left in their veins.1 Surely the Lord made them a willing people in this day of his power. There is yet a passage or two wherein you shall behold Mercy and truth meeting together, Righteusnesse and peace kissing each other.
- 1Psal. 110.••.
11. Upon the same day that the enemy began to fortify the City of Chester, and make their Outworks, that very day three years, the Parliaments Forces entered the same:
11. Ʋpon the same day that the enemy began to fortifie the City of Chester, and make their Outworks, that very day three yeers, the Parliaments Forces entred the same: