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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.
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.
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:
Feb. 3. 1642. Feb. 3. 1645
12. The King mustered the Cheshire Forces, summoned, disarmed the Trainbands upon Holt-Heath, Sept. 24 1642. and upon the same day three years, the Kings Army was routed upon Routon-we may rightly call it Routing-Heath: and another Brigade which was intended for a Reserve, commanded by the Earl of Lichfield and the Lord Gerard, defeated upon Holt-Heath (as I take it so it is called) where the Earl of Lichfield was slain; and all this in the Kings view, He then standing in Phoenix-Tower in Chestr. Lord, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see; but they shall see; I pray God to Repentance, and not to Shame.
12. The King mustered the Cheshire Forces, summon'd, disarm'd the Trainbands upon Holt-Heath, Sept. 24 1642. and upon the same day three yeers, the Kings Army was routed upon Routon-we may rightly call it Routing-Heath: and another Brigade which was intended for a Reserve, commanded by the Earl of Lichfield and the Lord Gerard, defeared upon Holt-Heath (as I take it so it is called) where the Earl of Lichsield was slain; and all this in the Kings view, He then standing in Phoenix-Tower in Chestr. Lord, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see; but they shall see; I pray God to Repentance, and not to Shame.