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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.
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.
To the Major, Aldermen, and the rest of the Citizens and Inhabitants of the City of Chester, Grace with Peace be multiplied.
To the Maior, Aldermen, and the rest of the Citizens and Inhabitants of the City of Chester, Grace with Peace be multiplied.
Right Worshipful and Beloved,
I Desire to rejoice with you and for you; in this great mercy of God, in restoring you to your Habitations, from which some of you have been so long divorced; or to your Liberties, in the surprise whereof you have been no better then prisoners in your own Houses: Which that it may be a mercy indeed, give me leave, as one that loves you, to commend unto you a few Cautions.
I Desire to rejoyce with you and for you; in this great mercy of God, in restoring you to your Habitations, from which some of you have been so long divorced; or to your Liberties, in the surprise whereof you have been no better then prisoners in your own Houses: Which that it may be a mercy indeed, give me leave, as one that loves you, to commend unto you a few Cautions.
1. Take heed, I beseech you, now that you are returned to your old Houses, you do not return to your old sins; now you are restored to your Civil Liberties, you do not backslide to your former sinful Liberties: What they were, you best know: give me leave to mind you what your Christian friends in the Kingdom have taken notice of and bewailed in you: Pride