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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.
For he commandeth and •••seth up the stormy wind, 1which lifteth up the waves thereof. Surely all the storms and tempests that have beaten upon these three Kingdoms, have not come by chance and fortune; this affliction hath not risen out of the dust: but as it was with Solomon, after his heart began to depart from God, it is sa•d,2 The Lord stirred up an Adversary unto Solomon, Had the Ed•mite, &c. And (Vers. 23.) God stirred him up another Adversary; Rezin the son of Eliadah. Adversary after Adversary, and all stirred up by God. So hath it been and is yet with us; Storm after Storm, Tempest after Tempest; one cloud of blood and wrath after another,3 (The clouds have returned after rain) and all raised up by God, in his righteous Judgement upon these sinful backsliding Nations: We have (as it followeth) been mounted up to heaven, and then hurled down again into the depths.
For he commandeth and •••seth up the stormy winde, 1which lifteth up the waves thereof. Surely all the storms and tempests that have beaten upon these three Kingdoms, have not come by chance and fortune; this af••iction hath not risen out of the dust: but as it was with Sol•mon, af•er his heart began to depart from God, it is sa•d,2 The Lord stirred up an Adversary unto Solomon, Had•d the Ed•mite, &c. And (Vers. 23.) God stirred him up another Adversary; Rezin the son of Eliadah. Adversary after Adversary, and all stirred up by God. So hath it been and is yet with us; Storm after Storm, Tempest after Tempest; one cloud of blood and wrath after another,