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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.
Let the Saints be joyful in glory; 1let them sing aloud upon their beds: let the high praises of God be in their mouths, &c. they be the ⟨p. 6⟩Righteous only, the upright, the Saints, in whose bosoms this grace dwells, and who can manage this Spiritual service and duty of rejoicing and praising the Lord in a right manner.
Let the Saints be joyful in glory; 1let them sing aloud upon their beds: let the high praises of God be in their mouthes, &c. they be the ⟨p. 6⟩Righteous onely, the upright, the Saints, in whose bosoms this grace dwells, and who can manage this Spiritual service and duty of rejoycing and praising the Lord in a right manner.
Indeed the holy Psalmist doth often express the workings of his heart upon the receipt of great deliverances and mercies, under the notion of gladness, all over the Psalms: but you are to take it as a Synonymon, or t'other expression of thankfulness; not a mere stirring of natural joy and complacency in and for deliverances and mercies; but the Spiritual movings and sparkling of his aff••ction towards God; in witness whereof, you shall never find that notion stand single, but (like the* Spirit of the holy man himself) joined unto the Lord, either as the Author or as the Object of his Gladness.