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The root of apostasy, and fountain of true fortitude. Delivered in a sermon before…The root of apostacy, and fountain of true fortitude. Delivered in a sermon before…
The root of apostasy, and fountain of true fortitude. Delivered in a sermon before rhe [sic] Honourable House of Commons, on their late day of thanks-giving for the great victory given to Sir William Waller and the forces with him, against the army of Sir Ralph Hopton. By Thomas Case, Preacher at Milk-street, London, and one of the Assembly of Divines.The root of apostacy, and fountain of true fortitude. Delivered in a sermon before rhe [sic] Honourable House of Commons, on their late day of thanks-giving for the great victory given to Sir William Waller and the forces with him, against the army of Sir Ralph Hopton. By Thomas Case, Preacher at Milk-street, London, and one of the Assembly of Divines.
London: printed by J. R. for Luke Fawne, 1644
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First, study God (I beseech you) in his Works,which divide themselves, and your contemplation, into his Works of Creation. Providence. Redemption.
First, Therefore study God in his works of Creation, and there you shall find him bringing light out of darkness; this ⟨p. 20⟩beautiful structure of heaven and earth, 1out of a confused Chaos, and that Chaos out of nothing. Christians when you see second causes at a dead-low-water, and your Creature-hopes ready to give up the Ghost, if you would but remember the Creation, it would put life into you, hark how God chides because you do not; 2Who art thou, that art afraid of a man that shall die, and forgettest the Lord thy Maker, Who art thou? Art thou a son of Abraham? Canst thou call Jacob Father? They would have scorned to have dealt so with me; to be afraid of a dying man, and forget that I am the the living God, thy Maker, and the worlds Maker, who stretched out the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth, and hast feared continually, &c. See Christians, the very remembrance and contemplation of God in the works of Creation, would have cured them of their fears, while they might have reasoned themselves thus into an holy security; He that made the world, is not he able to conquer an Army? He that made his Enemies of nothing, is not he able as easily to reduce them into their first nothing again? & sic in calt.
First, Therefore study God in his works of Creation, and there you shall finde him bringing light out of darknesse; this ⟨p. 20⟩beautifull structure of heaven and earth, 1