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A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons at Westminster, August 22. 1645.…
A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons at Westminster, August 22. 1645. Being the day appointed for their solemn thanksgiving unto God for his several mercies to the forces of the Parliament in divers parts of the kingdom, in the gaining of the towns of Bath and Bridgewater, and of Scarborough-Castle, and Sherborne-Castle, and for the dispersing of the Clubmen, and the good success in Pembroke-shire. By Thomas Case, preacher at Milkstreet, and one of the Assembly of Divines.A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons at Westminster, August 22. 1645. Being the day appointed for their solemn thanksgiving unto God for his several mercies to the forces of the Parliament in divers parts of the kingdome, in the gaining of the towns of Bath and Bridgewater, and of Scarborough-Castle, and Sherborn-Castle, and for the dispersing of the Clubmen, and the good successe in Pembroke-shire. By Thomas Case, preacher at Milkstreet, and one of the Assembly of Divines.
London: printed by Ruth Raworth for Luke Fawne, 1645
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In these mercies, the people of God come not in so much as by way of motive, much less by way of merit: But God doth these merely and immediately for his own sake.
In these mercies, the people of God come not in so much as by way of motive, much lesse by way of merit: But God doth these meerly and immediately for his own sake.
The reason of this difference is, because these temporal mercies and deliverances, find them the people of God; but election, justification, &c. make them the people of God; those find them qualified persons; these bestow these qualifications upon them: And therefore learn to distinguish of mercies, and to prize, and put in for your share in those mercies, which purely and unmixedly are in, and from, and for, and to himself.
The reason of this difference is, because these temporall mercies and deliverances, finde them the people of God; but election, justification, &c. make them the people of God; those finde them qualified persons; these bestow these qualifications upon them: And therefore learn to distinguish of mercies, and to prize, and put in for your share in those mercies, which purely and unmixtly are in, and from, and for, and to himself.