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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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Second branch of Information. See and admire the love of God to his Church and people: They were taken out of the same pit, and hewn out of the same rock, with the rest of the world; they had all one Father and Mother, and yet see what a difference ⟨p. 15⟩God makes between them: Surely, as much as he makes between men, and the beasts of the earth; he gives them as bread to his people to feed upon, he makes them as sacrifices for the expiation of his wrath towards his people; when his wrath goes forth armed as it were against his people, he commands it to turn aside, and satisfy it self with the blood of mighty Nations, and great ones of the world, that rise up against the Church. He makes them but as the Rams to be sacrificed to divine Justice in the room of his Isaacs.
Second branch of Information. See and admire the love of God to his Church and people: They were taken out of the same pit, and hewn out of the same rock, with the rest of the world; they had all one Father and Mother, and yet see what a difference ⟨p. 15⟩God makes between them: Surely, as much as he makes between men, and the beasts of the earth; he gives them as bread to his people to feed upon, he makes them as sacrifices for the expiation of his wrath towards his people; when his wrath goes forth armed as it were against his people, he commands it to turn aside, and satisfie it self with the blood of mighty Nations, and great ones of the world, that rise up against the Church. He makes them but as the Rams to be sacrificed to divine Justice in the room of his Isaacs.
And if this be such an honour; What is it then, that he gave his own only Son, not the Creature, but the Creator, 1The brightness of his glory, and the express form of his person, to be a Sacrifice of Expiation, a Propitiation; to be as it were, a devotum Caput, upon which, he lays the iniquities of all his Elect; to deliver him up to death for them; and then to give his Body and Blood to be their spiritual meat and drink, to life eternal?