A81254:150
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
A Sermon of Thanksgiving, for the taking of Bridgewater and Sherbor… › Application › Application 2
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.
But now I say, hath not God in a great measure fulfilled my Text upon our Babylonish enemies, in bringing down their Bars? take them in which of the senses you will, abovementioned; take them with Sanches for Impedimenta, &c. The Impediments and Remora's, which lay in the way of Reformation, and Deliverance of Gods people out of that Romish bondage, wherein they and the Ordinances were taken Captive; (for though we were not in Babylon, yet Babylon was in the midst of us: Rome was among us, though we were not in Rome) Prelacy, and the Prelatical Clergy, Priests ⟨p. 19⟩and Jesuits, Ceremonies and Service-Book, Star-Chambers and High-Commission Court, with all the appurtenances: These were mighty impediments and obstructions in the way of Reformation and Deliverance; and God hath mightily brought them down.
But now I say, hath not God in a great measure fulfill'd my Text upon our Babylonish enemies, in bringing down their Barres? take them in which of the senses you will, abovementioned; take them with Sanches for Impedimenta, &c. The Impediments and Remora's, which lay in the way of Reformation, and Deliverance of Gods people out of that Romish bondage, wherein they and the Ordinances were taken Captive; (for though we were not in Babylon, yet Babylon was in the midst of us: Rome was among us, though we were not in Rome) Prelacy, and the Prelaticall Clergy, Priests ⟨p. 19⟩and Jesuites, Ceremonies and Service-Book, Star-Chambers and High-Commission Court, with all the appurtenances: These were mighty impediments and obstructions in the way of Reformation and Deliverance; and God hath mightily brought them down.
Take Bariach with Jerome, for principes populi: God hath pretty well brought them down too. The Malignant Nobility and Gentry of the Kingdom have known to their cost, what it is to oppose God, and rise up against Christ, would they see the hand of God, now it is lifted up.