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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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A Sermon of Thanksgiving, for the taking of Bridgewater and Sherbor… › Application › Application 2
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Never History since Joshua's days, can file up so many glorious Victories, upon such long and tedious marches, accomplished by one Army in so short a time.
Never History since Joshua's dayes, can file up so many glorious Victories, upon such long and tedious marches, accomplished by one Army in so short a time.
The fruits whereof are,
1. The breaking in pieces the strongest Armies that the King had in this Kingdom, which scorned and cursed your new Model, as much as ever the great Philistine did little David; but God made it a formidable instrument in his hand; such a one, one would think that very instrument, prophesied of by the Prophet Isaiah: 1Behold (saith God) I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountain, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff. A new instrument indeed this was, after your old was broken; and it had teeth: The proud enemy thought it was a toothless instrument that could not bite; but they have felt, to their cost, that it hath teeth, sharp teeth: Surely these teeth have torn their flesh, and broke their bones in pieces: and it hath threshed the mountains. I think those mountains and hills, those proud presumptuous and blasphemous Armies, have been pretty well threshed by this New instrument in the hand of our Redeemer; it hath beaten them even to dust and chaff in the high places of the field.
1. The breaking in pieces the strongest Armies that the King had in this Kingdom, which scorned and cursed your new Model, as much as ever the great Philistine did little David; but God made it a formidable instrument in his hand; such a one, one would think that very instrument, prophesied of by the Prophet Isaiah: