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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
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.
And now if you would know for whose sake God hath done all this, my Text will tell you, For your sakes have I sent to Babylon. It is for his Church and peoples sake. God hath a people in England, for whose sake he hath sent to Babylon, and brought down the cry of the Nobles, &c.
Who they be, or how you may know whether you be of the number of them for whose sakes God hath done these things, I shall give an hint in the close of the Work.
In the mean time, suffer, I beseech you, the words of Exhortation: And it is this:
If God do such great things for your sake, thou be you exhorted to do great things for the Lords sake.
The Church and people of God have been of such a disposition, that they have thought they could never do or suffer enough for the Lords sake.