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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… › Introduction
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1Some, by bars, understand their Walls, and Towers, and Strong-holds, and all the mighty Fortifications of Babylon, which seemed impregnable: And so the words must run thus: I have sent to Babylon, and have caused all their Towers and Castles, and fenced Cities, and their invincible Fortifications (in their own opinion) to come down, and fall flat upon the ground before Cyrus his Army. As God threatened to do to Tyre by the King of Babylon, so God threatens to do with the King of Babylon by Cyrus: 2He shall see engines of War against thy walls, and with his Axes he shall break down thy Towers. 3So, I have cut off the Nations, their Towers are desolate.
1Some, by bars, understand their Walls, and Towers, and Strong-holds, and all the mighty Fortifications of Babylon, which seemed impregnable: And so the words must run thus: I have sent to Babylon, and have caused all their Towers and Castles, and fenced Cities, and their invincible Fortifications (in their own opinion) to come down, and fall flat upon the ground before Cyrus his Army. As God threatned to do to Tyrus by the King of Babylon, so God threatens to do with the King of Babylon by Cyrus: 2He shall see engines of War against thy walls, and with his Axes he shall break down thy Towers. 3So, I have cut off the Nations, their Towers are desolate.
- 1Muri, Turres omniaque muni menta Babylonis. Cornelius a Lap.
- 2Ezek. 26.9.
- 3Zeph. 3.6.