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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… › Doctrine
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.
11. First, For your sake, i.e. In propitiationem vestram, In your stead, or for your propitiation and atonement as it were. 2So you have it more clearly in the third Verse of this 43 of Isaiah, I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee; i. e. For a propitiatory Sacrifice (as it were) to appease my wrath towards thee; which the Ancients were wont to call [Greek or Hebrew], 3such men who in the time of public and common plagues, were either devoted to death by the people, or did willingly devote themselves, to appease (as they imagined) the anger of their gods, who were called Sacri homines, or devota capita, among the Latins; men cursed and devoted to death, to be as it were a propitiatory Sacrifice for their Country and Nation. Such was M. Curtius among the Romans, who in the time of a great chasm, or opening of the Earth in Rome, cast himself into the Gulf, to appease the angry deity. However, this was a blind and unwarrantable superstition among the Heathen; yet the Text may allude to it.
11. First, For your sake, i.e. In propitiationem vestram, In your stead, or for your propitiation and attonement as it were. 2So you have it more cleerly in the third Verse of this 43 of Isaiah, I gave Egypt for thy ransome, Ethiopia and Seba for thee; i. e. For a propitiatory Sacrifice (as it were) to appease my wrath towards thee; which the Antients were wont to call 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, 3such men who in the time of publike and common plagues, were either devoted to death by the people, or did willingly devote themselves, to appease (as they imagined) the anger of their gods, who were called Sacri homines, or devota capita, among the Latines; men cursed and devoted to death, to be as it were a propitiatory Sacrifice for their Countrey and Nation. Such was M. Curtius among the Romans, who in the time of a great casm, or opening of the Earth in Rome, cast himself into the Gulf, to appease the angry deity. However, this was a blinde and unwarrantable superstition among the Heathen; yet the Text may allude to it.