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Spiritual whoredom discovered in a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons assembled…Spirituall vvhordome discovered in a sermon preach'd before the Honourable House of Commons assembled…
Spiritual whoredom discovered in a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament, upon the solemn day of humiliation, May 26. 1647. / By Tho. Case, preacher in Milkstreet, London; and one of the Assembly of Divines.Spirituall vvhordome discovered in a sermon preach'd before the Honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament, upon the solemn day of humiliation, May 26. 1647. / By Tho. Case, preacher in Milkstreet, London; and one of the Assembly of Divines.
London: printed by J. Macock for Luke Fawne, 1647London: printed by J. Macock for Luke Favvne, 1647
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But time will not suffer me to engage further in this controversy, nor need I stand to make conjectures, why some of later times do so strenuously deny such a thing as a national Church, the reasons begin to discover themselves every day more apparently then other to all the world.
But time wil not suffer me to engage further in this controversie, nor need I stand to make conjectures, why some of later times do so strenuously deny such a thing as a national Church, the reasons begin to discover themselves every day more apparently then other to all the world.
5. And lastly, This is plain enough to any that are not wilfully blind, that where the parts constituents of a thing do meet, there you have the thing it self; where God holds forth his Covenant to a Nation or Kingdom and they generally embrace, and profess it: there is a Church in a Gospel-sense: and a Church thus covenanted, stands in conjugal relation unto God.
5. And lastly, This is plain enough to any that are not wilfully blind, that where the partes constituentes of a thing do meet, there you have the thing it self; where God holds forth his Covenant to a Nation or Kingdom and they generally embrace, and profess it: there is a Church in a Gospel-sence: and a Church thus covenanted, stands in conjugal relation unto God.
1. The greater is the honour which God doth put upon such a Nation or People;1 He hath not done so with any Nation, 2sang David once of Israel, before Christ; he hath not done so with every Nation, may England sing, and what ever other Nation God hath, or shall cause to approach so near unto himself, since Christ.