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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81245	A model of true spiritual thankfulnesse. Delivered in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons, upon their day of thanksgiving, being Thursday, Feb. 19. 1645, for the great mercy of God, in the surrender of the citie of Chester into the hands of the Parliaments forces in Cheshire, under the command of Sir William Brereton. / By Tho. Case, preacher in Milkstreet London, and one of the Assembly of Divines.	Case, Thomas, 1598-1682.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1646 (1646)	Wing C833; Thomason E323_4; ESTC R200593	35,919	45

Jacob Gen. 34.23 Shall not their cattel and their substance and every beast of theirs be ours c. perhaps the gaining of such an office securing the estate the keeping of such a Living was in the eye c. Oh let the Kingdoms enquire into this and let every man look into his own heart for if it were so know of a certin that this was first source and fountain of all that sin and mischief which hath broken in upon us since the day of our Covenanting with God and with one another But this I leave the thing that I would close upon with your Consciences is this How have you kept your Covenant with God Men and Brethren have ye paid your vows unto the Lord the Vows which ye uttered in this place in the day wherein you lifted up your hands to the most high God If you shall say Yea we have paid our Vows and with Saul We have obeyed the voice of the Lord let me demand with Samuel What means then the lowing of the oxen and the bleating of the sheep in mine ears What means that brutish and beastly noise of Heresie and Schism and Profanenesse in mine ears Did ye not indeed Covenant with God the preservation of Religion in the Church of Scotland c. and the Reformation of Religion in the Kingdoms of England and Ireland in Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government according to the Word of God and the example of the best Reformed Churches Oh what is the reason then that to this day the House of God lieth waste in some places there being no Ministery for want of Ordination in others indeed in all places there being no Discipline or Government for want of a Rule according to the Word no Discipline I say unlesse it be amongst those whose impatient zeal suffers them not to wait for your civil Sanction Will ye say The time is not come Hagg. 1.2 the time for building the Lords House is not come I cannot give you the Prophets answer I must confesse you have not spent your time in building your own houses and ceiling them nay some of your houses have been pull'd down to the ground and the ceiling destroyed with axes and hammers in the Psalmists language But this I pray with all my soul that you have not said so long The time is not come the time is not come we are not yet in a fitting posture Oh my soul trembles to speak it till God say The time is past The time is past Because I would have purged and thou wast not purged Ezek. 241.3 thou shalt not be purged thou shalt not be purged from thy silthinesse any more till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee Oh if the Lord should speak such a word against us England is undone for ever I am much afraid if you time it out sse any more till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee Oh if the Lord should speak such a word against us England is undone for ever I am much afraid if you time it out a little longer you will have no materials to build the Lords house withal unlesse you will build it with the shrubs and thorns of the wildernesse But further how comes it to passe I beseech you since you are under the Covenant of God to reform according to the Word and example of the best Reformed Churches that some are so startled at the very mention of such a Clause According to the Word of God and example of the best Reformed Churches as if they saw a monster some hideous apparition which had in it the face of Treason and Blasphemie But I must proceed Have you not Covenanted to extirpate Superstition Heresie Schism Profanenesse and whatsoever shall be found contrary to sound Doctrine and the power of Godlinesse c. How comes it to passe then that these abound more then ever they did and that under your Noses while there is such a numerous encrease of Errours and Heresies as I blush to repeat what some have affirmed namely that there be no Isse then One hundred and eighty several Heresies propagated and spread in this neighbouring Citie which hitherto hath been so famous for soundnesse of Doctrine and the power of godlinesse and many of them also of such a nature as that I may say in Galvin's language The Errours and Innovations under which we so much groaned of later yeers were but tolerabiles ineptiae tolerable trisles childrens play compared with these damnable Doctrines Doctrines of devils as the Apostle calls them Polygamy Arbitrary Divorce Mortality of the Soul No Ministery no Churches No Ordinances No Scripture yea the very Divinity of Christ and the holy Ghost questioned by some denied by others And the very foundation of all these laid in such a Schism of boundlesse liberty of Conscience viz. Believe what you will and preach what you believe and such lawlesse Separation of Churches and all these not onely whispered in corners but preacht on the house top yea published in Print before your faces with so much virulency and impudence that I verily believe no Age since the Apostles times could ever parallel Fathers and Brethren Acts 18.17 how will you call this Keeping of Covenant with God Had we a Parliament of Apostate Julians August Epist 166. of whom it is reported that at what time he opened the Temples of the Heathenish gods he set open the Christian Churches call'd home all the Christians whom he had banisht both Orthodox and Heretick and gave them as we call it Liberty of conscience but as Austin more truely phraseth it Libertatem perditionis Liberty to destroy themselves Eo modo putans Christianum nemen posse perire de terris c. for that was his policie and end namely by liberty of all Religions to destroy the true and the professors thereof too or had we a Parliament of carelesse Gallio's we should not wonder but for a Parliament of Christians Protestants Professors the choisest the most active that could be cull'd out of a Christian State the like not under heaven that these things should be done and you hold your peace and be able to keep your places and not to put on righteousnesse as a brestplate Isa 59.17 and the garments of vengeance for your clothing as it is said of God this makes the Churches abroad to wonder what England's Parliament is a doing and all at home that love the Lord Jesus Christ more then their own interests and notions to be fill'd with unspeakable trembling and astoshnishment to wit what God means to do with this poor bleeding Church and State But further Have we not lifted up our hands to the most high God to amend our lives and each one to go before another in the example of a real Reformation Ah God where is it to be found Is not the drunkard a drunkard still and the swearer a swearer still and the adulterer an adulterer still