A sermon preached before the Parliament, the Councill of State, the Lord Major, aldermen, and Common Councill of the city of London, and the officers of the Army, in Christ-Church London, Octob. the 6th. A.D. 1659. Being the publick day of Thanksgiving appointed by the Parliament, to be celebrated in the cities of London and Westminster, and parts adjacent, for the suppression of the northern insurrection. By Doctor Nathanael Homes.
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A sermon preached before the Parliament, the Councill of State, the Lord Major, aldermen, and Common Councill of the city of London, and the officers of the Army, in Christ-Church London, Octob. the 6th. A.D. 1659. Being the publick day of Thanksgiving appointed by the Parliament, to be celebrated in the cities of London and Westminster, and parts adjacent, for the suppression of the northern insurrection. By Doctor Nathanael Homes.
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Homes, Nathanael, 1599-1678.
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London :: ptinted [sic] by J.B. for Edward Brewster at the Crane in Paul's Church yard,
1660.
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"A sermon preached before the Parliament, the Councill of State, the Lord Major, aldermen, and Common Councill of the city of London, and the officers of the Army, in Christ-Church London, Octob. the 6th. A.D. 1659. Being the publick day of Thanksgiving appointed by the Parliament, to be celebrated in the cities of London and Westminster, and parts adjacent, for the suppression of the northern insurrection. By Doctor Nathanael Homes." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A86505.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 21, 2024.
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To the Parliament of the Com∣•…•…wealth of England, and Councill of State.
My most Honoured Masters,
IT had not been possible for me, sanâ mente (I speak the truth before the Lord) to have deemed this Sermon worthy of that dignitie, to be printed (much less to be presented to your Honours), but that your destres, exprest in your Order, and much otherwise (which are a sufficient Command to me) stampt upon it that respect. Therefore I have not counterfeitingly paint∣ed the face thereof, fairer then it was: Nor have I cowardly maimed it of anything I then delivered: But just as ye then liked it, 'tis now as like it, as possibly may be said of the same, in complexion, physiognomy, & stature.
The stream is as it first flowed tho∣row my mind, then to my mouth, thence to your ears, and now to your eyes. If now in this last running, the Spirits of it seem not flatt, and weaker to your fast, but that it still re∣teins
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its first life, and vigor on your Spirits, to incite your further praises for mercies, and trusting in the God of your mercies, I shall the less care for the censures of men.
And as God was pleased so 〈…〉〈…〉 it, (and ye could not prevent it) that I should be much straitned in time, to prepare for so great a work, that all the Glory might be to him the fountain, and helper; so I am fully satisfied, and do desire that he may have it, and not I.
I shall say no more (for prolix tedious∣ness in any thing, is irksom to my selfe) but what John Gerson the Schoolman was wont to say, viz. When the Preacher hath ENDED, the Sermon is not DONE. For in∣deed it is still in Doing, in the hearts, and prastise of spirituall living hearers; which is the prayer for your Honours, of your most obliged Servant
NATHANAEL HOMES.
From my Study at Mary Staynings London, Octob. 11. 1659.
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