The chvrches thank-offering to God her King and the Parliament, for rich and ancient mercies, her yeares of captivity, her first yeare of ivbile

that is for the marvelous deliverances wrought with God the first wonderfull yeare, since the yeare 88, beginning at September 1640 and ending the ninth of the same moneth following : in all which time the Lord appeared for his church as in the dayes of old out of the middest of the bush so the church burn'd with fire and was not consumed : in the preface the thank-offering is vindicated and set free from all the cavills and charges against it : where also it is cleared to be as every mans duty, so every mans purpose to offer willingly now, who doth not make full proofe that he falls short of pagan, papist, or atheist, and is wilfully resolved to walk crosse to the most supreme law, the highest reason, and the unquestionable will of God

by Ezekias Woodward

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