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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61077	Ton sesosmenon umnon, or, The song of the delevered set forth in a sermon preached in the Colledge of Bristoll the 24. of October : being the day set apart for publick thanksgiving unto God for the memorable victory obtained over the Scottish army at Worcester / by Thomas Speed.	Speed, Thomas.	1651 (1651)	Wing S4907; ESTC R24162	20,766	42

ΤΩΝ ΣΕΣΩΣΜΕΝΩΝ ΥΜΝΟΣ OR THE Song of the Delivered Set forth in a SERMON Preached in the Colledge of Bristoll the 24. of October being the Day set apart for Publick Thanksgiving unto GOD for the Memorable VICTORY Obtained over the SCOTTISH ARMY at WORCESTER By Thomas Speed LONDON ●●●●●ed by R.W. for Giles Calvert and are to be sold at the Sign of the Black-spread-Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1651. TO THE Right VVorshipfull JOSEPH JACKSON Mayor the Aldermen and the rest of the Corporation of the City of Bristoll Right Worshipful and much respected THere are three noble acts of the soul towards God by which Christians do properly begin to live the life of Glory in the Kingdom of 〈◊〉 The first is by a firm dependance on him as the fountain of all their good The second by a chearfull complyance with his will in the product of all his purposes The third by breathing out continual Hallelujahs Songs of praise and honour to his glorious Name as the head-spring of all their Salvations By the first in the day of their straits and darkness they are lodg'd in the arms of safety By the second they do without reluctancy set their seal to every piece of Divine pleasure manifested as glorious By the third they do solace their enlarged Souls in the bosom of their Deliverer Waiting upon God by dependance and submission in the midst of devouring flames hath been the business of his poor sighing people in this bleeding Nation for these ten years past but now behold through his rich grace they are come forth glad with the white robe of Salvation having their hearts tuned by the Spirit of the most High to sing the songs of the Redeemed by giving glory and hon●●● and thanks to him that sitteth on the Throne who liveth for ever and ever In which glorious work the first fruits of Eternity that you also might have your hearts elevated to bear a part is my single aym in the ensuing Discourse You are not all ignorant whose desire brought it to the Pulpit neither is it less known to some of you whose request led it to the Press I would not that my dedicating it to you should be interpreted my unworthy courting your favour thereby to procure its Patronage but my reall and sincere intending your profit which if it shall effect I shall esteem my self to have obtain'd my End The serious breathings of my heart are that that flying shadow that floating foundation of true rest that empty Idoll of the blinded world called Popularity might in none of my atchievements bribe either my judgement or affections ●o any thing irregular or unworthy much less 〈◊〉 it should be to me in the place of the living God whilst I intermedle in things Divine in which we always do come so far short of the true end as in our ayms and intentions we fall beneath the highest glory I have therefore studied how I might present you with this feeble Birth of the travel of my poor thoughts rather in the plain dress of naked Truth then in the gawdy garb of Oratory humbly intreating you not to entertain it with the embraces of your favour because it s mine nor rashly explode it because it s not anothers But wisely walking betwixt those two rocks of Credulity and Prejudice having well weighed the whole in a sound Judgement ballance your election by the standard of the Sanctuary The Zenith of my ambition if I know any thing of my self is the advancement of the Kingdom of Christ in your souls that among those many thousands that at this day make melody in their hearts to God their Redeemer you might not be found to stand o● for Cyphers If you esteem your selves to be what indeed you are eminent sharers in the Common Deliverance Why should you not also stand as figures of great significancy in the number of those that make returns of Glory It pleased the Lord in the day of your fears with the hand of Grace to write down your City in the book of his remembrance among such as by the wing of his power and loving-kindness he would save from the teeth of the cruel from the bottom of my heart do I beg and O that I might obtain that you would make it the great work of your lives as your thank-offering unto Heaven to make your City more God's Christs the Gospel's the Common-wealths that this may be written over all her Gates in indelible Characters Lo this is the righteous City which was saved by ●●●●d In the glory of this world I may with●●●●lattery pronounce it inferiour to none 〈…〉 un-intermitted happiness in that glory which is Divine to excell all May that dark and dismall Winter never pass over it in which it may not spring and flourish with those glorious fruits of Knowledge Truth Righteousness and Peace And if there be any other Gemm which may adde lustre to the Crown of its earthly or Spiritual glory which my pen unwilling to transgress its due limits hath spared to mention Let me beg your belief that that and much more is cordially wisht to it by him who is Your Faithfull and most humble Servant Thomas Speed PSALM 50.15 And call upon me in the day of trouble I will deliver thee and thou shalt glorifie me WE are this morning met together to speak well of the Name of the most High God for that which next to the Redemption of lost man through Christ we may truly call the greatest demonstration of grace that ever Heaven made to any of the sons or daughters of men for that which is the joy of all those hearts that wish well to Zion and the equal terrour of all its adversaries for that which is the wonder and amazement of all neigh●●●ing Nations and which through the good●●●●●● God may prove a happy preamble to the establishment of Truth and Peace in this Common-wealth The words which I have read in your ears my small portion of time allotted me not permitting me to meddle with the context do contain in them three parts 1. First An exhortation to a duty Call upon me To which is annexed the circumstance of time when In the day of trouble 2. Secondly An engagement of grace I will deliver thee 3. Thirdly An injunction laid on the delivered to make returns of praise to the Deliverer And thou shalt glorifie me The first presenteth us with the souls of Christians looking by Faith to their God in the day of their darkness The second speaks the gratious readiness of their God to satisfie the expectations and comply with the desires of their souls Upon which followeth the third which is the thankfull improvement of their Deliverances by studying the advancement of the glory of God their Saviour Of each of these distinctly And first in the first of these three parts I shall begin with the circumstance of time in the day of trouble forasmuch as that doth properly precede the