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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40676	Jacobs vow a sermon preached before His Majesty and the Prince His Highnesse at St. Maries in Oxford, the tenth of May 1644, being the day of publique fast / by Thomas Fuller.	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.	1644 (1644)	Wing F2448; ESTC R26737	14,711	30

sleepeth sweetlier enioyeth more hearts ease and true content and in trueth liueth better then others that weare a chaine of golde And therfore wisely did Iacob desire nothing but food and raiment and Gods blessing vpon them which hee knew would serue his turne And thus much of the Petition or Request which Iacob desired of God Now I come to the duties which he promiseth to performe to God in the next words Then shall the Lord be my God c. wherein Iacob who was afterward surnamed Israel hauing receiued but euen the promise of a benefit presently voweth the performance of a duetie to teach all true Israelites that Beneficium postulat officium and that the thankefulnesse of the receiuer ought to answere vnto the benefit of the bestower as the Eccho answereth to the voice wee doe no sooner receiue the one but we are immediatly bound to returne the other So doth Dauid Thou hast deliuered my soule from death mine eyes from teares and my feet from falling There is the benefite receiued and then it followeth in the very next words I will walke before the Lord in the land of the liuing there is the duetie returned So likewise in my Text If God will be with me and giue me bread to eate and cloathes to put on there is the benefit petitioned for and promise Then shall the Lord be my God c. there is the returne of a duetie vowed Now wee all haue receiued the same or the like benefits both spirituall and temporall whereby we are all bound vnto the like thankefulnesse but where is the performance of the same or the like duties We owe as much or more vnto God for his benefits then Iacob did but who voweth or paieth vnto him the like duties that Iacob did What heart can thinke or what tongue can expresse our infinite obligations First for spirituall fauours Infinitely are we bound vnto God for our Creation more then infinitely if more might be for our Redemption and our effectuall Calling vnto the participation thereof What shall we then render vnto the Lord for all these benefits done vnto vs Totum me de beo saith S. Bernard pro me facto quid igitur rependam pro me redempto Lowe euery whit of my selfe vnto God for my Creation what shall I then render vnto him for my Redemption And Saint Ambrose saith Nihil est quod dignum referre possumus pro suscepta carne Maria quid pro cruce obita quid pro verberibus sepultura reddemus We are not able to be sufficiently thankefull for taking our flesh of the Virgin Marie what shall wee then returne vnto him for his suffering vpon the Crosse for his stripes for his buriall And as for temporall benefits we are farre before Iacob he wandred vp and downe the world like a poore Pilgrime with his staffe in his hand he kept sheepe and was parched with the heat of the day and frozen with the cold of the night and in my Text the bare earth was his bedde a hard stone his pillow he had nothing he desired nothing but onely bread to eate and cloathes to put on and the protection and blessing of God vpon him in his iourney and yet hee euen for these vowed a Vow vnto God Wee sit vnder our owne Vines and our owne Fig-trees in peace and rest We lie vpon beds of Iuorie and stretch our selues vpon our couches we are clad in purple and fine linnen and fare delicately euery day we eat calues out of the stalles and lambes out of the flockes wee drinke wine in boules and annoint our selues with costly ointments and inuent instruments of Musicke like Dauid But who is either sorrie for the affliction of Ioseph the extreame miseries of our Brethren in neighbour-Countries or who is sensible of our owne great prosperitie and our incomparable happinesse or who for all this voweth one Vow to God When our Sauiour CHRIST had cleansed ten Leapers there was but one found amongst all those ten he a stranger too that returned to giue God thanks I feare there is scarsely one of an hundred amongst vs that is but euen so thankefull vnto God for all his benefits as that stranger was onely for his cleansing When this good Patriarke Iacob returned rich from Padan-Aran in the 32. chapter of this booke he neither forgate what he was then nor what he had beene before and therefore in a thankefull remembrance of Gods great mercies towards him he payed one part of this Vow in that place and worshipped God saying O Lord I am not worthy of the least of all thy mercies for with my staffe I passed ouer this Iordan and now I am become two bands Many a one there be in this honourable Court who haue passed ouer not the riuer of Iordan but the riuer of Trent or Thames or Seuerne with their staues in their hands that is poore estates in comparison and haue beene deliuered from many dangers and are now euen laden with riches and honours And yet I doubt there bee not manie that for all this haue vowed with Iacob to haue the Lord for their God or to build him an House or to pay him the Tenth of all that he hath giuen them One Religious Vow you see weekely payed in this place by our royall Iacob I meane our Tuesdayes Exercise which was deuoutly vowed vpon as iust an occasion as euer Vow was made And hitherto God be thanked it hath beene religiously performed God grant that this our Iacob may long and long liue a happie King of this happie Island euen as long if it bee his will as the olde Patriarke Iacob did to pay this tribute and the rest of his Vowes vnto the King of Kings And can wee that are his seruants haue a better patterne to imitate then the Religious example of so Royall a Master therefore I will conclude this point with that zealous exhortation of another King Psal. 76.11 Vouete reddite Domino Deo vestro Vow vnto the Lord your God and keepe it all yee that are round about him bring presents vnto him that ought to be feared And thus much of the generall of Iacobs Vow Now I come to the particular duties vowed and they are three First that the Lord should be his God that is that hee would worship the true God and no other Secondly that the stone which hee had set vp for a pillar should be Gods house that is he would dedicate that place vnto the publique worship of God Thirdly for the maintenance of both these he would giue the Tenth of all that hee had All which were necessary duties and euery one of them hath a necessary relation and dependance vpon other For if God must be worshipped then must hee haue a place to be worshipped in which is here called an House and our SAVIOVR saith shall of all nations bee called the House of Prayer And if a House of Prayer