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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94066	Higay'on selah The commemoration and exaltation of mercy. Delivered in a sermon preached to the Honourable, the House of Commons, at Margarets Westminster, Novemb. 5. 1646. Being the day of their publike thanksgiving, for that eminent and ancient mercy, the deliverance of them, and the whole kingdome in them, from the popish and hellish conspiracy of the powder treason. / By William Strong, a member of the Assembly of Divines.	Strong, William, d. 1654.	1646 (1646)	Wing S6000; Thomason E360_8; ESTC R201194	28,941	44

His vincit qui se vincit in victoria and all Iudah brought him presents and hee had riches and honours in abundance and his heart was lift up in the wayes of the Lord. Wee should be like a spire Steeple which is minimus in summo least in our own eyes when God hath made us greatest in the eyes of other men we should acknowledge the Lord to bee the God of our mercies make him the God of our prayses and consecrate not onely the mercy to him with Hannah but our selves also as Hezekiah exhorteth to give the hand and as the Churches of Macedonia did who gave themselves to the Lord. 2 Chron. 30.8 There is as great danger of mercies as of any of Gods dispensations 2 Cor. 8.5 Our mercies may become our snares and that which should have beene for our welfare may become a trap to take us for the ground that drinks in this raine of mercies as well as that of ordinances and brings not forth herbes meet for him by whom it is dressed is nigh to cursing These will make the sinnes of people like Summer fruits Socrati cum multa multi pro suis quisque facult●hus offerrent Aesc●ines pauper Aud●tor Nihil inquit dignum te quod dare tibi possim inve●●o Itaque dono t●bi quod unum habeo me ipsum Sen. de benef l. ● c. 8. Amos 8.1 ripen them the sooner If it prove so with us wee must remember that there bee changes of the right hand of the most high Psal 77 10. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 mutat●ones dexiera Cal. hee may repent of these mercies as he did that he had made Saul King he may become our enemy and fight against us and may resolve to destroy us after he hath done us good The light that God hath caused to rise to us in obscurity Iosh 24.20 Zach. 14.6 is such as is neither clear nor dark we are in continuo crepusculo we cannot as yet say all our feares are over and that the Sunne hath risen upon us to a perfect day and hence it comes to passe every mans heart is become a merchant 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Psal 38.10 traffiking too and fro not knowing where to rest Leave your former mercies with God but so as to improve them for God while you doe enjoy them commit the keeping of your mercies to him as well as of your soules in well doing that if he change his hand towards you againe your hearts may not reproach you and say the time was we had a price in our hand but wee had no heart Let your mercies make you more faithfull more fruitfull and then doubt not but if God lead you into new troubles if the bush be brought into the fire againe the good will of him that dwelt in the bush shall bee with you And though the Enemy now his power is gone sets all his Policy on work and it may bee hopes to effect that by the one which hee could not by the other Yet the GOD of your salvation who hath given you these former mercies Psal 74.14 as the Head of Leviathan for food to your faith and hath in the latter mercies opened to you in the Valley of Achor a doore of hope Hos 2.15 I say the same GOD who hath taken the Lions will in his own time take the Foxes also For hee takes the wise in their owne craftinesse Which is the daily prayer and shall be the constant expectation of him Who is devoted to your Service in the Gospel William Strong A SERMON PREACHED Before the Honourable HOUSE of COMMONS At their late Solemn Thanksgiving the 5th of November 1646. EZRA 9.13.14 After all that is come upon us for our evill deeds and for our great trespasse seeing that thou our God hast punished us lesse then our iniquities deserve and hast given us such a deliverance as this Should we againe break thy Commandements and joyne in affinity with the people of these abominations wouldst thou not be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us so that there should be no remnant nor escaping ALL well ordered States have their publike Records 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 King 15.23 16.5 Ezra 4.15 6.1 Hest 6.1 in which as in a common Treasury all the memorable Acts of that Kingdome are reserved to be transmitted to posterity God in his Kingdome also loves to have such Registers and Chronicles kept 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Esay 62.6 of all his speciall dispensations He hath made his wonderfull works to be remembred Psal 111.4 And the Scripture tels us that God hath Recorders Officers maintained to this end sc all those that have pleasure in them and the Table in which they are recorded is their heart which should be written as the Prophets role within and without both of the word and the works of God a Table of mercy and and a Table of duty For seeing God hath a Book of Remembrance of our works written before him Mal. 3.16 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it is but equall that we should have a book of Remembrance of his works written before us and to read over this book is to be a great part of the labour of a mans whole life Perusing the Annals of England we finde Anno 1605. a glorious deliverance recorded which God vouchsafed to the Representative body of this Nation and in them to the whole Kingdome from a Popish and hellish Conspiracy of long deliberation and sudden execution The wood was laid in order and the child as it were bound upon the wood the knife prepared and the hand lifted up and then came the voyce from heaven stay thine hand To read over the Records of this mercy is the occasion of this solemnity that we may delight our selves in the goodnesse of the Lord and say Our God is the God of salvations to God the Lord belong the issues from death that we stand upon the Red Sea 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Psal 68.20 and view the head of this Leviathan broken and write upon the mercy a new Higgaion Selab Ps●l 9.16 as matter of most serious Meditation The words read unto you were uttered upon a farre different occasion from this of ours that being to them a time of publike Humiliation This to us a time of publike thanksgiving they were met together to bewaile their sinnes against God and we are met to rejoyce in Gods goodnesse towards us But it is Tertullians rule specialiter pronunciata generaliter sapiunt De specta●ul c. 3. The Scripture like a well drawn Picture hath an eye upon every one that comes into the roome and therefore the instructions may be as proper to us as unto them though the occasion be different The Text containes a serious and hearty detestation of a revolt into former sinnes enforced by these three Arguments 1. Taken from the justice of God and the remembrance of his former