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A81152	Englands plus ultra both of hoped mercies, and of required duties : shewed in a sermon preached to the honourable Houses of Parliament, the Lord Major, Court of Aldermen, and Common-Councell of London, together with the Assembly of Divines, at Christ-Church, April 2, 1646 : being the day of their publike thanksgiving to Almighty God for the great successe of the Parliaments army in the West, especially in Cornwall, under the conduct of his excellency Sr. Thomas Fairfax / by Joseph Caryl, minister of the Gospel at Magnus neer the bridge, London, and a member of the Assembly of Divines.	Caryl, Joseph, 1602-1673.	1646 (1646)	Wing C752; ESTC R43612	28,502	54

unanswerable to former mercies When God must work as much for his own name as by his own power when God remembers to work for those who have forgotten his works when God is faithfull to those who have distrusted him how do these considerations of our lownes heighten our mercies and render our deliverances as so many wonders Thus glory comes in to God by our abasement for as in confessing the circumstances of sinne some speciall sinfulnesse of our hearts breaks forth upon every one of them to humble us So in confessing these specialties of Gods works some beam of his Wisdome Justice Power Patience or Goodnesse breaks forth and irradiates all the mercies which we receive from him Therefore be very carefull in making these Rhetoricall declarations let not God have history and naked relations but be diligent in finding and eloquent in describing every even the least passage of his providence The Rabbins have a saying that there is a mountain of sense hanging upon every Apex of the word of God I assure you the least Apex in the works of God may have a mountain of goodnesse and mercy hanging at it did we but search them out There is yet a fifth Declaration of the works of God which I would rather presse and it is more necessary then all these fore-mentioned more necessary then either your Arithmeticall or your Logicall or your Historicall or your Rhetoricall declarations and that is a declaration purely theologicall or a practicall declaration of the works of God Right Honourable and beloved God will bear with us though we should be somewhat out in our Arithmetike and indeed the works of God exceed our Arithmetike they are innumerable God will beare with us though we are not such exact Logicians to methodise his works to give their descriptions definitions kindes differences and properties God will beare with us though we are but mean Historians but flat feeble and languide Orators if yet we come up in this last act and make him a full a hearty a pithy declaration of his works by ours The Lord is better pleased with the language of our hands then with the language of our tongues and we honour God more with the words which our works speak then with the words which our mouths speak I beseech you therefore make this declaration as full as may be Let your feet declare and your fingers speak to the whole Nation yea to all the world what God hath done for us It will be a very sad thing if declarations of the works of God should be made only in sermons or written in books and none found written in our hearts and lives If it should be so mercies will be our burdens as much as judgements have been and the heavier burdens too The Baptist exhorts Matth. 3. Bring forth fruit meet for repentance I exhort bring forth fruit meet for mercies for victories bring forth fruit meet for dayes of thanksgiving And give me leave a little to drive this point more home and to fasten in more distinctly upon your spirits First I would bespeak the whole Kingdom of England O England becarefull to make this practicall declaration of the works of God God appears as unbending his bowe and putting his arrowes up to his quiver as sheathing his sword and repenting of those evils of punishment which he determined against thee make hast to declare this work of the Lord by repenting of thy evils of sinne and by turning to God in duty from whom thou hast departed and whom thou hast provoked by thine iniquity God hath given the Armies of thy enemies into thine hand and he hath caused their strong holds to submit O England declare this work of the Lord by preparing a new war against those Armies of outragious lusts which encamp in all places and fight against the soul by planting batteries against the strong holds of foolish customs and vain practices received by tradition from our forefathers The Lord hath broken the yoke of thy oppressours and taken their burthens from off thy shoulders O England declare this work of the Lord by thy willingnes to put thy neck under whatsoever is the yoke of Jesus Christ and thy shoulders to his burthen God hath much purged and still preserves the Ordinances of his worship he still continues the Gospel to thee and many faithfull Ministers to dispence it O England declare this work of the Lord by prizing pure worship by improving the Gospel and honouring the dispensers of it by saying how beautifull are the feet of these who bring thee the glad tidings of everlasting peace God hath shewed that he worketh freely he hath wrought beyond all obligations O England declare this work of the Lord Be faithfull seeing thou art under so many obligations perform cheerfully and sincerely all the Vows and Covenants which are upon thee to the utmost of thy power and opportunities Lastly God hath shewed himself a friend to thy friends and an enemy to thy enemies O England declare this work of the Lord. Do not thou by unkindnes or hard usage sadd the hearts of any of Christs friends or by thy flatteries and unworthy complyances give his enemies occasion of rejoycing Let the Honourable Houses of Parliament be perswaded to make This declaration of the works of the Lord. He shines upon your counsels and hath exalted you in them Declare this work of the Lord by exalting and setting up his name in all your counsels make it appear to all the world that you are so far which possibly may have been the jealousie of some from not admitting Christ petitioning at your doors that you are daily petitioning him to command in your hearts and over all your waies God by works of wonder hath maintained your priviledges your honours and your houses declare these works of the Lord by maintaining the honour and priviledges of his house and by the advancement of his service God hath done justice and judgement in the land to admiration he hath wrought terrible things in righteousnes declare this work of the Lord by the exactnes of your justice by your streamings out of righteousnes towards all the people of this land and by cloathing your selves with judgement Let it be as hangings about your walls as a crown and a diadem upon your heads break the teeth of oppressours be eyes to the blinde ears to the deaf feet to the lame Fathers to the poor and the cause which ye know not search ye out And whatsoever ye doe in the cause of God or of his people doe it with all your might for the Lord hath wrought with all his might in your cause Let this renowned City be exhorted carefully to make this declaration God hath been as a wall as a wall of fire as a place of broad rivers as gates of brasse and barrs of iron to this City to keep out the enemy O declare this work of the Lord by letting your Heart-gates stand open continually to truth and

Christ for favour If Christ would not have had errour to be opposed vvhy hath he left us means both for the opposition and suppression of errour As he hath given a compleat Armour to every Christian wherewith to fight against the vviles and temptations of the devil so he hath given a compleat Armour to his Church vvherewith to fight against all the errours and unsound doctrines of seducers Therefore search the Magazines of the Gospel bring out all the artillery ammunition and weapons stored up there look out all the chains and fetters the vvhips and rods vvhich either the letter of the Gospel or the everlasting equity of the Law hath provided to binde errour vvith or for the back of heresie let them all be imployed and spare not I hope we shall never use I am perswaded vve ought not Antichrists broom to sweep Christs house with or his weapons to fight against errours with Christ hath formed and sharpened weapons for this warre we need not goe to the Popes forge or file We saith the Apostle have weapons in a readinesse to revenge every disobedience They are ready made to our hands vve have them in a readinesse saith Paul let these be sheathed in the bowels of every errour and corrupt opinion and the event will shew a thought that it will not were an infinite disparagement to the wisdome of Christ who hath appointed them the event I say will shew that these weapons of our warfare are not carnall but mighty through God not a wooden dagger or spears of bulrushes no pot-guns or paper-shot as some at least in consequences blaspheme but mighty through God to the casting down of strong-holds and the bringing of every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ And when errours are more the erroneous tumultuous or blasphemous the generall rules of the word will shew us expedients fit to meet with such distempers If we thus prosecute and oppose the errours of these times which I conceive no man is hindered from doing in his sphear though all the sphears wherein this may be done are not in a desired motion If I say we thus prosecute errour and contend for truth we may keep our hopes alive that as vve are not dead but alive so we shall not die but live that yet Counsels at home and Armies abroad shall prosper that this shall not be the last Thanksgiving day which this great Assembly shall keep for received victories that God will yet go on to crown this Nation with so many mercies as shall fill both the present age and posterity with books and declarations of what God hath vvrought A service to which David engageth himself in the next vvords of the text I shall not die but live and declare the works of the Lord. And declare the works of the Lord. The generall issue of vvhich vvords as considered in conjunction with the former is That all received mercies should be designed to the glory of God This is the design of the Saints when they pray for mercies Joel 2. 14. Who knoweth if he will return and repent and leave a blessing behinde him For vvhom for you Nay Even a meat-offering and a drink-offering to the Lord your God The captive Jews vvere taxed because they fasted forthemselves and not unto God Zech. 7. It must be the project of prayer and fasting that we may receive mercies to honour God with and it should be our project in daies of praise and thanksgiving to honour God vvith the mercies vve have received So much of our lives is as lost and so many of our mercies are as buried with which the name of God is not lifted up and advanced To seek our own glory is not glory or to deal vvith God as the Story speaks of one who vvrote the founders name that had been at the cost and charge of a curious fabrick upon the plaister of the vvall but cut his own name in a marble stone underneath While vvorldly men bestow outward thanks on God Their inward thought is that their houses shall continue for ever and their dwelling place to all generations and they call their lands after their own names Psal 49. 11. To give God a day of vocall praises and to reserve the chief the fattest of the honour to our selves is to mock God in stead of praising him and to commit sacriledge while we are offering holy things But I cannot stay upon that generall Take this in speciall That to declare the works of the Lord is the debt of honour and duty which we ought to pay him for all the work he is pleased to do for us The works of God are his counsels acted Psal 31. 19. O how great is thy goodnesse which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee The goodnesse of God is laid up in what Storehouse doth God lay up this goodnesse Surely in his own brest there he laid up the creation of the world from all eternity and there he laid up the redemption of man and wrought it in the fulnesse of time There he laid up all the deliverances which at any time he hath wrought for his Church O how great is thy goodnesse which ●hou hast laid up then follows which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sonnes of men The works of God are the goodnesse of God made visible they are as so many beams or raies of the power wisdome faithfulnesse and justice of God God declares himself in his works The invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen being understood by the things which are made even his eternall power and God-head Rom. 1. 20. The vvork of Creation declares much of God but the works of Providence declare more And as God declares himself in his works so we must declare the works of God But how shall we make this declaration There is a five-fold declaration of the vvorkes of God The first is an Arithmeticall declaration the originall vvord in the text primarily signifies to make a catalogue or an enumeration of things and so of the works of God setting them down by number Thus God himself declares his works Judg. 10. 11 12. Did not I deliver you from the Egyptians and from the Amorites from the children of Ammon and from the Philistines The Zidonians also and the Amalekites and the Maonites did oppresse you and ye cried to me and I delivered you out of their hand Here is nothing but the bare names of deliverances set down seven in number So many you have received from me saith the Lord. As if we should write now The battell at Keinton one The battel at Newbery two The battel at Chereton-Down three At Marston-moor four At Nazeby five At Langport six At Torington seven the disbanding of the late Army in the West without battell which may go for many victories c. And this is a declaration which becometh us some pens have done this to my

holines Lift up your heads O ye gates and be ye lift up ye everlasting doors that the King of glory may come in God hath blessed you in your costs and charges in your counsels and correspondencies c. for and with the publique interests Declare this work of the Lord by continuing stedfast to that interest Be not unwilling to venture for the time to come if the like occasions should call for it either in your persons or purses God having made you so good a return both in City and Nationall blessings for your former adventures God hath wrought graciously in preserving your City from fire your estates from plundering your persons from slavery declare and shew forth these works of the Lord by improving your estates your power your lives and liberties to make this a City of Refuge for the oppressed A solace to the Saints A mart of righteousnes to the Nations round about God hath not suffered violence to enter your streets let not deceit and guile lodge in your streets God hath not punished you with famine or want of bread let not fulnes of bread be your sinne God hath preserved commerce and trade for your bodies Declare this by making more voyages like royall Merchants to the port of Heaven by trading more for your own souls by trading more for the souls of others within your line There is a good work in hand for the helping not only of poor bodies but of poor souls I mean of those who are destitute of dwellings and unimployed whether elder or younger men women or children This is a noble work a work well becomming not only the Magistrates of this City but the Parliament of England Disorderly poor who live not only without government but without God in the world being so great a scandall both to this City and to the whole Kingdom Lastly let all the faithfull Ministers in the land set about the study of this Theologicall declaration the greatest part of the work lies upon us our whole work lying in Theologie It is not our books or sermons but our lives and works in the whole discharge of our Ministry which reach this duty We by our painfulnes by our patience by our zeal by our humility by our watchfulnes by our earnest desires of maintaining union and unity in the Churches of Christ and among all estates in the land we by being an example of the beleevers in word in conversation in charity in spirit in faith in purity should declare what God hath wrought God seems to aim at the reconciling of hearts at the healing of breaches at the atoning of differences He seems to be bringing in peace among us Let not any of us make new divisions and rents or make the former wider and lesse curable then they are God hath freed us from many burdens from that sore bondage under which many of us groaned and complained bitterly both to God and man and gave both no rest till they gave us ease Let us declare this work of the Lord by our sensiblenes that others may yet be burdened and by our care that they be not Let us desire that no burden may be laid but of necessary things of such things as the wisedom of Christ hath made necessary we should know the heart of one oppressed in conscience seeing we our selves were but lately so oppressed and are now releeved God hath appeared to us as a workman that needs not be ashamed Let us all according to that counsell of the Apostle to Timothy behave our selves as workmen in the service of the Gospel that need not be ashamed rightly dividing the word of truth Thus I have epitomized and contracted the great volume of our practicall declaration of the works of the Lord into some few overtures essayes and offers about it I beseech you stay not in any of the former how exactly soever they may be framed I hope you will have them more exactly framed before you go hence But stay not in them give God his glory in this which is the last and highest declaration of his works give him glory in all but chiefly in this But may we not in dayes of thanksgiving make mention of any but of the works of the Lord Doth the Lord work alone Or have his hands only brought all these things to passe In the work of creation God did all alone and in many works of providence God only works He keeps state in some works no man acts with him But in most of his works and in those we are this day declaring he acts as I may so speak in consort with the creature it is seldom that God hath an immediate attingence with effects He useth and delights to use the service of men Atheists of old scorn'd at the work of creation and asked Quibus machinis with what tools or instruments with what engines ladders or scaffolds the Lord did set up this mighty frame of heaven and earth but in the works of providence we may soberly ask Quibus machinis with what tools and instruments by what hands or counsells hath he done these things His hands are visible his tools are plain before our eyes in most of these works yet because the whole effect or the effectualnes of all instruments is from his co-working and concurrence therefore little mention is to be made of instruments all must be ascrib'd to him God will have us use means as if he were to do nothing and he looks to be honoured as if means had done nothing Yet means and instruments may be remembred yea instruments must be remembred in their place The Lord is so jealous of his great name that he permits not any to come in competition with him yet he is so zealous of his servants good name that he is willing they should have honour in a subordination to himself Hence we finde that though David saith I will declare the works of the Lord yet the Lord takes care for and makes a declaration of the works of David and of his worthies In the second book of Samuel chap. 23. 8. we have a catalogue of Davids worthies and of their exploits set down in particulars Though the story of the Bible be the most exact and compendious that ever was vvritten yet God vouchsafeth faithfull and vvorthy instruments a place in that And therefore though the fatnes and the strength of our Eucharisticall sacrifice ought to be bestovved upon the Lord yet be not unmindfull of those whom the Lord hath used as his tools and instruments as his sword and buckler to do these great works for us and to fight our battels Let not any of those Honourable names who from the beginning of these warrs and troubles have valiantly interposed themselves and set their bodies and estates in the breach between us and danger be forgotten or slightly remembred Let it never be charged upon the Parliament or Kingdome of England that they have been unmindefull of or ungratefull to any