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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32786	A sermon preached in Saint Pavles chvrch the tenth of October, 1641 by Mr. Thomas Chisheare ... ; vvherein are many memorable passages most worthy of serious observations in these times.	Cheshire, Thomas, b. 1600 or 1601.	1641 (1641)	Wing C3780; ESTC R18461	9,416	17

Praise God as wee ought it must by fulfilling his word What is that instrument of ten strings which our Prophet speaketh of but the devout heart of a Christian tuned and rightly set to the ten commandements This Musick sounds sweetest in the eares of Heaven so saith Saint Augustine more at large in that excellent worke of his de decem chordis Good works should say to orall confession as Ruth did to Naomi And Ruth said intreat me not to leave thee or to returne from following after thee for whither thou goest I will goe c. And where a godly conversation doth not concomitate orall confession that praise sounds harsh in the eares of God Ergo as the Father saith Noli 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 We must have brace-lets as well as Earerings good deeds as well as courteous language or the ornament which our spirituall Isaack gives to his Rebechah and which he most esteemeth these are they which make him take pleasure in our beauty therefore let us take pleasure not onely to speake and heare but do the same for this is truely to praise the name of the Lord and as we must praise God in thought word and worke we must labour to keep an agreement between them all for if one onely string be out of tune although all the rest be rightly set yet this one will so jar that the lesson playd upon it to a skilfull eare will sound as bad as if all were out of tune If thou doest forsake drunkennesse Whoredome or such like and yet dost cleave to covetousnesse it comes all to on reckoning for he that offends in one point is guilty of all saith the Apostle looke therefore to thy bosome sin and never leave striving untill thou quite extirpate the same How many are there of us that will pray in necessity but will not praise in prosperity The husband-man so long as the corne is growing will hedge and fence the field with all care and dilligence but when it is reaped then he lets it lye open for Hogs and other Beasts to treade and trample in When we have what we looked for then welet the reine slip in a storme we would be glad to shelter our selves under the branches of that tree which afterward we are ready to cut downe and burne it After the same manner the ungratefull Athenians delt with Themistocles when there was any sedition or uproare in the City then who but Themistocles but when by his discreet wisedome and good Counsell all was quieted then who more vile who more contemptible then poore Themistocles I wish this might be applyed to too many of our times who are fitly compared to a Herd of Hoggs the keeper beates them downe acornes and they eate them up greedily but never look up to the tree onely when they find their store spent grunt a little for more like as when some wholesome potion is boyled in a brasse vessell yet the brasse gives it such a relish that it becomes good for nothing Prayers and praise in a good mans mouth is like sweet incense but in others it is like brasse and savours too strong of the Cask and therefore the wise man saith that praise is not seemly in the mouth of a Sinner The husband man when he is like to have a good harvest or the Merchant a good returne from Sea He will give praise to God but with such a relation to his gaine that a man may easily perceive it was not of free will neither indeed willingly did he give praise to Almighty God and indeed men doe behave themselves so as if they were bound no more to give God praise then he is to give them benefits The Lord hath given and the Lord hath taken away saith Iob blessed be the Name of the Lord Quando tibi benè est lauda misericordiam Dei quando male lauda iusticiam Dei And that lustily and with a good courage Our prophet David calling upon the creatures to praise the Lord he joyneth a reason For saith he Let them praise the Lord for he commanded and they were created But we have much more cause for besides we have the benefit common with them we have above all other creatures a great benefit of redemption by Iesus Christ in this God hath exalted men above Angels in giving unto them his onely begotten Sonne as his power was manifest in the creating of the world so the riches of his love was never so fully shewed as in sending his onely begotten Sonne to suffer for us I remember a story of one Saleucus who made a law that all adulterers should be punished with the losse of both their eyes on a time it came to passe his owne son was taken in the same fault his good old Father being perplexed much thereat at last resolved on this course that the executioner should pull out one of his owne eyes and another of his Sonnes that so both iustice might be satisfied and mercy shewed We likewise were in danger both of loosing this life and that which is to come as also of suffering a double Death temporall and eternall but God hath found out a meanes for our delivery Christ came in and suffered one Death himselfe to free us from the other Death Plato gave thankes unto the Gods First that he was a man and not a Beast Secondly that he was a Graetian and not a Barharian Thirdly that he was not one of the common rout but a Philosopher But besides we are men we are Christian men who live in peace and plenty with the free passage of the Gospell of Iesus Christ Therefore let us both Young Men and Maidens old Men and Babes praise the name of the Lord Gratiarum actio respicit gratiam dantis ubi igitur est gratia maior dantis ibi gratia maior accipientis Assure thy self of one thing as Saint Augustine hath Qui non vult laudare in hoc seculo obmutescet in futuro God at the last day will say to such an one as the King did to him that had not on the wedding garment I should be too tedious if I should stand to reckon up the manifold mercys that God hath be stowed on this our land beyond all the world besides our Peace and Plenty with the Gospell of Christ our many and great deliverances both from forreigne enemies and Domesticke Traytors so that we may rightly say Ignem aquam transivimus God hath delivered us from the Spanish invasion and the Gun-powder treason and hath placed us in a wealthy land Be ye therefore filled with the Spirit saith our Prophet David speaking to your selves in Psalmes and Hymnes and spirituall songs and here I might speak of the godly care of our Church which hath ordeined singing of Psalmes both before and after Sermon and indeed are very fitting to be sung in order for the better stirring up of our affections And here I have a iust cause to taske them of