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A36452	A sermon preached before the honourable House of Commons at St. Margarets Westminster, November 5, 1680 / by Henry Dove ...	Dove, Henry, 1640-1695.	1680 (1680)	Wing D2048; ESTC R1352	13,195	34

detest the sins for which others have been so notably punish'd But there is something more yet to be done as the proper work of the day and that is III. A duty resulting from all these considerations and chiefly incumbent on good men and that as the other is three-fold 1. Rejoycing in the Lord. 2. Trusting in him 3. Glory and triumph The righteous shall c. 1. The righteous shall be glad in the Lord. A duty no less easie than pleasant and that which we all seem to covet and desire most that which we eagerly pursue as the best of this worlds satisfactions joy and rejoycing There is no such gladness of heart as that which a good man enjoys in the contemplation of Gods goodness And sure we need no invitations to what we are all so naturally inclin'd God himself requires it the deliverance of the Day and the discoveries of a later date call for it Rejoyce in the Lord O ye righteous and again I say rejoyce for the voice of praise is comely and it becometh well the just to be thankful And seeing God requires a sign and some outward testimony of your joy and thanks let me bespeak your Charity to the Poor in those emphatical words of Nehemiah 8. 10. Go your way eat the fat and drink the sweet and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared for this day is holy unto our Lord neither be you sorry for the joy of the Lord is your strength God who frankly bestows his blessings loves a chearful return of what he gives and since our goodness extends not unto him but to the Saints that are in the earth he has left the Poor among us as his standing Receivers by his own Patent The poor ye shall have always with you says our Saviour and whensoever ye will ye may do them good Mark 14. 7. Do it therefore at this time above all and make them partakers of your fulness and joyfulness for then we glorifie his name when we joy in his salvation and are glad to do good to others as God hath done unto us when the voice of rejoycing is heard in the Tabernacles of the righteous and the tokens of our joy are sent to the poor and needy And that our joy may be perfect let us temper it with Faith and add the next degree of our Duty 2. The righteous shall trust in him And good reason indeed to trust in him of whose favour and loving kindness we have had so large experience well may we rely on that power which is so able to protect us well may we depend on that providence which so remarkably takes care of us And herein lies the difference of the effects that such works of God have upon the righteous and the wicked that the one are struck with horror from the apprehensions of his power and providence and confounded with the sense of their own guilt whilst good men glory in the demonstrations of Gods power and make all his Dispensations an argument of a more chearful dependance on him 'T is this that supports the spirits of good men under all the troubles and distractions of the world and keeps 'em from despondence with fear of future evils and apprehensions of mischief and disturbances when they call to mind the deliverances of past times and Gods manifold appearances in the cause of his Church and People And what if a cloud appear or the storms arise if we build our confidence on the rock of ages we have a shelter against the Tempests a strong consolation and a good hope as an anchor of our souls both sure and stedfast And what if the same danger threaten us and the storms arise from the same quarter we have still the same God to flee unto who hath manifested his care of our Church by a continued series of Miracles and Mercies Though the unquiet spirits of the world and the powers of darkness combine against us yet if we hold us fast by God he will never leave us nor forsake us if we adhere constantly unto him his Faithfulness and Truth will be our Shield and Buckler and while we are under the defence of the Almighty we shall not be greatly moved This was David's confidence whose deliverances always equal'd his dangers and from his own experience he encourageth others to depend upon God Psalm 62. 6 7. He only is my rock and my salvation he is my defence I shall not be moved In God is my salvation and my glory the rock of my strength and my refuge is in God And then immediately it follows ver 8. Trust in him at all times O ye people pour out your heart before him God is a refuge for us Selah The times and seasons to come are in the hand of God alone and we know not what a day much less what a year may bring forth though we cannot but know what our sins have deserv'd if God should enter into judgment with us yet even this is matter of great rejoycing that we are still assembled to give him thanks in the great Congregation and to praise him among the Heads of the people And this too is an encouragement to rely on the same infinite Power and Goodness for the continuance of our safety That the next year shall be as this and much more abundant That God will settle and root us faster by shaking us a little That he will perfect his own work by a full detection and final defeat of all our implacable enemies And in this humble confidence and assurance of his favour we triumph and glory Which is the last branch of our Duty 3. All the upright in heart shall glory They shall glory in his strength and triumph in his favour But that 's not all they shall glory in the confusion of the wicked and rejoyce in the continual disappointment of such treacherous designs And they that do not rejoyce and glory in such Discoveries and Deliverances are none of the upright in heart for they defraud God of his due and deny him the honour of his own work and they give us reason to suspect that they wish the Treason had been acted They that refuse to give thanks for the Deliverance want only an opportunity to contrive the like mischief and put the Design in execution But let us I beseech you as men upright in heart with all our Souls yea with heart and voice offer up our Thanksgivings to the God of our mercies and confess his Name and glory in his Strength and triumph in his Goodness As we are sensible to whom we owe our safety let us keep the Feast with joyful and thankful hearts making it like the Feast of the Passover a day to be much observed throughout all our Generations let us all as friends to Sion the Church we wish well to give thanks to the preserver of our Sion as Subjects of a Kingdom whose peace and prosperity we pray for let us bless the God of our Israel the mighty defender of our Nation We have heard with our ears and our Fathers have declared unto us the noble works which God did in their days and in the time before them How he did deliver our Nation from the Tyranny of the Pope the Usurpations of his Sea the Treasons of his Emissaries and from the Idolatry Superstition and Cruelty of his Religion I call it His for Popery is no more like Christs Religion than a Wolf is like a Lamb. How soon he extinguish'd the fire of the Marian Persecution and in the years next ensuing gave us Beauty for Ashes even ten for one How he put to flight the Forces of the Aliens and display'd his wonders in the deep in 88 and how he delivered both our Church and State as on this Day And as we have heard so have we seen how miraculously he dispell'd that dismal Cloud which covered us by bowing the hearts of all-the People as the heart of one man to bring back the King to his own Throne How he made Him among the Princes of the earth the First-born as it were from the dead How his Hand hath held him fast in the midst of manifold dangers and by Gods protection of Him we also are protected in the quiet enjoyment of our Lives Liberties Fortunes and Laws and in the free and open Profession of Christs true Religion Oh! let us walk worthy of these reiterated Deliverances and live as becometh a Reformed and a Redeemed People Let not our Heats and Divisions on one hand nor our Looseness and Prophaneness on the other give occasion to the Enemy to triumph over us lest they say in their hearts There there so would we have it lest we ruine our selves in a more effectual manner than all the Papal Conspirators in Europe can devise But let us manifest our thankfulness to God by living piously and peaceably in the stedfast Profession of his holy Gospel and in hearty Loyalty and Fidelity to our King whose strength and security next under Providence does principally depend on the Hearts and Affections of his Subjects on the Counsels and Assistance of his Parliament So shall we best secure our selves consulting at once our Duty and our Interest so with St. Paul may we hope in God who hath delivered us from so great a death and doth deliver in whom we trust that he will evermore deliver us 2 Cor. 1. 10. From all Sedition privy Conspiracy and Rebellion from all false Doctrine Heresie and Schism from all Popish Principles and Practises good Lord deliver us through Jesus Christ our Saviour and mighty Deliverer To whom with thee and thy Holy Spirit three Persons and one Eternal God be ascribed of us and thy whole Church all Power and Glory Thanksgiving and Praise now and evermore Amen FINIS