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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96298	A thankefull remembrance of Gods mercy to several persons at Quabaug or Brookfield partly in a collection of providences about them, and gracious appearances for them: and partly in a sermon preached by Mr. Edward Bulkley, Pastor of the Church of Christ at Concord, upon a day of thanksgiving, kept by divers for their wonderfull deliverance there. Published by Capt. Thomas VVheeler. [Five lines from Psalms]	Wheeler, Thomas, ca. 1620-1676.; Bulkley, Edward, d. 1696.	1676 (1676)	Wing W1600; ESTC W35426	40,779	64

hurt may come to be dangerously wounded the Bullet may hit you as the Arrow did Ahab you that were then only hurt when others were slain take heed that God cut you not down ere long for such evil requitals of him for his great goodness Your late preservation may be but a reservation to soarer Judgements 2dly Return not a lame and halt Requital a body without a Soul the lip without the Heart a verbal without a real Sacrifice external duties without the Spirit Mal. 1.13 14. you have brought the torn c. but cursed be the deceiver who hath a male in his flock c. 1 Chron. 29.14 David and the Princes not only offer liberally towards the Temples building but he blesseth God that they should offer so willingly so heartily This is that he principally wondereth at It is a greater mercy from God to give a man a willing heart to offer what he doth then to give him that which he may offer to him 2dly Affirmatively Render to God that which he calls for at our hands 1. In general Render to God that which is Gods Math. 22.21 As that which is Caesars must be rendred to Caesar so that which is Gods must be rendred to God give God that which is his Owne give God his due as Psal 29.1 give to the Lord the glory due to his Name As that which we offer to God must be his owne of his own Appointment and according to his own mind so what is his own should be rendred to him 2dly More particularly 1. Render your selves to God so the Apostle exhorts us Rom. 12.1 that we give up our bodies as a living and holy and acceptable Sacrifice c. what ever we are or have it is from the Lord you are the Lords by right of Creation 〈…〉 by right of preservation in the great perils you were lately in c. The Lord hath the most right to you But many will not give God his right They are and will be their own Their Tongues are their own as Psal 12 4. Their Estates their own to dispose of as they see good as Nabal 1 Sam. 25.11 My Bread and my Flesh c. Their time is their own to spend as they please they will not be ruled by God nor by those whom God sets over them in Family Church or Commen-wealth Oh give up your selves Souls and bodies to be for God 1 Cor. 6.19 20. glorifie God in your Souls c. Thus did Paul Acts 27.23 whose I am and whom I serve He was Gods and he gave himself to the Service of God in the work he set him about As all that comes from God doth not satisfie a gracious heart without the Lord himself no more is the Lord pleased with what cometh from us without our selves 2dly Return love to God Psal 116.1 I love the Lord because he hath heard c. This is a good Return Have not we that have prayed to God in any distresses formerly or lately or know what prayer means Cause to say The Lord hath heard the voice of our Supplications Oh love the Lord greatly intirely with all our hearts Have you been in great streights and you have prayed and God hath supplyed you Have you been in doubts and God hath resolved you Have you been in Terrours of Conscience affliction of Spirit full of fears of Gods Everlasting wrath and you sought God and he answered you scattered your fears and caused the Sun of Righteousness to rise and shine upon you and given you peace Have you been in deadly dangers by sickness by Enemies that have risen up against you by wounds and you have prayed for healing and delivering mercy oh then Render Love to God for his goodness mercy and salvation Mot. 1. Consider gratitude requireth it at our hands All our good temporal and spiritual is from him And all is freely bestowed yea his mercies bestowed on us are more then the hairs of our Head His preventing sparing delivering supplying mercies He is therefore worthy of our Love not only in respect of his Excellency in himself but also of his benignity and grace towards us especially his rich mercy in Christ Jesus 2dly Love is the ground of all duties acceptably performed to God All is nothing without Love to God and man 1 Cor. 13●● 2. All the Commandments are comprized under it Luk. 10.27 It is the fulsilling of the Law Love to God is the fulfilling of the first Table and love to man the fulfilling of the second where Love abounds there will be much cheerfulness willingness and readiness to do any thing to please him that is loved 3dly No love shall be lost that is cast upon the Lord he knows who loves him in sincerity and he approves them and will love them again and manifest his Love to them and from his love to them do wonderful things for them Their labour of Love shall not be in vain Exod 20.7 Deut. 7.9,13 John 14.21 23. Oh love the Lord who hath redeemed you out of your distresses and given you cause to rejoyce in his great goodness in Answer of your prayers And let your Love to God appear in these things 1. In hearing the voice of his Commands and inclining your Ear to what he calls for from you This is Equitable If God hear us let us hear him shall Gods Ear be open to our Requests and our Ears shut to his Command yea Intreaties and beseechings when he beseecheth us to give up our selves more to him to follow him and cleave more to him may not the Lord say when we are dull and slow to hear and hearken to his voice Is this your love and kindness do you thus requite me for answering your prayers in the day of your trouble 2. In shunning all that may separate from God and separate between God and you and that for this very cause because they do cause a separation And that is sin Esai 59.2 wants persecutions cannot separate but it is only sin The true Love of God is a Love of Vnion and therefore there must be a shunning that which causeth separation Let us therefore hate all Evil in our selves and others and manisest our hatred in seeking the Extirpation and destruction of it Psal 97.10 Rom. 12.9 Abhorre that which is Evil thereby we depart from God Heb. 3.12 The Servant that loved his master would not depart from him 3. Shew your Love in Carefulness to please him in all things Children that love their Parents will seek to please them so it is with Gods Children Christ loving his Father sought to please him in all things Iohn 8.29 Walk as before the face of God Psal 116.9 And where there is a Care to please him there will be a readiness to yield willing obedience to any Command given even in the most difficult duties Services Iohn 15.10 1 Iohn 5.3 unless love prevail in the Soul some Command of God or other will be grievous Love makes them

what he hath done for me and others of his people the works of his hands for mine and others deliverance and Salvation When we praise the Lord we do but sing over what he hath done He acts it and we acknowledge it As in this Salvation vouchsafed to you from the Enemy from their Attempts by Assaults Fire c. An Eccho is little else but a Reflecting Repetition of the first sound so our praises are Repetitions reflecting the work on God He heard he helped he delivered and saved This is the Lords doings There is an Amen in Thanksgiving our Amen to the Truth of Gods dispensations we say Amen to them so they are and we acknowledge it To give Thanks is to give God a Tribute in the Confession of his goodness It is Retribution This is to Crown the Lord we owne him the Author of all our manifold Comforts Deliverances supplies in one kind or other There is a distinction made between glory and glorification glory is an Essential Attribute though there were no Angel or man but glorification is the acknowledgement of his power goodness mercy in his works by the Rational Creature What are you then to acknowledge this day Even the Lords doings in your marpeilous preservation If you would glorifie him this day then say the Lord hath done great things for us This is the Lords doing and it is wonderful in our Eyes Instruct 6th One special particular mercy received from God ought to raise up our Hearts to a Consideration of all other mercies formerly bestowed on us And so it should be with you meet to praise the Lords glorious Name for that great Deliverance at the Swampe and in the Garrison The Prophet addes that general Particle All to shew that from that present Benefit which God had Conferred on him in that great Deliverance mentioned vers 2.3 his heart was extended to a Consideration of other favours which the Lord from time to time had shewed him Thus it will be with a grateful Heart Not that we can think on every benefit so as to leave out none they being so Innumerable but it is to be taken of the several kinds as general particular publick private temporal and Spiritual and of as many several and distinct branches of these as we can Psal 103.2 Forget not all nor any of his Benefits and Psal 105 2 Talk you of all his wondrous works This is the means to enlarge the heart and Inflame it with holy Zeal in praising God as more Fuel brought to the fire makes it greater Here is a good help to this great duty this day and at other times observe all kinds of mercies and call to mind what God hath done for you formerly for your persons Families Relations for the Churches to which you belong for the Country Instruct 7. The Consideration of mercies bestowed on our selves and our Interest in the mercies bestowed on others is a great means to provoke to Thankfulness so the Prophet here For all his Benesits towards me so Psal 103.1 to 6. vers Bless the Lord O my Soul c. who forgives all thine iniquities and beals all thy Diseases c. We are most sensible of kindness done to our selves the sweet whereof our own Souls tast according to the Sense and tast of any kindness is the heart quickned and stirred up to Thankfulness Oh take special notice of such mercies as in particular concern thy self For in the Case and buisiness of your present meeting one may say I was spared and not touched when others were dangeroufly wounded Another may say I was only wounded when others were killed I am recovered when others wounds proved mortal God hath given me my Life when others are taken away by Death I am returned to my Relations or my Relations are come home in safety when others have not enjoyed such a mercy Consider withal how you are Interested in the mercies of others either particular persons or in the Common and publick mercies of the Town and Country You have an Interest in the mercies of your Yoke-fellow Children In the mercies of the Town Church state If the Town be spared when others are consumed It is mercy to evety particular If husband be returned home safe It is a Benefit to me may the wife say If the Father be returned It is a Benefit to me may the Child say so may the Father say in the Childs Return The mercies in Magistracy and Ministry are our mercies They are Gods Benefits to us self Interests are affecting Interests Consider how thou art Interested in any mercy Deliverance Immediately or mediately and this will further our Thankfulness for it As this is a way to affect the Heart with the Churches affliction to Consider our Interest therein as members of the same Body so also to affect our Hearts with Gods goodness to others to Consider how we are concerned therein It may be some may say I have more Cause to Fast and Pray in regard of Gods hand on me and mine rather then to Rejoyce and Feast Do but Consider thy many personal mercies thy Family mercies and thy Interest in Common-wealth and Church mercies and thou mayest see aboundant Cause of Thankfulness It is a Certain Truth that a Child of God when he is in the worst Case he can be in here upon earth hath more Cause of Gratulation then of Petition His mercies are greater then his miseries His Enjoyments more then his wants besides his hopes of all good at last in an Unchangeable Estate Instruct 8th If Temporal mercies be carefully to be observed and Return made to God for them how much more for Spiritual and Eternal mercies If Deliverance from a temporal Death how much more Deliverance from Everlasting Death Spiritual mercies are the great mercies They are the Fathers gifts to his Children other mercies he gives to them that are hated and abhorred by him They have some Relation to God as his Creatures Servants in his great Family and therefore they shall have somewhat here a portion they shall have in these common favours vile and ungodly men often escape deadly dangers as well as precious Saints nay they may be preserved when others better then they are taken a way suddenly and by a violent death These Temporal Benefits will not evidence Gods special favour in Christ What Cause have you to whom God hath given those great benefits of Justification Adoption Sanctification and hopes of glory in Heaven for to say with the Apostle Paul Ephes 1.3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who hath blessed us with all spiritual Blessings in Heavenly places in Christ Jesus And with the Prophet in the Text what shall I Render to the Lord who hath done so great things for to deliver my Soul from the Nethermost-Hell and to call me to Eternal glory by Jesus Christ say therefore with the Apostle Peter To him be glory and Dominion for ever and ever 1 Pet. 5.10