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A47177	A sermon preached at the meeting of Protestant dissenters called Quakers in Turners-Hall, London, on the 16th of the second month, 1696 : being the publick day of thanksgiving for the deliverance of the King and Kingdom : to which is added a testimony ... to King William the III from the aforesaid people ... / by George Keith.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.	1696 (1696)	Wing K208; ESTC R28960	18,109	32

A SERMON Preached at the Meeting of Protestant Dissenters CALLED QUAKERS IN Turners-Hall LONDON On the 16th of the Second Month 1696. Being the Publick Day of Thanksgiving For the Deliverance of the King and Kingdom By GEORGE KEITH To which is added a Testimony of Fidelity and Subjection to King WILLIAM the III. from the aforesaid People on behalf of themselves and others of the same Perswasion with them LONDON Printed for B. Aylmer at the Three Pigeons in Cornhil 1696. Isaiah xxxviii xix The Living the Living he shall praise thee as I do this Day Compared with Psal 18. 46 c. IT is a certain Testimony which the Holy Scripture gives concerning those that praise God according to the Words of that good King Hezekiah a Faithful Servant of the Lord For the Grave cannot praise thee Death cannot celebrate thee they that go down into the Pit cannot hope for thy Truth How is this to be understood Do not the Deceased Saints Praise God Yes certainly they do to wit their Souls and Spirits which die not Though their Bodies die their Souls Praise God Who then are these Dead which the Scripture testifies do not Praise God I Answer such as are dead in their Sins and Trespasses for Sin hath brought that Spiritual Death over Men and Women that they are not capable to Praise God nor serve him any manner of way acceptably till he breath upon them and quicken them by his Living Breathings and by that Living Vertue and Power which proceeds from him Now Holy David was very sensible of this when he saith in that excellent Psalm The Lord liveth and blessed be my Rock and let the God of my salvation be exalted That Man or Woman that can say this The Lord liveth from a true inward and Spiritual Sense of his Living Power and Presence that hath quickened them and made them alive made them sensible of his Power and Mercy of his great Deliverance and Preservation these are only fit to say Blessed be my Rock and let the God of my salvation be exalted But alas How few are there in comparison that can speak these words in sincerity of Heart and from true experience The Lord liveth Those that can speak it in an acceptable way from true experience they know the Revelation of Gods mighty Arm and living Power in their Hearts and Souls They know that the Lord is the only Living and True God There is no other God like to him The Idols of the Nations are false Gods The Psalmist speaks thus of them The Idols of the Heathen are silver and gold the work of mens hands They have mouths but they speak not eyes have they but they see not They have ears but they hear not neither is there any breath in their mouths They that make them are like unto them so is every one that trusteth in them But David's God the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob he is the True and Living God Dead Idols can neither do good nor evil but God is a present Help in trouble God is the Living and True God they that have an Inward Sense and Experience of his Mighty Power that hath quickened them and made them alive they alone can praise him in an acceptable manner Those that are under the Power of Sin and under its Reign and Government they are under the Power of Death and the Dead cannot praise him Death reigneth over them Spiritual Death Death reigned from Adam to Moses even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adams transgression Death began from Adam God made him upright and in Innocency Death reigned from his Fall and Transgression when he transgressed the Commandment of the Lord. So now I desire you well to ponder and consider this great and weighty Testimony of the Holy Scripture who these are that are capable to praise God for his Mercies Deliverances and Preservations Those that he hath made alive and quickened those that can say from true Experience The Lord liveth and can call him their Rock and can say with the Psalmist Blessed be my Rock and let the God of my salvation be exalted And as he speaks in the beginning of this Psalm The Lord is my Rock and my Fortress and my Deliverer my God my strength in whom I will trust my Buckler the horn of my Salvation and my high Towre I will call upon the Lord who is worthy to be praised so shall I be saved from mine Enemies And the Psalmist saith in another place Praise ye the Lord for it is good to sing praises our God for it is pleasant and praise is comely Praise is comely for the Righteous It is as a beautiful and comely Garment it is an Ornament to them but it is as improper for the Unrighteous and for Wicked and Ungodly Persons as it is to take a Dead Carcase full of Stench and Corruption and cloth it with a rich and beautiful Garment so improper and uncomely is Praise and Thanksgiving in the Mouth of a Wicked and ungodly Person The Scripture gives no Allowance to such as are altogether unfit to Rejoyce and Praise the Lord they are called to mourn and weep and to be humbled for their Sins But some may object and say Is it not an universal Duty of all Men to praise the Lord Yes if they will forsake their Sins and turn to the Lord as the Prophet speaks Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts and let him return unto the Lord and he will have mercy upon him and to our God for he will abundantly pardon Then the Lord will accept of a Sacrifice of Praise Wash ye make you clean put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes cease to do evil learn to do well seek judgment c. Come now and let us reason together saith the Lord though your sins be as Scarlet they shall be as white as snow though they be red like crimson they shall be as wooll Then he will allow them to come into his presence and to speak unto him and to offer him praise for his Mercies Now there is this thing further that I would recommend to your serious Consideration Look through the whole Scripture and you shall find it hath been the manner and way of Gods People to praise him not only in general daily and constantly for his Mercies Favours Preservations and Deliverances but upon every New Occasion upon the receiving of any Extraordinary Mercies Blessings Preservations or Deliverances from Dangers and from Violence designed and threatned to Praise and Solemnly bless the Lord with Cordial Thanksgiving and we are to set Time apart for this Work and to excite and stir up our selves to magnifie and praise the Lord. Thus Holy David excites and stirs up himself to praise the Lord and prays to the Lord to quicken him Great are thy tender mercies O Lord quicken me according to