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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03425	The king's request: or, Dauid's desire A sermon preached at the last generall fast holden at Yorke, the 21. of Aprill last. By Phinees Hodson Doctour of Diuinity, and Chancellour of the Metropoliticall Church of St. Peter-Yorke.	Hodson, Phineas, d. 1646.	1628 (1628)	STC 13551; ESTC S104137	19,311	38

THE KING'S REQVEST OR DAVID'S DESIRE A Sermon preached at the last generall Fast holden at Yorke the 21. of Aprill last By PHINEES HODSON Doctour of Diuinity and Chancellour of the Metropoliticall Church of St. Peter-Yorke LONDON Printed by THO. HARPER for Edward Blount and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard 1628. PSAL. 27.4 One thing haue J desired of the Lord which I will require euen that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the dayes of my life to behold the beauty of the Lord and to visit his Temple IN this Psalme you haue the Prophet keeping an Audit and taking a reckoning of the treasures of his heart the receipts were many and great Mat. 12.35 which like so many Riuers from that great Ocean of Gods mercy made glad his heart that was a man after Gods heart 1. Sam. 13.14 For the receipts you shall finde them acknowledged in all his accounts To seeke no further an infinite treasure greater then Solomons is mentioned in the first verse of this Psalme the Lord is his light his strength his saluation My text disburseth that treasure in thankfull deuotion One thing c. And we haue reason to take our rise hence to begin at thankes for we haue receiued much And to receiue much and restore nothing is a shame It 's a shame not to giue where there 's cause a double shame not to restore and shame seldome goes alone but is accompanied either with sorrow or paine or both at least attended There being no burthen that loades more then a benefit and burthens if they bee heauy are both sorrowfull and painfull Indeed aske a naturall man what is the greatest burthen and he will tell you sorrow Aske a spirituall man and he will say Sinne. Sorrow loades man But Sinne loades man and God himselfe yea and tyers him too Thou hast made me to serue with thy sinnes a meane office to put God to and wearied me with thy transgressions Is 43.24 But aske the morall man what is the greatest burthen and he will tell you a benefit The Prophet David had experience of all these He complaines of his sonne and great was his sorrow that he that came out of his owne bowels sought his life But he roares for his sinne And when these tempests were ouerblowne he was not quiet in the calme but was after a serious meditation put to his Quid retribuam What shall I giue vnto the Lord for all the benefits that hee hath done vnto me And this in effect is his labour now there he consulted Quid retribuam here hee resolued One thing haue I desired c. For in the three first verses before my Text hee made a discouery of Gods mercy and bounty In my Text hee vowes his seruice as the tribute of his dutie For though it be Vnum petij he went not onely to pray but to offer sacrifices of ioy and to sing and praise the Lord verse 6. For thankfulnesse is Debitum morale and the Ciuilians say Naturaliter obligamur à dante So that as it is a heauy thing to beare either in body or conscience so are not they released that are released The very act of deliuery drawing on a third burthen how to be thankfull which vnlesse we take vp a worse than either of the other will happen vnto vs. Therefore in the nine leapers that returned not to giue thanks to take vp this burthen Luc. 17. Vlcus ingratitudinis was said one more loathsome then they leprosie the had for they were Mundi cute but not Corde Christ had giuen them faire skins but they had made themselues foule hearts But a good man is euer thankfull If Elisha haue house-roome with the Shunamite before hee take his leaue What shall we do for thee 2 K. 4.13 And if Ionathan be dead David will enquire for some of Sauls kindred to gratifie them for his friend Ionathans sake 2 Sam. 9.3 yea vnthankfull Absalom will condemne ingrate Hushai though himselfe gaine by it is this thy kindnesse to thy friend 2 Sam. 16.17 yea the Deuill himselfe damnes it Iob. 1.9 and cons him not thank that leanes to one that supports him Doth Iob serue God for nothing And as the thing is odious for In hac contumelia omnis contumelia so is the name he is a Nabal a foole 1 Sam. 25.25 a title in these times more contemptible than a knaue when the world is more ashamed of infirmities then crimes and it is greater reproach to be esteemed shallow then wicked And as both the thing and the name is odious so it is vnprofitable For as it 's true He that smoothers one iniury drawes on a second So he that vnthankfully smoothers a benefit loseth a second And againe as he that quits one wrong preuents many So he that quits a benefit inuites many For Nunquam cessabit decursus gratiarum à Deo nisi prius cesset recursus gratiarum ab homine The showres of Gods graces will neuer leaue falling vpon vs so long as wee send back but the fruit of thankfullnesse to him Then before we aske new blessings let vs bee thankfull for the old Eighty eight and powder treason we haue within many of our memories beene deliuered both from destruction by water and fire Some of vs euen of late from famine and many of vs from the pestilence Wee of this Citie so preserued from it as it hath not beene suffered in that common calamity to come neare our dwellings And now Lord make vs thankfull and in mercy not in wrath preserue vs from the sword It were a secret worth our discouery what 's the motiue to Gods patience towards vs that all our neighbour countryes should bee in blood and worse and the sword of the deuourer should not be able to touch vs. I say in blood and worse For God hath a plague both on this side and beyond death worse than death On this side captiuitie and idolatry Beyond it That fearfull and eternall separation of our bodies and soule from God From both which good Lord deliuer vs. And that he may deliuer vs let vs pray that hee would send such a gratious raine vpon his inheritance as may refresh it and open it so in thankfulnesse towards him as it may expect the later raine and not be deceiued These showres they were that made the Prophet Davids heart so fruitfull In the three first verses of this Psalme they fall vpon him In my Text the fruit of those showres returne to God In the first God is gratious vnto David In my Text David is thankfull vnto God The parts are three and those three are in a manner one For God David and the Temple make vp euery part And these three make vp the three parts For first you haue David praying for one thing There 's God David and the Temple For that one thing in the second place is the Temple of the Lord where he desires of God