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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76115	The vvaters of Marah sweetned. A thanks-giving sermon. Preached at Taunton, in the county of Somerset, May 11. 1647. for the gracious deliverance of that poore towne from the strait and bloody siege. / By T.B. Master of Arts, and a minister of the gospel in that county.	Batt, Timothy, 1613-1692.	1648 (1648)	Wing B1148; Thomason E433_19; ESTC R206196	14,053	24

malicious enemies had environ'd you were so neer you had brought destruction within your walls even to your thresholds enemies that were high in bloud and rage that had all the helps that either Rome or Hell could afford when you were even ready to be swallowed up of them and in your own apprehensions a lost an helples hopeles people that God should then even in the very nick of time when your necks were on the Altar and under the sword that he should then step in and find means for your escape defeat them deliver you surely no strength no Armies shall prevaile to ruine them whom God resolves to protect to deliver if he be with us no matter who is against us Oh that you would therefore praise the Lord for his goodness and declare the wonders that he hath done for you May not we say of Taunton as once Balaak said of Israel Num. 23. what hath God wrought for you oh how solemnly festivall should this day be to you and your posserities for ever Let me therefore speak to you in the words of the Lord to Moses Exod. 17.14 write it for a memoriall in a book and rehearse it to Josuah so do you set up a monument of this deliverance a monument that may eternize Gods praises and procure him honour by those that are yet unborn that you may sing of the mercies of God for ever and may make known his faithfulnesse to all generations take up the expressions and resolutions of the Psalmist Psalm 118.24 This is the day which the Lord hath made we will rejoyce and be glad in it Sure I am had your enemies prevailed it would have been an high feast in Gath a day of Jubile in Ascalon the daughters of the uncircumcised would have made it a day of triumph be not you behind them but shew as much joy expresse as much thankfulnes for your deliverance as they would certainly have done for utter desolation Think seriously on it I cannot but speak it again hath God bestowed such favours on Taunton and shall Taunton forget them there is an Emphasis in that word much Rhetorick in it Taunton a place that hath been freed from so many judgements and that so oft the sword the Pestilence and the famine that doth enjoy so many blessings and those so pretious health prosperity plenty and the glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ c. a place for which God hath wrought so many even miracles of mercies for its preservation in its deliverance shall such favours be heaped upon such a people and should they die in their thoughts but for two or three motives if this serve not to stir you up 1. Consider the misery you were in before you were deliver'd that is the way to exalt God in your praises represent to your selves your sad condition your fears your wants your dangers contraries illustrate one another as prosperity and adversity The misery of a Saint formerly sets forth the mercy of God in Jesus Christ one years peace now is more prised then ten before the want of things do much commend them As the wickeds troubles are mightily aggravated by the mercies went before so the Saints deliverances by the miseries preceded You that have deliverance by Christ look to the misery you were in begin with that what darknesse and shadow of death did you sit in in what bondage to sin and hell how irrecoverably lost and undone in your selves when we were sinners Christ died for us when ungodly when enemies when dead Rom. 5. Ephes 2. look to this mercy of God in Christ alas what praise will ye else give to God this day we can never praise God aright unlesse we look upon the perfection of all misery we were in to the perfection of all happinesse that by Christ God hath brought us to to study misery out of Christ is to dig to hell but to study misery and Christ is to build to heaven so for the business of this day remember from whence you were delivered take the rise of the misery there the way to value a mercy is to see a misery look back to the beginning of your troubles and see the wonders God hath wrought what seas have been divided for you to passe through remember how nigh you were to the enemies hands what enemy 't was what their threats their malice their bloudy resolutions look on the straits you were in for Ammunition Provision and with what a mighty hand and stretched-out arme God did supply you and hath rescued you look upon all the waies of God towards you that you may return to him according to his working and rejoice in him 't is a poor thing to have such a strong hold preserved such a cruel enemy subdued to be matter of your joy but let this that the Lord of hosts is with you let that be the matter of your joy of your praise Let temporall deliverance stir up within us a war against our lusts our pride our self-ends our loosenes c. oh these are provoking things which of themselves will work our destruction they are graves of Sodome vines of Gomorrah Fight against these but let God be your joy let him be matter of your praise 2. Consider your demerits how little you deserved how justly you might have perished and been both the prey and scorn of your bloud-thirsty enemies he that thinks himselfe unworthy of any thing will be thankfull for every thing content with the smallest mercy much more for such a concerning one Thirdly Look upon the worth the excellency of the mercy vouchsafed you nay how many mercies you enjoy how many miseries you have escaped by it the consideration of your condition with such mercies will set an high price upon what you now enjoy and provoke you to thankfulness how sad how truly miserable would your lives have been without Wife Children houses friends estates without the presence of God in his ordinances and is not the enjoyment of all these and more worthy of thanks what was your bitternes when every moment you expect either death or a prison and can you not thank God who hath wrought so happy a change 4. Confider 't is the way not onely to continue but encrease your blessings unthankfulness forfeits all we have received undoes all dries up the channell and stops the passages through which mercies should flow but this laies all open I know you use to sow your seed where you may have most encrease so God his favours where he hath most praise But then remember in your return of praise it must bee 1. A free praise not pressed or wrung out the willingnes of the mind is ever the fat of the sacrifice God gives delivers freely therefore doe you praise him freely 2. Full and compleat not of the face onely to shew nor the tongue only to proclaim it but of the heart too that is true praise when the heart as well as the tongue sounds it forth Psal 103.