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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40097	A sermon preached before the House of Lords in the Abby-Church at Westminster, upon Thursday the sixteenth of April, 1696 being a day of publick thanksgiving to Almighty God for the most happy discovery and disappointment of a horrid design to assasinate His sacred Majesty, and for our deliverance from a French invasion / by Edward Lord Bishop of Gloucester.	Fowler, Edward, 1632-1714.	1696 (1696)	Wing F1724; ESTC R887	16,520	42

the slaying of their great Enemy King Saul and vanquishing his Forces did shew to whom they acknowledg'd themselves Obliged for this great Victory by putting his Armour in the House of their Gods and fastning his Head in the Temple of Dagon 1 Chron. X. 10. 2. Giving Glory and Praise to God for Deliverances and other Blessings implieth a grateful Sense too of our being Obliged to Him for them The meer Belief hereof I need not say is a most insignificant thing without this And 't is equally necessary to express this Sense by Praising Him with joyful Lips and by Living to His Praise and Glory Nor can we glorifie and praise Him with all our hearts but by joyning these two together And therefore Offering Praise and Ordering the Conversation aright are conjoyn'd by the Psalmist in the words following those forecited ones He that offereth Praise Glorifieth Me. As to the former of these Expressions of Gratitude what Noble Strains do we find of Praise and Thanksgiving in the H. Scriptures and especially in the Psalms As Bless the Lord O my Soul and all that is within me Bless His Holy Name Bless the Lord O my Soul and forget not all His Benefits Who forgiveth all thine iniquities and healeth all thy diseases Who redeemeth thy Life from destruction and Crowneth thee with loving kndness and tender mercies Psal. 103. beg I will extoll Thee my God O King and I will-Bless Thy Name for ever and ever Every day will I Bless Thee and I will Praise thy Name for ever and ever Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised and His Greatness is unsearchable One Generation shall declare Thy Works to another and shall Praise Thy mighty Acts. I will speak of the glorious Honour of Thy Majesty and of Thy wondrous Works And men shall speak of the might of thy Terrible Acts and I will declare Thy Greatness They shall abundantly utter the memory of Thy great Goodness and shall Sing of Thy Righteousness Psal. 145. 1st to 7th V. And so he goes on admirably to the end of the Psalm But could we sing God's Praises with the Tongues of Angels we shall be far from Glorifying Him from giving Him the Glory due unto His Name as we are called upon to do except we live them too except we are led by the Great things God doth for us to a more careful Observance of His Righteous Laws The Praises of the Disobedient do Him no Honour since the Lives of such do give the Lye to their Tongues Such will never be believ'd to Praise God in Earnest for it may well be concluded that the Principle which will make a man Sincere in his Praises must needs excite him to real Expressions of Thankfulness no less than Verbal ones It is not to be imagin'd that those who take but little Care to do what is acceptable in the Sight of God and stick not at wilfully and deliberately Offending Him can have any great Sense of their being much Obliged to Him And God doth lay so great weight upon being glorified by our Lives that this is His great design in obliging us as He doth And we read particularly of Deliverances from our Enemies that they are sent us for this end Luke 1. 74. That we being delivered out of the hands of our Enemies may serve Him without fear in Holiness and Righteousness before Him all the days of our Life King David upon his Deliverance as 't is very probable from the imminent danger he was in from his Son Absalon brake forth into such Expressions as these I love the Lord because He hath heard my Voice and my Supplication Because He hath inclined His Ear unto me therefore will I call upon Him as long as I live I will lead a more devout and religious life Thou hast delivered my Soul from death mine Eyes from tears and my Feet from falling I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living Or therefore I will do so I will be more caresul than ever to walk uprightly before Him What shall I render unto the Lord for all His Benefits towards me I will take the Cup of Salvation and call upon the Name of the Lord. I will pay my Vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his People O Lord truly I am Thy Servant I am Thy Servant Thou hast loosed my Bonds Or by thy having set me free from the fear of mine Enemies Thou hast laid a new Obligation upon me to be Thy Servant Thy faithful Servant The Israelites as the Psalmist observes remembred that God was their Rock and the High God their Redeemer and they remembred this in Songs of Praise to their Rock and Redeemer He had enough of these from them but their Hearts not being upright with him as it follows and they not being stedfast in His Covenant 't is said they flattered Him with their mouth and lyed unto Him with their Lips All their Thanksgiving Songs and Sacrifices too were of no better account with God than meer Mockeries and were in themselves no better We our selves can have no better Opinion of the Thanks we receive from those we have Obliged tho' they are never so solemn and seemingly hearty when at the same time we observe an Aversion in them to answer our reasonable Expectations from them Tho' we read of but one Fault charged upon that Excellent Prince Hezekiab namely that his Heart was lifted up that he had a too high Opinion of himself by means of his being magnified in the sight of all Nations upon the most Miraculous Deliverance which God had sent him from an irresistible Invasion yet upon this single Account he is said not to have render'd according to the Benefits done unto him and it follows that therefore there was Wrath upon him and upon his People 2 Chron. 32. 25. Therefore God punish'd him and took this occasion to be very severe upon his People for former Provocations And this leads me to shew 2dly That we are under a necessary the most absolutely necessary Obligation to Praise the Lord our God with all our hearts and to Glorifie His Name for evermore as these Phrases have been expounded for all God's Blessings in general and for our Deliverances from our Enemies in particular I will not here insist upon God's Command whose Will and Pleasure must as such be obey'd but upon those Reasons on which this Command is founded And those Reasons do speak this Duty not only a Branch of Natural Religion but as clearly discernable to be a Duty of the most indispensable necessity at first sight as is any corporeal Object apparent to our outward Senses So that no man in his Wits can doubt whether he be bound to glorifie God both with his Lips and by his Life for the great Expressions of His Goodness to him Now the Reasons on which our Obligation hereto is grounded over and above the Command of God and which are the Foundation of