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Glorifying of God the just tribute of a thankfull people, discovered and press'd in a sermon preach'd December 2. 1697. Being the day of thanksgiving for the peace.
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that they may not Blemish their Holy Calling but Pay an inviolate Obedience to God's Commands do so Confess and Glorify their Lord before men that Christ has Promised to Confess and Honour them before his Father in the Day of Glory Matth. 10. 32. Luke 9. 26. 6. By Walking Orderly and Uprightly in out several Relations Callings and Conditions God has Placed and Ordered every one in the World in their Particular Stations and by his Word and Providence Appointeth them their Work that so in their said several Capacities and Relations which are the Sphere of their Activity they may Serve the Common Good Accordingly God and Religion are Honoured by us in them when we are not only Contented with the Places Providence has Assigned us but do Faithfully Discharge all the Relative Duties of them by Studiously Endeavouring to Promote the Holiness and Happiness of the Societies whereof we are Members As for Instance when Masters and Parents Walk in their Houses with a Perfect Heart and Instruct Govern and Guide their Families so as they may be a Means to Command their Children and their Housholds after them to Keep the Way of the Lord Gen. 18. 19. And when Children and Servants Honour Love Serve and Obey their Parents and Masters in their Places as doing the same unto God in them Eph. 6. 1 5 9. Col. 3. 20 21. 1 Pet. 2. 18. When Husbands Walk in Love to their Wives Guiding them in Knowledge and Holiness and Wives live Piously Obediently and Peaceably When Neighbours so Perform their Offices of Love and Help to one another as to Provoke each other to Love and to Good Works When Ministers Carefully Oversee and Skilfully and Duly Feed their Flocks being Ensamples unto them in Holiness Peace and Self-Denial as Longing for and Earnestly Seeking the Conversion and Salvation of Souls And lastly When Magistrates and All in Power and Authority either as Supream or Subordinate Governors Zealously Use their Power and Authority for God from whom they have it by Discountenancing in those under them Whatever Tends to God's Dishonour and the making Men Miserable and Promoting by All Due Means the Service of God and the Happiness of Men When Rulers Set themselves to Advance Christ's Kingdom by Impartially Administring Justice for the Protecting of Innocence and Punishing and Preventing of Wickedness Violence and Disorder as well as by Beautifying and Fortifying of Goodness by their own Personal Piety and Temperance they Act as God's Ministers Appointed by Him for the Terror of Evil-Doers and the Praise of them that Do Well And by such their Providing that Persons under them may Live a Peaceable and Quiet Life in all Godliness and Honesty they truly Represent and Highly Honour their Supream Master and Heavenly King When I say All Persons in their Proper Places and Distinct Relations thus Endeavour to Fill them up by Doing the Business Allotted to them in the Same they Credit Religion and Glorify God And thus too will and must God have Honour Done him by us in All our Callings and every Estate and Condition of Life even by Diligence and Faithfulness in our Imployments Abhorring Idleness Gluttony Drunkenness Pride Contention and Evil Speaking and being Strictly Juâ— and Sincere in all our Concerns with all Men ever Doing by Others as We would be Done by Giving every Man his Dues and Parting with our Own Right for the Sake of Love and Peace or when our neighbour's Greater Good Calls for it Once again as Tradesmen must Honour God by their Righteousness So as God hath Distributed to every Man as the Lord hath Call'd every 1 Cor. 7. 17. Man so let him Walk and Act in and according to his Circumstantiated Condition as v. g. If Wealthy let him Glorify God by Humility and being Rich in Good Works If Poor by Patient Submission Uprightness and Diligence If in Honour by Making it Subservient to the Honour of Religion c. 7. By Industriously serving the Cause of Love and Peace among All that are Worthy of the Christian Name God is Love and Dwelleth in them and they are his Children and Christ's Disciples whose True Practical Effectual Love to All True Christians Appeareth in all the Course of their Life 1 John 4. 7 11 12. John 13. 35. We are all Required as much as in us Lieth to Live Peaceably with All Men 1 Cor. 1. 10. And Rom. 15. 5. To be like Minded One towards Another according to Christ Jesus i. e. to have so much Grace and Charity as to make us Imitators of Christ and of the Love and Condescention of Christ and to Bear with Others and Do by them as we would be Born with and Used our selves And for what should this be Why v. 6. That we may with one Mind and one Mouth Glorify God Dividers in the Kingdom of Christ Disserve Him who is the Prince of Peace and only Serve their own Bellies and Fleshly Interest in some Carnal Design Rom. 16. 17 18. Wherefore the Holy Ghost's Warning v. 17. should be Regarded viz. Of Marking Such as Cause Divisions and Offences contrary to the Doctrine Taught and Avoiding them in their Sinful Dividing Offensive Ways Quarrels and Discords and Factious Divisions in the Members of the Church are Scandalous and Reproachful to the Christian Cause But His Disciples Living in Love and Concord as One in him Greatly Glorifieth Christ and His Gospel Live therefore in an Abhorrence of Love-Killing and Dividing Opinions and Ways Shunning all the Causes and Means of Hatred But Love and Pursue all the Good Causes and Means of Love and Peace 8. By being Abundant in Acts of Mercy and Beneficence God Entrusts Persons with Estates and Wealth as the Stewards of His Bounty to Communicate to such as are in Want Wherefore Visiting the Sick Feeding the Hungry Cloathing the Naked Ministring to the Necessities of the Saints are an Odour of a Sweet Smell a Sacrifice Acceptable well-Pleasing to God Heb. 13. 16. And such a Free spending of what God giveth us is Call'd by the Holy Ghost an Honouring of the Lord with our Substance Prov. 3. 9. 9. We must Glorify God our Glorious Deliverer by Placing our Whole Hope and Trust in Him for time to Come Ingaging his Presence with us and Blessing on us by Serious Prayerâ— So did David Resolve Because he hath Inclinâ—â— his Ear unto me therefore I will Call on him as long as I live And in Isa 26. 4. We are hidden to Trust in the Lord for ever for that in the Lord Jehovah is Everlasting Strength It was the Sin of Israel of old That they Forgat the Wonders God had Wrought for them And should we that have seen His Wonderful Works of Mercy toward us Suffer Future Difficulties or Dangers to Disarm Us of our own Experiences and God's Promises Should the Senâ—â— and Strength of his Great Mercies and Deliverances Stay but a little time with us and be iâ— Forgotten by us on the Approach of New Evils