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A72514	The practice of thankefulnesse; or Davids choyse directions how to prayse God In an exposition and application vpon the whole sixtie sixe Psalme. With a short treatise vpon the thirtie one, and thirtie two verses of the one hundred and seuenth psalme.	[Larke, Nicholas]	1622 (1622)	STC 15254.5; ESTC S124556	47,121	107

spirituall necessary more necessary most necessary innumerable mercies that hee hath shewed doth shew and according to his faithfull promise will shew vnto thee Remember these things and then thinke how for all thy often comming thy neuer ceasing to aske at him thy manifold wants thy great vnworthinesse yet though a father a mother a most kind friend would haue been weary hee neuer shewed himselfe troubled grieued or weary neuer put backe thy prayers nor kept backe his speciall mercy his most needfull mercy nor his sauing mercy from thee Thinking I say how for all thou hast giuen him sufficient occasion to prouoke him to doe it yet hee hath not done it oh bee thankfull oh be thorowly thankfull For who knoweth not that if he would he might haue turned away thy prayers from him he might iustly in anger and sore displeasure haue reiected them he might haue held backe his mercy from thee Oh what would become of vs if the Lord should refuse our prayers and turne away his mercy Oh then calamities fearefull desolation dreadfull destruction like a whirlewind and sore distresse and anguish would come vpon vs and wee should find none to helpe vs there could bee none able to comfort vs in the bitternesse of our soules wee should lament wee should cry out saying Oh are not all these griefes miseries troubles and euils come vpon vs because the Lord hath put our prayers backe from him and kept his mercy backe from vs O consider these things and let vs be wise let vs not still prouoke him to refuse our prayers by refusing his precepts let vs not still prouoke him to hold back his mercies by our holding backe our duties O that our secure generation so giuen ouer to manifold prouocation could so number their dayes as they might apply their hearts speedily to this wisedome neuer more need of this wisedome oh let vs be yet wiser let vs make sure that God shall continue not to turne away our prayers from him nor his mercy from vs and this we doe namely if we turne not away our hearing and obedient hearkening from his Word if wee hold not backe our obedience hee will not hold backe his acceptance if wee keepe not back our duty he wil not keepe back his mercy And if he keepe not backe our prayers from himselfe nor his mercy from vs oh how happie are we Then we haue assurance that he loueth vs forgiues vs will deliuer vs and saue vs heale our Land of all the miseries thereof teach vs in the good way wherein wee should walke and when wee make mone because of drought or famine he will heare the Heauens as it were crying for vs and make the Heauens heare the Earth gaping after raine for vs and cause the Earth to heare the Corne and the Wine the Oyle longing to grow forth for vs and will see that these shall heare vs according to our want and seuerall necessities My prayer from himselfe nor his mercy from me God makes a blessed exchange with his blessed seruants O man or woman that sayest otherwise ô thou that sayest I haue offered vnto God and he had no respect vnto it Iob 21.15 What profit should we haue to pray vnto him We haue fasted and hee beholds vs not we haue humbled our selues and he takes no knowledge of it wee find no such exchange we thinke the proud and wicked receiue more fauour then we doe we account t is but in vaine to serue him Mal. 3.13 O fearefull stout words against God and most false Gen. 4. except thou be naught as Cain was except thou be an Hypocrite as the Iewes were Isa 58. except thou be a wicked seruant as Iudas was which if thou be thou must blame thy selfe Otherwise thou shalt find his seruice an happy seruice thou shalt find a great difference betweene the righteous Mal. 3.17 18. and the wicked betweene him that serueth God and him that serueth him not betweene the religious and the irriligious thou shalt find a seruice like the seruice of a child to his deare and louing father For as a father with such a child so he makes a blessed exchange with his blessed seruants They bring him their offering Gen. 4.4 Rom. 12.1 Ps 115.12 Prou. 23. Matt. 7. Ephes 4. and he giues them his holy acceptation they giue him their bodies and he giues them his blessings they giue him their hearts and hee giues them his Spirit and his grace they giue him his worship Psal 50.23 and hee giues them the comfort of his saluation they honor him with their substance and he fils their barnes with abundance Prou. 3.10 Mat. 10.41 42. Iam. 4.8 Rom. 8.28 they giue his Messengers a small reward and hee giues them a great reward they draw neere to him and hee drawes neere to them they loue him Psal 91.14 15. Mal. 3.16 17. and hee makes all worke for the best vnto them they honour him and he honours them they thinke of his Name and he keeps in remembrance their name His glory is their iewel and he makes them his iewels they are euer sending vp their prayers and praises to him and hee is euer multiplying his mercies vnto them oh what a blessed exchange doth he make with his blessed seruants O wonderfull bounty ô admirable benignity behold and admire this blessed exchange it is worthy to be admired and magnified for euer For what is it for which God makes this exchange with his seruants Oh it is Isa 64.6 as out of them and as it is theirs euen no better then as filthy rags and what are they with whom hee makes it oh Mat. 8.8 Isa 64.6 as of themselues they are most vnworthy they are euen as an vncleane thing and what is that that they giue him considered in it selfe Oh it is none of theirs 1. Cor. 4.7 it is nothing but what he hath first giuen them it is nothing but what they haue first receiued of him it is only his very owne they must needs confesse saying What are we O Lord 1. Chron. 9.14 16. that we should be able or apt to offer any thing vnto thee for all things come of thy selfe and of thine own haue we giuen vnto thee all duties that we render vnto thee are first taught vs by thine own hand and all that thou exchangest with vs is thine owne it is all thine owne O Christian let this blessed exchange moue thee to bee euer in an holy exchanging with the Lord moue thee to glory in his liberality moue thee to hold no gaine comparable to godlinesse moue thee to serue the Lord with gladnesse mooue thee to come before him with reioycing mooue thee to maintaine to the face of all blasphemers that no seruice is so commodious to them that serue in it as the Lords seruice is to his seruants none so honourable none so comfortable and that he is most rich to all that