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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53899	A sermon preached November V, MDCLXXIII, at the Abbey-Church in Westminster by John, Lord Bishop of Chester.	Pearson, John, 1613-1686.	1673 (1673)	Wing P1009; ESTC R23235	9,602	27

Sanctuary the Church of God in after-ages followed the same Rule and without any scruple put upon themselves the same Obligation For having a due apprehension of the great Equity and Justice of the thing it self required whensoever the like Goodness of God was manifested to them though his Will was not expresly revealed when his Promises were fulfilled though the Prophesies ceased they thought it necessary to oblige themselves and their Posterity to the Duty as knowing that Thankfulness is a necessary virtue by the eternal Law of Nature and that the Design of God who changeth not could not but be the same for his Glory whensoever he made the same Demonstration of his Mercy Thus the Jews in their Dispersion being saved from a National Destruction of themselves instituted the Feast of Purim they ordeined and took upon them and upon their seed so that it should not fail that they would keep these two days every year And that these days should be remembred and kept throughout every generation every family every province and every city that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews nor the memorial of them perish from their seed It is easie to derive and justifie a Doctrin from so many holy Examples all beyond exception all the safest Patterns for our imitation It is easie to improve it if we will attend not only to the Truth but also to the Reasons and the Use of it And great Reasons there are whether we consider the Benefit received or the duty required First in reference to any signal benefit any extraordinary mercy received it is necessary we should have a true sense and firm persuasion of the work of God in it that we may learn to depend upon his Providence which we find so vigilant over us so beneficial to us that we may attribute nothing to our selves or sacrifise to our own nets that we may discern his hand in his own work and say with the Prophet I will praise thy name for ever because thou hast done it that we may speak as unfeignedly as emphatically To thee O Lord do we give thanks to thee do we give thanks Secondly this design of God teacheth man to make a true estimate and set a value upon the benefit received as coming from his hand How great soever any temporal deliverance may be which beareth proportion with the evil or danger escaped it can never be so great in it self as in the consideration of the deliverer No enjoyment on earth can equal this assurance that the preserver of men careth for us that the Lord taketh pleasure in his people We ought not to value so much any preservation as his favour who preserveth us because his loving kindness is better than life Again in relation to the duty of a grateful remembrance and sutable return of praise and thanksgiving this design of God ought to be embraced with all comfort and chearfulness For what greater honour can man receive than that God should desire to be honoured by him What greater advantage can we have than that he should therefore bless us that he may receive praise from us and purchase his glory by the expence of his goodness If God who enjoyed himself alone from eternity hath made all things for the praise of his glory if he hath designed to bless us that we may glorifie him and makes so advantageous an interpretation of the return of our thanks if he hath thus made his wonderful works to be remembred nothing but a wretched ingratitude can deprive us of them Lastly the equity and excellency of the duty enforce the obligation Here is not any thing required but what may be justly challenged what cannot be with any pretence denied There is a moral obligation between men to render to every man his due honour to whom honour and this divine acknowledgment is required upon no other terms Give unto the Lord the praise due unto his name It is required in a due proportion praise him according to his excellent greatness according to the manifestation of it This is the exercise of the blessed Saints and Angels in the nearest view of his perfections the language of heaven is Alleluja and there is nothing more heavenly upon earth For it is good to sing praises unto our God for it is pleasant and praise is comely O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the children of men I Am willing to suppose we may be in some measure by this brief discourse persuaded that if this Nation hath received any signal mercy as upon this day we are some way obliged to remember to acknowledge to give thanks for it If we be sensible of any extraordinary manifestation of the goodness of God towards us I hope we shall not be so singular as to desert all the examples of the people of God in former ages And as to the certainty of the mercy I think we may safely say with the Prophet O Godm thou hast taught us from our youth and hitherto have we declared thy wondrous works We have been all brought up in this persuasion hitherto we have thought the mercy great and the duty necessary Certainly we may without vanity say We have heard with our ears and our fathers have told us of the great works which God wrought for us in their days Hitherto we have believed them and praised him But if there be any which speak so much of our forefathers that we may give no credit to our fathers if they teach us that our eyes and our hands daily deceive us and therefore we must take heed lest we believe what we have heard with our ears if in that which we take to be so grand a conspiracy there was nothing of substance but only the species of a treason though the doctrin you have heard be good to other purposes yet as to this days assembly it will signifie little Being therefore the new Apologists for those Popish Conspirators have invented those shifts and excuses for them which they themselves though great Masters in that Roman art could never pretend to it will be necessary now to shew how this doctrin is applicable to this Nation how the Text agreeth with the day God hath made his wonderful works to be remembred saith the Prophet this is the rule The work of this day was his wonderful work The work of this day is never to be forgotten this I take to be our cafe We must acknowledge the first or we are most stupid and insensible we must perform the second or we shall be most unworthy and ungrateful First the work of this day was his wonderful work The providence of God is concerned in all events but is most conspicuous in his greatest mercies the mercy manifesting his goodness the greatness his power One Sparrow shall not fall to the ground without our Father saith our