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A91754	Sions praises. Opened in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, aldermen and common council of London: on the day of solemn thanksgiving unto God for his long and gracious preservation of that great city, from pestilence, fire, and other dangers. By Edward Reynolds. D.D.	Reynolds, Edward, 1599-1676.	1657 (1657)	Wing R1289; Thomason E915_4; ESTC R207479	16,805	36

11. Higher then the highest Eccles. 5. 8. there being none holy besides him 1 Sam. 2. 2. He is God alone among the gods there is none like him Psal. 68. 8 10. He is exalted far above all gods Psal. 97. 9. Who is a God like unto our God Mic. 7. 18. Exod. 15. 11. Who shall not fear thee O Lord and glorifie thy name for thou onely art holy Rev. 15. 4. In the next respect it implies 1. A Rejoycing in him as our onely Good Rejoyce in the Lord O ye righteous for praise is comely for the upright Psal. 33. 1. So the Prophet concludeth his Tryumphal song Although the Figtree shall not blossom neither shall fruit be in the Vines the labour of the Olive shall fail and the fields shall yeeld no meat the flock shall be cut off from the fold and there shall be no herd in the Stalls yet I will rejoyce in the Lord I will joy in the God of my salvation Hab. 3. 17 18. 2. A preferring him in our estimation infinitely above All as our soveraign and principal end living dying thinking speaking working walking so as that he may be glorified in us and by us Rom. 14. 7 8. 3. An acknowledging unto him his free and rich grace in all those manifold mercies and precious promises wherewith he hath blessed us in his beloved who are less then the least of all the goodness and truth which he hath shewed unto us For it is of the Lords mercies alone that we are not consumed An humble sence of our own misdeservings and utter unworthiness is essential unto this duty of praising God The Pharisees thanksgiving had a contradiction in it God I thank thee that I am not as other men or as this Publican Pride and praise are inconsistent whosoever arrogates to himself derrogates from God not unto us not unto us but unto thy name we cannot give glory to God till we disown it our selves Psal. 115. 1. when the Apostle begins and concludes with thanksgiving he doth not onely recounts Gods mercy but his own unworthiness I was a Blasphemer a Persecuter injurious ignorant unbeleeving the chief of sinners I thank Christ Jesus our Lord unto the King eternal immortal invisible the onely wise God be honour and glory 1 Tim. 1. 12 17. 4. Invocation of his name and dependance upon his grace as the onely fountain of all our comforts Sing shout publish ye praise ye and say Lord save thy people Jer. 31 7. As prayer makes way for praises when our petitions are answered call upon me in the day of trouble I will hear thee and thou shall glorifie me Psal. 50 15. So praises for mercies past do encourage and enlarge the heart to wait upon God for the supply of our present wants He hath delivered he doth deliver therefore we may trust that he will yet deliver 2 Cor. 1. 10. Lastly Obedience to his commands when the sence of his soveraign Authority over us as the Lord and of his special grace unto us as our God doth engage our hearts to glorifie him in an holy conversation for herein is God honoured when his servants do bring forth much fruit Joh. 15. 8 Hereby we put to silence the ignorance of foolish men and by our good works do cause enemies themselves to glorifie God as being ashamed to accuse their good conversation 1 Pet. 2. 12 15. 3. 15 16. Justin Martyr professed that the constancy of the Christian Martyrs was the means whereby he was converted to Christ We see the Duty and the Title upon which it is due The Lord for his Excellencies in himself Thy God for his Goodness unto thee Let us next consider the Subject from whom it is due Jerusalem and Sion God made all things for himself and will have the glory due unto his name from all his creatures Prov. 16. 4. all things are of him and therefore all things are to him Rom. 11. 36. But there are three different ways whereby this glory cometh unto him from his creatures 1. Per modum providentiae in a way of general Providence when the motions order influences beauty glorious contexture and admirable co-operation and concurrence of all creatures unto some excellent {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} or consummate issue do shew forth the wisdom power and goodness of that supream Moderator who leadeth such variety of agents unto one end as the Artificer tempereth many colours unto the setting forth of one beautiful Table And thus Heaven Earth Sea Snow Ice Hail Birds Beasts are said to glorifie and to praise the Lord Psal. 19. 1 2. Psal. 148. 3. 10. 2. Per modum Justitiae in a way of judgment and severity when the Lord by the power of his Justice doth fetch glory out of wicked Angels and men and doth compulsorily drive them unto those ends which they never intended as the Smith by his Furnace and Hammer worketh-iron into those shapes unto which it could never have reduced it self And thus they whose whole study it is to dishonour God when they fly out of the order of his Precepts do fall under the order of his Providence and are made by their perdition to bring glory unto him For this purpose saith the Lord unto Pharaoh have I raised thee up that I might shew my power in thee and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth Rom. 9. 17. And so the strong enemies of God who had been a terror unto his people are said to glorifie him when they are reduced to heaps and ruine never to be built again Isa. 25. 2 3. The Lord in the thing wherein they dealt proudly shewing himself to be above them Exod. 18. 11. 3. Per modum Obedientiae in a way of obedience when a creature doth voluntarily actively intentionally set it self to bring glory unto God and knowing the end unto which God hath ordained it to work Ephes. 2. 10. doth accordingly apply it self to conform unto the will of God therein and thus none can indeed praise God but Jerusalem and Sion his name is nowhere so great as in Israel Psal. 76. 1. whether we respect his own manifestations of himself in his word and gracious covenant which he hath magnified above all his name Psal. 138. 2. and which he hath shewed unto his Church and not unto others Psal. 148. 19 20. or his peoples chearful adoration of him and trust in him according to the tenor of that word and thus they who are called by Gods name are in special manner said to be created for his glory Isa. 43. 7. God hath done most for them taken them nearest unto himself Deut 4. 7. set them a part and fitted them for his own use Psal. 43. 2 Tim. 2. 2● most notably revealed himself and the secrets of his love unto them Matth. 11. 25. Psal. 25. 14. Joh. 14. 21. They are most able to praise him because they have his special and peculiar favour called the favour

28. Lev. 5. 15. The antients called them {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} things belonging unto the Lord It is true our goodness extendeth not unto him a man cannot be profitable unto God yet we must obey him though we cannot do him good First therefore let us give our selves unto him and by a solemn covenant become the Lords people 2 Chron. 23. 16. 2 Cor. 8 5. resolving as a purchased people to live to him and not unto our selves Rom. 14. 7 8. and when we have given our selves to God we shall more readily give him what ever else he requireth for every thing else will follow a mans self Let us therefore labour for large hearts towards God to be rich in good works ready to distribute willing to communicate No riches are durable but those that are consecrated unto God Isa. 23. 18 Manna in the house had worms Manna in the Tabernacle endured Rust se s●th on met●al that lies still keep it in motion and it never rusteth there is a scattering Solomon saith which tendeth to encrease Prov. 11. 24. He hath dispersed saith the Psalmist he hath given t● the poor his righteousness endureth for ever his horn shall be exalted with honour Psal. 112. 9. Men will buy great honour at a dear rate Act. 22. 28. Here Alms deeds which use not to be very great sums exalt a man unto honour Riches take wings righteousness onely endureth Our glory will not go after us we shall carry nothing of our wealth with us Psal. 49. 17. but our works will follow us into another world Rev. 14. 13 when you trade into other Nations you cannot transport their money and treasure but if you turn them into other commodities them you may transport to another Country so our silver and gold we cannot carry to heaven with us but turn them into good works and they will follow you as far as heaven In trading I suppose you esteem it a very fair return if you get one in five bu● in sowing you part with one and haply reap ten in the Harvest and to be sure when the sowing is on earth and the reaping in heaven we shall have a better return then Isaac had who reaped an hundred fold Gen. 26. 12. As Sanctuary measure was double to other measures so Sanctuary returns are double centuple to other returns Ask then your souls the question What shall I render unto the Lord what shall I do for so good a God I have my life my comforts my soul my heaven from him what shall I do for his name Remember you have the truth of God a precious depositum which Solomon bids us buy and not sell Prov. 23. 23. Countenance it propagate it as you are able Hypocrits will be at great charges for a false way to heaven thousands of Rams rivers of oyl Mic. 6. 7 8. Be you ready with heart and hand to further the truth You have it many places want it there are places where two three four town belong to one Parish where the maintenance of the Gospel is not twenty pounds a year many a soul may go to hell in such places for want of the Gospel Many haply of you are risen to great estates who may remember such famished Congregations in the Countries where you were born O then if you have seen and tasted how good the Lord is to your souls endeavor to snatch others out of the fire that they may taste of Gods goodness too Haply it may lie in your way and power to stir up superiors to take some course in so necessary a work as this Shew your selves valiant for the truth study what may be done to preserve it and to remove that deluge of errors which would plunder you of it remember David Josiah Nehemiah what they did for the House of God and the Offices thereof You have the Messengers and ambassadors of Christ remember what Hezekiah did He spake comfortably to those that taught the good knowledge of the Lord 2 Chron. 30. 22. Remember what your selves in this City have been famous for in this business of encouraging your faithful Ministers and as the Lord speaking of the distress of Jerusalem which should have no parallel to liken it unto said Ariel shall be as Ariel Isa. 29. 2. so let London in this particular be as London continue to love to countenance to esteem beautiful the feet of those that bring glad tidings of peace Shew your honour to the Lord by your love to his Officers it will be so much the more your crown and comfort by how much the more they are reproached by others Lastly You have the poor Members of Christ amongst you He indeed who was once poor and was ministred unto himself Luk 8. 3. is now in glory but he is cold and hungry and naked and sick and suffers in many of his members still Col. 1. 24. Help them with your bounty as Christians help them with your orders and Authority as Magistrates where you can do neither help them with your prayers with your comforts as fellow-members Rejoyce with them that rejoyce and weep with them that weep remember none of us lives to himself none of us dyes to himself we are the Lords workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works which he hath ordained that we should walk in them Let it therefore be our chief care and study to live to the praise of his glorious grace and to shew forth the vertues of h●m that hath called us out of darkness into has marvellous light The more glory we bring unto our Lord on earth the more glory doth he provide for us in heaven FINIS Psal. 16 2. Psal 50 12 Job 22 2. R●m 11 35. Deut 4 7. Isa 43 11. ● Pet 2. 9. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Phil. de Sacrif. Abel Cain vid. Bernard In Can● serm. 13. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Clem. Alex. Strom. l. 7. Apolog. 1. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} c. Chrysost. in Psal. 148. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} c. Basil in Psal. 23 {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Plutar. Apophth H●s 7 9 10 Isa. ●2 25. Exod. 8 15. Ez a 9. 8. Jer 47. 6. 1 Sam. 15. 32. Tertul. Apol.