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A46702	The vvorks of heaven upon earth, or, The eccellencie of praise and thanksgiving in part displayed in a sermon, inlarged into a treatise, preached at Taunton in the county of Somerset May 11. 1648, being the day set apart for the annuall commemoration of the deliverance of that town, by the reliefe which they received on May 11. anno 1645 / by Henry Jeanes ...	Jeanes, Henry, 1611-1662.	1649 (1649)	Wing J513; ESTC R20545	60,248	86

of Psalmes and thanksgiving procure increase of Gods gracious Spirit Trumpeters delight to sound and Musitians to play there where they may have their musick resounded back unto them by an eccho so doth God delight to bestow mercies where they are answered with an eccho of thankes The Sunne beames in their passage through the aire have but a weake heat and light but when once from some solid body they are reflected upwards they then gain a great increase or intention of both so though Gods mercies and our successes and deliverances be at first but few and small if they be reflected back unto God in songs of thanksgiving how wonderfully will they be inlarged The earth sends up those vapours to fill the clouds which shee received from them and hereby shee gaines a constant supply of seasonable dewes and rain so our returnes of thankes unto God for mercies received from him will draw down on us plentifull and refreshing showres of blessings Ezek. 34 26. But similitudes onely illustrate and therefore I shall further confirm the point from Gods promises and the Saints confident expectation of mercies upon performance of this duty of thanksgiving First Vide D. Twisse Vind●grat lib. 3. digress 1. from Gods promises of mercies upon our thanksgiving Matth. 25.29 unto every one that hath it shall be given and he shall have abundance Unto every one that hath that is unto every one that useth and improveth as diligently so thankfully unto Gods glory those Talents of mercy and gifts of grace which he hath received from God shall be given a greater increase and inlargement of those Talents and gifts Philip. 4.6 7. If thanksgiving bee joyned unto prayer and supplication then the peace of God which passeth all understanding shall keep your hearts and mindes through Christ Jesus Psalm 67.5 6. Let the people praise thee O God let all the people praise thee then shall the earth yeeld her increase and God even our own God shall blesse us Prov. 3.9 10. Honour the Lord with thy substance and with the first fruits of all thine increase so shall thy Barnes be filled with plenty and thy presses shall burst out with new wine Now to honour God with our substance is to praise him with our substance 1 Sam. 2.30 Them that honour me I will honour If we honour God ad extra he will honour us both ad intra and ad extra If we glorifie and blesse him declaratively if we acknowledge him to be glorious and blessed he will glorifie and blesse us operatively he will make us glorious and blessed What shall be done to the man said the King Ahasuerus to Haman whom the King delighteth to honour Hest 6.6 we may apply the interrogation to our purpose What shall be done to the Man to the Town to the County to the Kingdome which God the King of heaven and earth delighteth to honour how honourable glorious and happy shall such a Person such a Town such a County such a Kingdome be For Gods honouring of us is not like the empty titles of honour amongst men it carrieth reality with it and comprehends all sorts and kindes of blessings Because therefore God delighteth to honour the thankfull he will even study to heap mercies and successes upon them Reall and sincere praises then for our many deliverances in the by-past bloody warre would long ere this have established and made this Kingdome a praise in the earth so that now no new tempest had hung over our heads there had been an end not onely of our troubles but also of our feares and jealousies This annuall commemoration of your deliverance if there be vigour and life in it and if it doe not degenerate into matter of form onely will render you honourable with Gods people not onely of the present but also of succeding Ages nay it will make God himselfe to be a wall of fire round about your Town and the glory in the midst of her Secondly that thanksgiving obtaineth mercies at Gods hand is plain from the Saints confident expectation of mercies upon their thanksgiving And of this we have an instance in the Church Psal 124. where first he relateth amplifieth and magnifieth Gods goodnesse in her miraculous deliverance in the seven first verses she blesseth God for it verse 6. and having finished her thankesgiving she growes in the last verse unto a boldnes●e of hope for future help Our help is in the name of the Lord From Hos 2.15 we may gather that if we sing at the valley of Achor in the borders of the land of Canaan if we be joyfull and thankfull for the beginnings of mercy the initials of deliverance and reformation then the valley of Achor will be a door of hope a pawn of and in let to future and greater mercies unto a full deliverance unto a through and perfect reformation Every mercy that wee sing unto God for that we are joyfull and thankfull for we may call as Rachel did her first borne Joseph Genes 30.24 that is Adding and she said The Lord shall adde to me another sonne The thankfull man may call his mercies Josephs pledges of constant additionall mercies And thus have we seen how that mercies are the undoubted sequell and consequent of thanksgiving the ground of which is plainy hinted by Chrysostome in his 26. Homily on Genesis The reason saith he why God would have us be thankfull is that the gain which acreweth therby may redound to us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and that we may make our selves worthy of greater assistance or help Thankfulnesse makes us worthy of mercies though not with a worthinesse of merit that deserveth them yet with a worthinesse of condecency or fitnesse that prepareth the heart and affections and maketh them suitable unto mercies Which acception of worthithinesse is very frequent in Scripture Luke 3.8 Luke 7. ● Luke 20.35 Luke 21.36 Ephes 4.1 Philip 1.27 Coloss 1.10 1 Thess 2.12 2 Thess 1.5.11 3 John 6. Rev. 3.4 16.6 He that is truly thankfull for part and received mercies unfainedly and sincerely desireth and endeavoureth to render unto God the honour praise and glory of them which was the end God aimed at in bestowing them and therefore he is though not meritoriously yet acceptably qualified and fitted for the receit of future mercies he is to use the expression of the Apostle Coloss 1.12 Made meet to be a partaker of the inheritance of the Saints in light I am now come at length unto the last proofe of the excellency of thankfulnesse and thanksgiving A comparison of it with other graces and duties and this comparison shall be first in generall with all other graces and duties secondly in speciall with the prayer of petition First in generall with all other graces and duties In every thing give thankes for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus 1 Thess 5.18 where the will of God may perhaps be taken by way of excellency for that which is a

omnium reliquarum virtutum And if we except faith wee may affirme as much of gratitude unto God If wee are taken with an high descent and originall of things why thankfulnesse is the product of the noblest and most divine of graces But can there bee a stronger proofe of its excellency and more prevaling motive unto the love and practise of it then Gods gratious acceptation of it wonderfull complacency in it and extreame jealousie for it shall not we have a very high esteeme of that then which there is nothing dearer unto our God It is you have heard as musick to his eare as sweet wine to his tast as a rich and pretious perfume to his nostrils Can wee then withhold it from him and yet pretend that wee beare any love and respect unto him and professe that wee are his servants and subjects It is the great end of the greatest and most glorious of his workes and mercies and shall we by our unthankfulnesse attempt to frustrate or disappoint God of this his end shall wee stop and withhold from God that which hath been the principal scope of the sweet influences of his goodnesse upon us Are you affected with virtue pleasure or profit why all these kindes of goodnesse as you have heard at large are most eminently applyable unto the grace of thankfulnesse and duty of thanksgiving If you enter into a comparison of it with other graces and duties you shall find it to bee in divers respects unmatchable for of all graces and duties it comes fullest closest and neerest up unto the highest end Gods glory and besides it is more durable then other graces whose exercise and proper acts are of use only in this life but after wee are translated from death unto life thanksgiving will bee our eternall exercise in heaven And therefore let us redeeme as much time as we can for the performance of it here upon earth You have seene how the prayer of petition compared therewith is over ballanced thereby in regard of necessity comfort and dignity And hence David the sweet singer of Israel upon whom the spirit of prayer and supplication was powred in a most abundant measure did yet it seemes more abound in the prayer of thanksgiving then in that of petition For we reade of his praying but thrice a day Psal 55.17 Evening and mourning and at noone will I pray and cry aloud but he makes mention of praising God seaven times a day Psal 119.164 As also in the very depth of the night At mid-night will I rise to give thanks unto thee Psal 119.62 To conclude this use this duty will be a great part of our happinesse in heaven and therefore it is but sit that it should be a cheife part of our businesse here upon earth it is now the musick of Heaven of the blessed Angels and glorified spirits with whome if wee bee not in consort now wee may justly feare everlasting seperation from them hereafter The state of grace is an ●incohation of the state of glory and therefore wee can have no ground to assure our selves that wee shall praise God everlastingly in heaven unlesse heer on earth our hearts bee put in tune and we study and learne the song of Moses and the Lamb. Secondly from the excellency of praise and thanksgiving wee may bee exhorted to observe a due manner in the performance thereof to performe it Preparedly Reverently Zealously and Entirely First Preparedly So excellent divine and glorious a duty cals for the utmost preparation that is possible of our understandings wils and affections and accordingly the Psalmist tels us Psal 65.1 Praise wayteth for thee O God in Sion that is all true members of the Church of which Sion was a type have their hearts in tune in a readinesse and due frame for this worke In Psal 57.7 8. and Psal 108.1 2. We have David making a profession of his both habituall and actuall preparation for it First he professeth how he was habitually fitted and prepared for it vers 7. My heart is fixed or prepared O God my heart is fixed or prepared I will sing and give praise The ingemination of this profession of his preparation for praise denoteth either the absolute and great necessity of it or else his wonderfull exactnesse in it In verse 8. he betakes himselfe unto an actuall preparation for it he awakeneth and rouzeth up all that within or without him may contribute unto the work Awake up my glory awake Psaltery and Harp I my selfe will awake early If the alacrity of the sweet Singer of Israel must be thus awakened to give praise unto God O then what rowzing and stirring up doth not backwardnesse and dulnesse stand in need of In that exhortation of Paul Coloss 4.2 to watch in prayer with thankesgiving the watchfulnesse there required is referred to thankesgiving as well as prayer To fit us for both prayer and thankesgiving we must have both our heads and our hearts wakefull they are both duties of such neere and intimate communion with God as that they are not to bee come unto with drowsie and sleepy soules Thankesgiving is a kinde of Heavenly and Angelicall worship and therefore should not be appreached with earthly hearts In it to aply that speech of Moses Exod. 3.5 wee turn aside to see a great sight Gods greatnesse and goodnesse and therefore put off thy shooes from thy feet all low earthly and sensuall affections So a The new Annotations some allegorize the phrase because the shoo●s being next the earth are usually more foule and dirty Secondly so excellent and divine a duty is to be performed reverently God is fearfull in prayses Exod. 15.11 therefore his praises are to be celebrated with an awfull feare and religious reverence and accordingly Junius and Tremellius render the words Reverendus landibus to be reverenced or feared in prayies And that God is to be reverenced or feared in his praises is plain first because joy a main ingredient of our praises is to be with trembling Psal 2.11 Secondly because the object of our praises mercy and goodnesse should affect us with a filiall feare Psal 130.4 Jer. 33 9. Thirdly so heavenly and glorious a duty is to be performed zealously and devoutly and not perfunctorily or slightly to be slubber'd over Psal 66.2 Sing forth the honour of his name make his praise glorious saith the Psalmist In the originall it is Put glory to his praise it is saith Mollerus as if he should have said Be not dull sluggish or drowsie in the celebration of Gods benefits do not content your selves with ordinary praises let them be in as glorious and honorable a manner as it is possible according unto the utmost of your powers with all your hearts souls strength and might Hither also may you referre those places wherein 't is said that God is greatly to be praised Psa 48.1 Psa 109.30 Psa 145.3 There is an extensive and an intensive greatnesse and both must be found