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A81245	A model of true spiritual thankfulnesse. Delivered in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons, upon their day of thanksgiving, being Thursday, Feb. 19. 1645, for the great mercy of God, in the surrender of the citie of Chester into the hands of the Parliaments forces in Cheshire, under the command of Sir William Brereton. / By Tho. Case, preacher in Milkstreet London, and one of the Assembly of Divines.	Case, Thomas, 1598-1682.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1646 (1646)	Wing C833; Thomason E323_4; ESTC R200593	35,919	45

have shewed * Vide pag. 8. before He will ever be mindful of his Covenant and therefore the sutablest Return that we can make is the making good our Covenant to God the payment of our Vows to him Thy vows are upon me Psal 56.12 I will render praises eo thee Sixthly in Believing Sixthly in believing Let God deliver a thankful heart and it will trust him another time And Israel saw that great work which the Lord did upon the Egyptians Exod. 14.31 and the people believed the Lord and his servant Moses that was a thankful Return indeed a people or person cannot more honour God then by believing on him Abrabam was strong in faith Rom. 4.20 giving glory to God God did this great work upon the Egyptians on purpose that they might believe him ever after The Psalmist observe it Thou breakest the heads of the Dragons in the Waters Psal 74.14 Thou brakest the head of the Leviathan in pieces Who was that Leviathan who were these Dragons Surely none other but Pharaoh and his Armie as huge as the Leviathan as fierce as Dragons Oh they had stings in their heads I but God brake their heads and quencht their stings in the waters To what end Thou gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting in the wildernesse What did the Israelites powder up the carcases of these Leviathans and Dragons the Egyptians to serve them for Victuals while they kept Lent in the Wildernesse No he gave them to be meat not food for their bodies but food for their faith that as long as they should travel in the wildernesse where they should meet with innumerable multitudes of nonplussing oppositions and dangers they might remember the Dragons and the Leviathan as David after did the Lion and the Bear and their faith might be strengthned when it had fed well on the remembrance of that wonder of salvation And so it was for the present Israel saw that great work which the Lord did upon the Egyptians and they believed the Lord and his servant Moses a blessed frame of heart and fruit of Thankfulnesse would it have held but there was their folly and unthankfulnesse they would not feed upon this experience and it became their sin and their ruine in the wildernesse How long will this people provoke me Numb 14.11 how long will it be ere they believe me for all the signes which I have shewed them in the wildernesse In this Wildernesse they shall wander Verse 33. and there they shall die But to proceed Seventhly in ordering the conversation Psal 50. ult A Seventh operation of Thankfulnesse is A well-ordering of the Conversation He that offereth me praise glorifieth me but to him that ordereth his conversation aright c. It is a kinde of honour done to God to keep a day of Thanksgiving to hear two Sermons to sing Psalms to pray and praise c. but the main work is the ordering of the Conversation or as the Hebrew signifies disposing of ones way aright Thankful lips do well but thankful lives do better A day of thanksgiving is somwhat but a life of thanksgiving is all Eighthly in desires that others would praise God Eighthy a thankful heart is fill'd with enlarged desires that others that all would be thankful The holy Psalmist here cries out to all that receive mercies that they would return praise● c. He observeth how much men take in from God and how little men lay out for God and is troubled at it He cries out as a man in pain and grief of spirit Oh that men would praise the Lord He would not willingly have God be a loser by any of the wonders he doth for the children of men and surely this an high expression of Thankfulnesse when the heart travels with holy desires that all the world might come in and be tributary to the glory of God it is the designe of the 148 Psalm thorowout the thankful Psalmist engageth heaven and earth Angels and men the whole Creation to come in and help him keep a day of Thanksgiving A gracious heart doth not think it enough to praise God alone though it would be praising God were there none in heaven or earth to bear it company To that end Ninthly Ninthly in talking of Gods works sal P. 145. 10 11 12. a thankful heart delights to be talking of the wonderful works of God Thy Saints shall blesse thee they shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom and talk of thy power to make known to the sons of men thy mighty acts And the Psalmist doth not intend to binde this burden upon others that he might might withdraw his own shoulders no he looks upon it as a priviledge as well as a dutie and therefore engageth himself I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majestie Verse 5. and of thy wondrous works A gracious heart delights to be spreading and publishing of the wonderful works of God repeating and reckoning up all his loving kindnesses I will mention the loving kindnesses of the Lord and the praises of the Lord Isa 63.7 according to all that the Lord hath bestowed on me and the great goodnesse rewards the house of Israel which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses so sings the Church Isa 63.7 And this the Saints do to the end that they may not onely provoke one another to set forth his praises but that they may render their God glorious to all the world and propagate and perpetuate the memory of his wonderful works to all generations One generation shall praise thy works to another and shall declare thy mightie acts that is one generation shall make over the report and memorial of the glorious cts of God unto another that so he may have the glory of what he doth in one age in all the succeeding ages and generations of the Church to the end of the world Psal 78.5 This was the testimonie which the Lord established in Jacob and the Law which he appointed in Israel That they should make known to their children the strength and the wonderful works which God hath done to what end That the generation to come might know them Verse 6. even the children which should be born who should arise and declare them to their children c. according to this Law your may finde them acting Vers 2 3 4. Verse 2. I will open my mouth I will utter darksayings of old Verse 3. Which we have heard and known and our fathers have told us Verse 4. We will not hide them from their children shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord and his strength and his wonderful works that he hath done They had received the memorial of the wonders of God from their fathers and they will hand it down to their children that the wonders of God might be

c. And therefore this is to be found onely in the Saints Psal 33.1 Rejoyce in the Lord ye righteous for praise is comely for the upright Let the Saints be joyful in glory Psal 149.5 6. let them sing aloud upon their beds let the high praises of God be in their mouthes c. they be the Righteous onely the upright the Saints in whose bosoms this grace dwells and who can manage this Spiritual service and duty of rejoycing and praising the Lord in a right manner Indeed the holy Psalmist doth often expresse the workings of his heart upon the receipt of great deliverances and mercies under the notion of gladnesse all over the Psalms but you are to take it as a Synonymon or t'other expression of thankfulnesse not a meer stirring of natural joy and complacency in and for deliverances and mercies but the Spiritual movings and sparkling of his aff●●ction towards God in witnesse whereof you shall never sinde that notion stand single but like the * 1 Cor. 6.17 Spirit of the holy man himself joyned unto the Lord either as the Author or as the Object of his Gladnesse I will be glad and rejoyce in thee Psal 9.2 And Be glad in the Lord Psal 32.11 ye righteous And Thou Lord hast made me glad through thy work Psal 92.4 c. to shew that his gladnesse was sanctified and spiritualized into the grace of Thankfulnesse And indeed Grace is nothing else but the natural affection baptized as I may so say and regenerated by the holy Ghost and the Blood of Christ faced and pointed upon God as its proper and highest object Set your affection on things above not on things on the earth Coloss 3.2 Set and Set not the affection is not changed in the matter of it but in the object So natural sorrow and grief spiritualized and set upon the right object sc upon an * Mich. 7.9 offended God is the grace of * ● Cor. 7.9 Repentance And Anger sanct fied and faced upon Gods dishonour is Zeal And Love fired with a flame from Christ and carried up in that flame to Christ is no longer the affection but the grace of Love sic in caet And thus natural joy and gladnesse heavenlized and set upon God 2 Joh. 4.19 is the grace of Thankfulnesse And this is the first difference Gladnesse or Joy is but a natural affection Common to good and bad to man and beast but Thankfulnesse is that affection sprinkled with the Blood of Christ proper onely to the Saints because like the Saint himself it is made partaker of the divine Nature 2 Pet. 1.4 Secondly they differ in their Rise or Ground Second difference Rise or Ground The Rise or Ground of Gladnesse as it is a meer natural affection is meerly the poss ssion of some sutable desirable Good which comes in whether National or Domestick or Personal together with those natural fruits and improvements which arise and grow upon it As here in the Text Then are they glad what is the Rise Because they b● quiet●● they are now out of those fears and dangers which made their hearts work as tempestuoussy as the Sea it self Safety and rest are the ground of their joy glad the storm is over and they safe in the Haven And so you may proportion it in your thoughts in other deliverances and mercies National or Private Gladnesse riseth not higher then the bulk and body of the Good it self as the rich fool in the Gospel lookt upon his heap of wealth and glads his soul in it and in the advantages he promiseth himself from it Soul here are goods l●id up for many yeers Luke 12.19 he shall need to take no more care or thought as long as he lives take thine ease eat drink and be merrie The Grounds of Thankfulnesse But now the Grounds and Rise of Thankfulnesse they are of a more generous and divine Nature such as these 1. A Spiritual Title First a Spiritual and Divine Right to mercies a Scripture-title What is that Why the Saints have Fi st a Right of Sonship The wicked have a Right to what they have not onely a civil right before men but a divine right b●fore God but it is but a Right of Creation they have a right To the Creatures but it is but a right Of the Creatures But now th● S●ints have a right of Sonship If children Rom. 8.17 then heirs of God and joynt heirs with Christ. Whatever mercy or deliverance they have it is part of their childes portion though they are not joynt-purchasers yet they are joynt-heirs with Jesus Christ they have all by inheritance Heb. 1.2 as Christ is Heir of all things so they in him All is you●s and you are Christs and Christ is Gods 1 Cor. 3.22 23. And thus ●eing Children and Heirs they have a Seco●d Right and that is a Right of Promise or Covenant and therefore Believers are call'd The children of promise Rom. 9.8 because they be both a 2 Pet. 1.4 begotten and b 1 Tim. 4.8 m●int●in'd by promise whatever they have they have by promise Godlinesse is profitable for all things having the promise of the life that now is and that which is to come Others are fed out of the Common basket of Providence they are fed out of the Ark of the Covenant which is the great List of the promises Every childe of God be he never so poor is served in Plate The words of the Lord are pure words as Silver tried in a furnace of earth He speaks of the word of promise Psal 12.6 So that if it be but bread and water yet it is served in to a childe of God in the silver and golden vessels of the Promises And this affects them more then all the bulk and heap of mercies and comforts which they do possesse or that worldlings do possesse Thou hast put more gladnesse into my heart then in the time that their corn and their wine encreased Psal 4.7 How Why by the shines of his face and favour as Vers 7. This is the Rise of a gracious Joy and Thankfulnesse That what he hath he hath not onely by Gods leave but with Gods love not by Creatureship onely but by Sonship not by providence onely but by promise With the men of the world the Principal is more then the Interest but every childe of God accounts his Interest more then the Principal Therefore you shall finde the Church glorying in this That all her deliverances and mercies are Covenant-mercies If God destroy her enemies she looks upon it as a fruit of the Covenant He is the Lord our God his judgements are in all the world She triumphs in the execution of Gods righteous judgements upon the enemies of the Church Psal 105.7 but upon what ground It follows He hath remembred his Covenant for ever c. It was a