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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02702	Hezekiahs recovery. Or, A sermon, shevving what use Hezekiah did, and all should make of their deliverance from sicknesse. First preached, and now published by Robert Harris, pastor of Hanwell	Harris, Robert, 1581-1658.	1626 (1626)	STC 12836; ESTC S120679	31,744	59

3. Hee is the first spring and author of good all excellencie and honour is invested in him and derived from him and therfore must returne to him Rom. 11. ult 2. If we consider the thing it selfe thankes is due after mercies received and wee cannot withhold it without many incongruities first as is implied Religion is violated which tels us that wee 1. owe to God all possible service 2. that thanksgiving is a speciall worship wherin we transferre all honour from creatures to God Psalm 50. ult 3. that wee are no lesse bound to acknowledge Gods workings in our praises than his willingnesse in our prayers 2. Charitie is violated which bids us love an enemy much more a God to blesse those that curse much more those that blesse us to overcome evil with good much more to answer goodnesse with goodnesse Indeed kindnesse by the rules of friendship love in the Heathens judgements doth challenge eyther recompence if we deale with our matches or acknowledgement where the distance is great the greater this the greater that Now betwixt God us the distance is infinite and if t were possible our love thankfulnesse should fill up that distance and extend it selfe into infinitenesse On the other side not to bee as forward with our praises as prayers argues base selfe-love and servilitie and makes it appeare that wee love not God but his gifts nay in truth that wee secretly hate him For wee begrudge no man the praise of his kindnesse but whom wee eyther envie or hate now God is above the reach of our low envie and therefore our lothnesse to acknowledge him proceeds from our inbred enmity against him when of the twaine wee had rather denie his grace than yeeld our selves beggars and dependants 3 Iustice is violated we owe God thankes 1. in point of Law and covenant T is our profession our promise our cheefage and rent that is due to him so that the Orator spake not over when he intimated that Ingratitude was a kinde of Unjustice For what more unjust than to detaine against all desert and covenant Gods right 2. In point of moralitie and honestie in manners wee must reciprocate with men much more with God nor can he be an honest man who is not ashamed to be an unthankfull man 3 If wee compare the dueties no reason but we should be as full of thankes as prayers 1. I am sure we have as many mercies as crosses comforts in present and reversion as wants 2. All our sorrowes and afflictions are deserved all our comforts undeserved if that must not weaken our prayers surely this must greaten our thankes 3. Thankfulnesse will become us as much as beging nay as the Prophet adds as much benefit vs as much comfort us Thankefulnesse holds old mercies and wins new yea greater thankfulnesse is a surer evidence of love and sinceritie than prayer and no lesse a cause than a signe of joy if not senior to prayer in the world yet of more lasting at least of more excellencie in the world to come Once it is at least as needfull for us to give up praises as prayers for these reasons First we are for certaine as forgetfull of the consolations as of crosses nay more because we are more sensuall than intellectuall and fullest of selfe-love Secondly we are as likely to miscarrie in prosperity as in adversitie unlesse the one bee sanctified by thanksgiving as well as the other by prayer As Crosses without prayer will embitter us so Blessings without praises will swell us and make us giddie unlesse wee allay our wine with some of this sugar thankes I meane which is sweet in it selfe most comfortable to us and more acceptable to God than sweetest Wines or Incense Well we heare what should be now by way of reflection le ts doe two things whereof the first is fee what wee have done Prayers and praises should sucoced each other as day doth night summer winter what say you hath it bin so The truth is when I cast my thoughts backward unto publick proceedings I find what doth somewhat comfort mee I finde first that after publicke humiliations in 88. our most happy Queene was most publicke and solemne in her thanksgivings next after our deliverance in 1604. Nov. 5. a set time appointed for solemne praises thirdly after deliberation had some thanksgivings added to our publick prayers But when we looke into private passages alas wee are all too blame we goe to God in our distresses as Turkes use to goe to their Mahomet or others to their Ladie by troupes and Caravans but when we be delivered we returne like those Lepers in the Gospell scarce one in ten in twentie in a hundred To speake sooth most of us have small reason to glorie in our praiers they be too faint too few too much overrun with pride unbeleefe but in thankesgiving wee are starke naught worse than naught first we will not see wood for trees mercies for blessings when wee cannot tell how to looke besides them we will not fall upon them in our thoughts wants we see and so are still craving favours wee will not see and so are never thankfull When speech is of crosses wee have all crosses in body crosses in soule crosses in estate crosses in friends our life is made of crosses when of mercies we can finde none about house no money in purse no corne in barne no comfort in the house no friend in the world wee see no land nothing but sea Secondly when wee see wee will not speake when we fall upon crosses wee are cloquent beyond truth we adde we multiply we arise in our discourse like him in the Poet I am twice thrice miferable nay ten times nay twentie times nay a thousand times miserable But when it comes to mercies we speake of them as malefactors doe of their faults yeelde no more than what can be extorted from us or proved against us as if we were loath to peach God or our selves Or if thirdly wee say any thing it is rather to set up our selves than God and the sacrifice is intended to our netts witts providence more than to Gods mercie in truth we serve our selves in praises as Ignorants doe in prayers they set up flesh and estalish merit under a colour of prayer and wee under a flourish and varnish of God be thanked vent our pride and stroke our selves The worst unthankfulnesse is when men love not to be beholden to God Or lastly if some thing bee said that 's all for little is done True thankefulnesse stands in a reciprocation of affections actions Wee should returne love for love and service at least for kindnesse but wee doe not so It fares with us as once with Israel the care which tastes words as the raste doth meats was so filled with choler that they could relish no comfort Exed 6.9 whilest Moses and Aaron spake and our thoughts bee so sowred