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A42854 Glorifying of God the just tribute of a thankfull people, discovered and press'd in a sermon preach'd December 2. 1697. Being the day of thanksgiving for the peace. 1698 (1698) Wing G867A; ESTC R218331 35,273 66

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curabo Ecclesiam Deus pro me pugnabit I 'll take care of my Charge and the Defence of me belongs to God On the tidings of which the Duke disbanded his Forces Luther Expos in Isa 30. 15. Reformation and Holy Living of a Kingdom or Persons is Meant the Glory that Being indeed the Excellency and Glory of them God and his People being both Glorious in Holiness Now upon this Glory God Promiseth a Defensive-Shelter A greeably the Lord has Ingaged to Make that People's Enemies to be at Peace with them who in their Ways Please and Honour Him Prov. 16. 7. Nor can the Mightiest Force of the most Formidable Enemy Do any Hurt against those who Keep in with God and have Him on their Side as in Isa 8. 9 10. and Isa 54 1● Whosoever shall Gather together against thee sh●l Fall for thy Sake Without God there is Litt●● Hope but Against Him there is Certain Rui● Yea further as Evill will be Prevented so All Good will be Obtained by Giving the Lord his Due Honour Hag. 2. 19. From this Day forward will I Bless Thee viz. from the Day that they Took Care of the Temple Thus c 2 Chron. 7. 11. A● that Came into Solomon ' s Heart to Make in his own House and the House of the Lord he Pros●●rously Effected Carrying on God's House with his own he Prospered in his Way d 1 Chron. 29 12 14. Both Rich●● and Honour Come of Thee and in thy Hand it i● to Make Great and to Give Strength unto All. And his Promises of Blessing both for Th●● Life and That to Come are Made to Tr●● Godliness All Blessednesses according to the Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are Due to him that Shuns God Reproaching Courses and Delights in God's La● Psal 1. 2 and Ver 3. Universal Good Success Attends him God Metes out to Persons in their own Measure and Makes their Outward Estate to Carry Proportion to their Inward As ●● Rise or Fall in our Respects to the Lord accordingly shall we be Made either the Head or the Tail among the Nations The Stories of Joseph Judg. 6. 11. Psal 78. 70. Job 42. 12. Psal 113. 7 8. Moses David Gideon Job Daniel c. Shew us how God will Raise from the very Thr●shing-Floor from the Sheepfold and the Dunghil those Poor and Needy Ones who Signally Honour Him to Set them among Princes and to Make Them Inherit the Throne of Glory As Contrarily He Abaseth such as Refuse him His Glory by Hurling Some out of their Kingdoms and Throwing Down Others from their Principalities and Great Dignities turning them to Graze with Oxen to Teach them that the Most High Ruleth in the Kingdoms of Men and will ●e had in Reverence and his Name Sanctified by All People To Draw then to a Conclusion know ye That it Lieth much on the Inhabitants of our Kingdoms under God Whether such Good Beginnings of Mercy as we Commemorate this Day shall have an Happy End and Progress or a. Sudden and Doleful Conclusion And I must Profess my Serious Thoughts and Belief hereof hath Wrought within me a Posture of Soul much-Like to that of Eli's of 1 Sam. 4. 13. old When he Sate on a Seat by the Way-side Watching to Hear Tidings of his People's Welfare his Heart Trembling the mean while for the Ark of God the Pledg of his Gracious Presence O Christians I must tell you That as our Outward Deliverances and All other Temporal Mercies are very Imperfect Things and being but Means to Greater Matters the Interest of God and the Good of Souls can be of no Further Significancy or Advantage to us than as they Further us in God's Service so the Diverting of them to Other Uses contrary to the Design and Honour of the Lord may Easily Draw down Fiercer Indignation and much Sorer Judgments from Heaven on Us than we ever yet Felt or Suffered according to Ezra 9. 13 14. Believe it Brethren and so may All England with you That the Lord will be Lord over us and will Rule us either as Subjects or Rebels If by God's Establishing the Kingdom in the Hands of our Gracious King His Heart with Jehosaphat's shall be Lifted up in the Ways of 2 Chron 25. 16. the Lord and All our People shall Set their Hearts to Glorify their God who has thus Wo●derfully Delivered them the Lord will Rejoyce over us to Do us further Good as having his Hand upon them for Good that thus seek him Ezra 8. 22. But on the other Hand if we will not Conside the Operation of God's Hands nor Advance the Honour of his Name and the Welfare of Christ's Kingdom by the Blessings he Gives us to that Josh 24. 20. End He will Turn and Do us Hurt and Consume us after that he hath Done us Good I Close All therefore with my most Hearty Wishes That We may All from the Highest to the Lowest be Strong in Holy Purposes and very Couragious to Serve the Cause of God and the Publick Good with Absolute Resolution as firmly Believing That them that Honour God He will Honour and they that Despise Him shall be Lightly Esteemed 1 Sam. 2. 30. FINIS Page 42. Line 12. after for it adde Here then let All among us who in these Times of Common Danger have Perfidiously Enriched themselves by the Spoils of the Publick and made themselves Great by Robbing the Nation do their part and come forth with Achan and Give Glory unto the Lord by making Josh 7. 19. Luke 19. 8. Confession and with Zacheus full Restitution Their Sin is Villainous and Crying every such Offender being not only the Agent Mr. Baxt. Dir. of the Devill but his Image that Wicked Spirit making it his Businesse to Undo Men and bring them into Distresse and Misery 'T was Treachery against the Whole State Endangering the Publick Peace the Safety of the Government and the Souls and Bodies of Men by Tempting those that were less able to bear such Oppressions into Discontents Sedition and Insurrections Let therefore the Guilty in this kind know That it 's a Determin'd Case in Divinity that such Unlawfull Wealth ought to be Restored with all Damages and that there can't be a just Compensation made for such Wrong but according to the Proportion of the Guilt and the Loss compared together St. Austin tells them Non Remittitur Peccatum ni●● Restituitur ablatum Aug. That Without Restitution they can have no Remission and the Holy Movet C●rnicula risum Furtivis nudata coloribus Hor. Spirit assures them that How Great soever they may now look in the Kingdoms of Man they shall be Least and not thought worthy of a place in the Kingdom of God The Author's Absence hath occasion'd these Errata to Escape the Press As for Pointing and other small Literals the Reader is desired to pass 'em by PAge 4. l. 24. r. Sennacherib p. 5. l. 20. r. Affliction ib l. 29. r. Ps 66. p. 6. in Marg. r. Hos 14. 4. Ps 12. 5. p. 7. l. 26. r. Counsels p. 10. l. penult r. Arising p. 14. l. 18. r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 16. l. 4. r. Jehoshaphat p. 18. in Marg. r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 19. l. 30. r. he was p. 21. l. ult r. 2 Chron. p. 23. l. 16. r. Judges 7. p. 24. l. 5. r. Justice p. 25. l. 27. r. Conceitedly ib. l. 31. r. Counsel p. 27. l. 16. r. Doctrine p. 35. l. 27. r. Consecrating p. 37. l. 5. r. Blessings p. 38. l. ult r. and Prudent p. 44. in Marg. Ps 116. 2.