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fire_n	earth_n	heaven_n	water_n	7,702	5	6.4487	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27396	God only exalted in his own work, or, The works of God praiseth him in Sion, or, A song of deliverance from a great and sore captivity, thraldome, and bondage, under the King of Egyptian Darknesse ... witnessed unto and experienced in that vessel, whole earthly tabernacle bears the name of William Bennit ...	Bennit, William, d. 1684.	1664 (1664)	Wing B1892; ESTC R11102	8,395	14

God only exalted in his own Work OR THE WORKS of GOD Praiseth him in SION OR A Song of Deliverance from a great and sore Captivity Thraldome and Bondage under the King of Egyptian Darknesse the God of the World where the soul was fast bound as with strong Chains and Fetters but now ransomed by the out-stretched Arm of Gods Almighty power and come to Sion with Songs of everlasting joy upon thy head and hast obtain'd joy and gladnesse and thy sighing and mourning is fled away witnessed unto and experienced in that Vessel whose earthly Tabernacle bears the name of VVilliam Bennit Published in singlenesse and uprightness of heart from a constraint of Gods love to all those who are yet groaning and panting after the Lord in truth and sincerity that they may meet with some refreshment and incouragement in their journey and travels towards the Land of rest and peace Printed in the Year 1664. OH oh my soul my soul what hath the Lord even the Lord thy God done for thee oh what hath he done for thee oh my soul oh my soul a little while sit thee down in thy secret chamber of rest and quietnesse and there oh my soul a little meditate of the most excellent loving kindnesse of the Lord thy tender compassionate God of infinite bowells which he hath manifested to thee oh my soul of things past present and to come that so the perfect sense of the love mercy pity kindnesse tendernesse and compassion of the Lord thy tender God may alwaies rest in and upon thee oh my soul That oh my soul through the sense feeling and true remembrance thereof thou may be O blessed God praised glorified and magnified reverenced and honoured even the holy powerful eternal wonderful everlasting Name of the Lord God Almighty who inhabiteth Eternity who lives for ever and evermore and bound thereby to a bountiful kind loving tender pitiful merciful compassionate God towards all souls in the measure of God thy God who hath abounded in loving kindnesse towards thee oh my soul Oh! oh my soul my soul remember thou wert once a prisoner in the prison-house of darknesse strongly bound in chains and fetters a slave and a captive in the Land of Egypt under the servitude and slavery of the Prince and power of darknesse the God of the world the King of Egypt and through a sense of thy hard bondage and deplorable thraldome and miserable captivity oh my soul thou wert made in secret to cry and groan under thy burdens unto the Lord thy tender God whose bowells whose tender bowels of infinite pity unfathomable compassion did in mercy to thee hover over thee even in that thy sad miserable deplorable state first made thee sensible of thy sad captivity and so in the sense thereof and in the sense of thy own helplessnesse how didst thou cry cry unto the Lord God of pity for help and groan unto him for deliverance oh my soul and the Lord who opened thine eye and gave thee a glimpse of thy sad estate did hear thy groanings and thy cries and for his own Seeds sake set himself by the out-stretched arm of his power to deliver thee out of thy sad captivity in which thou wert without help of thy own and there must abode had not the Lord God of everlasting unfathomable bowels of pity had mercy upon thee oh my soul Oh! oh oh my soul my soul the remembrance of the tender love the tender pity the tender mercy of thy tender pitiful God how can it but even rend thy bowels even from top to bottome oh my soul and remember oh my soul how the Lord God Almighty through his sore plagues and righteous judgements executed upon Pharaoh the King of Egypt under whom thou wert a slave by an out-stretched arm and a mighty power by the slaying with the sword of his vengeance the first-born of Egypt brought thee out of the prison-house who broke thy chains in pieces and snapt thy bonds asunder and brought thee out of Egypt and set thy face towards Canaan the good Land that floweth with milk and honey And remember oh my soul how wonderfully the Lord God who by his mighty power and out-stretched arm brought thee out of Egypt preserved thee and upheld thee in thy long journey unto Canaan thy tedious way and passage through the sea and wildernesse how gently did he lead thee as a tender nursing father and carried thee as in his arms and bore with thee in his mercy towards thee when thou sometimes murmured against him because of the length and straightnesse of the way that he led thee in and because of the enemies thou had to encounter with by the way insomuch that thou sometimes backslided in thy heart towards Egypt and lusted after the flesh pots thereof and murmured against the Lord who so led thee about in such a crosse knotty way to that part in the which through the crosse straightnesse and length of the way was to die pine and wither and be worn away and fall in the wildernesse and not enter into the holy Land and yet the Lord thy tender God who did correct thee through his righteous judgements and as a tender-hearted Father did chastise thee for thy pining complainings and murmurings against him and thy secret backsliding toward Egypt did not destroy thee but bear with thy weaknesses and infirmities and nourished thee and cherished thee day by day and as a tender-hearted Mother nurseth the only tender babe of her womb who led thee by a pillar of a cloud by day which was a shadow unto thee from the heat and a pillar of fire by night which gave thee light by night when the Sun was under the earth who when thou wert an hungry he gave thee bread from heaven day by day fresh Manna morning by morning compassed about thy tent and gave thee water out of the rock to satisfie thy thirst yea oh my soul great greatly hath the mercy love pity and compassion of the Lord thy tender God been manifested towards thee how did he fight for thee and subdue thy enemies before thee and made way for thy passage yea remember remember oh my soul oh my soul how that after he had brought thee out of Egypt by his out-stretched arm and mighty wonderful power how mightily and wonderfully did he appear for thee to help thee in thy time of great need and extream distresse and great trouble even when Pharaoh and his great host followed hard after thee and pursued strongly to overtake thee and bring thee back again into Egypt under his slavery and servitude And when Pharaoh and his host followed so close after thee and the Sea the great Sea was before thee and mountains on each side of thee how great was the straight thou wert in and the trouble and sorrow that compassed thee about oh my soul that thou wert even at thy wits end scarce any hope of ever coming at the promised Land but

rather murmuring against the Lord saying in thy heart Oh that thou had staied still in Egypt and not come one step towards Canaan And oh oh my soul my soul in this time of thy greatest straight trouble even when thou wert without help of thy own thou cryed unto the Lord thy God who gave thee some glimpse of comfort saying he would fight for thee and thou shouldst be still and hold thy peace and so he by his mighty power made hard things to become easie unto thee and that which appeared as a thing unpossible unto thee he by his power made it become possible unto thee Remember oh my soul how he made a way for thee to passe through the Sea and divided the waters thereof hither and thither and by his mighty power carried thee through the Sea and Pharoah and his host he utterly destroyed in his wrath and delivered thee oh my soul out of his hand and destroyed them who who would have destroyed thee and gave thee dominion over them that had dominion over thee and thou sawest them lie dead as by the Sea shore glory glory glory ah glory glory and pure praises praises to God to the Lord God even thy God oh my soul And now oh my soul thou can sing a song of deliverance a song of victory triumph and go into the Sanctuary of God to the Altar of God thy God even God thy exceeding joy ah and upon the Harp thou canst praise God the Lord thy God thy delight and joy Oh! oh my soul my soul thou in the lowly fear and holy dread of the Lord thy tender God and in truth and righteousnesse livingly and experimentally canst say the Lord my God is my strength and my song he also is become my salvation he is my rock and strong tower his work is perfect a God the God of truth and righteousnesse just and right he is the holy one whose dwelling is on high in the holy place and with him also who is of a poor and a meek and a contrite spirit and that trembleth before his Holinesse and feareth and dread before his dreadfull Name ah ah thy right hand O Lord thy right hand O Lord God of power is become glorious in power is become mighty in power thy right hand O Lord God Almighty hath dashed in pieces mine enemies by the greatnesse O Lord my God by the greatnesse of thy wonderful excellency thou hast O Lord confounded them that rose up against me thou lettest forth thy wrath and consumed them as stubble before a mighty fire thou lettest forth the breath of thy fury blew upon them and scattered them as chaffe before a mighty wind Oh! oh who can stand before thy indignation thy dreadful indignation who can abide the extream fiercenesse of thy anger thy fury is poured forth like fire thou breakest the rocks in pieces the mountains tremble before thee the mighty God thou utterest thy voice and the Heathen tremble thou roarest and the Kingdomes are moved and the earth melteth at the appearance of thy presence who cometh with fire and thy Chariots like a whirle-wind thou renderest thy anger with fury and thy rebukes with flames of fire thou hast thy way in the whirlewinds and the Clouds are as the dust of thy feet Thou art the mighty God who can but fear before thee and tremble at thy eternal presence thou roarest out of thy Sion and utterest thy voice from thy Jerusalem and the Inhabitants of the earth tremble thereat but still thou art the hope of thy People and the strength of thy ransomed ones their strong Tower their present Helper in the time of their trouble Wherefore I 'le not fear though the Earth be removed and carried into the midst of the Sea and though the Sea roar and be terrible and the Mountains shake with the swellings thereof and the Hills fly before it though the tall Cedars of Lebanon fall and the strong Oaks of Rashan bend before it yet I will not fear The Lord is with me and he will not forsake me but he will help me and that right early Wherefore I will onely fear before the Lord before the Lord my God the mighty eternal God of mighty eternal Power who measureth out the Heavens as with a span and measureth the waters of the Seas in the hollow of his hand who comprehendeth the dust of the Earth in a measure and weigheth the Mountains as in scales and the Hills as in a ballance who taketh up the Islands as a very little thing before whose face the Heavens and the Earth flee away and behold there appeareth no more Sea Oh! who can but fear before thee O Lord my God the enemy said I 'le pursue I 'le overtake I 'le not spare my lusts shall he satisfied on him But O Lord O Lord God my God thou wert my God near to help in the time of need and in the time of greatest need appeared appeared in the greatest power of love O Lord thou blew upon them and the Sea covered them and they sunk as Lead in the bottom of the mighty Waters O Lord O Lord God who is like unto thee who amongst the gods is like unto thee the only God who art dreadful in holiness fearfull in praises doing wonders Oh! let the people hear and be afraid and the Dukes of Edom be amazed and let trembling take hold of the mighty men of Moab oh who can but fear before thee O Lord my God Thou hast redeemed me and led me forth in thy power and guided me in thy strength unto thy holy habitation thou wilt bring me in and plant me in the mountain of thy Inheritance in thy Sanctuary O Lord which thy hands have established wherein I shall live with thee O Lord my God for ever Ah! glory glory glory unto thee O Lord God my God The Lord is a man of war the Lord of Hosts is his name Pharaoh and his mighty men hath he drowned in the Sea but he hath saved thee oh my soul So Lord let thine enemies perish but let them that hope in thy mercie live for ever to declare thy wonders and magnifie thy name in the Land of the living Ah! glory glory ah glory glory to God the mighty God ah praises praises honour and thanksgiving unto thee O Lord my God who lives for ever and for evermore Amen Oh! oh what is this what is this that the Lord thy tender God of infinite bowels of pity hath done for thee oh my soul thou wert a slave in the Land of Egypt and the Lord hath redeemed thee oh my soul thou wert in darknesse and the Lord hath given thee light and thou wert under the region and shadow of death and he hath brought thee forth into the Land of life Thou wert in the prison shut up in the prison-house bound up with chains and fetters in the low dungeon of darknesse and he hath broken thy chains and snapt thy fetters