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A65741	Thysia 'aineseōs, or A thank-offering to the Lord for the happy recal of our dread soveraign Charles, by the grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. to his kingdoms and people. God save King Charles the II.	White, Henry, 1593 or 4-1661.	1660 (1660)	Wing W1771A; ESTC R219453	15,508	23

work of God upon the som a work of mercy such expressions as disagree not from reason and religion are imitable and commendable in which pious men are not to be blamed if they seem to forget themselves in remembring the great work of the Lord. 3. The Lord puts much honor upon them whom he maketh instruments of his peoples good yet it concerns them to remember Hoc factum à Domino This was the Lords doing and to tremble at the least defaulkment from his glory by assuming to themselves the least part of his due He is very tender in point of honor and will not endure his Crown upon the head of a creature it is well that they may partake of his mercy to cloud his Majesty is unsufferable Acts 12.23 Herod was smitten by on Angel because he gave n●t God the glory Epiphanius affirms it that there were none of the Sect of the Herodians left in his time Hath there been any time without such haughty spirits that from the love of self-excellence have challenged the whole glory of their actions to themselves Dan. 4.30 Is not this great Babylon that I have built for the house of my kingdom by the might of my power and for the honor of my Majesty Here is a voice of pride beyond the common stature of men but he was un-man'd for it and turned out to common with the beasts the fittest company for such who lose God in the gaze of themselves That of the Psalmist doth best become the thoughts and mouths of the servants of God Psal 115.1 Non nobis quib non à nobis Not unto us O Lord not unto us but unto thy name give glory Not to us because it was not of us It was thy doing not ours it is enough for us to have the fruit and comfort to thee onely O Lord be all the glory for ever 2. I may not omit what the Text subjoyneth to the adscription to the worker the admiration of the work It is marvellous in our eyes It was thy work and our wonder We have had factum a Domino The Lords work here factum mirabile His wonderful work Psal 111.4 He hath made his wonderful works to be remembred Remembred they may be comprehended they cannot be Were they not transcendent to the bounds of reason our knowledge would prevent admiration We admire what we understand not though something be seen yet there is more then we can see In Davids Exaltation after his rejection in Christs in our Kings all wonderful and appliable to all But the business of this day will licence me to look to the last the Lords making our King that was refused the Head and Ruler of His People Rom. 11.33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgements and his ways past finding out 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrys in Rom. 11. Hom. 19. That there was a depth he knew how deep it was he knew not The speach is of one admiring not of him that knew all We are not ignorant of what the Lord hath done yet we are to seek in all that he hath done and must make admiration our refuge as his people did after a great deliverance Num. 23.23 Quid operatus sit Deus What hath the Lord wrought If we fix our eyes upon the Sun in his brightness they are dazeled if we wade in the Ocean our feet fail us if we muse upon things too high for us our thoughts are puzled As creatures of the greatest sagacity sometimes lose the sent and are at cold hunting so the most sublimate wits are foundred in the great works of God Let the means be considered by which the Lord did this great work that help came from whence it was least looked for from a party not comparable to their adversaries in power in such a juncture of time when the pretended builders were past fear being fleshed with fresh victory the people past hope looking for no better then to be devoured by Publicans and Sinners to which if we add the way in which it was done without noise without bloodshed so many recovered without the loss of any a strong army scattered without conflict the wonderful providence power wisdom and mercy of God appeared in it even to astonishment That poor we unworthy we should live to see our gracious King by them dispised refused cast off with insulting recalled restored enthroned with honor prosecuted with abundant love and redundant acclamations of joy To see the almost ruined Walls of our Nation our good Laws repaired our lost Liberty recovered our Rights and Properties assured and that which is more dearest our withered Religion to flourish once again to meet a gale of good hope to see the Church raised out of her grave restored not to life onely but to health and beauty this this I say is wonderful in our eyes there is a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in it a depth not to be fathomed by the plumb-line of our understanding yet ever acknowledged with admiration published with grateful confession and though it cannot be throughly uttered yet it shall never be smothered but as a beacon upon an hill perpetually burning to the glory of our God Here was a wonderful wonder 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrys in Mat. 21. Homil. 69. as the Father hath it This in our eyes in the eyes of the receivers not of the refusers they look upon it with regret we with love and joy Psal 126.3 The Lord hath done great things for us whereof we are glad What shall we render unto the Lord You know what the Prophet said concerning the Shunamite from whose hand he had received benefits 2 King 4.13 Behold thou hast been careful for us with all this care what is to be done for thee VVe that have been so great receivers cannot but be sollicitous of a return unless incapable of gratitude Nolo vos Judaico notari opprobrio c. Bern. tom 1. super Cantic Serm. 13. I would not have you branded with the reproach of the Jews saith Bernard of whom the Scripture testifieth that they were unmindeful of the benefits of the Lord and the wonders that he had sh●wed them VVE cannot recompense but we ought to recount we cannot pay but we ought to publish Psal 26.7 That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving and tell of all thy wondrous works He honoreth the giver that publisheth his own receits he begets a good opinion of his benefactor in others that tells abroad all the good that hath been done for him New mercies call for renewed thankfulness Psal 98.1 O sing unto the Lord a new song for he hath done marvellous things Gods works are never old whilest their memory is fresh with us If we take new for excellent exquisite not vulgar but such as may be sutable to that which he hath done for us our words will be too low let us therefore borrow of others what our poverty cannot supply Let us borrow that Trisagium of the Seraphims Isai 6.3 Holy holy holy is the Lord of hostes the earth is full of his glory That Doxology of the heavenly Militia Luk. 2.14 Glory to God in the highest in earth peace good will towards men That Adoration of the four and twenty Elders Revel 4.11 Thou art worthy O Lord to receive glory and honor and power c. That Hallelujah of the heavenly Chorus Revel 19.1 Salvation and glory and honor and power unto the Lord our God Let our hearts warm the blessing let our tongues declare the work let the worker be hallowed in our lives that our greatest care being to walk worthy of his bounty it may please him to perpetuate his loving kindness towards us through Jesus Christ our Lord to whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost be all honor glory praise and thanksgiving now and ever Amen FINIS

more enthroned in the hearts of his People holding as strong residence in their affection as presidence over the Nations Not to speak of the way and means the happy instruments a small army from the North the scattering of an opposite army without a stroke striking the forwardness of Englands Metropolis the noble City of London the suddain concurrence of the whole Nation in the several parts of it and by the principal men remonstrating and declaring for a free Parliament their countenancing and encouragement from the Lord General such a Parliament called assembled and unanimously assenting and avowing to recal their King the dispatch of their Proclamations to declare His Right to protest their loyalty and subjection to perswade all to entertain Him as their Soveraign to the exceeding joy and super-abounding gladness of the People which hath rung through the Nation mounted up in multiplied flames like the Stars in number the air rent with acclamations and all these persued with publike thankfulness to God every good heart being a prepared altar for such an offering These considered not felt with the hand but poised in the ballance of a devout estimation we cannot doubt of the convenience of the Textual instance to our gracious King and dread Soveraign the same stone which the builders refused is become the head of the corner 2. I can stay no longer in the Instance the fore-wind of my Text filleth the sailes of affection and drive on to the Inference which is a part of application This is the Lords doing and it is marvellous in our eyes Two things here offer themselves unto us 1. An Adscription to the worker This is the Lords doing 2. The Admiration of the work And it is marvellous in our eyes 1. An Adscription to the worker This is the Lords doing 1. God is owned in it and he hath owned his servants whose prayers went up for a memorial unto him who hath returned a gratious answer never to be forgotten He hath signed their petitions with the broad Seal of his mercy which must be engraven upon our hearts with the indeleble characters of love and gratitude 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrysost in Psal 117. That which was done was not by man or men What hands soever were in it there was an hand above all which produced the blessed effect We exclude not the means though God needs them not Where the cooperation of second causes is allowed the main work is attributed to the first cause Let me be understood of what is truely and properly good The Lord is of purer eyes then to behold that which is evil and certain I am that he looketh not favorably on them that entitle him to it This work was great and good greatly good such as became the great God to do and with all willingness we acknowledge him the doer of it Non humanis viribus sed Dei potentia Hiero. in loc Psal 44.3 Done it was not by humane force but by Divine power so St. Herome They gat not the land in possession by their own sword neither did their own arm save them but thy right hand and thine arm and the light of thy countenance because thou hadst a favor unto them Their arms were not idle nor their swords useless we may well think that their hearts set their hands on work yet there was something above all these without the concurse whereof the victory had not been attained Let us leave mens sins upon their own score but give the Lord his due in all that is good What good is done by man be the instruments who you will it is the Lord that by them doth the good that is done This denieth not an acknowledgement to the hand by which the benefit is conveyed we may kiss the cup out of which we drink but our thanks must be carried to another The widow of Sarepta's kindness was gratefully received by the Prophet so was his entertainment by the Shunamite All the help we receive by the hands of others ought to reside with us and be requited if in our power Let them wear the robe that won the fleece let the Crown be ever set upon the right head let God have the glory 2. When the Lord hath done his work his great work he hath determined all ought to acquiesce in it Yet let me have leave to think that in works of this kinde all have not resented his goodness nor thankfully approved the operation of his hands The Critical humorists want not a black tooth to bite nor a bitter tongue to inveigh against the best performances Gods deliverance of Israel out of Egypt was not attested with thankfulness from the Egyptians but persued by hatred to his people so far were they from resting in it that they armed against it When God had chosen Saul to be King 1 Sam. 10.27 there were children of Belial who said How shall this man save us and they despised him and brought him no presents Homines nequam so Tremellius and Junius turn it men of perverse spirits who dislike that with which all others are pleased who adore no images but those of their own imaginations who arragate all to themselves but derogate from all others even from them whom God will have honored 1 King 1.40 When Solomon was advanced to the kingdom the people piped with pipes and rejoyced with great joy so that the earth rent with the sound of them This was harsh musick in the eares of Adonijak and his followers extremely disrelished the bit they gaped for fell into anothers mouth they were distasted because deprived of their expected sweetness Let the Lords doing be never so great or glorious male-contents self-seekers such as are sharp set upon their own emolument full of hope to have their turns served in their own way have still in them a contrary humor to the Lords doing They which see the hand of the Lord in it his right hand and that reaching forth a rich blessing to his Church and people are otherwise affected they magnifie the Lord their souls bless him for the benefit Psal 5.11 they rejoyce in it and shout for joy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrysost in Psal 117. St. Chrysostome hath four words to express the joy of the people for the exaltation of the stone refused to rejoyce to leap for joy to be affected with chearfulness to entertain with delight or pleasure These he would have spiritual of the mind and heart That is ever best and without that all other joy is but froth and scum Yet it may not be denied but the inward joy of the soul may have it out-lets the full heart will finde a vent it cannot forbear the discovery of it self David danced before the Ark. Moses sung his thankfulness to the Lord. Psal 68.25 The singers went before the players on instruments followed after amongst them were the damosels playing with timbrels Where there is an impression of a great