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A53899 A sermon preached November V, MDCLXXIII, at the Abbey-Church in Westminster by John, Lord Bishop of Chester. Pearson, John, 1613-1686. 1673 (1673) Wing P1009; ESTC R23235 9,602 27

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A SERMON Preached November V. MDCLXXIII AT The Abbey-Church in Westminster BY JOHN Lord Bishop of CHESTER LONDON Printed by Andrew Clark for John Williams junior at the Crown in Cross-keys Court in Little Britain 1673. PSALM cxi 4. He hath made his wonderful works to be remembred THis Psalm begins with an Hallelujah and wholly consisteth of Praise and Thanksgiving in which the People of God express a just resentment and grateful acknowledgment of the chiefest mercies received by their Fathers referring them all to the goodness of God and jointly and publickly magnifying his Name as if it were previous to the great voice of much people in Heaven heard by S. John The words are so indited by the Spirit so penned by the Prophet that they may be a perpetual Rule and Direction in all ages to the Church guided by the same Providence protected by the same Power to have the like sense and render the same Praise to him whose hand is not shortened at all This Duty is here taught us in such a manner as may render it most proper for us to offer most acceptable to him to whom it is to be offered The Expressions of the Psalmist sufficiently inform us that it must be unfeigned and real sincere and integral without any intervening doubts of his benign and immediate Influence without ●●ingling thoughts or imaginations of any other assistance ascribing to him the whole Deliverance rendring to him the whole glory due unto his Name that he alone may be exalted there is nothing less than this intimated in the first address I will praise the Lord with my whole heart The same must also be publick and united universal and illimited with a general consent and holy kind of conspiration that the Praise to be rendred may bear some shew of proportion to the Mercy received and as the Blessing so the Return may be without exception publickly performed in the assembly of the upright and in the congregation The Duty thus taught and described is next urged and inforced by expressing a reason which hath a natural tendency to excite our performance or rather to constrain us For the works of the Lord are great ver 2. His work is honourable and glorious and his righteousness endureth for ever ver 3. Whereby he sheweth that in the extraordinary works of God wrought for the benefit of his people the Attributes of the Divine Nature manifestly appear as his Wisdom in contriving them his Power in effecting them his Goodness in vouchsafing them his Justice in denying them to others his Mercy in conferring or confining them to us and at the same time informeth us that our Praise consisteth in the sole acknowledgment of these Attributes For he whose glorious Name is exalted above all blessing and praise cannot receive glory from us our goodness extendeth not to him he is only glorified by the manifestation of himself with our acknowledgment and declaration of the glorious Excellencies which are in him and the Emanations proceeding from them This general Reason is followed by a more immediate more concerning and convincing Provocation to the same Duty in that he which hath done so great things for our Fathers and promised the like to us hath also revealed the counsel of his will and his design in the doing of them both for our Benefit and his own Honour that there might be not onely a sufficient Reason to move and persuade us but also an express signification of his will to determin and oblige us unto a perpetual and never-failing Commemoration of his Goodness And the Revelation of this Design of God is clearly delivered in the words of my Text He hath made his wonderful works to be remembred I shall not trouble you with any Division of my Text but only raise this Observation from it which is naturally conteined in it Where God hath wrought any signal work for any People or Nation he justly expecteth and requireth a publick and perpetual Acknowledgment of it The truth of this indubitable Observation as it is useful for many purposes so it is evident by innumerable instances three of which are glanced at in this short Psalm First He sent redemption unto his people ver 9. that is He sent Moses and Aaron unto the Israelites by whose hand he brought them out of the Land of Egypt and certainly he made that wonderful work to be remembred For they obteined their dimission by the intervention of a destroying Angel while the Egyptians perished and they were preserved upon which the Feast of the Passeover was instituted and with this remark This day shall be to you for a memorial and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever Upon their coming forth from thence the Law of the Sabbath was fixed to a certain day in reference to the same deliverance with the like intimation Remember that thou wast a Servant in the land of Egypt and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm therefore the Lord thy God hath commanded thee to keep the Sabbath-day Secondly He hath given meat unto them that fear him ver 5. that is probably He fed them miraculously when they cried unto him in the wilderness he gave them Manna even bread from Heaven but with this Command Fill an Omer of it to be kept for your generations that they may see the Bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness And this wonderful work was made to be remembred not only in it self but in its signification For he which said I am the bread which came down from heaven when he was by his Death to deliver us from the wrath of God and to make a way open for us to eternal Life instituted the Blessed Sacrament to this end that as often as we eat that bread and drink that Cup we should shew the Lords death till he come Thirdly He gave them the heritage of the heathen ver 6. that is when the sins of the Amorites were full he drove out them and their neighbouring Nations that he might place his peculiar people in the promised land of Canaan He magnified Josuah as he had done Moses in the sight of all Israel he cut off the waters of Jordan that the Ark of the Covenant might pass before them and the people follow that to take possession of the Land And lest the Memory of such a wonderful work should perish he caused twelve stones taken out of the midst of Jordan out of the place where the Priests feet stood firm to be laid in Gilgal for a memorial to the children of Israel for ever Upon these and the like Instances founded in the express Will and Revelation of God delivered in the writings of Moses and the Prophets preserved in the publick Monuments and sacred Archives of the