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heart_n	action_n	good_a	life_n	2,683	5	4.5961	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39269	A sermon preached on the 29th of May 1661 the day of His Majestie's birth and happy restauration, after a long exile, to his crown and kingdome : before His Excellency William Ld Marquis of Newcastle, at his house of Welbeck / by Clement Ellis.	Ellis, Clement, 1630-1700.	1661 (1661)	Wing E573; ESTC R24953	16,827	54

all dying all Projects and endeavours failing enemies rejoycing flourishing triumphing friends scatter'd impoverish'd imprison'd all disponding the Conquerors sitting downe securely and dividing the spoyle and crying with David's enemies Ah so would we have it persecute and take him for there is none to deliver him even then God throws in the Apple of dissention and in pieces they fall and a sudden storme from the North scatters them An Army marches up not knowing whither all Sects and Factions meet it and congratulate and know not for what Well the all-knowing God brings all this to an happy Issue the LORD 's Anointed is restored his dying friends revived all barking Shimeies silenced Sectaries and Schismaticks confounded Rome and her Children troubled and amazed This surely was the LORD's doing and therefore marvailous in our Eyes What Praises therefore do we now owe unto God for all these his Marvailous workes This is the Day which God hath thus as you have heard re-made for England a bright and clear Sunshine after black clouds and thick darknesse The Day of our Redemption from a more then Aegyptian bondage and slavery the Day of our freedome from Tyranny and Oppression the Day wherein our gracious King was at first usher'd into the world with a new miraculous light from Heaven and the Day wherein he was welcomed into his Kingdome by all the lights of the Nation Starres of all Magnitudes with all the lustre and Glory they could cloath themselves withall A Day by the light whereof we begin to see our late Follies God grant we may truly repent us of them And our present happinesse Oh that we could be heartily thankfull for it A Day wherein Religion begins to appear again in her own dresse and all those maskes and vizors too freequently worne in the darke night of Ignorance begin to fall off frō her face All the Night-birds of prey and rapine begin to betake themselves to their Holes the doors of God's house are set wide open that we his servāts may freely enter in and worship the God of our Fathers after the manner of our Fathers solemnly and decently 'T were an endlesse task to recount half the blessings of this Day the summe of all is this The Anointed of the LORD whom we fear'd to have been taken in their nets is return'd in peace Let us therefore be Glad and Rejoyce be Glad inwardly and Rejoyce outwardly be so glad that God may accept of our Joy as an acceptable sacrifice of praise and thansgiving for his great and provident mercy in having reguard unto his holy One and so rejoyce that the world may see we are glad indeed acknowledg him the Author of our Happinesse It is most fit that as the world hath seen us sad yea perhaps too sinfully dejected in the Day of our Afflictions so it should now behold us cheerfull and full of joy but still without sinfulnesse in this Day which the LORD hath made Onely let us here beware lest we so rejoyce as to forfeit againe the ground of our joyes In vain do we observe this Day as a Thanksgiving-day except we labour to keep every Day of our life henceforward Holy-day It is not enough to say LORD we thanke thee but we are to Sacrifice our Persons and our endeavours to his honour and glory returning him not onely the Calves of our lips but the Affections of our hearts and the labours of our hands and the obedience of the whole man for the abundance of his mercies Our King our Church our Land have all too long groaned under our Sinfull rejoy cings and let us take heed lest all these suffer over again by our confident and presumptuous re-assuming of such carnall Joyes Why should it be any longer said and that with so much colour of truth that Loyalty and Piety cannot dwel together in the same brest Why should it be any longer said to our shame that swearing drinking and deriding Religion and making a mock of Holinesse are the Principall badges of such as call themselves Royallists We know who and what they are who have long agoe publikely boasted that they have been the King's best Subjects and Friends the way to confute them is not to swear they are not so but to prove by our actions that we indeed are so and to do this there 's no way left us but to be as sincerely Religious as they hypocrytically We may safely give leave to the Covenanter the Engager and the rest of a Schismaticall people to pretend as high as they can whil'st we are sure we are as much as they can pretend to Let us but once out-doe and out live them 't is no great matter who out-talks and out-braves us but let us by no meanes give occasion to the enemies of God to Blaspheme but whilst we endeavour to expresse our Loyalty in our Ioy let our joy be most clearly manifested in our Obedience to His just commands and in our Conformity to his good example whose first Proclamation was to condemne and prohibit and whose whole course of life is to shame all manner of Profanenesse and debauchery Let but our good and righteous actions first stop the mouthes of our Enemies and then our Righteous God will undoubtedly bind their hands and turne their hearts and make us all at last charitably and unanimously to joyne in the Praises of that great God who hath miraculously restored our Corner-stone and rebuilt our Hierusalem and made her once more a Citty in a fair way to be at unity within herself He will then make our King a glorious Prince and us happy Subjects and all of us at last more happy Saints when we shall all obtain Crownes and Kingdomes and be built up together one triumphant Church on our Head Corner-stone Christ IESVS full of all Gladnesse and Rejoycing and perpetuall singings to the Honour and Glory of him that sitteth upon the everlasting Throne who is LORD of Lords and KING of Kings to whom for his unspeakable mercy to our Gracious King and to us his Subjects in his happy Restauration let us ascribe all Honour and Glory Praise and Thanksgiving now and for ever AMEN