Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	child_n	lord_n	praise_v	2,690	5	9.7618	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64422	The merchants and mariners preservation and thanksgiving. Or, Thankfulnesse returned, for mercies received Set forth in a sermon of thanksgiving, preached at S. Andrewes Undershaft, Sept. 6. 1649. To the r. worshipfull, the Comittee of Merchants, trading for the eastern India, upon a late returne of seven of their ships together. By Edvvard Terry, minister of the Word, (who was sometime in their service, there) now rector of the Church of Great-Greenford, in the county of Middlesex. Octob. 4. 1649. Imprimatur. John Downame.	Terry, Edward, 1590-1660.	1649 (1649)	Wing T780; ESTC R219187	28,101	40

his beloved sonne as God is to heare the voice of his servant 3. Reason This must be performed because it is a most prevailing duty In the second of Chronicles the twentieth when the children of Moab and the children of Ammon came up against Jehosaphat in very great numbers and the King and people knew not what to doe God instructs them and encourages them in the Chapter and tells them that they should not neede to fight but stand still and see the salvation of the Lord v. 17. And the King appoynted fingers unto the Lord to praise him whose mercy endureth for ever v. 21. and in the next verse when they began to sing and to praise The Lord set ambushments against the children of Ammon Moab and Mount Seir which were come against Iudah and they were smitten and the King Iehosaphat and his people delivered Lastly it is a duty that must be performed because it is a most heavenly duty for there shall be nothing heard in Heaven but Hallelujahs nothing but prayses expressed by new Songs new Thanksgivings Oh thou admirable illimited and unexpressible goodnesse of Almighty God what shall I now say of thee and what shall I say to thee oh thou Preserver of men The Prophets praise thee The Apostles praise thee The Martyrs praise thee The Church of God throughout the World have and shall for ever acknowledge thee The Lord saith the Prophet Esaiah spans the Heavens Esay 48.13 he keepes the Earth and Waters within a Circle The Mountaines upon the Ballance The Sunne within Tropicks but what number or measure or bound can be set to the goodnesse of God He that had wisdome like a flood that Preacher of Preachers Solomon who considering the emptines that is in all sublunary things calls them vanity of vanities all but vanity Eccles. 1.2 How everlastingly might he have preached upon the goodnesse of God so great so admirable that no affection in Nature no height breadth depth in any of the creatures can in any measure expresse it The Majesty of God that astonisheth us his Glory beates us downe his Greatnesse strikes us dead wee adore his Omnipotency admire his Wisedome stand in awe of his Justice his Vengeance makes us flye it is his Mercy his goodnesse his goodnesse and mercy and they alone that represent unto us how amiable how good how gracious our God is Grace grace as the Prophet Zachary speakes 4.7 All is grace all is mercy wee live wholly upon it for 't is this mercy that formed us in the Belly and left us not when wee were upon the brest that accompanieth and growes up with us from our youth and forsakes us not when wee are gray-headed 't is this that gives us our dayly bread our hourely breath 't is this that preserves from continuall dangers in life that can comfort us in death and crowne us afterward I shall desire to live and dye in the meditation of mercy of that mercy of God which is like a bottomlesse fountaine which cannot be drawne dry like the measure in the Gospel full and pressed downe and shaken together and running over Luke 6.36 that is like a f●i●hfull breast which the more 't is drawne the more it yields The Lord saith the Psalmist is good to all and his tender mercies are over all his workes Psal. 145.9 The veriest miscreant in the world enjoyes many a mercy from God which he takes no notice off These common mercies blessings of Gods left hand Prov. 3.16 they reach all for which God is to be acknowledged But that mercy of mercies which reacheth to the pardon of sinne is the mercy for which he is to be admired as he shall one day be in all them that believe 2 Thes. 1.10 Now the Angels that retaine their first purity they stand in no neede of this mercy Those Infernall Spirits which are doomed to chaines in everlasting darknesse with all wicked and ungodly ones who have been turned into Hell in their severall generations are all uncapable of this mercy Oh Lord what wilt thou doe with this mercy this great boundlesse illimited mercy if thou bestow it upon poore sinners which want it crave it importunatly beg it and know they shal perish everlastingly without it Oh the meditation of this goodnesse and mercy should make us while wee are on Earth to be still extolling and lauding and magnifying our God in Heaven joyning our selves to that multitude of the heavenly Host Luke 2.13 In praising God and saying Glory be to God in the highest on earth peace good will towards men Glory be to God on high who brings peace and happynesse to Earth by his good will towards men We come now to Application You had before for you have heard all along the reason of this present meeting And now in the first place let me tell you that if you be in earnest and hearty in this businesse and doe not make a Complement of it you shall receive comfort in it But pardon my jealousie for I must needs tell you againe and 't is a sad an horrible truth that this Land hath abundant cause to be humbled for Fast-dayes and Thanksgiving dayes too First for Fast-dayes because when wee have sinned and fasted wee have sinned in fasting 'T is a very easie thing to act the part of a Penitent to hang downe the head like a Bullrush The hardest Flint and Marble will sometimes stand in teares but they are Flint and Marble still Ahab as bad as he was could play the part of a Penitent 1 Kings 21.27 where wee may see his sorrow but not his repentance a sorrow for the judgement denounced against him not a repentance for his sinne the very Divels houle to be tormented Griefe is not alwayes a signe of grace Ahab could rend his clothes but his heart that remained unbroken still for he lyes in his Idolatry while he lyes in sack cloth he put on sackcloth but not amendment and therefore fasts and humbles himselfe to no purpose 'T is one thing to Say another thing to Pray Prayers one thing to Fast another thing to be Humbled Secondly for Thanksgiving dayes for when we have received mercies and given thankes we have sinned in thanksgiving these holy serious duties both of humiliation and thanksgiving having been performed after such a formall carelesse unholy manner by a number by most whom neither fullnes of joy for mercies received hath made them thankefull nor a fullnes of sorrow which they should have expressed for sinnes committed hath made them humble but have bin like Cymbals whose very emptines makes thē sound For this failing in the māner of doing duty makes thankfulnes ingratitude as Jehu in the like case doing what God commanded was punisht as disobedient Hos. 1.4 But I am perswaded much better of you believing that that God who put this resolution in you to performe this duty will so assist you in it and carry you through it that you shall not lose this