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A77742	St. Paul's thanksgiving: set forth in a sermon preached before the right honorable House of Peers in the Abby-Church Westminster, on Thursday May 10. being the day of solemn thanksgivng to almighty God for his late blessings upon this kingdom. By James Buck, B.D. Vicar of Stradbrook in Suff. and domestick chaplian to the right honorable Theophilus Earl of Lincoln.	Buck, James.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1660 (1660)	Wing B5308; Thomason E1033_2; ESTC R208955	19,136	33

wastes it self and all the wood about it of which also our compatriot Edmund Bunnie avouches that himself had seen some experience In his Head Corner-stone l. 1. c. 11. sect 4. p. 235. The Bramble that domineer'd over these Kingdoms tempested with choler that the great ones that chose and advanced him did not confide in his shadow and Protectorship in a rage of heart-burning fosters discontents and contrives an inhibition against the meetings of the grand Officers of the Army without licence from him which kindled such a combustion among them that the Bramble was presently pulled out of the fence by his own allies and nearest affinity but the fire stayed not there but seised on the Cedars and chiefest of the Sword-men and made them so hot one against another that they were all soon down and the whole Malignant party quasht and laid in the dust and because they are in the dust I shall not trample on them But your Lordships are assembled to give God the glory of this overture and stupendious revolution and that for great cause considering that as God was blasphemed his Truth questioned his Religion disparaged inasmuch as men of most erroneous principles and most injurious practises triumphed and bare up by mis-apprehension of a continued series of Providences which were onely testimonies of Gods displeasure at our sins walking unworthy of a good government and our profession they were no hints of Gods approving their whimsies phansies and pretensions So now on the contrary by this miraculous dispensation our Lord is glorified with us at home and with others abroad declaimers are silenced and beholders compelled to wonder at the marvellous out-goings of God in the Land In Homer Laertes being sure that his son Ulysses after twenty years absence was indeed return'd and had quelled the abusers of his wife and family the old man exclaims 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Odyss ult High Jove father of heaven well then yet you gods are still about the wide world How then shall not Englishmen observing how our gracious Sovereign after many years expulsion and exile out of his Dominions is in the turn of Gods right hand when we were in desperate consusions without any forreign help or effusion of bloud suddenly admitted to his just and hereditary rights with the incredible satisfaction of the generality of his subjects lift up our voices and say Verily there is a reward for the righteous verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth Psal 57.12 And neighbour-Nations must needs say Psal 126.2 God hath done great things for them I the Lord hath done great things for us whereof we are glad and do now keep a Festival and shall for ever rejoyce Honourable and beloved no King upon the face of the earth hath such characters and demonstrations of heavenly favour to him as our Sovereign Lord King Charles which give more than humane assurances that God designs his most excellent Majesty a great blessing to these Nations and as glorious an ornament to Christendom as was Charlemaigne May we not then justly take in the two readings of this my Text gratia Deo and gratia Dei Lately we might have said Wretched men that we were who shall deliver us from this slayery baser than ever any gallant people suffered and now by Gods mercy we may say gratia Deo We thank God And again we may say Wretched men that we were who or what hath delivered us from the basest tyranny and must answer our selves gratia Dei the grace of God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Ye have heard how great and many thankes our temporals require now please to listen in a word that our spirituals require many more Psal 144.15 When David had held forth in most ample circumstances the felicity of a Kingdom in peace and plenty he closeth with this Epiphomema Happy are the people that are in such a case and immediately corrects himself Yea happy are the people whose God is the Lord So then our greatest happiness in a gracious King and mighty Kingdoms abounding in wealth and strength and policy and state and unanimity is but an embleme of the welfare and riches of a soul that can appropriate God to it self Micah 4.9 Now why art thou contracted in sorrow or is thy counsellor perisht and if thou hast the invincible King for thy defender why dost thou fear and if the eternal Spirit be thy Advocate and his Law thy Counsellor how canst thou miscarry 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Septuagint divinely turn that Psal 129.1 When the Lord turned the captivity of Sion we were as them that are comforted for that greatest contents redemptions and bodily deliverances are but a shadow to the freedom of the soul from the dangers of sin and the solaces of the most prosperous are meer umbrages to the unutterable joyes in the holy Ghost and peace of Conscience which passeth all understanding and the fore-tasts of the holiest in this world of heavenly contentments are but quasi gaudia as they speak in the Civil Law or as they phrase it in the common Law misprisions of joy to the consolations in the world to come wherein they shall eternally sing praises and thanksgivings unto God Sect. 8 That thank-offerings to God through Christ are the highest sac ifice of the Church militant or Triumphant And thus we are brought to the last Stage That Thank-offerings to God through Christ are the highest sacrifice of the Church militant or triumphant whereas the praise of God is the soveraign end of all creatures being and continuance the praising of God which is the nearest relation and next acting to that end must of consequence be the most super-excelling work of heaven and earth the quintessence of all Divinity the flowre of all Theologicall duty and Divine service and clearly our best and highest office We shall improve the Use of this Doctrine for Information Admiration and Exhortation 1. For Information That it is the most noble state and height of the renewed soul not onely to be patient and contented but delighted and thankfull in all conditions When the regenerate recollecting how God causes all things to work together for his glory the good of the Universe the salvation of predestinates doe comply with him in absolute accommodation and in reverentiall respect of his gubernation accept from his divine hands prosperity adversity influences desertions good and evil with indifferent minds and with equall thanks Job 2.10 Shall we receive good at the hands of God De amico amato sect 7. and shall we not receive evill As Blaquere alledges for proof of his loving God Quoniam inter laetitias tribulationes quas mihi donas non facio differentiam That he put no difference between the joyes and tribulations which God confers Psal 25.10 All the wayes of God are mercy and truth There are no forth goings of his providence towards men that have not for their originall eternall mercy