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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	create_v	lord_n	praise_v	2,444	5	9.8565	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89667	A sermon preached the 11. of May 1652. In Taunton, upon the occasion of their great deliverance, received upon that day. / By George Newton Master of Arts, and minister of Gods word in that place.	Newton, George, 1602-1681.	1652 (1652)	Wing N1046; Thomason E670_13; ESTC R207038	14,991	24

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Learn hence to amplifie deliverances and salvations to raise them to the very height above expression with the Prophet in my Text such a deliverance as this as hath no words to set it forth such as posterity will not be able to believe and truly my Beloved even such a one was yours it was a None-such in the land God dealt not so with any other people so that it shines among deliverances even as the Moon among the lesser Stars Survey the great things that the Lord hath done in these late years of wonder and you shall finde that the salvation of this place was the greatest of them all none to be compared with it it had an asterisme of mercies in it body mercies soul mercies estate mercies which conspired altogether to make it out of measure glorious Among the rest this excellency was peculiar to it that it turned the scales of the whol busines in these late wars Oh my beloved look round about this rare deliverance and amplifie it all the wayes that you can think upon remember how you prized it when you were pleading for your lives before the Lord in the day of your distresse what you would have done or given to be assured of a deliverance from that cruel death which with amazing thoughts you looked for when you were ready to be taken by an enemy whose rage and malice was boiled up to the heigth against you c. who would in probability have spared neither age nor sex I say remember how you prized it then and do not let the price to fall again Then it was valued at the highest when you were reaching after it with fainting souls now it is nothing with abundance of you Oh loath your selves for this basenes and make it your great busines of this Day to raise and to keep up the price of this incomparable mercy to make the most of such a rare deliverance as this Vse 2. It is the manner of the Lord when he punisheth his people to abate and to be very moderate when he delivers them and shews them mercy to exceed and to transcend all measure and do we finde that he hath so exceeded as in other mercies so specially in the deliverance of this Day Then let us seriously consider what a weight of duty lyes upon us and how we ought to transcend and to exceed in our returns to God again Believe it brethren ordinary matters will not serve the turn as God hath done more for us so he must have more from us then from any other people we must do singular and extraordinary things if he exceed in mercy we must accordingly exceed in duty there must be some proportion of the one unto the other we must strive to render to him according to the benefits that he hath done us and to come up as near as it is possible to his measure such a deliverance must have such returns and here to pitch upon particulars 1. Such a deliverance must have such a remembrance it must have some memoriall answerable to it As for our selves my brethren we must ingrave it on our hearts and keep a Register of all the mercies that concurred in it As David had an inventory of the Gold and Silver that he provided for the temple but the iron and the brasse he numbreth not because it was without weight 1 Chron. 22.14 So though we cannot reckon all the mercies of the Lord his dayly and his hourly mercies because indeed they are without number yet we must be exact in numbring and setting down his Golden and his Silver mercies Such a deliverance as this with all the circumstances of it must not be forgotten by us And yet this is not all my berthren we must not onely keep these rare and extraordinary mercies in our minds our selves but we must take some course that others may be mindfull of them and that while the world lasts that the Lord may have his glory kept afoot in following ages A duty much commended to us in the Scripture upon such occasions When God had wrought a great salvation for his people Israel Moses commanded them to write a song and to teach it to their children that it might be a witnesse for the Lord against them viz. if they should prove unthankfull Deut. 31.19 When the Lord shall build up Sion he shall appear in glory saith the Psalmist Psal 102.16 And what then must they keep one day of thankfulnesse and so an end No there is somewhat further to be done this shall be written for the generations to come and the people that shal be created shall praise the Lord. Indeed there is an Ordinance of the high Court of heaven to this purpose Psal 78.5 He appointed a Law in Israel which he did command our fathers and what did he command our fathers That they should make the praises of the Lord his strength and wondrous works that he had done that they should make them known unto their children and to the generation that was yet to come And therfore I beseech you my beloved let us think upon it let us indevor to perpetuate the praise of God let us use some means or other to transmit it to posterity to make succeeding generations know what God had done for this Land for this place that he may have the glory of it as long as the sun moon indureth Brethren we have a great task in this kind we have very much to do because the Lord hath done so much truly I think that there was never any generation that had such a weight of duty lay upon them It was the saying of a wiseman that troublesom times were good for the writer il for the liver he that lives in them shall have sorrow enough He that writes of them shall have matter enough certainly these times of ours yield matter of transmission to succeeding generations more then any former ages Let us take care as much as lies in us that nothing be lost not a scrap of any thing that God hath done for this Land or for this Town in plague and in the sieges but that it may be all conveyed down intire and whole and undiminisht to following ages that the generations that are yet to come may praise the Lord And to this end I shall set before you two things 1. God will be a gainer by it Alas my brethren it is little glory we can bring him in our selves and in our own time if we should spend all our dayes in praising him they are short and will be done upon the sudden But if we can take course that all the generations that are yet to come shall praise him for the mercy which we have received as long as the world lasts this will be a great advantage and truly if we love him be affected with his mercy as we ought to be we will endeavour what we can to raise and to advance the little tribute of