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A86505	A sermon preached before the Parliament, the Councill of State, the Lord Major, aldermen, and Common Councill of the city of London, and the officers of the Army, in Christ-Church London, Octob. the 6th. A.D. 1659. Being the publick day of Thanksgiving appointed by the Parliament, to be celebrated in the cities of London and Westminster, and parts adjacent, for the suppression of the northern insurrection. By Doctor Nathanael Homes.	Homes, Nathanael, 1599-1678.	1659 (1659)	Wing H2577; Thomason E1001_1; ESTC R207844	20,201	48

part of the verse of my Text ushering it in thus REJOYCE in the Lord O ye righteous PRAYSE is comely for the upright joy being of the definition of Heaven Psal 16. last In thy presence is fulness of joy at thy right hand are pleasure for evermore There are prayses and Alleluja's or Halelujah's the language of Angells Isai 6.3 The Seraphims cryed saying Holy Holy Holy is the Lord of Hosts c. And Luk. 2.13 There was with the Angell a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying Glory to God in the highest c. And the Churches business as represented in Heaven are Allelujaes Rev. 1 3 4 5. I heard a voyce of much people in HEAVEN saying Alleluja c. And again they said Alleluja And the 24 Elders and the 4 Animals worshipped God saying Amen Alleluja And a voice came out of the Throne saying praise God No creature of the earth so heaven like and heart exhilerating as Musick and therefore used in Scripture both in the Old Testament and in the New to typifie the heavenly joy in the Holy Ghost and the joies of Heaven * In praise we testifie So in the Psalms oft and in the Revelation oft Psal 57.8 Psal 108.2 And at least ten times more And Rev. 5.8 Rev. 14.2 Rev. 15.2 wee feel the first in our affections and see the other in our faith and hope And thus we have brought comlynesse to the highest hight and so put a period to our speech of that 2. Our mercies call for our praise And here I must rather Epitomize then Anatomize to dissect and read a lecture upon every part I could mind you of that of the Psalmist Psal 25.10 ALL the paths of the Lord are mercie and truth unto such as keep his Covenant his Testimonies And upon this ALL I might enlarge to every finger toe and nail on them as our Saviour saith Mat. 10.30 The very hairs of your head are all numhred I might also mind you of devout Austins platform of praise Quid est totâ die id est sine intermissione laudare In prospe ris quia consolâris in adversis quia cocrigis antequā essem quia secisti me Cum essem quia salutem dedis●…i Cum peccassem quia ignovisii Cum conversus essem quia adjuvisti Cum perseverassem quia Coronasti Aug. super illud Psal Totâ die repleatur os meum laude viz. To praise God in prosperitie because he comforts in Adversitie because hee corrects For that before we were because he made us For that when we were because he hath given us salvation For what when we had sinned because he pardoned For what when we were converted because he helped For that when we have perseverd he Crowneth us I might also run over the mercies mentioned in this Psalm wherein is my Text argumentatively pressing the performance of it But for compendiousness it shall suffice to touch on some of them by and by which Concentre with this days commemoration Where I shall not delight to digg into the wounds of others miseries but duly set forth the dignity of our own deliverance 1 'T is a matter of praise worthy Senators and Christians that this day we may praise viz. That we live to praise have leave to praise do meet to praise have a mind to praise have means to praise especially in this mode and majestie of solemnitie * as in a day of a princely marriage The place Consedere Duces vulg stante Corond the face of this Congregation seem to mee to have written upon them Vnion Vnion Vnion Union of hearts of Parliament City and Armie which Vnion is the foundation of marriage The Sermon mainly designed to espouse you all to the Lo●d in true joy praise and thankfulness and in that Tertio to one another And this union is greater then that of marriage For they that are joined to the Lord 1 Cor. 6.17 are ONE SPIRIT The praises now dictated or sung by us are the Epithalamia i. e the Spirituall marriage-songs so wee mean that mind our business to sing and give praise for the uniting mercies of this day Your Prince-like Feast interpreted expresly by that common vote of good people is your interview for union and therefore justly called a marriage Feast And here is your Minister to pray hearty for you that God would for ever unite you in the truth and love and love of the truth And upon that solemnly and seriously to pronounce those whom God hath joined together let no man put asunder I say no man no Devill no Jesuit Amen But 2ly If this be matter of praise that we may praise how much more the cause of this days praise to witthe grand stupendious deliverance of this Common-wealth comprehending three Nations and all the Churches and the thousands of the people of God in those Nations And therefore it is though I say no more our justice to praise God Suum cuique tribuere to give God his due whose justice to the weeds was mercie to the Corn according to the 5. and 10. verses after my Text in that Psalm pressing my Text The Lord loveth righteousnes and judgement the Lord bringeth the counsell of the Heathen to nought he maketh the devices of the people of none effect And of this our justice in praysing God there is a kind of Comlinesse too For if of every morall acquired virtue there is a transcendent beauty that would ravish the sonns of men if they could visibly behold it So Cicero hath it out of Plato How much more of infused grace called the divine nature So that our duty is like the cause both being glorious 2 Pet. 1.4 For our deliverance is like the cloud that was the convoy of Israel in all their deliverances from Egypt to Canaan viz. Darkness to our enemies but glorious light to us if wee consider these four Qualifications of it 1 The matter from which we are delivered Not from proclaimed warning War like generous enemies but rather from a hidden hellish plot 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quasi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 looking like an intended Massacre Not from forreigners strangers abroad but from them at home of our own bowells Not from dropps but a deluge of blood for all the godly of the Land to drink from the hand of the wicked Cavalliers for on them I look as the principall the rest but as decoyed by them I say to be drunk from the hands of the Cavalliers intending yea and endevouring jointly and universally to rise at once in all parts of this Nation at least He that denies this tells me there is no Sun in the Firmament and would perswade us not to believe what some of us have seen with our eye and heard with our ears from the mouthes of the enemies themselves 2. The Moment of our deliverancee It was like that of Isaac Ger. 22.10 when the blow was fetching Like that of Moses

when the generality of the people were about instantly to stone him then very then in that instant Namb. 14.10 the glory of the Lord came down upon the Tabernacle and daunted them from their dismall design Or like the deliverance of Israel at the Red-sea If the Sea bee not divided that very night a great work to bee done in a night then good night to the Israelites lives Ex● 14.21 or liberties or both It was an astonishment to us to think that whiles we were all Gen. 22.14 most intentively gazing and admiring at the setting of a single person and glorying in the rising and ascending up of this Parliament O happy day the enemy in all parts are ready to swarm and to come about us like Bees But as the Psalmist saith so say we in the name of the Lord they were destroyed according to that divine Hebrew proverb of old Behas yehofa yeraeh That is in the Mount of the Lord it shall be seen For so in the 18 and 19. verses after my Text pressing our duty in it Behold the eye of the Lord is on them that fear him upon them that hope in his mercie to deliver their soul from death Deus videt ridet God saw and laughed the enemie to scorn 3. The manner of our deliverance viz. a most bloody design prevented almost by a bloodless victorie Of which we are glad as well as our enemies A rare Sympathy between two adversarie Armies 4. The Means of our deliverance viz. Digitus Dei The finger of God Wee acknowledge the diligence forwardness and resolution of the Souldierie And that was of God too 'T is God and his Cause that carries it We have it demonstrated by the contrarie too viz. the ill success when these have been left though I have not the place But in this our deliverance behold further in special Digitus Dei the finger of God the movings of God upon the heart For though the enemie were greatly prepared and mighty in strength and that in a chiefe strength of an Army viz. in Horse especially for such a design suddainly to over run and subdue a whole Nation inflamed also as they pretended with great zeal and most specious pretences yet in the day of Battle they had no heart nor courage sutable to such a day God had sent the Hornet of fear and daunted them So that our Armie Venit vidit vicit God the great Master and Commander of hearts for all their mighty power had taken away their heart So that to this we may apply that in the 16 and 17 verses after my Text pressing the practi●e of it upon us There is no King saved by the MULTITUDE of an Host a mighty man is not delivered by much strength An HORSE is a vain thing for safety neither shal he deliver any by his great strength Surely no when God takes away the heart of the Rider yea and of his Infantry too And this is a main thing that I desire we may mainly mind That the grand things that God hath done for us in this last and great revolution hath been by heart-work wherein none can make any shew of claim to share in his honour God wrought upon the hearts of the Armie a jealousie of a design to set over us an anti-interested single person contrary to our interest and Common-Wealth which made them so effectually importune the dissolution of the last convention God again wrought upon the hearts of the same Armie a sensible satisfaction that their interest was involved in the interest of this Parliament and that both their safeties and of the whole Common-wealth were inseparably twisted together and like Hypocrates Twinns live and die together whereupon the former Conventions being dethroned the Souldiery importuned this Parliament to return to their duties So that in these God wrought in our Army a kind of change of their hearts whereby of ill masters they became excellent servants to this Common-wealth and came off Gallantly Again God works for us with heart work upon and in our enemies 1. God took away the wit or courage or both of many parties in many Counties that they were not up in Armes considerably at the nick of time 2. That from that most considerabe body in the North-East God took away as we said their courage So that in these things God took away the heart And thus to close our Sermon should wee well weigh mercies praising comes of prizing we should weigh them like gold every cinder and Scintil to a grain And measure them all so exactly considering them as a Ball of Silk not what is the Globe or bulk of it only but to what a length it will run and what it wil make in the improvment Verily we should discern the length of this days mercies by the length of our miseries if the plot had taken And thence conclude that our present deliverance if we have the grace to keep the Talent God hath given us extendeth from this generation to the next and so the next c. till Christ come Now if for future mercies the Apostle puts the Question 2 Pet. 3.11 Seeing we look for new Heavens and a new earth wherein dwells righteousnese the old being dissolved by fire what manner of persons ought we to be in all holy conversation and godliness How thankfull and holy should we be for present mercies so as to be as it were distressed with the Psalmist Psal 116.12 what and how to render to God praise and obedience good enough and great enough for all the greatnesse of his goodness towards us For surely the Lord doth overcome us yea overcome our very thoughts with the hughness and highness of his numerous mercies Eph. 3.20 He doth for us above what we could ask or think And his mercie as Psa 36.5 6. is to the heavens his faithfulness reacheth to the clouds his righteousness is like the great mountains and his judgements like a great deep Therefore let the people praise and sing and let the heavens ring with Halel●jah's praise honour and glory be given to him that sits on the Throne and to the Lamb for evermore Amen Delivered to the Printer Octob. 11. 1659. ERRATA p. 5. margin at line 20. read Plin. p. 6. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 8. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 13. line 19. Till p. 24. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 29. l. ingratum p. 37. margin vulgi