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lord_n	bless_v	let_v	praise_v	13,035	5	9.8164	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96450	Englands sorrows turned into joy. A sermon preached the 28th. of June, 1660. Being a publick thanksgiving, for the restauration of his Excellent Majesty, Charles II. Of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. To His crownes and kingdomes, and us (His subjects) to our antient rights, liberties, and lawes. By John Whynnell, minister of the gospel at Askerswell in the county of Dorset.	Whynnell, John, b. 1603 or 4.	1660 (1660)	Wing W2073; Thomason E1033_8; ESTC R208964	24,107	42

God for his Mercy that engaged him to do such great things for us that he did restrain the wicked whilest we were at their mercy that they did not utterly ruine us That he did so wonderfully and so miraculously preserve his MAJESTY notwithstanding he had so many and so mighty enemies at home and abroad That he did preserve Him from the Sword from perills by Land by Sea in the Wilderness from Poyson from Error Heresy and Popery and hath restored Him to us a Glorious a Godly a Gracious PRINCE That he hath given us again the freedom of our Parliaments the benefit of our Lawes the comfort of our Estates and hopes of the continuance and maintenance of the true Protestant Religion That God was pleased to raise up a Gideon a man after his own heart and his peoples hearts in a miracle almost to do such great things for us So that now our dying yea dead Church and State is in hopes of a glorious Resurrection 'T is the greatest mercy that we who ever have been a people of mercy have received from the Lord for many years That though we have bin and yet are such a sinful obstinate Rebellious treacherous people a people that have been changed from vessel to vessel and our scent remaineth in us a people that have been in the fire of affliction and yet our dross and tin is not purged away A people that have as much dishonoured our God 1 By our sins against him 2 By our abuse of his mercies as any people this day on the face of the whole earth 1 By our sins against him thousands committed against him every day yea every hour and many of them high and daring sins whose cry reached unto Heaven as oppressing of one another shedding innocent blood punishing of men because they would be honest not let their Consciences gallop in the road of the times a people that established Error Heresy by a Law wrested the Word of God changed the Ordinances of God c. 2 By our abuse of his Mercies greater Mercies no Nation under Heaven have had then this Nation Peace and Prosperity abundance of Wealth and Honour the presence of God with us and pure Religion for many years these we have abused banished our own Peace wasted our own Wealth thrown our Honour in the dust when none else could said unto God depart from us corrupted our pure Religion Job 21. 14. Seeing we are so sinfull and yet God appears so mercifull unto us it calls upon us both for Admiration and great Thankfulnesse Sing O Heavens and rejoyce ye Inhabitants of the Earth Let our Souls blesse the Lord and Psal 103. 1. all that is within us praise his Holy Name 3. Seeing God hath done such great things for us let us be Exhorted to do some great things for God Seeing he hath done such great things for our comfort let us do some great things for his honour and glory This concerns us all from the Highest to the Lowest the Kings Majesty and the Nobility Gentry Clergy and Commonalty God hath done great things for us all God hath done great things for the KING preserved him in many dangers great and deadly dangers both at home and abroad even in a miracle of Mercy and hath restored him even Miraculously in Peace and Safety and with great Pomp and State Honour and Glory into his THRONE to govern these Nations The God of our Mercies grant we beseech him that this Mighty Monarch set over us by himself may be a Sheshbuzzar to lay the foundation and build up the house of God to repair the ruines of this formerly famous Church set Ezra 5. 16. up the Ordinances of God in it in the power and purity of them free from Errour Heresie Superstition and Popery and pull down the Groves and Idols of Heresie and Schisme and maintain the Truths and Honour of God in his Kingdomes and that the Lords Day be not Prophaned by wicked Sporting and Pastimes as they are in many places that he may free the Land from Oppression and Cruelty and Rule us in Righteousness and may ever be a praise to Good a terrour to Bad men This is it that God looks for in return to his great Mercies vouchsafed to his MAJESTY When God doth great things for Kings he looks that they above all Men should do great things for him They may do it God hath put them in place where and given them power whereby they may do it which others cannot The King may do great things in Church and State for the Honour of God t is in his power O that it may be and I doubt not but it is and will be in his heart to do it T is not for nothing doubtlesse that God hath so Miraculously preserved his MAJESTY and so Mercifully restored him t is doubtlesse to do him some Eminent Service God give him a Heart to set about it success in it and power to effect it Seeing God hath done such great things for our Parliaments that we had liberty to Elect and they have liberty to Sit in Parliament without fear of having a force laid upon them by proud mutinous and lawless Souldiers It concerns them to do some great things for God by being as the Elders of Israel to assist in the work Ezra 6. 14. of the Lord with their King Seeing God hath done such great things for Magistrates and Ministers as again to confirme the power of the one and continue the honour of the other it concerns both to do some great things for God The Magistrate by his power to keep up the honour and esteem of the Minister and the Minister by his doctrine to confirm the Lawful Authority of the Magistrate And both to act together to Inform the understandings of the people to Reform their lives and Conform them to the Rites and Customes of the Church of England To suppresse Vice promote Holiness and beget and maintain Order and Unity amongst Christians Let us all set our hands to work for God our hands our heads our hearts and our prayers So we may all help and the meanest Christian as much as others that are more eminent So did Israel as appeares in the 2. and 4. chap. of Ezra They all set themselves about building the House and Cities of their God as soon as ever they came to Jerusalem in Judea Let us all set about the work of our God in our severall places and stations and be sure to keep our selves within the verge of our own Callings Let us lay aside all contentions and vain janglings least the sound of Hammers and Hatchets be heard in Sion Let us lay aside all animosities and heart-burnings and forget and freely forgive one another and pray for one another that God would make us of one mind 1 Cor. 1. 10. Act. 2. 9 c. and one judgement one heart one soul one spirit that we may be all but