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A56701 A sermon preached at St. Paul's Covent Garden on the day of thanksgiving Jan. XXXI, 1668 for the great deliverance of this kingdom by the means of His Highness the Prince of Orange from popery and arbitrary power / by Simon Patrick ... Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707. 1689 (1689) Wing P847; ESTC R18296 19,982 42

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A SERMON Preached At St. Paul's Covent Garden On the Day of Thanksgiving Jan. XXXI 1688. For the great Deliverance of this Kingdom by the Means of his Highness the Prince of Orange FROM POPERY and ARBITRARY POWER By SIMON PATRICK D.D. Rector of St. Pauls Covent Garden LONDON Printed for Richard Bentley at the Post-house in Russel-street in Covent-Garden M DC LXXXIX To the Right Honorable WILLIAM Earl of Bedford Knight of the Noble ORDER OF THE GARTER My most honored LORD and PATRON My Lord I Had not the least thought either when I penned or preach'd this Sermon to publish it to the World but have been overcome to yield to it after a long resistance which is the reason it comes forth so late by the importunity of a great number of my Parishioners who perswade me they shall reap some profit by the Reading as they tell me they did by the Hearing of it If they so do they are bound very much to your Lordship for it by whose Eavour I was promoted to this Place where your Kindness hath not grown less to Me but so much increased That I cannot but take this Opportunity to assure your Lordship it shall never be forgotten by My Lord Your most Humble and Affectionate Servant Symon Patrick Feb. 7th 1688 / 9 Psalm LXXV 1. Unto thee O God do we give thanks unto thee do we give thanks For that thy Name is near thy wondrous works declare AS it is impossible to look upon the Curious Frame of the World and consider the Admirable Contrivance and Harmony in every part but we shall be inclined to Reflect upon a Supream and Almighty Wisdome which was the Author of it So we cannot take notice of the several Wonderful Events that fall out in the World beyond all Humane Expectation the strange Changes for instance and unlookt for Revolutions that there are in our own Affairs but it will dispose us to confess the Providence of God who with a Careful Eye doth superintend and see to the Government of every thing that he hath made The First of these is the Foundation of that Admiration Reverence and Awful Regard which we pay to the Divine Majesty As the latter is of that Devotion of Mind which we express in Humble and Hearty Prayers and Thanksgivings to him For were we never so sure that there is a God who Created all things by his Power yet we should not think of addressing our Supplications to him and offering him our Thankful Acknowledgments did we not also believe that his Care extends it self even as far as this Earth and reaches unto us the Children of Men. That 's the ground of this Hymn which the Divine Writer Composed in consideration of some Remarkable Passage of that Providence And that 's the Occasion which hath brought us now together to acknowledge with Thankful Praises as wonderful I am sure as unexpected a turn in the Assairs of this corner of the World as ever was In which if we do not see a Finger of God it is because we are Blind or which is worse shut our Eyes against the most evident Tokens of a Divine Hand Which hath given us Reason to express our Joyful Resentments in such Words as these Vnto thee O God do we give thanks unto thee do we give thanks For that thy Name is near thy wondrous Works declare What the Occasion of this Hymn was will be seen in the Progress of my Discourse In the entrance of which I cannot but take notice that the Psalmist was so full of Admiration Love and Joy when he consider'd what God had done for them that he was Transported thereby out of the Method of common Writers Who are wont to proceed from the Relation of Matters of Fact to set down the consequents of them and the Passions which they are apt to produce But here his Heart was pressed with such a mighty Sense of God's Goodness that he bursts out at the very first word into as Pathetick a Strain of Thanksgiving to him as can be conceived before he Relates what he thanks him for His Affection was suitable to the Benefits they had received both were extraordinary which Transported him to the greatest heigth of Devotion And that doth not so much follow Art as Nature which can attend to nothing else when it is possessed with Delightful Passions According to which Method of the Psalmist I shall in the First Place Treat a while of the Duty of Thanksgiving And then Secondly Proceed to show that the Works of God's Providence in the World ought to excite us thereunto And Thirdly that the more wonderful those Works are the greater in all Reason ought our Thankfulness for them to be And Lastly if I have time for it that we have this Reason for it among others that when God doth any wondrous Works they are an earnest of some greater Blessings he further intends to bestow if we do not unthankfully deprive our selves of them for his wondrous Works declare that his Name is near I. I begin with the Duty of Thanksgiving About which you must not expect an exact Discourse because it is not here to be considered in it self so much as in order to something else It will be sufficient to gather together such passages in this Book of Psalms as will in a plain and familiar manner express the Temper of a thankful Mind and shew withal from whence it arises I. And it begins in a diligent observation of the Benefits which are done unto us Of which if we take not a special notice they will be like the things that pass by a Blind Man's Eyes of which he never speaks and with which he is not at all affected Therefore after the Psalmist had so often Repeated this as the Burden of his Song O that Men would praise the Lord for his Goodness and for his wonderful Works to the Children of Men Psal CVII 8 15 21 31. he concludes all with these Remarkable Words which shew us the Fountain from whence these Devout Acknowledgements spring Whoso is wise and will observe these things even they shall understand the loving kindness of the Lord. None but wise observers can have any Sense of God's Goodness in the greatest Benefits which he bestows upon them Especially in such Providences as were brought about by a long Chain of Events one of which drew on another in a silent manner If a Man's Eyes be closed or if they roll about in unsteady and giddy motions he cannot take notice of such Objects as present themselves unto him nor receive their Salutations with any Sense or Acknowledgment And it 's the same case if a Man be lull'd Asleep in the Lap of sensual Pleasure or be grubbing like a Mole in the Earth If he attend I mean only to his own Private Gain and Advantage if he hath a thousand Projects in his Head for himself which busie all his Thoughts or be of a murmuring discontented Humour at