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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26155	A sermon before the queen at White-hall, May 29, 1692 by F. Atterbury ...	Atterbury, Francis, 1662-1732.	1692 (1692)	Wing A4153; ESTC R7712	12,125	34

idle or too busie to attend upon it And even when we find Leisure enough yet how cold and how insensible are we whilst 't is going forward We draw nigh unto him with our Lips perhaps but our Hearts are far from him And do we then know what it is to praise God becomingly Do we remember how the great Teacher of Thanksgiving summons up every One of his Faculties to assist him in it Praise the Lord O my Soul and all that is within me praise his holy Name 'T is a Work that will employ all that is within us that will call for all the Application and Vigor and Warmth that we can possibly bestow upon it Cold unmov'd Praise is no Praise the Sacrifice of it can be no longer acceptable than 't is burning To those Men who live in the Contempt of this Duty we have also something to say if they would but hear us They are generally such as pretend a high Sense of the Dignity of humane Nature and bear no small Respect to their own Understandings Now though Other Parts of Religious Worship should happen to be too mean and low for such great Minds to take up with yet This methinks might deserve to be thought equal to ' em Let Confession and Prayer go only for the Arts of Whining and Begging and be as much beneath 'em as they imagine yet surely Praise has something so great and so noble in it that they cannot look down upon it 'T is a Subject fit for the most enlarg'd Capacities to dwell on and such an One as even Those would certainly find themselves rais'd and improv'd by If it were possible for These Men to have a Relish of any thing of this Kind we would desire 'em to make the Trial To take the Te Deum into their Hands and to read it attentively and then tell us truly whether they did not find their Minds fill'd and their Affections strangely rais'd by the Images they met there Whether they did not perceive themselves to be somewhat above themselves in the using it And all this done by that Majestick Plainness and Simplicity of Thought that goes through it Unadorn'd by Words Unenliven'd by Figures 'T is the Matter alone which supports the Expression And because that Matter is pure genuine Praise therefore is it so lofty and so moving But alas we speak in vain The Men who are bold enough to slight a Duty of this Rank and Character will easily slight every thing that can be offer'd to bring 'em to it All we can say to 'em is that as God made 'em for his Glory so whether they will render it to him or not he will certainly serve the Ends of that Glory upon 'em one way or another And therefore if they will not freely Praise him for his Goodness in this World they shall surely whether they will or no contribute to the Praise of his Justice in the Next Thus have I attempted to set out the great Reasonableness of this Duty and to stir You up to the Practice of it And certainly it was never more reasonable than on This Occasion when we commemorate such Past Mercies and feel such Present Ones The Restoration of the Monarchy and of all those Blessings in Church and State that came along with it The Re-establishment of the Beauty of Praise in our Sanctuary The Return of Peace and Plenty Of Learning and all the Arts of Civil Life The Reducing us from Confusion and Rage into Order and Friendliness and making Us a Nation at Unity in it self Lovely at home and Terrible abroad These were such sound and substantial Blessings as will wear well and though done a great while ago will yet deserve a great while hence a Place in our Calendars Neither Love to our Country nor the Honour we bear to Those who Rule over Us neither Our Gratitude to God nor our Good-will towards Men will suffer such Wonders of Providence to slip out of our Minds or the Day in which they were brought about easily to grow Old upon Us. The Benefits we then receiv'd were indeed exceeding great and would justly claim a larger Share in our Present Thoughts had not the Goodness of God taken 'em off a little from thence by calling 'em to the Acknowledgment of New Loving Kindnesses For behold what Glorious Things the Lord has again done for Us Blessing Their Majesties Forces with a great and signal Victory over the most haughty and insolent of Enemies A Victory so Early so Compleat and so Cheaply purchased that we have Reason to hope it may fix the Fortune of the War and put an End to the Destructions of the Destroyer To whom we trust God has now said as he did once to the Sea it self Hitherto shalt Thou come and no further and here shall thy proud Waves be stay'd Blessed be God! who did not utterly cast out our Prayers and our Supplications but delaid only to Answer 'em till a Day of Salvation till an acceptable Time when the Mercy would be dearer to Us and his Goodness more remarkably seen in the bestowing it When we were Alarm'd with Invasions from abroad and Conspiracies at home when Men threatned to swallow us up quick When Success was now so requisite to preserve the Honour of the Nation to support Their Majesties Throne and to strengthen the Hands of Their Allies Then did He appear and own Our Cause Then was the God of Hosts our Strength and our Shield Surely There is no End of that Goodness which continues thus to pursue us Which vouchsafes to establish to Us and to our Posterity those Blessings under which we have been so unthankful and so ingrateful already and to give us fresh Opportunities of Praise which I hope we shall make better use of Let us therefore Offer unto God Thanksgiving and not That only but Ourselves also our Souls and Bodies to be a Reasonable Holy and Lively Sacrifice Let us render him the Fruit of our Lips and the Obedience of our Lives that these Blessings may not prove a Curse to us but that He may still be Our God and we may be His People To him with the Son and the Holy Ghost be all Honour Praise and Glory henceforth and for Evermore Amen FINIS