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A44695	A sermon preach'd on the late day of thanksgiving, Decemb. 2, 1697 by John Howe ... ; to which is prefixed Dr. Bates's congratulatory speech to the King, Novemb. 22, 1697, in the name of the dissenting ministers in and about London.	Howe, John, 1630-1705.; Bates, William, 1625-1699. Congratulatory speech to the King, Novemb. 22, 1697.	1698 (1698)	Wing H3040; ESTC R6550	23,177	33

Licentiousness of the Press that the Contagion of the Dead may not Corrupt the Living This will be a most pleasing Sacrifice of Praise to the Blessed GOD who has Preserv'd Your most Precious Life in Raging War and from more Imminent Dangers by the Dark and Cruel Conspiracy of Wicked Enemies WE Humbly Renew the Assurances of our inviolable Loyalty and our Continual Prayers That GOD would Preserve Your Sacred Person and make Your MAJESTY always Happy in Your Government and Your Subjects Happy in their Obedience PSALM XXIX the latter part of the Last Verse The Lord will Bless his People with Peace The Whole Verse is The Lord will give Strength to his People The Lord will Bless his People with Peace YOU so generally know the Occasion of this our Solemn Assembly at this Time that none can be in Doubt concerning the suitableness of this Portion of Scripture for our Present Consideration OUR Business is to celebrate the Divine Goodness in Preserving our King Abroad and Restoring him Home in Safety after he had been the Happy Instrument of bringing about that Peace which puts a Period to a long Continued Wasting and Dubious War under which We and all Europe have groaned these Divers Years And if we find the favourable Workings of Providence to concur and fall in with a Divine Word pointing them to GODS own People as this for Instance The Lord will Bless his People with Peace i e. He will vouchsafe this Blessing to his own People in the fittest Season as it must be understood this adds so much the more grateful and pleasant Relish to the Mercy we are this Day to acknowledge It cannot but do so with Right Minds unto which nothing is more agreeable than to desire and covet such Favour as GOD shews to his own People and to be made glad with his Inheritance Psalm 105. 4 5. from an Apprehension that there must be somewhat very peculiar in such Mercy as GOD vouchsafes to his own to a People Peculiar and Select severed and set apart for himself from the rest of Men. 'T IS true indeed that Peace abstractly considered is neither the appropriate nor the constant Priviledge of such a People they neither alone enjoy it nor at 〈◊〉 Times when it is brought about even for them they have other ●arta●ers But yet such Favours of Providence as are of larger extent and re●ch to many besides GODS own People have a more peculiar benign Aspect upon them and are attended with reference to them with such Consequences as wherein others without being made of this People of his are not Sharers with them Some Intimation there is of this in this Psalm which the Title speaks a Psalm of David and which some think to refer unto the Wars managed by him in his Time with the Moabites signified by the Wilderness of Cadesh and the Syrians signified by the Cedars of Lebanon of whom he speaks in the Prophetick Stile as if by the terrible and amazing appearances of GOD's Power against them they were Thunder-struck like the Trees of a Forrest or as the Hinds that are wont to inhabit amongst them And so it is concluded and shut up with this Epiphonema in the End of the Psalm The Lord will give Strength to his People the Lord will Bless his People with Peace i. e. He is in War their Strength and their Felicity in Peace in War He is the Author of all that Power wherewith they are enabled to oppose and overcome Potent Enemies And in Peace he is their truly felicitating Good and makes them by his own vouchsafed Presence a truly blessed People IT is the latter of these Peace unto which the Present Occasion confines us And concerning that we might in the 1. PLACE Note from the Text That wheresoever it is brought about GOD is the Author of it GOD will Bless his People with Peace That Title which the Scripture gives him The GOD of Peace with the many Expressions of like Import wherewith it abounds can leave them in no Doubt concerning the Divine Influence and Agency in bringing about the grateful Intervals of Peace after desolating Bloody Wars who have any Reverence for the Sacred Oracles And indeed to insist upon such a Subject as this in a Case so plain so acknowledged amongst Men that believe the Bible were to Reproach the Auditory as if it were made up of Scepticks and Atheists or of them that did not believe this World was made by GOD or that it was made by him only by some casual Stroak and without Design that he cared not for his reasonable intelligent Creatures when he had made them what became of them nor did at all concern himself in their most considerable Concernments I shall not therefore insist upon this which seems rather slid in and supposed in the Text or taken for granted For among a People in visible Relation and Subjection to GOD it had been as great an incongruity industriously to assert and prove such a thing as it would be by an Elaborate Discourse to prove that there is a Sun in the Firmament unto Men that continually partake and enjoy its Light and Influences and to whose Sense the Vicissitudes and Distinctions of Day and Night by its Presence and Absence are brought under constant Notice every Four and Twenty Hours I shall therefore I say pass on to what appears more directly to be the Design of the Text. And that seems to be twofold First To represent to us in general the great Blessing of Peace wherein when GOD sees it sit he is pleased to make his own People Partakers with others Secondly Because it is not without Design that it is said He will Bless his People with Peace unto whom 't is plain this alone is not an appropriate Priviledge it seems further designed to intimate and couch in the Concurrence and Concomitancy of such things as superadded to Peace will make it a compleat Blessing The Lord will Bless his People with Peace He will give them Peace so and upon such Terms and with such Concomitants and Consequences that to them it shall prove a real and a full Blessing These two things therefore I intend to insist upon 1. TO shew you how valuable a Good and in the Large and Common Sense a Blessing Peace is as it stands in Opposition to Bloody and Desolating Wars And then 2. I shall shew you what Additions and Concomitants are necessary to make it a compleat Blessing such as may be appropriate and peculiar to GODS own People and so make use of the whole 1. I shall shew you Briefly how valuable a good Peace is in it self as it stands opposed unto Bloody and Destructive Wars And this will best be seen by stating and viewing it in that Opposition and by representing to you somewhat of the Horror of War which we may do by viewing it in its Causes in it self and in its dismal Consequences wherewith it is wont to be attended CONSIDER

doing all manner of Violence to one another That the Prince of the Apostacy the Vsuping God of this World should have the Opportunity of Peholding Man sometime by Divine Grant the Lord of it now its slave and his Captive by it Led by him at his will into whatsoever is most Repugnant to the Will and the very Nature of his Maker That whereas he was at first made after GOD's own Image a God-like Creature resembling his Maker especially in Spirituality and Love he now more resembles in Sensuality Beasts and in malignity Devils and both by an Inordinate Love of this World the Friendship whereof and a mind Cornalized by it is Enmity against GOD. Jam. 4. 4. Rom. 8 7. And whereof also because every Man thinks his own share too little he becomes any ones Enemy that hath more of it than himself AND thus have Devils the pleasure of Beholding Men by this very Gift and Expression of GOD's Love and Kindness to them Transformed into Emnity and Hatred of himself and one another Forsaken of Him and Destroying each other and hastening once more into their Horrid Society that as they were Accomplices with them in their first Rebellion they may be Partakers and Associates with them in W●e and Torment The most dismal part of the Story is that which lyes most out of sight NOW let all this be considered and put together and surely Peace is a Valuable Thing It speaks Man in some degree return'd to himself and in a right mind when he can Agree and be Content to let another live Quiet and Unmolested by him one Man another Man and one Nation another Nation THUS far does Peace appear a Blessing a-part and by it self a Valuable Good and according to the Common Notion and Estimate it may be called a Blessing wherewith GOD Blesses His People in common with others But we are further to consider 2. WHAT Things are requisite to make this a Real and a Compleat Blessing Capable of being Appropriated unto GOD's own peculiar People Which seems also to be Intended here The LORD will Bless His People with Peace In Speaking to this I shall do these Two Things 1. MENTION the Requisites themselves 2. SHEW their Requisiteness Or Shew what is Requisite to make External Peace a Real and Peculiar Blessing And then shew you upon what Account the Addition and Concomittancy of such Things is Requisite 1. I shall shew you the Things that are requisite 1. SUCH Peace as we have been hitherto speaking of is then truly a Blessing when there is in Conjunction with it a very Copious Effusion of the Spirit of GOD. In such a Concomitancy Peace will make a People a Blessed People When after such a Calamitous Dispensation was over and at an End as we read of Ezck. 39. wherein ver 23. GOD is said to hide his Face and many of his People were carried into Captivity and many fell by the Sword it comes at length to this He will no more hide his Face or cover it with so ireful and gloomy Aspects and Appearances that it cannot be comfortably beheld 'T is for this very Reason Because he pours forth his Spirit upon the whole House of Israel as it is in verse 29. of that Chapter Pouring forth signifies a Copious Communication and if the Spirit of GOD be copiously communicated the best of Blessings are in great abundance contained in it which will infer or countervail whatsoever is valuable or needful besides to make the State of such a People a Blessed State 2. IT will be so when the Gospel of Peace has its free course and a large spread in the World When in Conjunction with beating of Swords into Plow-shears and Spears into Pruning-hooks the Law goes forth of Sion and the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem and Nations shall say Come let us go up to the House of the Lord and he will teach us his Ways and we will walk in his Statutes as in that of Micah 4. 2 3. And 3. WHEN according to the Dictate of Divine Wisdom Kings do Reign as Prov. 8. 15. and Princes decree Justice when GODS People have Judges as at the first Counsellors as at the beginning Isa. 1 26. able Men Men of Truth fearing GOD and hating Covetousuess Exod. 18. 21. When he is pleased to set Kings on the Throne that scatter the Wicked with their Fyes and so to establish the Throne in Righteousness when there is a Design driven by those that bear the Civil Sword the Sword of Justice to be a Terror to Evil-doers but a Praise to them that do well so as it may be said upon this account they are the Ministers of GOD for good whom he has been pleased to set in such Stations 4. WHEN GOD gives Pastors after his own Heart that are able and do make it their business to feed his People with Knowledge and Vnderstanding When he inspirits such to cry mightily to warn Men off from Sin When Watchmen set over his People are faithful in the business of their Station at once both to save their People and Themselves from having their Blood required at the Hands of either This will make a peaceful State an happy State it will contribute a great deal towards it And again when hereupon in the 5. PLACE Wickedness languishes the Lusts of Men droop and wither There is some visible restraint if there be not an universal Mortification of such Fruits of the Flesh as those that are spoken of Gal. 5. 19. Adultery fornication uncleanness lasciviousness idolatry witchcraft hatred variance emulation wrath strife sedition heresies envyings murders drunkenness revilings and such like that are inconsistent with a share in the Inheritance of the Kingdom of GOD as it after follows This does much to the making a peaceful State of Things a Blessed State it takss away much of the Occasion of further Controversie between GOD and such a People But 6. WHEN there is a very great Diffusion of an Holy new Nature which carries the Matter higher and is a great Addition though in certain Conjunction with the former as it is when the Lusts and Works of the Flesh do cease to be Reigning and Rampant among them who Live under the Gospel through the victorious and more powerful Operation of the Spirit of Grace breathing in it For then by the Influence of the same Spirit not only such vicious Inclinations are pluck't up by the Roots as certainly withstand a Peoples Felicity but such positive Principles are implanted as tend to promote it Yet since this Conjunction is not constant but such insolencies of wickedness as more directly tend to make a People miserable may be represt by Inferiour Causes I therefore more expresly add that then Peace may be reckon'd a certain and a full Blessing when with it we behold a Divine Offspring continually rising up of Men appearing to be Born of GOD and to have received a GOD like Nature apt to do Good and become