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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81219	The saints thankfull acclamation at Christs resumption of his great power and the initials of his kingdome. Delivered in a sermon at Westminster, before the Honourable House of Commons, upon the day of their solemne thanksgiving unto God, for the great victory given our armie, under the command of the noble Lord Fairfax, at Selby in Yorke-shire and to other the Parliaments forces in Pembrock-shire, April 23d, 1644. By Joseph Caryl preacher to the Honourable Society of Lincolnes-Inne.	Caryl, Joseph, 1602-1673.	1644 (1644)	Wing C787; Thomason E48_1; ESTC R7648	36,302	59

of Israel were distinguished into 24 orders These Elders which are both Priests and Kings and doe stand in stead of all the faithfull that serve Christ are worthily reckoned up in so many Orders and in the same number Or 2ly Which is also the apprehension of the same Author These Elders are numbred foure and twenty to shew the Amplitude of the Christian Church above the Jewish That having but twelve Patriarches or Elders this foure and twenty the doubling of the chiefe number intimates a mighty encrease in the whole number These sate on their seats To sit notes sometime the peaceblenesse of our present condition and sometime the honour of it Sitting is a posture both of rest and of rule the power of the Magistrate is exprest by sitting in the gate and the peace of the people by sitting every one under his vine and under his figge-tree These sate upon their seats before God as being either first under the eye of his inspection Or 2ly Under the eye of his protection But here rather this sitting before God implies their addresse and readinesse in the Congregation for publike worship which they act as the next Bold de Ecclesia ante legem l. 1. c. 3. words import by falling upon their faces To fall upon the face is a worship-gesture so frequent in the old Testament that the Patriarches and Prophets were called Nephilim from Naphal to fall downe or cadentes that is prostrates or fallers because in the duties of worship they used to prostrate themselves and fall upon their faces before 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God Hence the Hebrews use the same word to signifie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Est more catellorum ad pedes domini totum sese prosternere subjectionis gratia Zanch. worshipping and bowing down the body And the Greek word here used in the Text hath the same propriety in it alluding in the letter to the nature and manner of little doggs which out of feare creepe and crouch at the feet of their Masters for favour and acceptance with them So then falling upon the face points out self-abasement and humiliation in worship To worship God is to give him the honour due unto his name that 's the Scripture definition Psal 29. 2. Give unto the Lord the honour due unto his name then followes by way of explication Worship the Lord in the beauty of holinesse Worship is the giving of God his due honour honour is due to God by a double right By the right of his Nature as he hath a being and by the right of his Will as he hath given a command It is equally dangerous to denie the former and to innovate the latter God counts nothing worship but honour due to his name and no honour due to his name but what his will cals for and appoints All besides or beyond these is a dishonour to God though we intend him a worship Further the worship Deum colend● violare of God which is due honour is of two sorts 1. Internall 2. Externall and either of these may be an act either of prayer for the receiving of mercies or of praise for mercies received The worship of the Text is praise and that externall praise They worshipped saying we give thee thanks O Lord God Almighty Blessings are the gifts of God to man and thanks is the gift of man to God Every good gift descends from God and here is a good gift that ascends to God He that gives all is willing sometimes to take and he who enjoyes all is willing sometimes to receive God needs nothing we are honour'd as much that God will receive our Thanks as we are relieved in receiving his mercies Thanks is mercies Eccho We thank thee O Lord God The words thus farre opened yeeld many usefull Instructions I shall gather the summe of all into one Conclusion and touch all particulars in applying it Doct. It is the dutie and hath been the practise of all the faithfull people of God especially of godly Magistrates and Ministers humbly to worship God in giving him thanks for the acts of his Almighty power and unchangeable goodnesse The Psalmist doubles this duty in the practise of the Psal 77. 1. Saints Vnto thee O Lord doe we give thanks doe we give thanks we doe it we doe it as if none else did it but they or as if they had done nothing else Praise waiteth for thee O God in Sion Why in Sion Sion was the habitation of the Psal ●5 1. Saints there they dwelt or thither they came to worship God in the beauty of holinesse Praise waits there because the people of God wait there The Hebrew saith Praise is silent for thee O God in Sion Not that praise is dumbe or tongue-tied in Sion if it speake any where it speakes there But praise is silent for God if it speakes of any it speaks of God praise in Sion hath not a word for any creature in Heaven or Earth till God comes Sions praise cannot speak to any below God and to God it cannot but speake Thanksgiving is the trade of Saints in Sion there is the free-Mart of mercy and there is the free receit of praise Ther 's buying without mony and ther 's giving without need The Songs of Moses and Miriam of Deborah and Barak of David and others in the holy Story shew that the stresse of this heavenly worke lies upon the Elders There are two grounds why it should lie there First the Elders are fittest to performe this duty 2ly The Elders have most cause to performe this duty Reason first That they are fittest to doe it appeares from three considerations First They are fittest to doe a thing whom it most becomes to doe it The garment of praise sits most comely upon the Saints This reason is cleare in the Psal 33. 1. Psalme Rejoyce in the Lord O ye righteous Why they For praise is comely for the upright A godly man praising God is the most comely and beautifull sight in the world Neither are there any in whom it is comely but they the garment of praise fits the righteous only The praise of God is dishonour'd in the mouthes of wicked men The legs of the lame are not equall so is a parable in the mouth of Prov. 26. 7. fooles saith Solomon A parable is a master-sentence a sentence full of wisdome and holinesse wherein the very spirits of Truth are so contracted that it subdues the understanding to it such a speech as this and such are the due praises of God how unevenly doe they goe how haltingly doe they passe from the mouths of foolish scil wicked men They who are darkenesse never appeare so ugly as when they draw neare unto or deale about the light How did the confession of one of Luk. 4. 34 35. the most glorious Truths that ever was revealed offend and grate the eares of Christ when spoken by the father of lyes A prophane