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A96298	A thankefull remembrance of Gods mercy to several persons at Quabaug or Brookfield partly in a collection of providences about them, and gracious appearances for them: and partly in a sermon preached by Mr. Edward Bulkley, Pastor of the Church of Christ at Concord, upon a day of thanksgiving, kept by divers for their wonderfull deliverance there. Published by Capt. Thomas VVheeler. [Five lines from Psalms]	Wheeler, Thomas, ca. 1620-1676.; Bulkley, Edward, d. 1696.	1676 (1676)	Wing W1600; ESTC W35426	40,779	64

hurt may come to be dangerously wounded the Bullet may hit you as the Arrow did Ahab you that were then only hurt when others were slain take heed that God cut you not down ere long for such evil requitals of him for his great goodness Your late preservation may be but a reservation to soarer Judgements 2dly Return not a lame and halt Requital a body without a Soul the lip without the Heart a verbal without a real Sacrifice external duties without the Spirit Mal. 1.13 14. you have brought the torn c. but cursed be the deceiver who hath a male in his flock c. 1 Chron. 29.14 David and the Princes not only offer liberally towards the Temples building but he blesseth God that they should offer so willingly so heartily This is that he principally wondereth at It is a greater mercy from God to give a man a willing heart to offer what he doth then to give him that which he may offer to him 2dly Affirmatively Render to God that which he calls for at our hands 1. In general Render to God that which is Gods Math. 22.21 As that which is Caesars must be rendred to Caesar so that which is Gods must be rendred to God give God that which is his Owne give God his due as Psal 29.1 give to the Lord the glory due to his Name As that which we offer to God must be his owne of his own Appointment and according to his own mind so what is his own should be rendred to him 2dly More particularly 1. Render your selves to God so the Apostle exhorts us Rom. 12.1 that we give up our bodies as a living and holy and acceptable Sacrifice c. what ever we are or have it is from the Lord you are the Lords by right of Creation 〈…〉 by right of preservation in the great perils you were lately in c. The Lord hath the most right to you But many will not give God his right They are and will be their own Their Tongues are their own as Psal 12 4. Their Estates their own to dispose of as they see good as Nabal 1 Sam. 25.11 My Bread and my Flesh c. Their time is their own to spend as they please they will not be ruled by God nor by those whom God sets over them in Family Church or Commen-wealth Oh give up your selves Souls and bodies to be for God 1 Cor. 6.19 20. glorifie God in your Souls c. Thus did Paul Acts 27.23 whose I am and whom I serve He was Gods and he gave himself to the Service of God in the work he set him about As all that comes from God doth not satisfie a gracious heart without the Lord himself no more is the Lord pleased with what cometh from us without our selves 2dly Return love to God Psal 116.1 I love the Lord because he hath heard c. This is a good Return Have not we that have prayed to God in any distresses formerly or lately or know what prayer means Cause to say The Lord hath heard the voice of our Supplications Oh love the Lord greatly intirely with all our hearts Have you been in great streights and you have prayed and God hath supplyed you Have you been in doubts and God hath resolved you Have you been in Terrours of Conscience affliction of Spirit full of fears of Gods Everlasting wrath and you sought God and he answered you scattered your fears and caused the Sun of Righteousness to rise and shine upon you and given you peace Have you been in deadly dangers by sickness by Enemies that have risen up against you by wounds and you have prayed for healing and delivering mercy oh then Render Love to God for his goodness mercy and salvation Mot. 1. Consider gratitude requireth it at our hands All our good temporal and spiritual is from him And all is freely bestowed yea his mercies bestowed on us are more then the hairs of our Head His preventing sparing delivering supplying mercies He is therefore worthy of our Love not only in respect of his Excellency in himself but also of his benignity and grace towards us especially his rich mercy in Christ Jesus 2dly Love is the ground of all duties acceptably performed to God All is nothing without Love to God and man 1 Cor. 13●● 2. All the Commandments are comprized under it Luk. 10.27 It is the fulsilling of the Law Love to God is the fulfilling of the first Table and love to man the fulfilling of the second where Love abounds there will be much cheerfulness willingness and readiness to do any thing to please him that is loved 3dly No love shall be lost that is cast upon the Lord he knows who loves him in sincerity and he approves them and will love them again and manifest his Love to them and from his love to them do wonderful things for them Their labour of Love shall not be in vain Exod 20.7 Deut. 7.9,13 John 14.21 23. Oh love the Lord who hath redeemed you out of your distresses and given you cause to rejoyce in his great goodness in Answer of your prayers And let your Love to God appear in these things 1. In hearing the voice of his Commands and inclining your Ear to what he calls for from you This is Equitable If God hear us let us hear him shall Gods Ear be open to our Requests and our Ears shut to his Command yea Intreaties and beseechings when he beseecheth us to give up our selves more to him to follow him and cleave more to him may not the Lord say when we are dull and slow to hear and hearken to his voice Is this your love and kindness do you thus requite me for answering your prayers in the day of your trouble 2. In shunning all that may separate from God and separate between God and you and that for this very cause because they do cause a separation And that is sin Esai 59.2 wants persecutions cannot separate but it is only sin The true Love of God is a Love of Vnion and therefore there must be a shunning that which causeth separation Let us therefore hate all Evil in our selves and others and manisest our hatred in seeking the Extirpation and destruction of it Psal 97.10 Rom. 12.9 Abhorre that which is Evil thereby we depart from God Heb. 3.12 The Servant that loved his master would not depart from him 3. Shew your Love in Carefulness to please him in all things Children that love their Parents will seek to please them so it is with Gods Children Christ loving his Father sought to please him in all things Iohn 8.29 Walk as before the face of God Psal 116.9 And where there is a Care to please him there will be a readiness to yield willing obedience to any Command given even in the most difficult duties Services Iohn 15.10 1 Iohn 5.3 unless love prevail in the Soul some Command of God or other will be grievous Love makes them

forsake any sin to leave any evil Custome to walk more exactly with God to be more Careful in Relative duties to seek more after God in all his wayes to be more Reverent in attending to Gods worship Oh now be Careful to discharge what you have promised and resolved now pay what you vowed Ps 56.12 There saith David thy Vows are upon me O God the Vows which he had made to God in his danger lay upon him as a Bond which he must look to free himself from he had fast bound himself to God but he will loose himself by paying them Mot. 1. It is folly to Vow and not to pay and God taketh no pleasure in Fools Eccles 5.45 6. It is hateful folly Better not have vowed then vow and not pay 2. It is a great Aggravation of sin when it is against solemn Vows and therefrre take heed to your wayes If you did not vow in that time of danger yet you have vowed in your Baptisme that you would be the Lords Servants keep his Commandment But I doubt not but that you had serious thoughts then on those two or three dayes while your Trouble chieflyl asted that if God would return you in peace Safety to your Habitations to the Enjoyment of your Relations you would walk more to the praise of his Name and the honour of the Gospel That if the Lord would preserve you from violent and ungodly men that sought your Ruine you would be more faithful Servants to him Oh take heed to your selves that you forget not the promises wherein you have bound your Souls After deliverance had from God Return not to folly Psal 85.8 3. Consider God hath the Bond and it will be called for Though we may forget and little regard our Vows and and the payment of them yet God remembers all our Vows and Engagements one time or other we shall be put in mind of them God put Jacob in mind of his Vow when he went from his Fathers house c. Gen. 35.1 c. God had told him of it once before Chap. 31 13. It may be God was displeased with him for his slackness to go to Bethel and pay it and therefore though he did not chide him he being then in heaviness yet takes the opportunity and gently minds him what was his duty and would be for his safety when so full of fears of the Countries rising against him by Reason of that act of his Sons against the Sechemites Did you then Vow when in so great danger It was a seasonable time of vowing Take also the fittest season for payment And that is Now the present time Psal 116.14 18. Now in the prasence of his people Deferre not 5. Return fear to God That the Lord expects that the more he discovers his grace and goodness his mercy and Salvation to us we should fear him the more Psal 130.4 There is for giveness with thee that thou maiest be feared This is also foretold of Israel that at their Return out of Captivity they shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter dayes Hos 3. ult The more good you receive from God the more do you abound in the fear of God so shall it be with Gods ancient people when the Redeemer shall come to Zion and shall turn ungodliness from Jacob the fear of the Lord shall prevail mightily in their Hearts more then ever The greater Gods goodness the more shall the fear of God be upon their hearts All their joy in God and his goodness shall be mixed with a Reverential fear of God They shall serve the Lord in fear and rejoyes with trembling as Psal 2.11 so let it be with you Heb. 12.28 Serve the Lord with Reverence and godly fear fear to offend so good a God who hath had such mercy on you wrought such deliverances for you And in all your rejoycings and praisings of God for his goodness see that there be a mixture of fear work out your Salvation with fear and Trembling Phil. 2.12 And manifest the fear of God in your hearts by your Care to depart from all Evil Prov. 16.6 And by your using the very Name and Attributes of God with great Reverence by Reverencing Gods Sanctuary by endeavouring to walk with a good Conscience towards all men not oppressing any Levit. 25.17 not avenging our selves though injured Gen. 42.18 Being faithful in all Trusts committed to us Neh. 7.2 Be not high minded but fear not with a slavish fear to fear him only for his wrath and Judgements but also for his Compassion and goodness And therefore let our fear of God be joyned with a love of God to fear him in Love and Love him in fear Let not our fear drive us from God as Cains did but cause us to cleave closet to God as God promiseth in Jer. 32.40 6. Render true Sanctity to God Be perfecting holiness in the fear of God 2 Cor. 7.1 Math. 22.21 Render to God the things that are Gods Thus Christ spake upon their shewing him the penny that had Caesars Image on it that man might know that God requireth of man his own Image in man himself in which he at first Created him with which he at first adorned beautified him which was mans chief Excelleney glory Caesar would have his Image upon his Coine The Lord would see his Image in us The Image of his grace and holiness Let it be more shining And let it more appear and be manifested in our doing justly loving mercy and walking humbly with the Lord our God Be you holy for the Lord your God is holy yea in all manner of Conversation 1 Pet. 1.15 16 Be you merciful as your Father is merciful Luk. 6.36 As God is an universal good doing good to all so let us every one labour to be a publick good doing good to as many as we have opportunity Psal 16.2 3. my goodness extends not to thee saith David but to the Saints c. Gal. 6.10 As we have opportunity let us do good to all espcially to those that are of the Houshold of Faith Let us now labour to be like him in holiness goodness Righteousness we shall be like him hereafter in glory and Blessedness Let us more more approve our selves the Children of God in resembling him following of him walking after him Ephes 5.1 7. Render to God the fruit that he calls for under his Husbandry and the wayes he takes with us that we might be fruitful in well doing This he calls for and expects from a people for whom he hath done as for us in this wilderness to whom he gives the Gospel of the Kingdome who have Sanctuary Enjoyments to whom he vouchsafeth protection from their Enemies Math. 21.43 The Kingdom should be taken from the unfruitful Iews and given to them which should bring forth fruit render it in the season Isai 5.2.3 5 7. vers God tells us again and again what he looked for

to afflict him with Warrs Learn to trust in God in the most deadly dangers Let him be your Refuge in all Storms He is able to keep that which is committed to him To him belong the Issues from death Psal 68.26 9. Make this Return to God for all his Bounty and mercy to you to make God your exceeding joy as David did Psal 43 4 and to rejoice in him the God of your Salvation yea the God of all Salvations Temporal Spiritual and Eternal You cannot praise the Lord aright nor walk worthy of him except you rejoyce in him Psal 33.1 Rejoyce in the Lord you Righteous for praise is comely for the upright This duty is urged upon the Saints Phil. 3.1 and 4.4 Rejoyce in the Lord alwayes and again I say Rejoyce We should not only rejoyce before the Lord in his blessings that he vouchsafeth us as Life health Corn c. Deut. 12.12.18 That God alloweth yea enjoyneth his people but Rejoyce in the Lord Let not our joy be Carnal in our preservation from death in the Life 's of our Relations in Crops houses Lands Children but let our joy be Spiritual Let not our chief joy be in Church Priviledges and Ordinances but on Christ Jesus Such are the true Circumcision who rejoyce in Christ Josus and put no Confidence in the Flesh Phil. 3.3 Psal 97 12. Rejoyce not in sin that is an ill Requital the pleasures of sin are but for a Season and that joy will End in sorrow but Rejoyce in the Lord and that joy can no man take from you And that we may the more rejoyce in him Let us endeavour to be more clearing up our Interest in him as our God in Christ Jesus That we may be able to say as Psal 48.14 This God of Salvation is our God well may they rejoyce in God that have him for their God for then he will be their guide unto death their God for ever ever 10. and Lastly Render to God praise and Thanksgiving so the Prophet promiseth in verse after the Text I will take the Cup of Salvation wherein he alludes to their solemn feasts wherein they had Cups and in the use of them they returned praise to God for the blessing they had received from him Commemorate Gods mercies to our selves and others and praise his great his holy and Reverend Name this we are frequently exhorted to Psal 22.25 And 61.8 And 107 13 14 15 you were as prisoners shut up for a time but God hath brought you out into a large place Oh give Thanks to the Lord for he is good for his mercy endureth for Ever Moi 1. God hath given you your desires and Answered your prayers therefore do you Answer his Expectation what Cause have you to bless the Name of the Lord Psal 66 19 20 so David verily God hath heard me he hath been Attentive to the voice of my prayer Blessed be God which hath not turned away my prayer nor his mercy from me as Hannah said to Eli 1 Sam. 1 27. For this Child I prayed c so may we say for this mercy I prayed for this deliverance for this Return to our Habitations and Relations for this dayes liberty we sought the Lord and he hath given us our hearts desire he might have made more breaches continued our distresses longer let therefore the Redeemed of the Lord say The Lord is good and gracious for his mercy endures for ever 2. This is the way to keep and hold Gods blessings still with us It is via Conservandi God will not take away his mercies from us from the Country if we Return praise to him They giving God his Rent the Tribute he expects he will not turn them out of doors not strip us of his Benefits By giving praise we glorifie him Psal 50.23 He that offereth or sacrificeth praise glorifies me He acknowledgeth his glorious Attributes as in going to God by Petition so in the Sacrifice of praise and gratulation 1. In praising him we give him the glory of his goodness in the Communication of good to us Psal 119.68 Thou art good and dost good c. Bonum est sui diffusivum It is the nature of goodness to be Communicative 2. The glory of his mercy in pittying us in our miscry doing so much for us who had plunged our selves into a Sea of misery Confessing our own Indignity we acknowledge all to be from mercy Lam. 3.22 as the Church then so may we say now It is the Lords mercy we are not consumed 3. The glory of his wisdome in ordering all Events for his peoples good and ruling all the world for his Churches benefit All is theirs 1 Cor. 3.21 22. 4. The glory of his power in Effecting all those things for us which we our selves could not do we cannot help our selves with any mercy not make the Sun to rise a drop of Rain to fall nor Cause the Earth to bring forth c. All is the work of God 1 Chron. 29.11 12. Isai 26.12 5. The glory of his Truth in his Word making good the same to us and to his Church Rev. 15.3 so in that Song after their Victory over the Beast Just and true are thy wayes Mot. 3. This will open Gods heart and hand to give more and so it is medium impretandi a means to prevail for more mercies 2 Chron. 20.22 And when they began to sing and to praise the Lord set Ambushments against the Children of Ammon c. a man puts in but a Bucket full of water into a Pump but it returneth more The more praise we return the more good shall we receive A thankful Christian is a blessed Christian would you have future mercies be thankful for present mercies say not If I had such a mercy I could be thankful and praise the Name of the Lord praise him for what thou hast received and thou maiest have more God will showr down his blessings of grace and goodness upon thee 4thly These praises of God rightly performed are very acceptable to God They are delitiae Caeli God delights in them Heb. 13.15 Psal 69.30 31. And that should make us more delight in this duty because it is so pleasing to God Psal 22.3 He Inhabits the praises of Israel He loves to sit by them and to hear them when their hearts are in Tune when they sound forth his high praises 5thly It is a signe that the good things which we enjoy are given as blessings from the hand of a Fathers love when they work this in us to carry up our Affections to be much in blessing him for them A man may abound in good things which are in themselves blessings and yet be no blessing to him that hath them but be turned into Curses How may I know will some say that this and that gift these deliverances are blessings to us even hereby when they work this disposition in us to bless and praise the Lord who hath so blessed

easy as to David Psal 119.97.127 All will say they love God but little Care appears in many men and women to please God Some will please themselves whither God be pleased or no. 4. Manifest your Love to God in your Love to the Church of God Psal 122.6 1. In loving Church Assemblies Psal 42.1 2. and 26.8 and the Fellowship of all Saints Psal 16.3 2. In grieving in the Churches affliction and rejoycing in its prosperity as Ietbro Exod. 18.9 and Neh. 1.4 3. In seeking and promoting the Churches welsare in our measure and according to our power and opportunity so David promised Psal 122.7 8. so did Mordecai Esther 10.3 so Paul 2 Cor. 11.28 4. Manifest a sincere love of God in minding the things of God whereby he may be honoured his Name advanced his Truths propagated from generation to generation Love will stick at nothing whereby it may honour God It is a Bountiful affection Gods love to man did make him part with his only begotten Son he spared not him but gave him to dye c. John 3.16 Abraham will part with his Isaack at Gods Command nay Love never knoweth when it hath done enough It knows no such thing as too much or too soon The Soul thinks it cannot be too quick too forward in any Service of God It cannot have too much holiness c. nay when one hath done his best yet he is ashamed he hath done so little and though he takes comfort in what he hath been enabled to do yet he looks at all as nothing as Paul 2 Cor. 12.11 and prayes for sparing mercy as Nehem. 13.22 Thus return love to God This is a good Return whereby the Soul takes more Content in God more delight in Fellowship with him which is the nature of Love Deut. 10.12 That mercy is made an affliction to us that doth not engage our hearts to love God more they should not take off our hearts from the love of God but quicken us to abound in more love Psal 31.23 And therefore you that have been delivered Consider It is now some time since you were in that distress and had such a remarkable deliverance Is your love to God Increased by it Care to please him and to walk in obedience to his holy Commandments know it this return God expects from you and therefore see that you sail not his Expectation 5. Return worship to God so David promiseth to do upon the receipt of mercy from God Psal 5.7 In thy fear will I worship c. This we are exhorted to 1 Chron. 16.29 worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness Worship him in all his holy Institutions in his house Let such of you as have neglected some Ordinances of his worship and preparation of your selves for them take heed of neglecting still God is a Jealous God he accounts them haters of him that do not worship him in his own Institutions when they have liberty and opportunity to enjoy them Exod. 20.5 you that are not in full Church Communion either you are prepared or unprepared with respect to your present state If still unprepared yet in a Carnal state what would have become of you if you had dyed at the Swampe or in the Garrison if you had then been taken away If you be prepared having a true faith in Iesus Christ and you neglect his Ordinances God may cut you down by some temporal Judgement though you be not damned for it Consider that place Numb 9.13 The man that is clean and for beareth to keep the Passover the same Soul shall be cut off from his people because he brought not the offering of the Lord in his appointed season that man shall bear his sin As for you that do enjoy all Ordinances in Gods house be you exhorted to worship God in the participation thereof more spiritually and chearfully serve him with more joy and delight with more Reverence and Fervency of Spirit In special Return prayer to God which is such a principal part of worship that it is sometimes put for the whole worship of God Rom. 10.13 Be much with God in prayer Thus the prophet here Psal 116 2. and 13. verses God having answered his prayer and given him so great a deliverance he shall therefore call upon God as long as he lives This will be one thing that he will Render to God so mercy received he will be still calling upon God Let us improve all the Answers we have received from God to encourage us to for ther prayer to him Mot. 1. Consider we cannot weary the Lord with often going to him It is sometimes an Argument of Encouragement in requesting help or kindness from men He is an old friend a tryed friend he hath helped me when I was in a great streight and therefore I will go to him again much more here But though men may be weary of our often coming to them yet God will not he taketh it as a good return when we are much yea more in prayer with him Mot. 2. When we have prevailed with God for any special mercy deliverance or help in a day of trouble there is yet great need of prayer and Continuance thereof 1. For a thankful heart to the giver of every good and perfect gift the God of our Salvations 2. For the Continuance of the mercy that it may not be taken away from us that the Evil removed may not again return 3. For the Sanctification of the mercy and blessing to us need to pray for an heart to use it in a right manner to the honour of Gods Name and others good That it may not be an occasion of sin to us that it may not be abused by us That when God is good to us we may not be the worse in our wayes towards him There is great need of prayer to God in a time of prosperity that we may improve it to glorifie him in our particular places wherein we are set by him 4. we shall be yet needing more and renewed mercies daily whilst we are here in this world and therefore we must be Beggars till we get to Heaven we need more grace wisdome for our work and business in our stations more mortification of our Corruptions more power against our great Adversary Satan c. And therefore have we prayed and obteined what you asked pray still that you may receive still from the same bountiful hand gracious Answers of your Requests As we are to go to the Throne rf grace in our wants so also in our Receipts of mercies that they may be Continued and Sanctified to us and also improved by us according to his will 4. Render to God the Vows that you have made to him in the time of your Trouble in the day of your great distress pay your Vows to the most high God Thus the Prophet in this Psalm 14.15 vers-whether your Vows have been more solemn or only a bare Resolution of your Heart Have you vowed to