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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87104	Thankfulness in grain: or a good life the best return. Delivered in another sermon on the same occasion in St. Dionis, Back-Church, Aug. 14. 1653. By Nath. Hardy, Master of Arts, and preacher to that parish.	Hardy, Nathaniel, 1618-1670.	1653 (1653)	Wing H749; Thomason E723_6; ESTC R12852; ESTC R207247	54,568	58

Thankfulness in Grain OR A GOOD LIFE THE BEST RETURN Delivered in another Sermon on the same occasion in St. Dionis Back-Church Aug. 14. 1653. By NATH. HARDY Master of Arts and Preacher to that Parish Deut. 10. 12 13. And now Israel what doth the Lord thy God require of thee but to fear the Lord thy God to walk in all his waies and to love him and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul To keep the Commandments of the Lord and his Statutes which I command thee this day for thy good Aug. Meditat. Oportet me Domine tantò magis tibi gratiosum devotum ad serviendum promptiorem existere quanto me de tantis beneficiis obligatiorem conspicio in reddendâ ratione Bern. Serm. cont. ingratitud Non verbo tantum vel linguâ sed opere veritate exhibeamus nos gratos ei qui dator gratiarum Dominus Deus noster qui est benedictus in secula LONDON Printed by T. W. for Nath. Webb and Will Grantham at the sign of the Black Bear in St. Paul's Church-yard near the little North-door 165● Sermons preached by Nathanael Hardy M. A. and Preacher to the Parish of St. Dionis Back-Church JVstice Triumphing or The Spoylers spoyled A Sermon preached on the 5th of November in the Cathedral Church of St. Pauls The Arraignment of licencious Liberty and oppressing Tyrannie In a Sermon at a Fast before the Lords in Parliament in the Abbey-Church at Westminster Faiths Victory over Nature A Sermon preached at the Funerals of Mr. John Rushout Junior The safest Convoy or The strongest Helper A Valedictory Sermon before the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Bendish Baronet his Majesties Embassadour to the Grand Seigniour at Constantinople A Divine Prospective representing the Just Man's peacefull End A Sermon at the Funeral of the Right VVorshipfull Sir John Gayr Knight Love and Fear the inseparable Twins of a blest Matrimony A Sermon occasioned by the Nuptials between Mr. William Christmas and Mrs Elizabeth Adams Divinity in Mortality or The Gospels excellency and the Preachers frailty A Sermon at the Funerals of Mr. Richard Goddard Minister of the Parish of St. Gregories by St. Pauls Two Mites or A gratefull acknowledgement of God's singular goodness In two Sermons occasioned by the Author's late unexpected Recovery from a desperate Sickness Printed and are to be sold by Nath. Web and Will Grantham at the black Bear in St. Paul's Church-yard near the little North-door To the Right Worthy and his much Honoured Lady the Lady Mary Saltingstall present prosperity and future felicity Good Madam I Have now fulfilled your desire in publishing these weak notions I hope you will pardon me that withall I fulfill my own desire which is by these lines to let the World know my singular obligations to your Ladyship Among those many graces which adorn your truly Christian life your cordial love to the Orthodox Dispensers of the Gospel is not the least and it is so much the more amiable because in this apostatizing age wherein the love of many waxeth cold towards and the rage of some groweth hot against them Indeed as for my own particular I have far less reason to complain than many others of my Brethren and those far more deserving than my self it having pleased Almighty God both to restrain my Enemies and multiply my Friends beyond expectation And truly next to the infinite goodness of my God which I desire for ever to celebrate and the no less faithfull than skilfull endeavours of my worthy Physicians which I shall alwaies acknowledge I must attribute my late almost miraculous recovery to the fervent intercessions of my affectionate Friends at the Throne of Grace on my behalf To them all I return my hearty thanks and promise my daily prayers for them and more especially for you my honoured Lady whom I have reason to esteem as none of the meanest among them That your health may be prolonged and your troubles ended your Children blessed and your comforts enlarged finally that you may sparkle as a Diamond here in grace and hereafter shine as a Star in glory shall be the uncessant prayer of Your Ladyships real Friend and Servant in the Lord NATH. HARDY Psal. 116. v. 9. I will walk before the Lord in the Land of the Living MAns present Condition is subject to frequent alterations our life like the sea ebbeth floweth as the Moon waxeth and waineth and with the air is now Cloudie and anon cleer Nulla sors longa est dolor ac volupt as Invicem cedunt saith the Tragedian truly we continue not long in one state the day hath the vicisitude of an evening and morning the year of Winter and Summer health and sickness adversity and prosperity interchangeably succeed each other in this our earthly pilgrimage And now what more fit then that as our condition is mutable so our disposition should be answerable and our spirituall frame be suitable to our temporal estate To hope in adversity and to fear in prosperity for health to be thankfull and under sickness to be patient finally in afflictions to seek God with tears and after deliverance to walk before him with joy is a truly Religious temper Thus was it with this holy man David whom we find in this Psalm expressing this behaviour under both conditions when he found trouble and sorrow he called upon the Name of the Lord and when his Soul is delivered from death he resolveth upon walking before the Lord in the words of the Text now read I will walk c. At the mentioning of this Scripture I doubt not but you conjecture the reason of my choosing it and I hope beloved you will pardon me that as yet I preach to my self I shall be the fitter to preach to you nay let me tell you as in teaching you I speak to my self so in admonishing my self I speak to you what lately was and now is my condition either formerly hath been or shortly may be any of yours besides the duty of the Text is such as concerneth not only me but all here present to put in practise as being that without the performance of which no man can order his conversation aright Finally if you look back on the former subject that calleth for this and this answereth to that that is as the foundation this as the superstructure both required to a perfect fabrick that as the doctrine this as the use both requisite to a compleat Sermon and therefore having from the former Scripture commemorated the mercy I conceived it very fit to mind both my self and you of the duty from these words I will walk c. Indeed with little adoe we may find both in this text According to a different reading of the first words I shall and I will the clause puts on a severall sense if we read I shall walk they are words of confident expectation if I will they are