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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46792	A thanksgiving sermon preach'd upon the fifth of November, 1689 by Ben. Jenks.	Jenks, Benjamin, 1646-1724.	1689 (1689)	Wing J623; ESTC R28742	21,433	42

that Honor to be taken up in the work of Angels How much for our own praise to praise him that has given us both matter and hearts for it 'T is no diminution at all but the preservation of honor and addition to it for the highest on Earth to stoop lowly to the Supreme Majesty of the World who has promised to honor them that honor him And tho this Duty seems to have nothing of self in it as giving all unto God yet is it indeed as all the Duties of Religion much for our profit every way for that it not only secures the blessings of God to us but increases them still upon us he thinking them well bestowed where they are so well resented And Praise provoking us also to an imitation of him whom we extol thus it has a tendency to assimilate us to the Divine Perfections and consequently to prepare us for the everlasting Glory to bear a part with all Angels and Saints in the Admiration Love and Eternal Praise and Fruition of God in his Heavenly Kingdom Thus as we are capable of magnifying the Lord and obliged to it so even in point of our own best Interest we ●●nnot but be sensible what reason we have for it And now suitable to the design of this day consider we the publick expression of it and its discharge in conjunction with others according to the invitation here given O magnifie the Lord with me and let us exalt his Name together He that was taken up even wholly in the Praises of God himself could not be contented to enjoy so much sweetness alone but as true goodness is ever diffusive of itself and indeed does but still add to its own dimensions by such Communication So was he for calling in partners to share with him in so sweet an entertainment After he had led the Chorus as Prefect of this Musick he declares for a Consort in it and gives not a cheap exhortation without his own example Nor is he for going in so good a way without company but to make the Communion of Saints a point of practice as well as an Article of Faith he was for joyning all the sparks to blow them up into a mighty Flame And his Apostrophe is not only to the Children of Sion but 't is All ye Lands make a joyful noise to the Lord. Psal 100.1 117.1 Praise the Lord all ye Nations Praise him all ye People And that none might be slack and backward he not only calls on them but upon God himself to quicken them Psal 77.3 5. Let the People praise thee O God Yea let all the People praise thee He was not only for giving thanks apart in private recesses but for going into the House of God where Praise waiteth for him in Sion Psal 65.1 I will give thee thanks in the great Congregation I will praise thee among much People Psal 35.18 To whisper thanks in corners is but a tacit kind of denying received Benefits Sen. de Benef. He car'd not how many Witnesses he had of his thanksgiving not for ostentation of himself but to excite an Universal compliance of the Church A good Man would lose much of the pleasure of Heaven's Way to move solitary in it But here he gives the most charitable instance of his sociable Nature to draw all that ever he can along with him Indeed this is a kind invitation to Festivity as well as Duty and here to devout Souls a hint is enough though to dull Brutes a spur is too little But to none can we offer a greater courtesie than to importune their Society in so delightful a Path to their own Happiness And such as stand off here are the most absurd of all Dissenters and nothing fit to taste of that good for which they are too stiff to give thanks Nor did this eminent Servant of God think himself too high to assist with his Inferiors in the Divine Worship that Spiritual Ordinary which levels all before him with whom is no respect of Persons So great a Prince was not asham'd to own whence he received all yea among the rest he calls on the Mighty to give unto the Lord Glory Psal 29.1 For Princes and Grandees of the World that have most temptations to forget God and exalt themselves must lay aside the consideration of their greatness when they fall down and worship before the Lord their Maker No height in the World but must humble itself to him who is higher than the Highest and compar'd with whose Omnipotence all greatness else dwindles even to nothing The Noblest Worthies in Heaven themselves do cast their Crowns down before the Throne of God Rev. 4.10 and that does but faster secure them on their Heads But Oh! how much are they out in their sense of honor as well as defective in their conscience of this duty who offer to set up their own credit on the ruins of God's Glory Indulging to the Popish humour of assuming to self and Idolizing Creatures in derogation from the God of our Lives and of all our Mercies Truly Atheistical is it so to live without God in the World afraid to own him but ascribing all to a lucky hit this or that did the Work and no mention of Him that worketh all in all When Men would be reputed great for being Ungodly and like wild Horses in the carreer of their Impiety cast dirt at their Owner as if they were neither in debt to him nor in danger of him As if it were below them to own subjection to him that made them Servile not to be above Duty and a Diminution of their own Excellency to Magnifie Him. And if Conscience extorts from them any acknowledgments of God they are in care that none but himself may observe it who sees indeed that they are asham'd of him before Men and so he will be of them one day before all the World Thus such as use to glory in their Shame are asham'd of their Glory too And tho all a fire at any disgraceful reflection on themselves counting every thing less than flattery an affront yet this gives a notorious instance of their Bastardy which is the foulest Infamy that they can so easie brook a contempt of the Heavenly Father thinking it fine to hear his Name Blasphem'd and his Word Burlesqued and never stirring to assert his Honour as they would to vindicate the good Name of a Friend Well may they dread the Fate of Herod to perish wretchedly for not giving God the Glory Or to be sent with Nebuchadnezzar to School to the Brutes to learn to know their Owner When they can live all upon his good things and yet scarce afford him a good Word Right Brethren in Iniquity to Cabal for Mischief and run eagerly to excess of Riot to eat and drink and enflame Lust and contribute every one to heighten the Debauch but none can find a Heart or Tongue to recognize the blessed Founder of all their Comforts Or no