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peace_n	bring_v	good_a	tiding_n	2,863	5	11.4428	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38705	Eucharistia, or, A Grateful acknowledgment unto heaven for the happy discovery of the late horrid plot with some brief and yet plain relmarques upon that hellish conspiracy : delivered in a discours unto a country auditory upon September IX, 1683 : being a day of publique and solemn thanksgiving appointed by authority for the said wonderful and blessed deliveranc / by a country parson.		1684 (1684)	Wing E3386; ESTC R31451	17,663	30

Precepts are pronounced the New Covenant this Law of the Gospel delights not it self in those sharper sounds but tho it may enjoyn yet it stoops to a kinder Delivery When a King expresses that in a Desire which he may do in a Command it is meritoriously accounted as a great Favor and if the King of Kings stoops so low as to declare his Mind in the same precarious way it may deservedly challeng from us the greatest Reverenc and oblige us to embrace Obedienc both as an Advancement and as a Priviledg 2. If we consider the substanc of these Precepts we may find that they carry Glory enough in their Obedienc Loyalty frequently accounts that some Services tho perchance hazardous Enterprizes do merit thanks for being employed in them yet some Precepts there are which God will disdain some Mens performanc of There is a wicked Generation to whom God speaks in the Language of the Psalmist Psal L. 16 17. What hast thou to do to declare my Statutes or that thou shouldest take my Covenant in thy Mouth seeing thou hatest Instruction and castest my Words behind thee As the dealing forth of Laws to Israel is owned and acknowledged as a great and excellent Priviledg so the gracious Revelation of Christ's mysterious Gospel in a greater Lustre out-shines all before it conveying a Beauty to the very feet of those that are Bearers of such happy News How beautiful upon the Mountains are the feet of them that bring good tidings that preach the Gospel of Peace that bring glad tidings of good things that publish Salvation that say unto Zion thy God reigneth Those Cordial Observations those Loving Invitations and those Commands that respect nothing more then our Benefit are all but so many proofs of God's Goodness and our Honor nay even our severest Afflictions in so Righteous a Cause but a glorious Piece of Priviledg and Triumph St. Paul accounts it a Blessed Gift from God and such as with Holy Job we ought to thank God for Phil. I. 29. For to you it is given in the behalf of Christ not only to beleiv on him but also to suffer for his sake Tho to beleiv and suffer are Precepts which carry an Obligation yet to you it is given signifies an high peculiar Prerogativ in being called thereunto the consideration of this made St. Peter and St. John with the rest of the Apostles glory in their stripes and triumph in being counted worthy to suffer shame for his Name 2. Thus as the Precepts of God's Covenant so the great and excellent Promises of it do most eminently declare God's Goodness to his Israel his visible Church Thus Israel in a Relianc of God's Promise to be their God need not fear any Enemy and Christ's Church is heartned on by exceeding great and precious Promises that by those they may become partakers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Divine Nature A total forgiveness of all sin an happy Reconcilation to an offended Justice Eternal Life and Salvation do every where offer themselves in a Gracious and Benign Tender unto God's Church and People 3. God's Loving-kindness to his Israel his visible Church is further apparent in that they have a conditional Right to the valuable Rarities and Excellencies of the Gospel all being theirs if they perform the Condition all the Promises of Christ are in him Yea and Amen to them ratified and verified Christ being theirs who is all in all for the good of his People Forgiveness of sins is theirs if they sincerely and heartily Beleiv and so likewise is Salvation too if they truly and really Repent 4 and Lastly God's Goodness is eminent to his Israel his visible Church in his gracious Provision of Means sufficient for the Performanc of the Condition of the Covenant on their Parts which gives them a Right and Title to the Promises The Spiritual Armour is impenetrable and the Weapons of this noble Warfare not to be blunted by Opposition The Devil may speedily be uncased and this strong Man dispossest of his Tenure by right handling these Powerful Instruments Here is a glorious Dispensation of Light to direct and of Grace to enable and the Covenant is not only a bare Manifestation of God's Laws but also a more Inward Engravement upon the Heart For this is the Covenant that I will make with the House of Israel after those days saith the Lord I will put my Laws in their Mind or inward parts and write them in their Hearts and I will be to them a God and they shall be to me a People From all which it may be truly deduced That the Honor of God's commands the Inestimable Value of the Promises the Right granted and the Grace afforded to his visible Church do most manifestly declare God's High Activ and Relativ Goodness to his People For truly God is good unto Israel I will now consider the first part of the Text a General Proposition God is good and also the first particular of the second part thereof both together that is both God's Goodness and the Object of this Goodness to whom it extends and this may serve as the Use Improvement and Application of the praeceding Discourse Truly God is good unto Israel to his Church in which I will be very brief and for the most part of this I shall be obliged to a Reverend Worthy and Great Divine of our own Church and Nation And certainly this is evident to us by its own light to whom God hath proved his Goodness to Astonishment by exercising it to a Miracle while heat once wrought Prodigies of kindness and Conviction too For which we have only this Proof to add that God hath been so plentiful in the expressions of his Bounty that we are weary of the mention of them and have so surfeited on Divine Goodness that we nauseate the Acknowledgment But now if Atheism grow against Goodness and Miracle too and Men do most deny God when he gives greatest Evidences of his Being and Providenc I know not by what argument encouraged unless that in the Poet Factum quod se dum negat hoc videt Beatum Because they see they fare best that deny him most teaching his Goodness to confute his Being If they look upon the wondrous Restitution of God's Service as but a shifting the Scene of Worship only another and more gaudy Draught and Landskip of Religion shot upon the Stage and do accordingly esteem it as an entertainment for their senses only If they assist in them not out of Principle but meer Indifferenc unto all It is not halting between God and Baal this it is the Bowing the Knee unto both which they can do unto each alike when either is uppermost and truly count them Deities alike I fear Nay when the only Ordinance the Sermon is but as a Prize in the Temple The Preacher but Rhetor dicturus ad Aram that comes to do his exercise before the Altar in which Men