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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42854	Glorifying of God the just tribute of a thankfull people, discovered and press'd in a sermon preach'd December 2. 1697. Being the day of thanksgiving for the peace.		1698 (1698)	Wing G867A; ESTC R218331	35,273	66

Provoking Guilt and Offences against Heaven the Lord thus Appeared for us Could we Behold what Excellent Wisdom how Glorious Power what Free Goodness how Exceeding Great Compassions what Wonderful Patience and Long-Suffering the Lord has Displayed in Working out this our so Great and Multiplied Salvation with What Thankful Hearts Raised Affections Praising Tongues and Eminently-Fruitful Lives should we Set our selves to Bless Extoll Serve and Magnify our Good God Casting on Him the Glory of All What we Are the Lord has Made us What we Enjoy is the Gift of his Free Bounty Fetched by his Mighty Arm as out of the Fire and Handed to Us from the very Jaws of Ruin The Lord has Gone before Us in the Greatness of his Strength has been a Jer. 14. 8. the Hope of our Israel the Saviour thereof in the time of Trouble b Psal 72. 4. Who has Judged the Poor of our People and Saved the Children of the Needy and Broken in pieces o●● Oppressours c Psal 72 14. he has Redeemed our Soul from Deceit and Violence and Precious has our Blood been in his Sight Even he d Jer. 10. 10. the Onely True and Living God the Everlasting King at whose Wrath the Earth doth Tremble and whose Indignation the Nations are not able to Abide has Looked on Us in our Low Estate Saved Us from Job 5. 15 20. the Power of the Sword f Job 5. 12. Disappointed the Devices of our Crafty Enemies so that their Hands could not Perform their Enterprize and does now Abound toward us in Riches of Goodness and Forbearance and Long-suffering Purposely to Lead us to Repentance O therefore let us Duely O●● Him Rightly Mention his Holy Name and Shew forth All his Praises Let us Break off o●● Iniquities by Repentance and Turn unto the Lord with all our Hearts and not feignedly Let us study What to Render unto the Lord for all Hi● Benefits And according to the Modell of Tru● Thankfulness though alas too short and lam● that has been Set before you always Strive to your Utmost with Heart Lip and Life with All you Are Have Meet with and Can D● to Yeild unto the Lord the Glorious Honour of his Majesty and of his Wondrous Works Psal 145. 5. And to Provoke Us to such a God-Glorifying Course Know we and Consider well 1. That we are no True Christians nor will God so Account of us if we Do it not Taking the Name of the Lord upon us without Living after His Example who spent his Days in g John 17. 4. Glorifying His Father and h Acts 10. 38. Going about ●●d Doing Good or Doing His Holy Will or Following the Conduct of His Spirit will Avail us Nothing Then only are we Christians in Truth when our Souls are Renewed Our Hearts Withdrawn from Vanity Wills Subdued to God and our Whole Man Absolutely Devoted to the Honouring of God in Christ Believe it To be a Christian indeed is a Very Great and Serious Business a Business which will not be Done with a Careless Mind or a Slothful Unresolved Soul nor with the Thoughts and Hours which Pride and Vanity can Spare and which are the Leavings of Fleshly-Lusts and Pleasures And Persons will One Day Find that Christ will not be Put off with Vain Complements or Reward Any who under His Livery Pleased the Flesh and Served the World 2. What ever Mercies and Gifts God Bestoweth on Any He Expecteth to Receive again with Usury The 19. Luke 12 13 23. Deserves your Serious and Lasting Consideration The Lord Keeps Account of What ye Have and will have a Reckoning with you to See What Work you have been Minding and whether you have Served His Interest with what you had or Pro●●gally Wasted it on th●t of the Flesh If you have Wealth Interest and Power and you Succour not the Poor do not Right and Protect the Distressed and Promote the Cause of God and the Common Good But a Job 29. 12. Ye Refuse to D●liver the Poor that Cry and the Fatherless and him that hath none to Help him If ye b Isa 58. 7. Dra● not forth your Soul to the Hungry c. If you Decline c Ezek. 18. 16. Loosing the Bands of Wickedness and Undoing Heavy Burdens to let the Oppressed G● Free i. e. if you will not Honour God with H● Own nor be the Instruments of His Beneficence to Others nor as Faithful Stewards Improve the Talents He has Entrusted you with to Holy Uses and Ends You 'll be Cast and Ruined in the Great Day of Account Live not therefore as if it were enough to Do No Harm and say as the Slothful Servant Here is thy Talent which I hid 3. 'T is most Excellent and Honourable Work the Lord Calls you to herein And Christianity surely is a most Noble Thing when it Requir●s and Makes Persons to be so Like unto the Holy God It 's Work and Business being but to Represent God's Glorious Perfections and by the Light of Holy Living to Shew forth and Recommend the Divine Majesty to a Darkenel World as a Candle Lighteth what Way so-ever it Goeth It Instates us into God's Family and Imploys us in that which is the Work yea the very Glory of Heaven it self Shall a Creature be Called forth to the Honouring his Maker and a Mean Worm be said to Glorify God O who can Conceive of the Glory and Honour hereof We Read Psal 78. 25. How Ma● did Eat Angel's Food but we are Call'd to Angel's Work 4. The Neglect of this Duty Forfeits All our Mercies and Lays us open to All Miseries whatever a Deut. 28. 47 48. Because thou Servedst not the Lord thy God with Joyfulness and with Gladness of Heart for the Abundance of All Things Therefore shalt thou Serve thine Enemies which the Lord shall Send upon thee in Hunger and in Thirst and in Nakedness and in Want of All things and he shall Put a Yoke of thy Neck c. This Text was Greatly Verified on our Selves in the two Late Reigns untill the Happy Revolution under our Present Gracious Sovereign the Lord Making us to Feel that b 2 Chron. 15. 2. He will be no Longer with a People than they are with Him and that He will Forsake Them when They Forsake Him Where a Mic. 2. 7. Hos 2. 9. Religion Decays States or People cannot Thrive 5. A Good Discharge of this Duty is the onely Way to Put an Utter End to our Remaining Fears and Troubles and Make us Happy here and hereafter b Isa 4. 5. Upon the Glory there shall be a Defence The * A Bishop of Magdenburg hearing the Duke of Saxony was Preparing War against him fell to Reforming his Church and amending what was amiss And being ask'd by one of the Duke's Spi●s if he did not hear what the Duke was intending against him because he made no Defensive Preparation He said Year but Ego

Strength will I Sing for God is my Defence and the God of my Mercy Well then Creating Redeeming Sanctifying Upholding and Delivering-Mercy and Goodness Challenges and Requires us to Glorify God To which I might Add that He being very Jealous of His Glory as also it being All the Homage and Tribute He Expecteth from us for All He has Made us Given to us Done for us and further Promiseth to us we should Readily Diligently Thankfully Continually and with our Utmost even with All our Soul with All our Thought with All our Might cum omni Valde nostro Yeild it to Him Application Now to Improve the Whole of what we have Heard concerning the Lord's Gracious Delivering of us and His Expecting Returns of Thankfulness to the Glorifying His Name And I. It may Serve for Conviction and Reproof against All those amongst us who instead of being Thankful for the Wonderfull Appearances of the Almighty in the Rescuing these Kingdoms from accursed Idolarty and Slavery and in Preserving the Lives Properties and Religion of All True Protestants in them have been Grieved at their Heart for and with an Implacable Opposition Endeavoured to Hinder the Progress and Accomplishment of so Glorious a Deliverance O the Vile Malignity of their Natures and Poisonous Disposition of their Unhallowed Hearts who 't is like would never have been so Base and Viper-like had not God been so very Kind and Merciful 'T is sad that any of the Offspring of those Miscreants Sanballat and Neh. 2 10. Tobiah who were Grieved Exceedingly that there was but a Man that Came to Seek the Welfare of the Children of Israel should be Found among us Yet such there be whose Spirits are Troubled and Hearts Fret and Rage for the Welfare of God's Cause among us We read in Ez. 8. That among the Abominations which the Lord Shewed the Prophet One was a Company of W●men that Sate Weeping for Tammuz even for the Loss of their Shamefull Idoll So these Grieu● to Part with the Sorest Plague on the True Church of God an Idolatrous Tyrant that Jeroboa● like would have Forced Us on Sin and Miser● Some tell us That Aromaticall Smells that are Refreshing to All others will Drive Tygers into a Rage And Oecumenius Writes that the Fragrantia Unguenti boni Columbam Vegetat Scarabaeum Necat Fragrancy of Precious Ointment which is Wh●●some for Doves does yet Kill the Beetle To like to such Tygers and Beetles do they Express themselves who under the Name of Protestants and Professing the Reformed Religion Repine as the Re-establishment of the Protestant Cause and Interest and the Depression of those whose Principles Constrain them to Seek the Utter Ruin of the Reformed Religion upon Pain of Damnation The Lord in Mercy Convince such Dangerou●● Deluded Souls and Effectually Heal and Cure their too Serpentine-like Natures My only Counsel to them is To Repent of this their Imligious Perfidiousness lest they out-do the Vile Traitour Judas for even he after he had Betrayed his Master seeing What was done Repented him II. I Apply it for Advoie and Caution As God's Own People of old were too Prone to Misbehave Deut. 6. 10. 11 12. ch 8. 10 11. themselves upon the Receiving of Grea● Mercies and therefore were Warned by God a● such times to Take heed and Beware so it is too Easy for Us who have not Walked so Closely with God under Afflictions when the Rod was on our Back as we should it is I say but too Easy for us to Forget our selves and our God when our Condition Seems more Safe Wherefore let us Look Well to our selves lest after God's having Glorified His Power and Goodness in Shewing Us Manifold and Rich Mercy both Positive and Privative We do not Dishonour His Great Name by Sinning against Him hereupon Let us Fear the Provoking Sin of Ingratitude and Giving the Lord Evill Requitals for All His Kindness See we that we Reproach not the Lord and His Goodness either in Thought Word or Deed. Let not our Hearts Dishonour him by Forgetfulness or Unworthy Thoughts of God and His Benefits by being Listed up with Pride Arrogating to our Selves God's Glory by Security and Discontentedness or Unsuitable Affectedness to his Grace Let not our Tongues Offend against Him by D●nying Him his Praises by Speaking Irreverently of His Majesty or Diminutively of His Favours or as Depreciating and Dishonouring his Holy Name Ordinances and Servants or by Murmuring Nor let us Lead our Lives Reproachfully before Him by Debasing the Divine Bounty to the Gratifying a Fleshly Course and Pleasing our Lusts by Growing Wanton or Riotous or any ways Diverting God's Blessings to Other Ends than for which they are Given III. By Way of Exhortation Consider Wha● Great Things He hath Done for you and Giv● unto the Lord the Honour Due unto his Name Psal 29. 1 2. And here now Who can Set forth either i● Number or Weight the Exceeding Goodness of the Lord to Us which we are most Thankfully to Commemorate This Day and Live henceforth to the End of our Days to His Honour O what Catalogues of Most Valuable Mercies might be Readily Presented to us How Many have we in Common to these Three Kingdoms with other Kingdoms How Many in Common with the Kingdom which has been Priviledged above All Others that we Know of How Many in Common with the Places of our Abode and the S●cieties to which we Belong And how Many Uncommon and Distinguishing Ones Peculiar to our Selves both in Soul and Body in our Families and Relations Callings and Conditions What Deliverances too beside Other Benefits and those Publick and Private upon both Civil and Spiritual Accounts Deliverances I say which are not Single Favours but Every One of them a Comprehensive Mother Blessing ● Saving us from Manifold Evils to Much God and such are those that we are to Own and Bless God for after a Solemn Manner viz. His Rescuing Us from the Enslaving Tyran●y of a Bigotted Papist and Overthrowing his Fumidable Army of Popish-Irish-Cut-throats His Driving hence the Soul-Destroying Idolatry of a Bloody Religion His Filling the Throne with a War-like Prince of Unexampled Zeal and Succour for the Tr●● Religion and Preserving Him Safe amidst the I●numerable Perils of Private Plots and Open War And now at last Crowning of Him to be the Instrument of a Long-Desired Peace for the Security of our Religion Liberties and Properties that are Restored to Us with Great Advantages With All of These that are Each of them Most Fruitfull Blessings full of Goodness and Pregnant with Various Reviving Mercies are we Covered and Compassed round about as the Earth is with the Environing Heavens and should not such Divine Grace well Affect Us Heaven-ward But further let us View them in their Amiable and Greatening Circumstances and so if we Consider the Excellent Needfulness Convenience and Seasonableness of them to what a Low Ebb our Hopes and Helps were Brought and under what