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prayer_n	offer_v	sacrifice_n	thanksgiving_n	3,189	5	10.9292	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32826	A sermon preached on the fast-day, November the xiiith, 1678 being appointed for fasting and prayer / by Benjamin Camfield ...	Camfield, Benjamin, 1638-1693.	1678 (1678)	Wing C385; ESTC R1375	24,011	55

frequent experience of c. 2 I will call upon him whom I also praise tendring up my Thanksgivings for mercies already bestowed while I offer up afresh Petitions for renewed favours from him and thus gathering encouragement from what I have already received to continue my Dependence chearfully upon him and Faith in him for the future There is a great consent of Interpreters this way I will praise the Lord and call upon him So the Arabic In a Song or Hymn I pour out Prayers So the Chaldee See Dr. H. Vicars Decapl in Loc. I will call upon him with Praises So R. Sol. Praising him with Prayers So Apollinarius i. e. joyning of Praises and Requests Doxologies and Letanies together When I shall have praised him first for his past Benefits I will then call upon him for those yet to come So a Latin M. S. Having celebrated the Lord with these Encomium's viz. of the precedent Verse I will now call upon him So Clarius Invocabo laudatum I will call upon him being praised that is in a Poetical Phrase Dr. H. I will first praise him and then call upon him He signifies hereby as Mr. Calvin Notes preces suas laudibus mistas fore That his Prayers shall be mingled with Praises and Thanksgivings according to that of the 116 Psalm I will take the Cup of Salvation and call upon the Name of the Lord Vers 13. And again Offer the Sacrifice of Thanksgiving and call on the Name of the Lord Vers 17. So is the Apostolical Direction Phil. 4.6 In every thing by Prayer and Supplication with Thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God We are at the same time to testifie both our Gratitude and Dependence and Thankfulness for what we have received is one effectual way of obtaining what we want I will therefore call on the Lord with a grateful acknowledgment of his former Goodness gathering encouragement from thence still to continue my Petitions unto him who hath already so well deserved of me The Mercies he hath vouchsafed me hitherto are not only so many Essaies of his power and readiness to relieve me Dr. H. Par. but also so many Pawns and Pledges for the future and therefore to my Songs of Praise I chearfully add my most Humble and Earnest Requests And thus doing never fail of a Gracious return from him Which leades us to the second part of the Text namely the Psalmist's motive to his Resolution and Practice from the assured good success of it So shall I be safe from mine Enemies And this I shall little more than gloss upon Be mine Enemies never so Potent and Formidable for Multitude never so many an Host of Devils and Sons of Belial for Power never so strong for Malice never so spiteful and cruel for Policie never so cunning in their Assaults never so violent in their Confederacies never so combined in their Plots never so secret I shall nevertheless be saved from them all and remain secure by the Divine interposure on my behalf Dwelling in the secret place of the most High Psal 91. I shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty There shall no Evil befall me neither shall any Plague come nigh my Dwelling for he shall give his Angels charge over me to keep me in all my waies He will Answer me whensoever I call will be with me in Trouble will Deliver and Honour me with long life will he satisfie me and shew me his Salvation All Salvation is of the Lord and he hath a peculiar regard in his saving Providence unto Kings Psal 144.10 It is He that giveth Salvation unto Kings that delivereth David his Servant from the hurtful Sword And the like Acknowledgment we have in the close of this 18th Psalm Great Deliverance giveth he to his King and sheweth Mercy to his Anointed to David and to his seed for ever Even the succession of Anointed ones the whole race of Kings throughout all generations St. Chrys Liturg They are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 preserved by him by whom they Reign But yet God expects to be sought unto by them too that they own and acknowledge their need of his Help and put themselves into a capacity of receiving it in the most becoming posture from him That therefore is the Ground of the Psalmists Resolution I will call on the Lord who is worthy to be praised so shall I be safe from mine Enemies And that we may all in a proportion gather the like encouragement unto this Duty of calling upon God in our Distresses and Troubles we are to remember that he is stiled in general Psal 65. The hearer of Prayers unto whom all Flesh therefore is to come that he hath bid us Ask Seek Knock with promise that he who asketh shall receive and he that seeketh shall find and to him that knocketh it shall be opened That He hath assured If we who are Evil know how to give good Gifts to our Children much more will He our Heavenly Father give Good things to them that ask him Whosoever shall call on the Name of the Lord shall he saved saith the Prophet Joel Joel 2.32 Act. 2.21 Rom. 10.13 and it is thrice quoted for Confirmation in the New Testament And the promise refers to as black and dismal Times as we can well imagine viz. such as attended the Siege of Jerusalem by the Romans When there were the dreadful Appearances of Blood and Fire and Pillars of Smoke the Sun turned into Darkness and the Moon into Bloud even the great and terrible Day of the Lord come upon them Nevertheless in these circumstances the promise is left Whosoever shall call on the Name of the Lord shall be Delivered And for our farther Confirmation as to the publick invocation of God with the Congregations of his Saints in his Holy Temple we may cast our Eyes on the several passages of King Solomon's Prayer at the Dedication of the Temple the House of Prayer which God himself testified his Acceptance of Hearken then 1 Kings 8. saith he unto the Supplication of thy Servant and of thy people Israel when they shall pray towards this place and Hear thou in Heaven and Forgive and Do that all the People of the Earth may know thy Name to fear thee as do thy People Israel c. We under the New Testament to be sure are nothing short of them in real Priviledges nay God hath reserved some better thing for us For though we have not their Temple yet we have their God as near unto us in all that we call upon him for we have the Holy Spirit whereby we cry Abba Father making intercession within us and we have a most powerful Advocate at God's right hand Jesus Christ the righteous by whom we may come with Confidence to the Throne of Grace Hebr. 4.16 that we may obtain Mercy and find Grace 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for our most seasonable Relief in the