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A serious and pathetical contemplation of the mercies of God in several most devout and sublime thanksgivings for the same / published by the Reverend Doctor Hicks at the request of a friend of the authors.
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Traherne, Thomas, d. 1674.; Hickes, George, 1642-1715.
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Ps. 119. 103. I opened my mouth and panted for I longed for thy Commandments Ps. 119. 131. Blessed art thou O Lord teach me thy Statutes Ps 119. 12. They make us blessed By teaching our Souls to imitate thee At midnight will I rise up to give thanks unto thee for thy Righteous Judgments Ps. 119. 62. I will delight in thy Law I will speak of thy Testimony before Kings I will meditare in thy Statures They satiate the Powers of our immortal Soul Ambition with the Honor of all the Angels Coveroushess with the Riches of Heaven and Earth Love with the goodness of God all things Make us fit for the Throne of Glory By making us a Joy to all Angels Kingdoms Ages O give me Understanding and I shall keep thy Law yea I shall observe it with my whole heart Ps. 119. 34. O Lord I beseech thee give me love unto thy Laws Delight in thy Laws Meditation on thy Laws Right Understanding of thy Laws And entire obedience unto thy Laws If my delight had not been in thy Law I had perished in my Trouble Hallelujab Thanksgivings for the Beauty of his Providence THY Mercy O Lord is in the Heavens and thy Faithfulness reacheth unto the Clouds Thy Righteoushess is like the great Mountains thy Judgments are a great Deep O Lord thou preservest Man and Beast How excellent is thy loving Kindness O God therefor the Children of Men put their trust under the shadow of thy Wings They shall abundantly be satisfied with the fatness of thy House and thou shalt make them drink of the River of thy Pleasures For with thee is the Fountain of Life and and in thy Light shall we see Light O continue thy loving Kindness to them that kdow thee and thy Righteousness to the upright in heart Let not the foot of Pride come against me and let not the hand of the Wicked remove me There are the workers of Iniquity faln they are cast down and shall not be able to arise Ps. 36. Let us with all the Saints in the Church Triumphant Sing The Song of Moses the servant of God And The Song of the Lamb Saying Great and Marvelous are thy Works Lord God Almighty Just and true are thy Ways thou King of Saints Let their Beauty ravish us Let their Farness delight us Let their Goodness enrich us Let their Wisdom please us Let their Abundance transport us Let them ever be such in our Eyes as they are in thine Whose Delights have been in the habitable Parts of the Earth among the Children of Men. O Lord I delight in thee For making my Soul so wholly Active So prone to Imployment So apt to Love That it can never rest nor cease from thinking I praise thee with Joy For making it so wide that it can measure Ages See thine Eternity And walk with thee in all thy Ways It must be busie And it is happy for me Thou hast made it a LIFE like thine O God All Activity Its Rest is Imployment and its Ease is Business Teach me the best and fairest Business Teach my Soul to walk with thee By thinking Wisely Upon all thy Doings Let me never rust in 〈◊〉 or Sloth Nor sleep in Death Nor 〈◊〉 my self with Vanity Nor 〈◊〉 my self thorow with needless Fears or Sorrows We are always Desolate while our Souls are Idle But when our Thoughts are employed far and near upon then glorious Objects then are we encompassed with Festivals of Joy Solemnities and 〈◊〉 Blessed be thou O Lord And for ever Blessed be thy glorious Name For preparing for us in all Ages Perfect Treasures THE WORKS OF THY RIGHTEOVSNESS Are more pleasant to Angels Than apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver O Lord let me be in all my Solitudes As a Jeweller among thy Jewels As a Perfumer among thy Odors As a Servant among thy Treasures As a Son among thy Servants Thine Image and thine Heir Among all thy Works in all Kingdoms and Nations In the dead time of the Night In my greatest Retirements Let all thy Works be neer unto me All thy Ways Thy Wonders Thy Revelations from Heaven Thy MERCIES Thy JUDGMENTS My familiar Joys Let them fill me with Company when I am most alone Fill me with Delights Surround me with Beauty Turn my Retirements into Songs My Days into Sabbaths My Darkness into Day Or into a Night of Joy as in the solemn Assemblies For enflaming my Soul with the Thirst of Happiness For shewing me its Objects and the manner of Enjoying them For causing me to prefer Wisdom above hidden Treasure and to search for her as for Gold and Silver I Bless and Praise thy H. Name The Desire satisfied is a Tree of Life Had I never thirsted I should never 〈◊〉 valued nor enjoy'd WISDOM I know by experience that she is better that Rubies And all the things I can desire are not to be Compared with her She putteth on my head an ornament Of Grace A crown of Glory she giveth to 〈◊〉 Prov. 4 9. Maketh me a possessor of all thy Joys Bringeth me to the Store-house of thine everlasting Riches 〈◊〉 me in Paradice Surroundeth me with Flowers Yea with all the Delights in the Garden of God May Lillies compare with the Souls of Men Perfumes with Virtues Gold with Affections Crowns with Ages Temples Cities Kingdoms are in my ways Coronations Triumphs Victories surround my Feet No ways strewed with Lillies Pearls and Diamonds can equal these I. These sweeter far Lillies are No Roses may with these compare How these excel No Tongue can tell Which he that well and truly knows With praise and joy he goes How great and happy 's he that knows his Ways To be divine and heavenly Joys To whom each City is more brave Than Walls of Pearl and Streets which Gold doth pave Whose open Eyes Behold the Skies Who loves their Wealth and Beauty more Than Kings love golden Ore II. Who sees the heavenly antient Ways Of GOD the Lord with Joy and Praise More than the Skies With open Eyes Doth prize them all yea more than Gems And Regal Diadems That more esteemeth Mountains as they are Than if they Gold and Silver were To whom the SUN more pleasure brings Than Crowns and Thrones and Palaces to Kings That knows his Ways To be the Joys And Way of God These things who knows With Joy and Praise he goes The Souls of Men and Holy Angels are my delights How endless are thy Treasuries How wide thy Mansions How delectable my Joys Many millions of Miles from hence The Sun doth serve me The Stars many thousand Leagues beyond the Sun The morning Stars and Sons of God Abundantly beyond them all Nor is there any Bounds of my Habitarion The inestimable Presence of Almighty God Endlesly extendeth protracting my Joys And with an Eye from Infinity Beholdeth my Soul The Sun of Righteousness is my perfect Joy Mine Understanding seeth him In the highest Heavens In every moment I see Eternity Conceived
settlest the surrows thereof thou makest it soft with Showers thou blessest the springing thereof Thou Crownest the Year with thy Goodness and thy Paths drop fatness They drop upon the Pastures of the Wilderness and the little Hills rejoyce on every side The Pastures are clothed with Flocks the Valleys are covered over with Corn They shout for joy they also sing Psal. 65. 8 9 10 11 12 13. These O Lord being seen in thy Sanctuary Were Davids Joys Their Publick Beauty his Personal Delights O that my Heart were awake O God To see the Glory of thy Handy Work Thy visible Works are The Joy of Angels The Delight of Cherubins Heavenly Treasures When thou hadst said the Foundations of the Earth and accomplished the Creation of the World The Morning Stars sang together and all the Sons of God shouted for Joy Thy Servant Moses transported into 〈◊〉 and Blessing Joseph on the brink of Glory Saw the Beauties which Angels admire The perfection of thy visible Treasures Blessed of the Lord be his Land for the precious things of Heaven and for the Deep that coucheth beneath And for the precious things brought forth by the Sun and for the precions things put forth by the Moon and for the chief things of the ancient Mountains and for the precious things of the lasting Hills And for the precious things of the Earth and the fullness thereof and for the good Will of him that dwelt in the Bush. Deut. 33. 13 14. c. Blessed be the Glory of him who created all things and upholdeth them daily by the word of his Power All these thy Goodness giveth me Which I with Moses and thy Saints enjoy Had I none other yet These alone are the Angels Songs Surrounded with these I live in Eden But thou hast reserved thy peculiar Joys And given me all other Superadded Treasure The Actions on this Theatre Of thy glorious Kingdom The Lives of thy Saints Their Souls their Tears their Praises In eternal Glory they are seen so perfect that nothing can be added nor taken from them for ever Eccl. 3. 14. And therefore is it that every Creature which is in Heaven and on the Earth and under the Earth and such as are in the Sea c. and all that are in them shall we hear saying Blessing Honour Glory and Power be to him that sitteth upon the Throne and to the Lamb for evermore Rev. 5. 13. To him that sitteth upon the Throne Because he created them To the Lamb for evermore Because he purchased them for us That we shall hear all Creatures In Heaven and Earth So praising thee Plainly sheweth that we shall Understand their Natures See their Beings Know their Excellencies Take Pleasure in them Because they are thy treasures given unto us Compleat Perfect Divine Blessed Innumerable Endless Angelical Heavenly Deep Fathomless Great Glorious Permanent Eternal In hearing all that are in them praising thee We shall behold their Centres Know their Uses See every Property Every Excellence Every Degree in every Excellence Every End to which they are ordained Every Person to whom they relate In every one of which they glorify thee By exalting us Serve us by glorifying thee By delighting all are serviceable to each And glorify my Soul by delighting all Especially by the Glory which they pay to thee Who delightest in them For the perfect Good which they do to thy sons Both here and hereafter In thy glorious Kingdom I admire the Wisdom whereby thou enrichest all thy Wonders The Sun is as a Bridegroom coming forth of his Chamber and rejoyceth as a strong man to run his Race Psal. 19. 5. His Beams Which enter and revive mine eyes Which beautify and quicken all the earth Do service unto me As if no Man were created but I alone The Moon and Stars Dew and Rain Hills and Valleys Fields and Meadows In serving Fishes In serving Fowls and In serving Beasts Serve all the sons of Men A new deep and richer way And in serving them Bless Me thy Servant Enrich Me thy Servant Serve Me thy Servant What Blindness then O Lord possesseth all the sons of men That covet Treasures in the midst of Glory See not thy Riches Gape after Honours Complain of Poverty in the midst of Wealth Turn thy Glory into Shame Love Vanity Follow after Leasing And while they have Eyes and see not The Glories of thy Kingdom Ears and hear not The Voice of thy Creatures Hearts and understand not The Excellencies in them Disquiet themselves in vain to walk in a vain shew heaping up Riches not knowing who shall gather them Psal. 39. 6. But they that will be rich fall into Temptation and a nare and into many foolish and hurt ful Lusts that drown Men in Destruction and Perdition For the love of Money is the root of all Evil which while some have coveted after they have erred from the faith and pierced themselves through with many Sorrows 1 Tim. 6. 9 10. As Adam by seeking knowledge in a foolish way lost all the Treasures of Wisdom and Knowledge which were laid up for him So do these in seeking Riches Destruction and Misery are in all their Ways Ingratidude and Wo Folly and Complaining Ignorance Stupidity Sloth and Poverty Thy Glorious Treasures They therefore Despise because they have them And will never learn to use them Till they lose the benefit and Enjoyment of them But I thy Servant will sing aloud of thy Mercy To make known to the Sons of Men thy A ighty Acts and the Glorious Majesty of thine Excellent Kingdom Psal. 145. 12. That the Sons of Men Might be shining lights To me thy Servant And praise thy Name for thy Glory To which they see thee Exalting thy Creature That I might enjoy the Benefit of the Holy Scriptures And see the use of all thy Creatures That I might see thy ways Among all the Nations And rejoice with thee In thy Judgments and Mercies That with Order and Government Laws and Customs They might beautify the World Which else would be no more than a silent Eden That I might see the good of thy Chosen Rejoice in the gladness of thy Nation And glory with thine Inheritance Psal. 106. 5. That our feet may stand within thy Gates O Jerusalem Whither the Tribes go up the Tribes of the Lord to the Testimony of Israel Psal. 122. 4. Were they Created Were they Enlarged Were they Beautified Who are Heirs with me of thine eternal Kingdom Festivals and Sabbaths Sacraments and solemn Assemblies Bishops Priests and Deacons Emperors Kings and Princes Counsellors Physicians Senators And Captains In all the Beauty of their Office and Ministry 〈◊〉 Shine like Stars In the firmament of thy Kingdom In the midst of whom Thy Servant liveth O give me Wisdom To see their Splendor To Enjoy their Influences Many O Lord my God are thy wonderful works which thou hast done and thy thoughts which are to us-ward There is no man which reckoneth them