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A86504	A sermon, preached before the Right Honourable, Thomas Foote, Lord Maior, and the right worshipfull the aldermen, sheriffs, and severall companies of the City of London. Vpon the generall day of thanksgiving, October the 8. 1650. at Christ-Church, London. / By Doctor Nathanael Homes, teacher of the Church at Mary Staynings, London.	Homes, Nathanael, 1599-1678.	1650 (1650)	Wing H2576; Thomason E614_4; ESTC R202565	34,476	51

diexris Say a man is unthankful and say he is any thing 'T is a paunch of vices Therefore by the Canon of contraries Thankfullness is comprehensive of many Vertues The best Spirits are most praysefull prayse being the common work of Angels Luke 2. and the acclamations of the Seraphims Isai 5. To whose pattrn we are to conform as is hinted to us in the Lords prayer Mat. 6.10 Thy will be done on earth as t is in Heaven David the Saint that above all others hath the stile of being a man after Gods own heart 1 Sam. 13.14 is called the sweet Psalmist of Israel 2 Sam. 23.1 And was the maine Author of the book of Psalmes which in the Hebrew as we sayd are called Prayses And therefore men cannot I should think refuse to prayse out of much Conscience but by reason of a defect in Conscience 1. As if the Conscience be either a dark Conscience which seekes light onely of the Hemisphere of Night-starrs and of the same elevation and magnitude with it self not of morning-starrs which promise more light in the case that is put 2. Or a made Conscience not native and genuine but formed by borrowed debates agreement and example of others 3. Or an engaged Conscience praise not consisting with its interest and designe 4. Or an ill principled Conscience that disownes the Commanders as well as the Command of prayse and therefore cannot speak the language of prayse in Scotish or Irish Surely with much sorrow we may speak it that if it be possible that some Saints cannot see the least cause to praise in great deliverances they are Saints under great temptations and not with a little offence given to the generality of Saints The tongue of a holy man is called his Glory Psal 16.9 because as 't is the glory of members so more in the mouthes of Saints and most in the act of prayse A Non-praysing Saint to ordinary Divine reason are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a contradiction in the adject whiles such For Saint or Holy people is 2. A word of Obligation Saints or Holy-people signifies that such are bound over by grace to the duty of praise Psal 30.4 Psal 52.9 Psal 89.5.132 9 16. Psal 145.10 Psal 33.1 Psal 118.1 2 3. because holy Therfore the Psalmist oft sets them this ditty and song Sing unto the Lord O YE SAINTS OF HIS Prayse is good before thy SAINTS Thy faithfulnesse shall be praysed in the Congregatìon of SAINTS Let thy SAINTS shout for joy Saints shall shout aloud for joy Thy SAINTS shall blesse thee Prayse is comely for the UPRIGHT Praise the Lord O YE SERVANTS of the Lord. O give thankes unto the Lord for he is good for his mercy endureth for ever Let ISRAEL now say that his mercy endureth for ever Let the house of AARON now say that his mercy endureth for ever Let them that FEARE the Lord say that his mercy endureth for ever If Gods people praise the holy Ministry must not be divided from them in that duty Wee heard afore that when the four Brigades of the Camp of God in Revel praysed the four and twenty Elders did also Saints have as more divine reason wherefore so more wherewith to prayse Holynesse implies that Saints are partakers of a holy God in and through an holy Christ by holy grace and so are partakers of all and of him that is more then all Rom. 8.32.1 Cor. 3. the three last verses So that all yea all adverse things work together for their good Rom. 8. well therefore might the Apostle say 1 Thess 5. In EVERY thing give thankes But if two Armies meet in the field upon the Case of Nationall wrongs the wrong-doer refuseth to make satisfaction when desired they are both resolved to try it out by the sword to Conquer or be Conquered no middle of participation between the wronged party is set upon by the wrong-doer once againe and a third time the wronged party still beating them to at last a total rout and full victory can any gratious heart chuse but see the the righteous hand of God in this against the wrong-doer Can any English man having any true English blood running in his Veines choose but prayse God for this delivernnce of the Nation Surely the case thus put truely as 't was by the two Armies then resolved to win all or loose all we must either say it was a mercy that England conquered or else it had been a mercy if Scotland had conquered And if any were of that monstrous minde they might have considered that they might have bequeathed good will and kindness to the Scots at a cheaper rate then to set their own houses on fire to rost their neighbours egges that is to loose the English nation to pleasure the Scotish But of this more anon though I even faint to think on some among us not the worst of men Quibus non suaseris etiamsi persuaseris who though they are convicted yet will not be converted in their opinions and judgment touching this thing Saint Redeas ad teipsum return to thy self and to thy duty If thou art a Saint thou hast all matter and mercies of prayse Yea all things to thee are mercies upon every thing thou hast 't is written as upon a deveut mans house in every corner Ergo landes therefore praise If Saints have personall mercies none so injoys them as he A Stranger sayth Solomon intermeddles not with his joy And his name saith S. Iohn in his white stone none knowes but he If Oeconomicall mercies The fire-stickes and fuell of comfort is layd closer together to set his joy on flame then others If Nationall none shares in such mereies so much as the Saints The preservation of this nation is the preservation of their choyse delights namely piety and liberty which the Almost-Christians and Semi-religious slavish spirits deem not Therefore if some mens spirits be discomposed to prayse shall the generality of Saints be uncomposed If miscomplexioned mindes not prizing the Donation prayse not the Donor shall not the Common Chore of Holy people sing and say Hallelujah praysed be Iehovah the Army is safe and the Parliament sits our Nation is in peace this City in prosperity Religion is preserved and our Liberty secure Psal 107.1 2. O give thankes unto the Lord for he is good for his mercy endureth for ever Let the redeemed of the Lord say so whom he hath REDEEMED from the HAND of the enemy The Case of Deborahs praysing when other Tribes would not Deborah and her Army of holy people namely the Tribes of Ephraim of Benjamin of Zebulon of Naphthali and Issachar will fight and conquering will praise Judg. 5. though the Tribe of Reuben be divided in his spirit and practice abiding among the sheepfolds Gilead is beyond Jordan Dan is in ships Asher is on the sea-shore See here is wicked tyrannical Jabin and Sisera as bad enemies to Israel as the Irish rebels to us

and the four and twenty Elders whose signification you have heard already fall down in prayer-wise vers 8 c. singing a new song that is for new mercies as v. 1. before my Text saying Thou art worthy to take the book and open the seals for thou wast slain and hast redcemed us to God by thy blood c. there is our spiritual victories and hast made us to our God Kings and Priests and we shall reign on the EARTH On the earth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is more then 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 See also the Syr. Arai Bio Gall. not onely in the earth The Syrtack and Arabian Translation is over the earth Here plainly is the holy peoples corporal victories We will pin this yet faster with that in Rev. 11.11 c. The Witnesses rose and stood on their feet and great fear fell on them that saw them The seventh Angel sounds and then the Kingdoms of THIS WORLD are become the Kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ And the four and twenty elders praised saying We give thee thanks O Lord God Almighty which art and wast and art to come that thou hast taken to thee thy great power and hast reigned and the Nations were ANGRY All which cannot be compatible and consistent with supernal glory or the ultimate Judgement but with a state on earth afore We will trouble you but with the naming of two places more Rev. 14. vers 1. to 9. The Camp of Gods holy people to the number of one hundred fourty and four thousand marked in the forehead not without allusion to the ancient marking of souldiers * So the Rom. Antiqu and under the notion of four and twenty elders and the four Animals sing a new song of praise to God for the fall of BABYLON which cannot possibly be meant but of material places and perdition on earth In the nineteenth Chapter of the Revelation in the first six verses we have five times HALLELU-JAH and once PRAISE to the Lord God omnipotent By whom Answ By the Host or Camp of the four animals and four and twenty elders called several times much people For what Answer For judging the Whore and avenging the blood of the Saints on her How Answer By casting the Beast and the false prophet into the lake of fire and destroying their Army by the sword so that the Fowles were filled with their flesh All which how it can be understood of meer Spiritualls let them devise that are contrary minded for I and others of greater learning cannot Mede c. I need say no more for confirmation of the Doctrine For Explication I have already somthing anticipated my self afore viz. That Gods speciall honouring the Saints with victories over their enemies and the Saints reciprocally honouring God with praise for the same relate mainly to our times and downward For my part I have delivered to you not any new notion as new to me as if formed by late successes but that I have been settled in for these eight yeares last past at least and did not for bear to give a little notice of it in publique when there was no great safety for one to utter such things I have for about so long foreseen by the Word of God that 1650. or thereabouts would be a time full of great and glorious wonders Post Mille sexcentos quirquagesimus annus Omnibus elapsis dignior annus erit That which guided me to this expectation were three places of scripture The first Scripture Dan. 12. Daniel hearing of the wonderfull times of Michaels beginning to deliver his people ver 1 2 3. wherein after great difficulties the Saints shall begin to be so glorious upon the earth for that in the second verse cannot be meant of the last general resurrection because it mentions onely the rising of SOME also of Converting men the question is put v. 6. How long should it be to the end of those wonders The answer is ver 7. for a time and times and half a time that is for three ages and an half that is 100. 200. and 50. in all 350. Which computed according to the most learned with the time that the Turk became the greatest pest and misery to the Jewes in or about the year 1300. the end of the reckoning falls upon 1650. The second Scripture is in the 11. ver of that 12 of Dan. where Daniel not satisfied with the former answer askes a further explanation ver 9. The answer is given ver 11. From the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away there shall be one thousand two hundred and ninety dayes that is yeares * Ezek. 4.4 5 6. where 390 and 40 dayes signifie so many years I have appointed thee each day for a year as is the common phrase of the Prophets otherwise nothing can be made of it to comfort Daniel or the people of God either Iewes or Gentiles Now the ceasing of the Iewish daily sacrifice was accomplished with so many visible footstsps and degrees and with such eminent note in the most famous Histories as the thing cannot possibly be hid from our eyes First Upon some rising of the Jewes against the Roman Empire Titus son to Vespatian Emperour came and destroyed their Temple about seventy yeares after Christ according to Christs Prophesie Matth. 24.1 2. Then the in daily sacrifices ceased in the Temple so that the Jews yet zealous of their sacrifices after that sacrificed in the City likely as ne●r the remaining ruines of the Temple as they could But upon some revolt of the Jewes from the Roman Empire Adrian the Roman Emperour came in his time and about the year 134 after Christ demolished the City whereby the daily sacrifice was also taken away from the City and by the Jewes was carried away to Mamre where of old God appeared unto Abraham There they build an Altar and sacrifice and force Merchants also to sacrifice or else inhibited their trade Which Christian Constantine the great coming to the Empire with conquest of his heathen Colleagues about the year 313 being not able to endure beat down their Altar and built there a publique place or Church as the common phrase is for Christians to worship God in Then the Jews driven to their last shist return to reedifie Hierusalem By this time Inlian is Emperour and had ere long obtained his other name of Apostata for revolting from the Christian Religion which a while he had professed who in defiance of Christ and the Christian religion encouraged the Jews to rebuild their Temple c. But fire and tempest from Heaven destroying their work burning their tools and hurting and terlifying the workmen the Jewes never sacrificed more Now all know that know any thing of History or Chronologie that Inlian came to be Emperour near about three hundred and sixty years after Christ and soon after so encouraged the Jewes to that their ruine Adde now three hundred and

extoll'd by Book-polititians for Majestie and likeness to the rule of God But it hath so long degenerated into Arrogancie and Tyranny that it is now disgracing it self out of the world Democracie hath been sometimes despised where and while it hath been eclipsed by the seeming-splendor of Lord-ensnaring and people-vassal ging Royalty But what it wants in Majesty is richly made up in true Liberty and secure Safety The people loving the Governmen of the People as before described love themselves But Kings loving themselves and their Court-creatures they drained and suck'd out the life and blood and spirits of the State The Peoples misery and poverty as was their Maxime was their security to do what they list The time is now at hand to dethrone Monarchie and to raise Democracie according to our Text of the Honour to be given to the Holy-people compared with Dan. 7.27 Read it wisely The KINGDOM and DOMINION and the GREATNESSE of the Kingdom UNDER the WHOLE HEAVEN shall be given to the PEOPLE of the SAINTS You see then our Text and that of Daniel speakes fairely for a Democracie that is holy and our Times begin to ecchoe distinctly to it as we shall see more after in the Antitypicall consideration of the termes of our Doctrine and Text. 3 Word is Praise ye the Lord or as 't is in the Hebrew HALLELU-JAH which is as I may say the Heavenly prick-song of the times signified in the Revelation to our present time and downward When had we cause more to praise Jah or Jehovah then now When did he more manifest himself as such then now by that time we have reckoned up the many things of this daies memorial And the duty is like the desert It doth not onely sound of what we must do but savours of much sweetness in the doing and so a motive as well as a Command to praise For Praise is a preparation to prayer He that is not in tune to pray let him first play the praludium of praise he shall soon finde his heart before bed-ridden sick spiritually to come to his life and strength So it appeares by Davids Psalmes often For praise is a great heart-melter a Convincer of sin in regard of the unkindness of it and so an admirer of divine mercy as Jacob Lord I am lesse then the least of all thy mercies For Praise is an owning of the returnes of our prayers We know our prayers againe when we see them acted and effected and make us Eccho to God acts as David Away from me ye workers of iniquity the Lord hath heard me Psal 6 What shall I render to the Lord Psal 116 for all his benefit Therefore praise also is a quieter of discontent a composer of our spirits an allayer of the mutinies of the affections Psal 73. Psal 77. It is the intent and event of Gods deliverances and the acceptable glorifying of him Psal 50. v. 15. v. 23. And t is a great tryer of the actions that is in judgment and Conscience well done for which a Saint can cordially give praise Therefore praise we for the thing done for eyes to see cause of praise and for hearts willing to give thankes And whiles we praise we loose no time to procure at the Throne of Grace Praise is as well a potencie and prevayling to get as a pledge we have received As well a Petition as an accquittance So in the story of Iehosaphat who whiles he praised 2 Chron. 20.22 c. obtained the victory of an Army of enemies Therefore doubt not but that this daies praise shall have the fruit of Petitions Therefore to all these seven let the foot of the song be Therefore praise therefore praise c. 4 Word is Performance Psal 136.3 c. O give thankes unto the Lord of HOSTS who alone doth GREAT WONDERS for his mercy indures for ever c. Who remembred us in our LOW ESTATE for his mercy indureth for ever And REDEEMED us from our ENEMIES for his mercy indureth for ever Need I speak to this Text The day is a plain and compleat commentary 5 Word is according to his Promise Not onely great things are done for us but with the great seale of Gods truth that he heares when we do pray and doth as he speaks So that in what we have heard and seen and injoy being the issue of promises all is not done till THIS world be done Gods Promises are of an unknown worth a rich improvement and of endless incomes of Reversions Promises are like the sunne that casts its beames at first rising from East to West Yea they are like to fountainous streames the further they runne the more they are augmented till they disburded themselves into the Ocean This is a great mystery I had the first hint of it many yeeres since from learned and religious Calvin Promises have never an end of all in them till Saints attaine the perfect end of all So that as all the promises and performances of the Old Testament did first devolve themselves on the great period of Christs incarnation so next they reach to and rest upon Christs exaltation of his Kingdome on earth among his Holy-people as they are anewly promised or commented upon in the New Men may not yet say of the grand promises of the generall good of the Holy-people Now such a promise is fullfilled and now such a promise is fullfilled unless they mean fullfilled so as not yet fully fullfilled What ever is done till the full perfection of all things come is but an Epocha Intervall or Stage of the progresse of promises and their severall Gesses Promises in their effectuall movings are like the movings of the Sea the latter wave is the greater and the outwarder circle the wider We now wonder at the greatness of mercies present But he is immense that acts Now are but dawnings to the sunne hereafter rising 2 Pet. 1.19 The Holy-people are now honoured But shall be more and more So it followes in the two words behinde namely Honour and such honour with addition to ALL his Saints 6 Word is honour God will honour them whom the world all along till now have most vilified He will make them glorious before men whom as Paul faith men have made the off-scowring of all things Now it is not onely a matter of conscience towards God but of credit among men to be a Saint And shall not such praise Yea they must they do they will Rev. 5.9 c The four Beasts and the four and twenty Elders fell down before the Lamb c. And they sung a NEW song saying Thou art worthy c. for thou wast stain and hast redeemed us c out of every nation and hast made us unto our God Kings and Priests and we shall REIGN on the EARTH And I beheld and heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand