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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26009	Reall thankfulnesse, or, A sermon preached in Pauls church, London, vpon the second day of November, 1645 at a publike thanksgiving for the taking in of the towns and castles of Caermarthen and Mounmouth in Wales, it being the first Lords-day after the inauguration of the Right Honourable Thomas Adams, now lord major of that famous city / by Simeon Ash ...	Ashe, Simeon, d. 1662.	1645 (1645)	Wing A3964; ESTC R18262	22,097	32

by the decrees of Gods dominion which are often called the ordinances of Heaven So all mans operations should be ordered and limited by his Commandments 2. A Portion Prov. 31. 15. She giveth a portion to her Maidens And truly Gods commands are a good portion to his people I have esteemed the words of his mouth saith Job more then my necessary food Job 23. 12. And Thy testimonies saith David are my heritage for ever Psal 119. 111. Unto a gracious heart Gods work is wages and imployment is preferment The second word is Laws The originall word is most ordinarily 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 used to signifie the morall law the Decalogue that constant standard or standing law by which all Nations in all ages of the world have been and shall be bound to order their conversations before God Thus much of the words used to expresse Gods revealed will to guide mans course It follows that I explain those words which suggest mans regular respect thereunto The first is Observe which imports 1. either to minde or reserve 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in memory As old Jacob is said to observe the sayings the dreams of Joseph Gen. 37. 11. 2. Or to preserve in safety In this sense the same Jacob used the word in his prayer or vow Gen. 28. 20. If God will be with me and keep me in this way that I go c. And this sense answers the true meaning of the next word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Keep which properly signifies to keep with care and vigilancie as ammunition is preserved from fire and false hands when an enemy is expected Nahum 2. 1. He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face keep the munition watch the way Now these notions from the originall are not vain they are both profitable and such as answer the more open language of the holy Ghost elsewhere The laws of the Lord should be treasured up in the cabinet of mans heart and memory Prov. 3. 1. My sonne forget not my Law but let thine heart keep my Commandments And all the precepts of God should be secured from violence that no breach be made upon them Keep my Commandments and live and my Law as the apple of thine eye Prov. 7. 2. These things I only touch as I passe forward to that point on which I purpose to pitch both because it is the main intended in the Text and also being most seasonable for the service of the day Doct. That mans regular observation of all Gods Commandments is the end of all his glorious administrations for mans comfort More short The end of Gods bounty is mans duty Or thus in reference to the instances of the Psalm and the experiences of our times Therefore the Lord taketh vengeance upon his adversaries and therefore the Lord worketh the deliverance of his servants that they might observe his statutes and keep his laws My beloved Who can number up in order the great things which our God hath done for us now of late as heretofore Our friends have been relieved our foes have been routed our prayers have been heard our hopes revived our forces prospered our enemies discomfited I pray you fill your thoughts with the particulars which this day have been mentioned and upon other occasions specified And then adde unto the remembrance of all this Doctrine which now I am to deal in That Gods end and aim in all is this That we might observe his statutes and keep his Laws In the handling of this weighty point well worth our serious considerations I shall according to my accustomed plainnesse endeavour two things 1. The explanation of the truth that it may be rightly understood 2 The application of it that it may be fruitfully improved I begin with the former wherein I will be but short lest I should want time to speak unto the later which I chiefly intend it being of greatest and most seasonable concernment And here by way of caution to prevent mistake in this matter under hand I wish that these four things may be observed 1. Mans obedience is the end of Gods gracious providences in regard of his precept though not alwaies in regard of his secret eternall purpose I well remember the words of the Psalmist Psal 92. 7. When the wicked doe spring as the grasse and the workers of iniquity doe prosper it is that they shall be destroyed for ever But here I speak not of Gods end in regard of his everlasting righteous decree which he is pleased to keep close within his own bosome As for the end of his command revealing his pleasure to the children of men the words of Moses that man of God are plain and pregnant to our purpose Deut. 10. 12 13. where after an enumeration of various marvellous favours vouchsafed unto Israel he speaks thus And now O Israel what doth the Lord thy God require of thee but to fear the Lord thy God to walk in all his waies and to love him and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul To keep the commandments of the Lord and his statutes 2. It is the end of God in the fore-mentioned intention though too too seldome in execution God having engaged man to obedience by his bounties he expecteth an obedientiall improvement though his Majesties expectations are commonly disappointed The Lords sad complaint of his vineyard Isa 5. expresseth this fully What could have been done more to my vineyard that I have not done in it Wherefore when I looked that it should bring forth grapes brought it forth wilde grapes ver 4. He looked for judgement but behold oppression for righteousnesse but behold a cry ver 7. And our God hath very much occasion of the like lamentation in this Land yea in this City at this day notwithstanding the admirable deliverances and victories wrought for us Alas alas how few how very few do any where answer the expectations of his highnesse in reformation of their waies and in obedience unto his holy Laws 3. Although mans observation of Gods statutes be one end yet is it not the only end of his manifold favours For amongst many other aims which are alwaies in his majesties eye such is his fatherly indulgence unto his people that he doth give out cordials on purpose to cheer their drooping spirits and to facilitate their passage thorow the wildernesse of this world Let the Lord be magnified who hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servants Psal 35. 27. As the mountains are round about Jerusalem so the Lord is round about his people for the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity Psal 125. 2 3. 4. Mans serviceable subjection unto divine injunctions is not Gods last and chiefest end in all his glorious dispensations The ultimate the supreme end of all Gods purposes and providences is his own honour He doth all things