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A77742	St. Paul's thanksgiving: set forth in a sermon preached before the right honorable House of Peers in the Abby-Church Westminster, on Thursday May 10. being the day of solemn thanksgivng to almighty God for his late blessings upon this kingdom. By James Buck, B.D. Vicar of Stradbrook in Suff. and domestick chaplian to the right honorable Theophilus Earl of Lincoln.	Buck, James.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1660 (1660)	Wing B5308; Thomason E1033_2; ESTC R208955	19,136	33

third of that for the maintenance of a right Owner which was forcibly took from them to keep in an Intruder He that another day shall feel in himself a tentation of unreadiness to pay taxes to his Prince let him record this day wherein after many years slavery under the tyranny of servants our Sovereign Master being owned there was as universal and as real a thanksgiving as ever was known in England and he for one heartily cried out I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Sect. 6 That spiritual blessings are the main objects for which the regenerate thank God in Christ And so we are conducted to our fourth resting-place That spiritual blessings are the main objects for which regenerate thank God in Christ As our Apostle here thanks God for the delivery from sin and the Psalmist quickens all his powers to unite their faculties in praising God for remission of sin and for sanctification Psal 103.1 2 3. Bless the Lord O my soul and all that is within me bless his holy Name who forgiveth all thine iniquities who healeth all thine infirmities This Truth is considerable for distinction for discretion for devotion For distinction this differenceth the Church and the world The love of the Father is not in the world 1 John 2.15 the Nations have some love of God as the prime good and being but it is without any consideration of Gods existing a Father to Christ and us in him therefore at the best it is but Philosophical love it is no Christian nor Theological charity Mat. 15.31 They glorified the God of Israel not the God of heaven and earth as he was discern'd in light of Nature to the world but the God of Israel as he was discovered by light of sacred Scripture to the Church In the Old Testament the Lord is familiarly styled the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob not of Europe Asia and Africa nor the God of the four Elements c. to intimate that the saving knowledge is not by manifestation from the creature but by revelation to the Patriarchs Prophets Apostles c. Ephes 5.20 true thanksgiving and accepted with God is in the name of Christ to God and the Father to God not barely considered as God but to God as eternally the Father of our Lord Jesus and in good time our Father through Christ Col. 3.7 as Christians apprehend him and assume all the benefits for which they praise him qualified in the relation of a Father and the mediation of a Redeemer Let me adde this to your meditations Psal 4.6 7. the world many times word and mouthe some thanks to God for Corn and Wine and Oyle but never is thankful about any oblations of praise to God for succours purely Evangelical victory in tentations assistance against sin which ravisht Paul into this doxology Carnal men may for self-love really beg favors and pray give and forgive they cannot for Gods love cause their hearts to say hallowed be thy name because thou leadest not into temptation but deliverest from evil which is the effect of the Apostles thanksgiving For discretion to be intirely thankful we must distinguish betwixt our tentations and our sins Paul was grievously buffeted by motions to sin so as to wax weary of his life but all the while he resisted it was his infelicity not his fault it was concupiscence that sinned not St. Paul Rom. 7.17 and therefore in abatement of the agony he bursts out in thanksgiving Vid. in ●●tis Sanctorum Ap. 29. Catherine of Senes a spiritual woman in her Age having been vext with all manner of blasphemous thoughts and horrid suggestions after some release and Christs gracious return inquires in a Soliloquie Where wast thou dear Lord when my poor heart was pierced with fiery darts and harased in woful wise and had for answer Fui in medio cordis tui I was in the centre of thy heart rendring those injections abominable withholding thy consent and enabling thee to stand out in resistance For devotion not to rest till we attain Christian inspiration and expirtion and be able with St. Paul to breath Gospel-ayrs Eph. 1.3 Blessed be God who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in which we are incomparably more happy than in any worldly enjoyments which then onely are matters of true content and thankfulness when they are embraced as tokens of Gods good will paternity and gracious reference in Christ Sect. 6 That our temporals require many thanks of Englishmen and our spirituals many more The occasion of this solemnity calls upon me to insist a while upon this subject that our temporals require many thanks our spirituals many more Our temporals require many thanks Psal 12.1 When the Lord turned again the captivity of Sion we were as them that dream It fares with us now as it did with the Jews discharged from their captivity in Babylon by the gallant Emperor Cyrus the turn was so unlikely that an helpless poor company of Bondmen should get out of the hands of the mightiest Lords in the world that when the Proclamation of Cyrus set them all free and encouraged his loyal subjects to relieve them for their passage and commanded his Officers to allow the expences for rebuilding the Temple out of his Imperial Exchequer it was so much beyond the hope of the distressed Jews that it lookt more like the dream of one asleep than the vision of one awake Likewise we in these our excessive joys can scarce believe our senses and hardly think our selves well awake that our vouchsafements are in reality and not the aiery imagination of dreamers Far be it from me to rip up and publish in a Pulpit the foul proceedings which the goodness of our most gracious King the wisdom of the Parliament the charity of the Nation would have buried in forgetfulness by an Act of oblivion give me leave onely to propose the Parable of Jotham Jud. 9.9 The Trees would needs be making themselves a King and tender the Kingship to the Olive-tree the Fig-tree and the Vine severally which are trees of the best quality and fruit but they all joyntly refuse to take supreme dominion then they offer it to the Bramble no tree but a sorry shrub and the Bramble at the first moving assumes domination that which the most noble Families trembled to hear of a younger sprig of a stock in the Gentry boldly ventures upon and mounts into the throne and seat of highest Majesty and State what is the issue verse 15. fire proceeds out of the Bramble and devours the Cedars Mark the profundity of divine Scripture in Simile's Lyranus out of Isidore informes us the Bramble is a petty bush Rhamnus est dumus parvus qui vento agitatus ex se enittitignem which tost up and down to and fro by the wind emits and springs fire out of it self in the hotter regions and countries the Bramble at times by the agitation of the wind conceives fire and

St. Paul's Thanksgiving Set forth in a SERMON Preached before the Right Honorable House of PEERS in the Abby-Church Westminster on Thursday May 10. being the day of solemn Thanksgiving to Almighty God for His late Blessings upon this KINGDOM By James Buck B. D. Vicar of Stradbrook in Suff. and Domestick Chaplain to the Right Honorable Theophilus Earl of Lincoln 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 There is nothing so takes God as to be thankeful not onely when things go well but in their contrary carriage Chrys in Psal 116.8 Psal 42.5 The King shall rejoyce in God every one that sweareth by him shall glory but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped Psal 63.11 LONDON Printed by J.G. for John Playford at his Shop in the Temple near the Church door 1660. Die Veneris 11. Maii 1660. ORdered by the LORDS in Parliament assembled That Mr. Buck is hereby desired to print and publish the Sermon that he preached the 10. day of this instant May in the Abby-Church before the Lords of Parliament for which he hath their Lordships thanks and that no person shall reprint the same without his approbation Jo. Browne Cleric Parliamentor I do appoint John Playford to print this Sermon James Buck. To the Right Honourable the LORDS Assembled in PARLIAMENT My Lords YOur Lordships pleasure is the sole producent of the publication of this Sermon which therefore makes lowly address to your most honourable House that seeing your will hath given it a publick existence it may not lie idle and fruitless in open view but remain a lively and lasting monument of true thankefulness by your Lordships good example and precedence My Lords though in this juncture of the greatest benefits the whole Kingdom is bound more than any Nation to be thankeful yet in the common blessings the Peers are especially obliged to gratitude by reason that others suffered with you onely in their estates your Lordships alone suffered in your Honors The forces that so far as in them was abolisht Kingship put Peerage down as useless and left you bare titles of honor without influences of activity in your sphere of government and no wonder when the fountain of honour was obstructed that the riverets should be dried up when the Crown did not flourish how could the Coronet The Moon would go for an obscure body if by monethly returns she were not replenisht with new light from the Sun During the Kings eclipse your Honors were under a cloud but by a renewed conjunction with his Majesty your titles of honor be significant your lustre is repair'd your beams chear your country and you act the prime part in the grand Council and affairs of State Sad experience may serve for a remembrance that the concernment of the Nobility is to keep up Majestie for the King cannot be lessened in his legal rights and prerogative but the Nobles will be diminished in their native priviledges and dignities My Lords considering how easie it was with God to lay the highest honors low even by and under contemptible creatures now that his favour shines again upon you let ingenuity perswade your Lordships to walk officiously with our dear Lord and sacrifice thankofferings beseeming Christian grace and English grandeur in which kind Almighty God throughout his Law calls for regard of the poor respect to the Levite On behalf of the poor I beseech you give me leave to remind your Lordships what floud-gates of sin it will stop and what a door it will open for amending the manners of the most necessitous and the trayning up their infantry to industry and vertue to anticipate all begging by fit relief and setting all able hands to some task towards their living There be indeed excellent laws already to this purpose but nevertheless I am an humble suppliant to your Lordships that a course may speedily be took for a possibility to effectuate those laws by work-houses and sufficient stocks in these populous and wealthy cities from which the pattern will soon issue forth into all the land As for due countenance to the Levite I held it neither opportune nor needful to sollicit your Lordships in my Preaching because the propensity and inclination of your noble Souls is transparent that His Majesty shall no sooner be repofed in his regalities and the Kingdom resetled in its laws and liberties but your Honors will shew your selves munificent Patrons and providers for the Church and the reverend Fathers and very learned Ministers thereof that be supervivors to the manifold sufferings and injuries which have been illegally inflicted on them these twenty years by-past Undoubtedly the estimate of a Clergy cannot be upheld without endowments benefits and salaries whereby some eminent Divines may proceed equal to the most famous of other liberal Sciences in their rewards and perquisites otherwise the finest wits and brave spirits will betake themselves to other professions if Physicians for the body advance higher than any Physicians for the soul and if the Gospel cannot prefer as much as the Law How can your Lordships wish a learned pious and painful Ministry in every corner of the Realm unless a competency be fore-prepared for their maintenance and encouragement Wherefore when once your Lordships shall have re-established the fundamentals of the State you will credit your memories in all posterity to accommodate the Church with necessaries for decency of degree in Church-men and contrive a bountiful conveniency for the Pastor of every parish by uniting small adjacent Livings and like expedients which so wise a Council will not fail quickly to find out when they intend it as a serious piece of their business For which provisions for the poor in honest labor and for Ecclesiasticks in godly work your Honors shall inherit the benediction of the Church and the blessings of the poor two notable promises in holy Scripture together with the prayers and praises of all Gods people and the faithful services and devotions of My Lords Your Lordships most humble and most devoted and most obedient Servant JAMES BUCK SAINT PAUL'S THANKFULNESSE ROM 7.25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. SAint Paul being incumbred with the reliques of sin and thereupon crying out in the Verse immediately before O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from the body of this death very abruptly bursts forth in this clause I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord But this inference is not without a mystery and insinuates three things Sect. 1 Why St. Paul abruptly breaks into thanksgiving 1. How Prayer discharges the heart of troublesome cares and anxieties and reposes it in the safe custody of divine peace Phil 4.6 7. Be careful for nothing but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God and the peace of God which passeth all understanding shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus Thus we find David in many Psalms beginning with mournful ditties unexpectedly to