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spirit_n	behold_v	glory_n	lord_n	7,688	5	4.9645	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61370	A sermon to bring to remembrance God's wonderful mercies at the Boyn preach'd on the second day of July, 1699 at St. Nicholas within, Dublin: by John Stearne, D.D.	Stearne, John, 1660-1745.	1699 (1699)	Wing S5361; ESTC R221904	12,499	23

must to the utmost of Our Power and with the profoundest Humility pay all that Honour Reverence and Adoration unto God for His more Eminent and Extraordinary Works of Providence which they most justly challenge from Us. God is known by the Mercies He bestows as well as by the Judgme●… which He executes upon a Nation Sometimes the merciful Work of Providence comes so recommended to Us by the Image and Superscription of a God bearing such clear and legible Characters of the Divine Wisdom Power and Goodness that upon the First serious View We cannot but conclude that It is the Lord 's Doing And the more conspicuous and remarkable the Appearances of a God are in any of His Works of Providence in raising a Nation that was almost as much without Hope thô not so free from Misery and Sorrow as those that lie in the Grave with the Speed of a Resurrection unto a comfortable State of Affairs the more signal I say the Hand of an Omnipotent God is in any such Providential Dispensations still the more Publick and Extraordinary Expressions of Respect and Gratitude do they justly command from all that share in such gracious Manifestations of His Goodness And shou'd not Man spread abroad the Praises of His Great Creator and Preserver his very fellow-creatures that want not only Reason but Sense wou'd condemn his ungrateful Silence Even The Heavens declare the Glory of God and the Firmament sheweth His handy-Work As constantly as Day and Night do follow one another they instruct the World concerning the Wisdom and other Attributes of God which most illustriously appear in their appointed Course and orderly Succession and their Voice is understood by ev'ry Nation under Heaven as if ev'ry Man heard them speak in his own Tongue the Wonderful Works of God And as ev'ry Return of Day renews the bright demonstrations of God's Glory so Day by Day our Souls shou'd magnifie the Lord. When sensless Creatures do thus according to Ability manifest unto the World the Glory of their Maker surely a much greater Obligation must lie upon Man to joyn in that universal Work and to perform It in a more noble Manner in a way most suitable to the Excellency of his own Rational and Immortal Soul Since the Glory of Gods eminent Works of Mercy is so conspicuously Great that Man may behold It a far off and yet can never come near their surpassing Excellency in the most sublime Acknowledgments of a grateful Spirit since the Dignity of any Person dos command a proportionable Respect and We greatly honour Kings for their Transcendent Majesty how can We sufficiently reverence and admire the infinitely Glorious Lord GOD whose Perfections have been so wonderfully display'd in the Works of Wisdom Pow'r and Love to this undeserving Nation Or in the wise Ben-Sirach's full Expression Who can magnifie Him as He is Admiration is the Gazing or Fixing of the Understanding upon an Object that is too big for It and since there is such a Discovery of God's Excellencies in His late signal Providences towards Us that We cannot comprehend all the Glory which shineth in them well may We in an humble and awful Respect joyn with the Saints in the Revelation saying Great and Marvellous are Thy Works Lord GOD Almighty Just and true are Thy Ways Thou King of Saints who shall not fear Thee O Lord and magnifie Thy Name And for your better Instruction in this important Duty you may at your Leisure consult Moses's Song of Thanksgiving in the 15th Chap. of Exodus In that you hear him solemnly blessing the Lord for the dreadful Overthrow of Pharaoh and his mighty Host at the Red Sea in that you may easily observe with what Affection and Reverence he magnifieth the Hand of God in compleating that Wonderful Deliverance of His People So far is Moses from letting the Merciful Works of God pass by unregarded and from concealing them in his own Breast that in the most lofty Strain he openly declares his noble Deeds and labours in provoking others unto a joynt acknowledgment of Gods Glorious Attributes in so strange a Dispensation of his ever-watchful Providence And following so fair a Pattern after such a Manner must We celebrate and record the adorable Perfections of our God most illustriously appearing in His Special Providences towards Us as may most excite not only the present Generation but future Ages of the World unto all possible Returns of Gratitude for the seasonable Preservation of Our Liberties Our Lives Our King and Our Religion to the Almighty Defender of them All. God dos often permit the Enemies of His People to oppress and triumph over them with the most intolerable Insolency as the Protestants in this City were abus'd plunder'd crush'd and trampled on by the Jacobite Party before the Arm of God and Man restrain'd their fierce Malice at the Boyn He frequently sees his Own brought into extream Distress into a Strait like that of the Children of Israel in the Wilderness having Rocks and Mountains on the right Hand and on the left a strong Garrison of the Egyptians an unpassable Sea before and behind a mighty pursuing Host He suffers This before His Hand is stretched out in any appointed Instrument which like Moses's Rod must open a Way for their Deliverance And this Method He is pleas'd to take not only for an Improvement of their Graces which come more pure and bright out of the fiery Tryal but also to magnifie the more His own Attributes in the Strangeness and Seasonableness of their Salvation His own Glory is the End of all His Actions And That is in a more visible manner display'd in such opportune Acts of Providence And shall not a Deliver'd People answer GOD's Great Design by exalting in the most publick way His Glorious Name for such well-tim'd Expressions of His Care and Goodness If when the LORD turn'd Our Captivity They said even among Our Enemies as before them the Egyptians once did in the Day of Their Distress Let Us Flie for the LORD Fighteth for them if Our Enemies said then as the Babylonians did on another great Deliverance of GOD's People The LORD hath done Great Things for Them surely it wou'd be very base and unworthy in Us not to take up and thus gratefully improve Their Acknowledgment Yea the LORD hath done Great Things for Us already O that Men wou'd therefore Praise the LORD for His Goodness and Declare the Wonders He hath done for Us the Children of Men That They wou'd offer unto Him the Sacrifice of Thanksgiving and tell out His Works with Gladness And if by performing These and the foregoing Duties We expect any Advantage it must be In the Fourth and last Place our constant Endeavour to answer by a sincere practical Reformation the just Expectation of GOD in His Merciful Works of Providence Thô GOD cannot receive any Addition to His own Essential Perfections from Our most exact Performances yet it must be highly reasonable to