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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

long to have them all replenisht with the endless praising of God And so you have a little taste that all thanks and praises be due to God Sect. 3 That due praise and thanks to God cannot be exhibited without Christ 2. Our second task is to shew that due praise and thanks to God cannot be exhibited without Christ I thank God through Jesus Christ Mat. 11.27 None knoweth the Father but the Son he onely understanding the universal goodness of God is alone able condignly to praise him with praises equal to his supreme worthiness The praises of all men and Angels fall short and have no proportion to the divine goodness and therefore all Angels and men ought to prefer their praises as well as their prayers in Christ Again Thanksgiving is a part of divine Worship and St. De Trinit l. 1. Sine Deo Christo unum Deum confiteri irreligiositas sit Hilary teaches right It is Paganism and irreligion to worship God out of Christ in whom alone he is well-pleased and out of whom praises are natural not Christian not spiritual and therefore in no order to life eternal In Christ the thanksgiver renders praises to God cordially and reverently cordially for Christ is truth and nothing void of sincerity can rise to his hand to be thereby given unto God none must imagine lip-labour shall serve because thanksgiving is expressed by fruit of our lips Heb. 13.15 The Latines do finely circumscribe thankfulness by Gratus animus the hymne that praises God must be sung with grace in the heart Col. 3.16 which makes melody in the heart Ephes 5.19 when all the strings thereof all the faculties therein are tuned by the holy Spirit to consent in Gods will and blessing him as the strings in an Instrument are fitted to consent in Musick Very divinely St. Athanasius the Great 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ad Marcellum p. 756. Reason would that a man should not be in discords with himself As the best instrument gives an harsh sound if all the strings be not tunable and in mutual harmony so our actions and praises yield an unpleasant sound in Gods ears unless our whole spirit soul and body in all their parts and powers be in conformity to his wil and united in his praise Reverently as Paul performs it here like a sacred dutie of divine adoration and holy worship with spirituall elevation in Christ Psal 111.9 Holy and reverend is his Name and therefore not to be mentioned but with religious and awfull reverence we must wash our mouths in Christ laver before we presume to take Gods praises into them Tingebat calamum linguae fonte Sancti Spiritus ut mundas Deo laudes diceret as Paschasius writes of the worthy Prince St. Adelhard that was uncle to Charles the Great he dipt the tip of his tongue in the fountain of the Holy Ghost that he might utter pure praises to God This observation serves for warning for learning and for quickening For warning that God is Exod. 15.11 dreadfull in praises which reproves them that take the name and praises of God in vain that lightly and inconsiderately use thanksgiving and tremble not in recounting Gods holy and venerable praises bold people that are not afraid to have the glorious praises of God at their tongues end and thank the Lord at every second word perfunctorily without advancing of their spirits and praises to him in Christ or regard agreeable to acts of divine worship have their consciences charged with the guilt of great irreverence As for us we are not worthy to take the high praises of God into our mouths and defect in offering them if we shall dare to present them by themselves without joyning Christs praising with them or if we shall presume any acceptation of our praises without Christs merits which who so do must look to answer for ill setting forth and counterfeiting the divine vertues For learning whence the Saints come to have such sense and feeling of their own poverty and insufficiency in praising God Psal 72.20 the Psalmist having poured forth his spirit to the utmost in praising the divine favours and finding himself extremely short of them Defecerunt laudes David filii Jesse daintily subjoyns The praises of David the son of Jesse are finite and ended which sentence is curiously contrived for the conclusion of the second book of Davids Psalms the whole Psaltery according to the Jews consisting of five Books and for insinuation that all hymns are of too narrow limits to correspond in any degree unto the infinite glories and praises of God And hereupon inspired men out of their longing that God might be duly praised not onely summe up all their own parts and appurtenances Psal 57.8 Awake my glory awake Lute and Harp I my self will awake but also invoke the aid and concurrence of all creatures to assist them by their several vertues excellent properties and abilities Psal 148. the religious soul conceives so highly of God as to burn in desires that all creatures in the whole Universe would lay their forces together and especially that in the world of pure praises the holy Angels and perfected spirits would busie themselves in extolling him But for us poor and ingrate souls when we repeat the clauses wherein all creatures are invited to associate with us in setting out the praises of God we may profitably remember that of Arnobius junior We excite provoke and exhort all creatures to the praising of God and unhappy we sleep our selves behold all things that we call upon come together saying Why do you call upon us we are come together that we might praise God and we find his holy name blasphemed onely by your fault your seat and place is onely vacant in the Chorus For quickning in Christs supply not to despair of our praising God Tacitus writes judiciously Beneficia cô usque laeta sunt dum videntur exolvi posse si multum antev●nere pro gratia●adium redditur Anal. 5. Favors are so far satisfactory as they seem returnable if they much exceed that hatred is rendered for good will good deeds are burthens when they be above mens possibility of requital For this cause being our own thanksgivings are defective and the praises of all creatures in earth and in heaven it self incompetent sufficiently to glorifie God that our aspiring worthily to honour God may be satisfied we must be sure to get Christs praises conjoyned with ours and offer ours in union and merit of them That whether we eat or drink or whatsoever we do we may do all to the glory of God 1 Cor. 10.30 Mingle Christs odors with our works of grace and nature of Christian vocation and common calling and so present them to God as a perfume compounded of sundry fragrant scents Cant. 1.13 make a posie of Mirrh and the other odoriferous ingredients of our Lords oyntment and by their mixture put value upon our praises It were envy not

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

break into joyful Hymnes and gratulations Felinus in Psal 17. as if some Angel had in the midst of Prayer all on the sudden brought him better news from heaven 2. That our Apostle practised such a duty as Lansperg bravely frequented Toties te edoro Laudo toties pro illis laudes tibi suavissimas cano praecipuè eas quas spiritus ille reprobus qui mihi talia nunc suggerit modò caneret si in bono perstitisset ut vel hoc modo in tui laude illius expleam vices In Pharetra Divini amoris p. 23. So oft as wicked suggestions are forced upon me unwilling so oft I adore and extol thee so oft because of them I sing thy most sweet praises to thee and chiefly those which that reprobate spirit who now suggests such things to me would have sung if he had persisted in good that even by this means I may supply his course in praising thee Did Christians constantly deal thus with the Devil they would make him weary of his part in tempting 3. Blessed Paul hath no sooner utter'd his distressed mind in petition Who shall deliver me but he is instantly inlarged with matter of thanksgiving and therefore praises God as feeling some ease In agonies with concupiscence the Lord can in a moment transport the soul from the bottom of anguish to the top of delight Esa 65.24 Psal 10.17 The Lord hears the desire of the poor D●siderium pauneris exaudit Dominus Scilicet dum adhuc aliquid est in desiderio to wit while a thing is yet in the desire God prevents the words of his Orators attends their desires minds their prayer in the fieri whiles it is forging in the seed of desire he prepares relief And a blessing hath so much the more of contentation by how much the less it was in expectation Hence the signal mercy of restoring the right Heir to the three Crowns deserves the greater honour by how much the more it is equal to our wishes and far superior to our late hope and expectances Who had the heart a few moneths since to promise himself to see such a day as this That the Honourable Houses of Peers and Commons should quietly meet and consult the Interests of Church and State without the least controll and recognize and proclaim the rightfull King with wonderfull triumph and acclamations of all the people and solemnize this day of Thanksgiving for the same with the greatest and most unanimous satisfaction that ever was perceiv'd in England This is the day that the Lord hath made we will rejoyce and be glad in it This is the Lords doing and it is marvellous in our eyes and fils every true Englishmans mouth with Saint Pauls words I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Which contain these five Propositions That all thanks and praises are due to God That due praising and thanks to God cannot be performed and given without Christ That it is peculiar to the Regenerate whom S. Paul represents to pay through Christ their debt of thanks and praises unto God That victory over temptations and spirituall blessings are the main objects for which the Regenerate thank God in Christ That such Thank-offerings are the highest sacrifice of the Church Militant or Triumphant These I shall handle briefly in their order Sect. 2 That all thanks and praises are due to God 1. That all thanks and praises are due to God And our Doctors thanking of God is nothing else but his referring unto God all the good that he had or could conceive or wish as a small moyety of his immense perfections It is true that the Philosopher writes In the first of his Ethicks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Praise is too low an expression for Gods acts Honour and some more lofty style must be used in speaking of his Divine Majesty and excellencies Neh. 9.5 His glorious name is exalted above all praise Higher epithets belong to him then those of Praise and all our terms of glory respect worship But God is pleased that poor mortals speak of him the best that they can That is an observable locution Psal 71.23 My lips shall greatly rejoyce when I sing unto thee Which to understand be pleased to take notice That Joh. 7.38 the heart is called the belly of the soul as the receptacle of grace and heavenly refreshments and as it is enabled to communicate to other parts and send forth streams of love and duty Now as in Nature which is well discovered by Bartholinus an eminent Anatomist Ventriculus habet membranam nervosam in quam vasa term nantur esophagi oris labiorum tunicae continuam ut nihil ventriculo ingratum recipiatur binc quando in ventriculo bilis communicatur linguae amaritudo flavedo e●cont●a ●tiom oris linguae vitia oesophago ventriculo Anato l. 1. c 9. the ventricle hath a membrane or coat full of nerves which is continued with the tunicle or skin of the mouth and lips whence they sympathize mutually and distempers in the mouth lips tongue affect the stomach and choler in the stomach causes bitterness and yellowness in the tongue So in Reason and Grace the matters that be in the belly of the soul affect the lips and tongue with vehement tinctures and when the belly is full of the sweetness of God it qualifies the lips and tongue with a divine gust and relish and the name of God and his Christ is melody in the ears Melos in aurc m● in ore hony in the mouth As Bonaventure a devout Scholastick relates of his Master that he was so enamour'd therewith that in rehearsing of the Psalms when Gods name occurred in them In vita Francisci c. 10. Prae suavitatis dulcedine labia sua lingere videbatur out of the flavor of sweetness he seemed to lick his lips and to be in a rapture when our Saviour was named It is impossible to have any worthy thoughts what an infinite amiable good the Almighty is but that it will alter the soul and body with affects of the sweetest savour The Jews have all along had a godly usage upon any occasion of naming God in their writings to insert an abbreviature of praise the holy one the blessed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mark the spirits of the principal Apostles St. Paul and St. Peter S. Chrys de incomprehen sibili serm 3. they cannot let the mention of God pass occasionally from them in their Epistles without a Parenthesis of thanksgiving and praise Rom. 1.25 Who is blessed for ever Amen 1 Pet. 4.11 alledging that God may be glorified through Christ he interposes To whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever Amen If any duration could be more than ever he would have God honoured for evermore as if he should say in all eternity we cannot fully praise God if there could be more than one sempiternity he would