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A47177	A sermon preached at the meeting of Protestant dissenters called Quakers in Turners-Hall, London, on the 16th of the second month, 1696 : being the publick day of thanksgiving for the deliverance of the King and Kingdom : to which is added a testimony ... to King William the III from the aforesaid people ... / by George Keith.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.	1696 (1696)	Wing K208; ESTC R28960	18,109	32

A SERMON Preached at the Meeting of Protestant Dissenters CALLED QUAKERS IN Turners-Hall LONDON On the 16th of the Second Month 1696. Being the Publick Day of Thanksgiving For the Deliverance of the King and Kingdom By GEORGE KEITH To which is added a Testimony of Fidelity and Subjection to King WILLIAM the III. from the aforesaid People on behalf of themselves and others of the same Perswasion with them LONDON Printed for B. Aylmer at the Three Pigeons in Cornhil 1696. Isaiah xxxviii xix The Living the Living he shall praise thee as I do this Day Compared with Psal 18. 46 c. IT is a certain Testimony which the Holy Scripture gives concerning those that praise God according to the Words of that good King Hezekiah a Faithful Servant of the Lord For the Grave cannot praise thee Death cannot celebrate thee they that go down into the Pit cannot hope for thy Truth How is this to be understood Do not the Deceased Saints Praise God Yes certainly they do to wit their Souls and Spirits which die not Though their Bodies die their Souls Praise God Who then are these Dead which the Scripture testifies do not Praise God I Answer such as are dead in their Sins and Trespasses for Sin hath brought that Spiritual Death over Men and Women that they are not capable to Praise God nor serve him any manner of way acceptably till he breath upon them and quicken them by his Living Breathings and by that Living Vertue and Power which proceeds from him Now Holy David was very sensible of this when he saith in that excellent Psalm The Lord liveth and blessed be my Rock and let the God of my salvation be exalted That Man or Woman that can say this The Lord liveth from a true inward and Spiritual Sense of his Living Power and Presence that hath quickened them and made them alive made them sensible of his Power and Mercy of his great Deliverance and Preservation these are only fit to say Blessed be my Rock and let the God of my salvation be exalted But alas How few are there in comparison that can speak these words in sincerity of Heart and from true experience The Lord liveth Those that can speak it in an acceptable way from true experience they know the Revelation of Gods mighty Arm and living Power in their Hearts and Souls They know that the Lord is the only Living and True God There is no other God like to him The Idols of the Nations are false Gods The Psalmist speaks thus of them The Idols of the Heathen are silver and gold the work of mens hands They have mouths but they speak not eyes have they but they see not They have ears but they hear not neither is there any breath in their mouths They that make them are like unto them so is every one that trusteth in them But David's God the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob he is the True and Living God Dead Idols can neither do good nor evil but God is a present Help in trouble God is the Living and True God they that have an Inward Sense and Experience of his Mighty Power that hath quickened them and made them alive they alone can praise him in an acceptable manner Those that are under the Power of Sin and under its Reign and Government they are under the Power of Death and the Dead cannot praise him Death reigneth over them Spiritual Death Death reigned from Adam to Moses even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adams transgression Death began from Adam God made him upright and in Innocency Death reigned from his Fall and Transgression when he transgressed the Commandment of the Lord. So now I desire you well to ponder and consider this great and weighty Testimony of the Holy Scripture who these are that are capable to praise God for his Mercies Deliverances and Preservations Those that he hath made alive and quickened those that can say from true Experience The Lord liveth and can call him their Rock and can say with the Psalmist Blessed be my Rock and let the God of my salvation be exalted And as he speaks in the beginning of this Psalm The Lord is my Rock and my Fortress and my Deliverer my God my strength in whom I will trust my Buckler the horn of my Salvation and my high Towre I will call upon the Lord who is worthy to be praised so shall I be saved from mine Enemies And the Psalmist saith in another place Praise ye the Lord for it is good to sing praises our God for it is pleasant and praise is comely Praise is comely for the Righteous It is as a beautiful and comely Garment it is an Ornament to them but it is as improper for the Unrighteous and for Wicked and Ungodly Persons as it is to take a Dead Carcase full of Stench and Corruption and cloth it with a rich and beautiful Garment so improper and uncomely is Praise and Thanksgiving in the Mouth of a Wicked and ungodly Person The Scripture gives no Allowance to such as are altogether unfit to Rejoyce and Praise the Lord they are called to mourn and weep and to be humbled for their Sins But some may object and say Is it not an universal Duty of all Men to praise the Lord Yes if they will forsake their Sins and turn to the Lord as the Prophet speaks Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts and let him return unto the Lord and he will have mercy upon him and to our God for he will abundantly pardon Then the Lord will accept of a Sacrifice of Praise Wash ye make you clean put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes cease to do evil learn to do well seek judgment c. Come now and let us reason together saith the Lord though your sins be as Scarlet they shall be as white as snow though they be red like crimson they shall be as wooll Then he will allow them to come into his presence and to speak unto him and to offer him praise for his Mercies Now there is this thing further that I would recommend to your serious Consideration Look through the whole Scripture and you shall find it hath been the manner and way of Gods People to praise him not only in general daily and constantly for his Mercies Favours Preservations and Deliverances but upon every New Occasion upon the receiving of any Extraordinary Mercies Blessings Preservations or Deliverances from Dangers and from Violence designed and threatned to Praise and Solemnly bless the Lord with Cordial Thanksgiving and we are to set Time apart for this Work and to excite and stir up our selves to magnifie and praise the Lord. Thus Holy David excites and stirs up himself to praise the Lord and prays to the Lord to quicken him Great are thy tender mercies O Lord quicken me according to

one day or in a moment yet he doth it gradually in the space of ten Months God could make a Corn or Grain of Wheat to grow up in a moment but he hath appointed a season for it The Errors and Corruptions of the Church of Rome are such that she may well be called the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth She hath her Daughters that tho they profess to be different from her yet they are too much of her Spirit All that Worship Idols of Gold and Silver VVood and Stone And likewise those that although they do not Worship Images yet if they love Money more than God they are guilty of Idolatry and will be numbred among her Daughters at the great Day of Account As also all Persecuters and false Worshipers It was a mighty Work of God that hath broken the Ice in that that hath been already begun and brought to pass and is yet further to be carried on till it be compleated and accomplished It was a wonderful Discovery and Revelation that God made to the Apostle John who by the Light of Prophecy foresaw things to come many Hundred Years before they were fulfilled wonderful things respecting Worldly Governments relating to the State and Condition of the Church and People of God And there appeared a great wonder in heaven a woman cloathed with the Sun and the Moon under her feet and upon her head a Crown of twelve Stars And she being with child cried travailing in birth and pained to be delivered And behold a great red dragon having seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns upon his heads And the Dragon stood before the woman that was ready to be delivered for to devour her child as soon as it was born And she brought forth a man child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron and her child was caught up unto God and to his throne And the woman fled into the Wilderness c. And the dragon was worth with the woman and went to make war with the remnant of her seed which keep the Commandments of God and have the Testimony Jesus Christ The Apostle John by the Light of Divine Prophecy he foresaw how long the Woman should continue in the Wilderness and when the Scarlet Whore should be Judged that had made her self drunk with the Blood of the Saints and Martyrs And after these things saith the Apostle I heard a great voice of much people in heaven saying Alleluja Salvation and Glory and Honour and Power unto the Lord our God For true and righteous are his Judgments for he hath judged the great whore which did corrupt the earth with her fornication and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand And the four and twenty elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God that sat on the throne saying Amen Alleluja And the four living creatures and the four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb having every one of them harps and golden vials full of odours which are the prayers of the saints And they sang a new song saying Thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation And every creature which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and such as are in the sea and all that are in them heard I saying Blessing and Honour and Glory and Power be unto him that sitteth upon the throne and unto the Lamb for ever and ever So that this I say by way of Testimony out of the Holy Scripture that it hath been the Work of Gods people to praise God for all his Mercies Blessings and Deliverances and this is that which God expects from us that we should Magnifie and praise him when he is pleased to work great Deliverances for us according to those Words of the Psalmist Offer unto God thanksgiving and pay thy vows unto the most high And call upon me in the day of trouble I will deliver thee and thou shalt glorifie me This is the just Tribute that God requires who is the Great Deliverer and Preserver of Men to glorifie and praise him and give him that honour that is due to his Great and Excellent Name and not only to praise him with our Tongues and Lips but with our Lives Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me saith the Lord and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God And our Saviour commandeth this and chargeth it upon us as our duty Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorifie your Father which is in heaven Now as concerning the praises of God all Gods praises which are acceptable to him they are to be in Spirit and in Truth God is a Spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth The father seeketh such to worship him The praises of God are of a higher and lower degree We find there are in the Book of Psalms Songs of degrees so there are the high Praises of God when the Soul is raised up by Gods Power and Spirit from a deep and profound sense of his Mercies and great Deliverances to render Thanksgiving and Praise For thou hast delivered my soul from death mine eyes from tears and my feet from falling The Psalmist praised God for Spiritual and Temporal Blessings for Mercies both to his Soul and Body I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live I will sing praises unto my God while I have my being My meditation of him shall be sweet I will be glad in the Lord. When the Psalmist comes to utter the high Praises of God these words are going before Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth and let the wicked be no more bless thou the Lord O my soul Praise ye the Lord. When the high Praises of the Lord are to be in our Mouths then all evil thoughts and wicked imaginations and sinful motions such as hinder Gods Praises are to be put far from us that we may worship God in Spirit and serve him with Sincerity and Purity of Heart O give thanks unto the Lord call upon his name and make known his deeds among the people Sing unto him sing psalms unto him talk ye of all his wonderous works Glory ye in his holy name let the heart of them rejoyce that seek the Lord. Seek ye the Lord and his strength seek his face evermore Remember his marvellous works that he hath done Let the saints be joyful in glory let the high praises of God be in their mouth c. Blessed are they that can witness to this Truth that upon receipt of great Mercies do render praises to God If real gratitude be in our Hearts and the high Praises of God in our mouths this is a token for good it is like the white stone and new