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spirit_n	face_n	glory_n	lord_n	6,784	5	5.0851	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32794	Eben-ezer, a thankful memorial of God's mercy in preserving England from the gunpowder-treason, 1605 being a sermon on 1 Sam. 7:12, prepared for Novemb. 5th to be preacht at the cathedral, but preacht for the most part of it at the parish-church of Temple, in the city of Bristol, on the 6th of Novem. being the Lord's day / by John Chetwynd ...	Chetwynd, John, 1623-1692.	1682 (1682)	Wing C3796; ESTC R19751	30,602	46

be glad in it O let us joyfully thankfully and affectionately remember the Mercy of this deliverance vouchsased to us in our Forefathers reflect upon the greatness of our Danger and Gods wonderful goodness in our escape from it Our Case was that of the Church Men rose up against had Ps 124. swallowed us quick and their mischievous device like proud and overflowing waters against which there can be no defence had gone over our soul so that had not Gods mercy intervened we had been a prey to their teeth but blessed be God our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the Fowler The Net was broken and we were delivered and all by the help of the Name of the Lord who made Heaven and Earth In which case of theirs as in ours were joyned Cruelty Malice Violence Policy Subtlety and an irresistable Force such as is the overpowring of Fire and Water that burns and destroys without Remedy And herein see and consider the greatness of Gods Mercy in this Deliverance It was a great State-Mercy but a greater Soul-Mercy for hereby the glorious Gospel of lesus Christ is continued to us O say not of this as Let of Zear It is a little one Gen. 19. 20. Let this Mercy then be writ in the Records of our hearts as well as Statutes that as what Mordecai had done was read by Ahasuerus so this may be by us not only that we may know it and minde it but that we may as Ahasuerus did for Mirdecai and say What hath been done for God What shall we do for him Let us therefore I beseech you answer God's expectation because of this and all other his former and latter Deliverances for therefore are we put in minde of them And know we that if we do not we may expect that God will expostulate with us as he did with Israel 8. I brought you out from Egypt and brought you forth out of Judg. 10. 8 9 10. the house of bondage 9. And I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of all that oppressed you and drave them out from before you and gave you to ●●●d 10. And I said unto you 〈◊〉 the Lord your God sear not the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell but you have not obeyed my voice Yea we justly may fear that he will answer us in our Intreaties and Dangers when we cry unto him as he did them 11. Did not I deliver you from the Egyptians and from the Amorties from the children of A●●●● and from the Philistins Judg. 10. 11 12 13 14. 12. The Sidonians also and the Amalekites and the Meabites did oppress you and you cried unto me and I delivered you out of their hands 13. Yet you have forsaken me and served other gods wherefore I will deliver you no more 14. Go and cry unto the Gods which ye have chosen let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation Change we the names and the things agree Let us then answer God's expectation since God by this great Deliverance hath continued his Gospel and O Lord continue it to us and our Posterities O let us 1. Prize it As that which exalts a Nation lifts it up as it did Capernaum unto Heaven He hath shewn his word unto Jacob his statutes and his judgments unto Israel He hath not done Psal 147. 19 20. so with any Nation and as for his judgments they have not knewn them 2. Improve it Otherwise it will prove a Judgment to us yea the Judgment This is the condemnation that light is come into the world and men love darkness The neglect of the Gospel Joh. 3. 19. casts down to Hell and makes our escape impossible Mat. 13 50. 3. Walk worthy of it answerable unto it and to God's expectation Heb. 2 3. from us because of it Let your conversation be as becometh the Gospel Walk worthy of the Vocation wherewith we Phil. 1. 27. Ephes 4. 1. are called And thereby adorn the Doctrine of God our Saviour in Tit. 2. 10. all things To these ends Joshua minds Israel of what God had done for them and amongst other things How Balak Son of Zippor Josh 24. 9. 10. King of Moab arose and warred against them and called Balaam the Son of Beor to curse them But he would not hearken unto Balaam but he blessed them still and delivered them out of Balak's hand And after many other signal Mercies shewed to them he concludes with God's expectation from them Now therefore 14. fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in truth and put away the gods which your Fathers served on the other side the flood and in Egypt and serve ye the Lord. And as it was then so it is still God's expectation from us upon our Deliverancs is That we should serve hem without fear Luke 1. 74. 75. in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life Not that we might exclaim against the foulness of the Fact or inveigh against the Monsters that were the Actors of it or bless our selves for so fair an Escape or keep a day in the Memorial of it much less were we liberate that we should become Libertines To sit down to Eat and to Drink Healths after new and unseeming Modes and to rise up to Play But that we might serve God in Holiness and Righteousness all the days of our life Serve we ought though we should not be delivered as the holy Martyrs did The three Princes in Daniel and Job resolved he would though God should kill him How much Job 11. 15. more ought we when we are delivered and that aforehand by way of prevention to render unto God Evangelical and acceptable Service and Sacrifice of Thankfulness and Love Serve Him we must then in Holiness and Righteousness and that not only in the sight of men but before him and that not for a spirt or fit but all the days of our Life Let not our Holiness be as the Pharisees in our Fringes and Phylacteries in outward expressions in hearing the Lectures of the Law no matter how we live Let not our Holiness be like the Sadducees live indifferently well but believe neither Spirit nor look for any Resurrection Not like Agrippa's who was half perswaded Not in Holiness only not in Righteousness only but in both and that for ever And as for our present deportment Let us rejoice in the day which the Lord hath made When God calls to fasting it is a sin to feast and when to rejoycing it 's a sin to mourn Isa 20. 13. Had this Plot taken effect to the desire and expectation of the Neh 8. 9 10. Projectors there would have been a Jubile in Askalon Shall we not then rejoyce and be glad outwardly in body inwardly in Spirit let our joy be such as may be seen and perceived by face voice

countenance habit and gesture bind the sacrifice with cords unto the horns of the Altar Let our hearts Psal 118. 27. be glad and our Glory our tongue rejoyce Bless the Lord Psal 16. 9. in the Congregation Let the Singers go before and the Players Psal 68. 25. 26. on the Instruments follow after Let us say with the Psalmist My lips shall greatly rejoyce when I sing unto thee and my soul which thou hast redeemed My Tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long for they are confounded they are brought unto shame that seek my hurt But let us be sure that our joy and rejoycing may be in the Lord such as God may be pleased with Not in the day of our Kings deliverance make our selves or others sick with bottles of Wine not sit down to eat and Hos 7. 5. drink healths and rise up to play for with such mirth God is Exod. 32. 6. not well pleased but doth threaten to spread the dung of such 1 Cor. 10. 5. feasts upon their faces and curse their Blessings Mal. 2. 3. Now that our rejoycing may please God we must begin with Halelujah and end with Hosannah David gives us a pattern Open to me the gates of Righteousness Psal 118. 19. 25. I will go into them and I will praise the Lord. Save now O Lord I beseech thee I beseech thee send now prosperity Thus should we be joyful in Gods house of prayer but still Isal 56. 7. remember to rejoyce in trembling because we know not what a Psal 2. 11. day may bring forth Prov. 27. 1. Joyn we then praise and prayer thanksgiving for the mercies we have received and prayers for the mercies we still stand in need of All the Psalms are reducible to two words Halelujah and Hosanna not to be severed Neither of these if alone will prosper nor are acceptable when not united O then let us now do both praise God for our former and latter Deliverances from the many attempts of our Popish Adversaries the Spanish Invasion Gunpowder Treason many preservations of Queen Elizabeth of blessed memory and our own deliverance from their truly real Plot and intended Mischief which God preserve us from Pray unto him for the continuance of his gracions providence over us and protection of us For suppose that all were dead that sought our lives Say they are but is the Devil dead too If he be not it steds not much if they were His Powder Mill will still be going he will be as busie as ever in turning over all his devices in turning himself into as many shapes as Proteus and all to turn us to mischief And therefore we have and shall have always cause to follow our Halelujah's with our Hosanna's pray as well as praise in reference to our Popish Adversaries That God would abate their pride asswage their malice and confound their devices That the Life of our most Gracious King may be preserved the Protestant Religion our Lives and Liberties secured from all the devilish attempts of our implacable enemies the Jesuits and their Proselytes Oh let all that are now in the House of the Lord especially those amongst us that are of the House of the Lord earnestly and affectionately pray for our most Gracious King as in duty we are bound because God commands it and out of respect to 1 Tim. 2. 2. our own tranquility that is wrapt up in his safety that God would continue forth his goodness towards him and bless him with length of days with strength of health with the encrease of all Honour and happiness with Terror in the eyes of his Enemies with Grace in the eyes of his Subjects with whatsoever David or Solomon or any other King that was happy was blessed with a long continuance of the Peace and Glory of his Kingdoms on earth and with the eternal Kingdom of Glory and Peace in the highest Heaven To which God bring us all for his infinite mercy through Jesus our blessed Saviour Amen Amen FINIS