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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44695	A sermon preach'd on the late day of thanksgiving, Decemb. 2, 1697 by John Howe ... ; to which is prefixed Dr. Bates's congratulatory speech to the King, Novemb. 22, 1697, in the name of the dissenting ministers in and about London.	Howe, John, 1630-1705.; Bates, William, 1625-1699. Congratulatory speech to the King, Novemb. 22, 1697.	1698 (1698)	Wing H3040; ESTC R6550	23,177	33

Blessings to the World When there is a Rising Generation of such Not proselyted to this or that Party but to real substantial Godliness and Christianity When Multitudes are thus turned unto the Lord When there are numerous Conversions a new Creation is springing up in visible and multiply'd instances so as that Holiness comes to be both an extensive and illustrious thing when Multitude comes to give Reputation to serious Religion when it is no longer a Reproach to be a visible Fearer of GOD because generally Men are so When it is look'd upon as no fashionable Thing to be a despifer of God and Heaven and to breath out Contempt of the Divine Power that gave us Breath And 7. WHEN hereupon the Divine Government obtains and takes place in the Minds and Consciences of Men. When his Authority is owned with Reverential Submission Then GOD does Bless a People when his Fear spreads far and near GOD shall bless us and all the Ends of the Earth shall fear Him as in that Psalm 67 the latter end And again 8. WHEN there is a manifest Power and prevalency of Divine Love amongst Men that bear the same Name of Christians when that Peace of GOD Rules in their Hearts unto which they are all called in one Body When they observably keep the Unity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace When they have Peace one towards another so as that it may be seen that they are all the Sons of Peace the Children of the same Father who has conveyed it into them as part of that Divine Nature which he communicates to the Regenerate Seed when there is a natural Propensity to one another that they can no more Violate and Tear that vital Bond of Love and Peace that is among them than they can endure to Tear their own Flesh or pluck out their own Eyes When Peace among Christians appears to be a connatural Thing not the product of Conveniency and prudential Considerations only but a Nature which none can more endure to Counter-Act than to offer Violence to themselves a Thing which Nature admits not whose Laws never allow it to Act against it self And Lastly WHEN upon all this GOD appears to be Reconciled unto such a People For in His Favour is Life When all these Things do concur as so many Indications of His being at Peace with them i. e. That He has intirely Forgiven them All Former Offences That their Sins and Iniquities He remembers no more And these concur with such Things as partly Make and partly Argue them the Objects of His Delight That He has Written His Law in their Hearts He has Put His Spirit into them He has made them a Company of God-like Creatures like Himself whose very Nature is Love they are his Living Resemblances in that very Respect expressing herein His Vertues who has Called them out of Darkness into His own Glorious and Marvelious Light Hereupon such a People may reckon themselves secure of GOD's own Prefence He is in the midst of them and His Glory ceases to hover becomes with them a Fixed Thing settles its Station as not about to discontinue or remove their Land may now be called The Land of Immanuel and bears the Inscription GOD with us The Tabernacle of GOD is with them and He is resolved to Dwell with them and be their GOD and a-vow them before all the World for His Peculiar People After the many things that do concur together in an Inferiour kind as the concomitants of a meerly External Peace as That their Sons grow up as Plants their Daughters as so many Polished corner Stones that join together the Walls of a Pallace that their Garners be full their Sheep numerous their Oxen strong that there be no complaining in their Streets after all these things it is subjoned Yea Happy is the People whose GOD is the LORD All the foremention'd things alone will never make a Blessing worthy of a People peculiar to GOD. But when it can be said That the LORD is their GOD they are an Happy People indeed Psalm 144. 12. 15. Such as these are the Things Requisite to make Peace a Compleat Blessing But now we are 2. TO shew you the Requisiteness of the Concurrence and Concomitancy of such Things to the mentioned Purpose or how it may appear that such Things as these are necessary to compleat this Blessing or to make it a truely valuable or a special Blessing In Order hereto Note 1. THAT there is such a Thing as a special Blessing very distinguishable from such Blessings as are meerly Common We read of one Jabez 1 Chron 4. 9 10. said to be more honourable than his Brethren And somewhat very remarkable as we are to reckon when to the Divine Wisdom it was thought fit to be inserted amidst a Genealogical Discourse is further said of him viz. That he called to the GOD of Israel saying O! that thou wouldst Bless me indeed c. And 't is added GOD granted what he Requested It seems besides what goes under the Common Notion of Blessing he reckon'd there was somewhat more Peculiar which he calls Blessing indeed There is a known Hebraism in that Expression What we read Bless me indeed is Bless me in Blessing me q. d. Let me have a Bleessing within a Blessing Let me have that Blessing whereof the other is but a Cortex the outside Let me have that Blessing that is wrapt up and enclosed in the external Blessing And because 't is said And GOD granted his Request we have Reason to understand it was som●what very peculiar that GOD vouchsafed unto him And that account which some give us has a look that way that GOD vouchsafed him somewhat more extraordinary in the kind of Mental and Intellectual Endowments For we are otherwise informed that this Jabez became a noted Doctor among the Jews and that the City called after his Name was thereupon afterwards the Residence of such as were most Learned in their Laws Vatabl. apud Critic That is to be Blessed indeed to have these Things conferr'd that do reach the Mind and affect the inner Man to be blessed with Spiritual Blessings from the Heavenly Places as in that Eph. 1. 3. There is a Spiritual sort of Blessing that may be enclosed in the External Blessing And particularly in this of Peace which while it is common to the People of GOD with other Men is it self not common 2. I further Note That the things I have mentioned to you they are of that special kind they are either immediate Spiritual Blessings or Subservient to such Whereupon now we may from several considerations evince to you that without them such an External Good as this of Peace is not a compleat Blessing 1. IT is no Argument of GOD's Special Favour The Best and most Valuable Blessings are from the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the good pleasure of His Will Eph. 1. 3 4 5. Other Men may enjoy External Benefits may both