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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96886	The churches thank-offering to God her King, and the Parliament, for rich and ancient mercies; her yeares of captivity; her first yeare of iubile; that is, for the marvelous deliverances wrought with God the first wonderfull yeare (since the yeare 88) beginning at September 1640. and ending the ninth of the same moneth following: in all which time, the Lord appeared for his church, as in the dayes of old, out of the middest of the bush, so the church burn'd with fire, and was not consumed. In the preface, the thank-offering is vindicated, and set free, from all the cavills and charges against it; where also it is cleared to be, as every mans duty, so every mans purpose, to offer willingly now, who doth not make full proofe, that he falls short of pagan, papist or atheist; and is wilfully resolved to walk crosse to the most supreme law, the highest reason, and the unquestionable will of God.	Woodward, Ezekias, 1590-1675.	1642 (1642)	Wing W3484; Thomason E122_1; ESTC R18182	151,993	158

יהוה GOD IN THE FLAMING-BVSH EXOD. 3. 2. Moses looked and behold the Bush burned with fire and the Bush was not consumed EXOD. 3. 3. And he said I will now turne aside and see this great sight why the Bush is not burnt DEUT. 33. 16. Blessed of the Lord be His Land for the precious things of Heaven And for the precious things of the Earth and for the good-will of Him That dwelt in the Bush ESA. 63. 9. In all their affliction He was afflicted and the Angell of His Presence saved them Published for a memoriall of the first wonderfull yeare The day of the LORDS vengeance and yeare of Recompences for the controversie of Zion THE CHVRCHES THANK-OFFERING To GOD Her KING and The PARLIAMENT FOR Rich and ancient Mercies Her Yeares of Captivity Her first Yeare of IVBILE THAT IS For the Marvelous Deliverances Wrought with God the first Wonderfull Yeare since the Yeare 88 beginning at September 1640. and ending the ninth of the same Moneth following In all which time The Lord appeared for His Church as in the dayes of old out of the middest of the BVSH so the Church burn'd with fire and was not consumed In the PREFACE The THANK-OFFERING is vindicated and set free from all the Cavills and Charges against it Where also it is cleared To be as every Mans Duty so every Mans purpose To Offer Willingly now who doth not make full proofe that he falls short of Pagan Papist or Atheist and is wilfully resolved to walk crosse to the most SUPREME Law The HIGHEST Reason and The unquestionable WILL of GOD. 1 Chro. 17. 19. O Lord for Thy Servants sake and according to Thine own heart hast Thou done all this greatnesse in making known all these great things Psal 1●6 17 I will offer to Thee the Sacrifice of thanksgiving and will call upon the Name of the Lord. Nehem. 5. 19. Thinke upon mee my God for good according to all that I have done for this people London Printed for T. V. at the signe of the Bible in Wood street 164● TO THE LORD the most high GOD Possessour of Heaven and Earth TO IESUS CHRIST His only Son our LORD Prince of Peace King of Saints To the blessed SPIRIT the Truth and leading thereinto BLessed be Thy glorious Name which is exalted above all blessing and praise Thou alone workest wonders and in so doing hast magnified Thy Selfe and honoured man Thou shewedst signes and wonders upon Thy Adversaries for Thou knewest they dealt proudly against Thee So didst Thou get Thy selfe a Name as it is this Day and herein didst Thou use man as an instrument Dust and Ashes he is give him grace to magnifie Thee Blessed Saviour Rock of our Salvation Desire of the Nations Hope of Israel in time of trouble Thou wast content to be made of no esteeme that Thy people might be greatly beloved to be made a curse that Thy people might become a blessing content to be made low that Thou mightest exalt man So Thou hast done Thou hast exalted him even to sit in Thrones next to Thy selfe Give him an heart to exalt Thee to honour Thee to love Thee much for Thou art worthy Blessed Spirit Thou hast done great things and marvellous not by a Nihil aliundè mutuatur Deus ad Ecclesiae suae conservationē ergò vult sibi Vni acceptam referri Ecclesiae saturē Cal. humane might nor by power but by Thy selfe b Zach. ● 6. Nec tamen omnia immediatè per se agit Deus sed tantum ostendere v●l● Ecclesiam erigi et conservari non humano vulgari modo sed mirabiliter praeter omnes spes sensus nostres Cal. in locum ô blessed Spirit saith the Lord of Hosts take to Thy selfe the Glory even all Almighty Father Sonne and Holy Ghost Trinity in Unity and Unity in Trinity unspeakably Three in One and One in Three One in Authority Will and Worship of all Three King of Kings Lord of Lords Spare Thy Servant according to the greatnesse of Thy mercy Thy hand-maid is recording Thy ancient thoughts of Grace and Peace towards Thy Servants her Sons and her Daughters Ancient mercies towards them when they lay in their blood for that was a time of love c Ezech. 16. 8. Mercies toward them exceeding Mercies when they were in the fornace of affliction for then Thou didst DWELL with them and they had ENOVGH Mercies towards her Land and People this former yeare strange Rescues wonderfull Deliverances admirable Discoveries what then can Thy Servant say now Even as Thou shalt be pleased to open her Mouth and give her inlargement She would take with her words d Hos 14. 2. but from Thy owne mouth and of Thy owne chusing Thou must give first for all things come of Thee and of Thine owne have we given Thee e 1 Chro. 29. 14. Thy servant must now speake Thy high Praises then Thou Lord must tune my spirit and raise it up else it will flag or like a Bird without wings now up and presently down How insufficient Thy Servant is for so high and excellent an imployment Thou knowest for Thou even Thou onely knowest the hearts of all the children of men f 1 Kin. 8. 39. At this present indeed now that I have some high thoughts of Thy glorious excellencies Thy Servant can speake as one brought downe to the ground whose speech whispereth out of the dust yet as one presently stolne away from her selfe she can with that Sorcerer thinke her selfe some GREAT ONE g Act. 8. 9. Lord rebuke this proud spirit and cast a spewing upon Selfe-glory h Hab. 2. 16. for truth Lord something it would be and something it would doe though a thousand experiences have told us that nothing it is nothing it can i Ier. 3. 5. but sinne against Thee Thy grace in us doth all no more power in selfe no more canning except the contrary way then can the instrument of late held in the worke-mans hand but now cast-out or lying by him Lord leave me not no not a little worke all in me and for me then worke by me for what we give to Thee is from Thy own hand to us first And though flesh and bloud would share here yet suffer it not but say where Thy voyce is there is power it shall not be so and so take to Thy self Thy proper right all the glory Let not so excellent a thing as the Spirit is so vast and capacious be lost in selfe which is nothing but let it runne forth to Thee and though it will be lost there also amidst such an Ocean yet there it finds a proportionable good even all in Thy self for Thou art All. Behold now I have taken upon me to speake unto my Lord that am but aust and ashes Thou wilt suffer this once and leade me into Thy Treasure-house to behold Thy mercies there which I am no more able to understand then I

can the treasures of the snow and of the haile k Iob 38. 22. nor comprehend no more then I can measure the wind in my fist or Heavens with my Span for I must looke backe to the dayes of eternity and Thy ancient thoughts towards Thy Sons and Daughters before the foundation of the world And behold Thy wayes there as undiscernable as the way of an Eagle in the Aire or of a Serpent upon the Rocke l Pro. 30. 19. as is the path which no foule knoweth and which the vultures eye hath not seen m Iob 28. 7. But blessed be Thy Name though there in that darke path the soule can find no rest nor feels any bottome yet in Thy Christ * De praedestinatione d●sputaturu● incipe ● Christi vulneribus Mel. Ad. in vitâ Sta●●p Vera est ea poenitentia quae ab amore justitiae Dei incipit we have a foundation even according to the good pleasure of Thy will towards us in Him to the praise of the glory of Thy Grace n Eph. 1. 5. For Him we blesse Thee we praise Thee we adore Thee for Thy glorious manifestations secret inspirations immediate workings for all the meanes of conveyance whereby Heaven is pleased to condescend and to have communion with earthly creatures and earthly creatures have fellowship with the FATHER and the SONNE For Thy Sons sake all this therefore we blesse Thee for that unspeakable gift with Whom Thou givest all things a subduing of iniquity victory over sin sinne is not left to bring forth its owne cursed fruit an exceeding mercy pardon of sinne communion with Thy selfe joy in the Holy Ghost then the strongest when we are weakest and our sufferings the greatest Then the highest elevation of spirit then the floud of consolation runnes highest when the floud of wickednesse runnes over the head and seemes ready to swallow up This is that the world stumbles at nay we shrinke at too at sufferings at persecution though yet a thousand experiences tels us Persecution is the signe of a Thes 1. 7. the true Church and to them who are persecuted Rest with us and our Rest is in Thee and with Thee at last and then even in that houre of temptation then dost Thou administer abundant consolations even according as the sufferings are through fire yet not consumed through water yet not drowned o Esa 43. 2. Surely this is because Thou dost guide Thy Servants by Thy Councell we are not carefull whether we goe when Thou hast us by the hand being assured the end of the way is GLORY And now that the people may flow in hether cause them to turne aside and behold this sight why the BVSH burnes and is not consumed All that looke on must resolve it thus because Thy GOOD WILL DWELLS IN THE Esa 63. 9. BVSH In all their affliction Thou wast afflicted and the Angell of Thy presence saved them O blessed be the Father Son and Holy Ghost for Thy GOOD-WILL That dwels in the Bush O let not my Lord be angry and I will speake yet but this once we Thy people have said in our haste Our hope is cut-off we shall be termed FORSAKEN and our Land DESOLATE But we behold and wonder Thou hast shewen grace unto us to give us a nayle in Thy Esa 62. 4. Holy place and hast revived our hope That we shall be called HEPHZ●BAH and our Land Beulah Truly Lord Thou hast comforted all my waste places Thou hast made my WILDERNES like EDEN and my DESERT like the Garden of the Lord ioy and gladnesse is found therin Thanksgiving Ezr. 9. 8. and the voyce of Melody * Esa 51. 3. But Lord why is it so Why such severity towards our sister-Churches and such goodnesse towards us and our Land Even so because it pleaseth Thee It is Thy good will so Be it so but we are over-charged with the consideration thereof and are silent Truly Lord we stand wondering at Thy works beholding terrible things r Esa 64. 3. which our Fathers saw not and we look'd not for The turning councels upside downe c. for had Thy Servant the tongue of an Angell she could not expresse it but at our selves we wonder most of all at the drossinesse the dregginesse of our spirits not yet resolved into a spirit of Thankefullnesse no not yet though we have seene such and such things above all such forbearance such a patient suffering our manners o Act. 13. 18. at such a time as this Why Lord God Thou didst send unto us Saviours we should have looked through them as through a thin covering to Thy arme made bare for our Salvation we did not so it was a thicke covering before our eyes it hid Thy Almighty Arme quite from us We did leane upon that Reed such is the helpe of flesh yet did it not pierce nor breake O wonderfull it is not Thy manner so the prop of flesh did not breake though we laid so great a weight of expectation thereupon notwithstanding it hath held c. for Thy Servant is overcome more she would speake to that point and is not able But she hath wherewith to answer Thy Adversaries as followeth The Enemy reproacheth Thy Name daily and asketh where is now your God Our God is in Heaven and thence Thou hast declared Thy selfe against Thy Enemies confounding them and for Thy people reviving their hope Thou hast exalted THY CHRIST before our Eyes and received Thy people into COVENANT these two things Thou hast done this last yeare And if Thou dost no more in our dayes yet thy Servants have ENOVGH And by Thy good hand upon them they have out-plotted all their enemies Thy Servants have no more to say but Remember Lord Thy Covenant and keepe the hearts of Thy Servants close with thee therein Thou art Lord of Lords and King of Kings and onely art able to make Thy Servants to performe the words of Thy Covenant and to STAND TO IT p 2 Chro. 34. 31 32. and then though the Enemy rage he shall not hurt though he conceives mischiefe he shall bring forth a lye God in Covenant defeates all their hellish counsels weakneth all their power answers all Arguments against Thy people or their Cause nothing shall doe them hurt every thing shall doe them good It is Thy Promise Lord I will not turne away from them to doe them good a Ier. 32. ●0 All shall worke together for their good losses in the World for their good troubles in the flesh for their good come what can come all is sanctified by all Thou wilt doe Thy children good Reproaches wants necessities Persecutions Captivities b Ier. 24. 5. All to doe them good even so Amen And yet Lord we remember Thou hast spoken good words and gracious concerning the Church for the time to come We humbly conceive now is the time when Thou art making good this good word to Thy people