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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34552	Eucharistia, or, A grateful acknowledgement of God's goodness in preserving our most gracious King William and for the success of his arms this last summer : deliver'd in a sermon to a country-auditory on the 22d of September 1695, being the day appointed by authority for a public thanksgiving / by William Corbin.	Corbin, William.	1695 (1695)	Wing C6278; ESTC R27918	14,491	30

which are no small Advantages and such we may expect upon our grateful Acknowledgment and sincere and hearty Thanks to God for the Blessings and Favours already received Thus then is the Duty with the Object and the Subject thereof which may be a forcible Argument to prove the Reasonableness thereof The manner of performing it I have already briefly hinted at it must be in course as it is in the Text that is in the time appointed for the Exercise thereof viz. this Day set apart by publick Authority for this Purpose not that hereby other Times and Seasons are excluded for the Praising and Thanking God for his Benefits and Favours which are continued and renewed to us every day for which we ought to repeat our Thanks and Praise every day but not neglect to give general and publick Thanks and Praise to God this day for so general and publick Blessing and let this be done in a due Proportion according to the Greatness of the Mercy we enjoy with Uprightness and Sincerity of Heart with a humble Mind and engaged Affection which are the Qualifications as I briefly hinted before with which our Duty must be accompanied and being thus qualified will be accepted and undoubtedly advance our Prosperity to the Ruin and Overthrow of our Enemies This will obtain us greater Victories against them secure our present Advantages and prevent our future Danger and this we may expect will be the happy and blessed Effects of our hearty Thanks and Praise For the Application of all then What remains but that we be all engaged in the faithful and zealous Performance of this Duty as the Nature of the thing requires And consider 't is from God we enjoy all our present Mercies and in him are or ought to be all our future Hopes and Expectations he made us when we were not and restored us when we were lost 't is he that supplieth our Wants forgives out Sins and crowns our Designs and the richer those Benefits are the more hearty Thanks they require great Deliverances and signal Victories such as we commemorate this Day call for a due Proportion in our Thanks and Praise for where much is given much is also required All that we have is given us of God and all that we enjoy is from him and is not the Production of blind Chance or Fatality The Philosopher might see the Stars in the Water though he could not see the Water in the Stars 't is not the Stars but God that governs the World for all things are disposed of according to his Directions What the Astronomer imagined to find in the Heavens I am sure may be found here below Cancer is not there but here viz. many Apostates retrograde to Goodness Piety and Religion here is Scorpio the Slanderer and Blasphemer here and not there are those Depressors and covetous Defrauders and Serpents which hurt and destroy one another here below and not in Heaven are those Bulls and Goats Persecutors and unclean Persons Lions rampant and Rams assailant that push and devour one another the more 's the pity 'T is strange to behold and yet too true to be denied that Men endued with rational Souls and capable of immortal Glory should act so irrationally Is this the Gratitude we owe to God If so sure this excellent Quality hath lost its proper Virtue Is this to praise and give Thanks to God for such signal Tokens of his Love and Favour viz. to run Counter to his holy Laws if so we may expect no other Effect thereof than the Apostle indicates that if we bite and devour one another we may be destroyed one of another and the Common Enemy may swallow us all It was the Divisions and Discords of Jerusalem together with their Ingratitude that wrought their Ruin and it may do ours unless we speedily amend The Murmuring of the Israelites in the Wilderness was the Cause why many of them were destroyed and never entered into the Land of Promise Let us then by the Foresight of their Ruin prevent our own Our Fears are now evaporated and our Danger at present seems to be over and yet we will not I mean some troublesome Spirits which breath among us be content but let us take heed and sin no more Joh. 5.14 according to our Lord's Instructions lest worse things come upon us than whatever yet we have felt or fear We seem generally to be well enough satisfied with what God has done for us but many among us are still dissatisfied with the Methods and Instruments in and by which God hath brought about so mighty a Deliverance as if it were convenient for and peculiar to them to prescribe Rules to Infinite Wisdom They would have the Blessings of God but they would have them descend upon them in their own Clouds or else they shall not be esteemed worth their Notice but rather deserve their Opposition And this seems to be the plain Language of some disaffected People in this present Generation Oh horrid Ingratitude altogether unbecoming the Practice of Reasonable Men or Christians I would ask a Question if I knew where to have it resolved viz. What such Men as these would have To which I doubt themselves cannot answer It must certainly be concluded that they are in love with Chains that seeing they are loosed from them they endeavour what in them lieth to bind them on afresh This certainly is neither consonant with Reason nor Religion though such Men perhaps will pretend to both for both detect such Absurdities 'T is unbecoming the Reason of a Man to destroy his own body and I am sure it 's unbecoming the Practice of a Christian to contribute towards and rejoyce in the Ruin of his Country and of that Church of which he is a Member at least by Profession as undoubtedly all such disaffected Persons virtually do though it be not in their Power actually to perform it But such Persons whoever they are must expect one day to be severely accountable for all this and therefore I would faithfully warn them all of it this day if my Voice would extend so far For it 's no small matter to endeavour to thwart the Designs and Methods of the Almighty God For if Men will walk contrary to him he will also walk contrary to them and by some means or other and at some time or other will make them feel the weight of their Folly in the Punishment of their Iniquities And if his Mercies cannot prevail with them to be grateful his Judgments will make them know what it is to affront his Majesty Let such therefore be wise in time and express the Gratitude of their Souls for such great Blessing in a due Proportion of Thanks and Praise as is suitable for such an Occasion and that with a hearty Sincerity And let us all after the Example of the Holy Prophet call upon and stir up one the other to praise the Lord and declare the wonders that he doth