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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	believe_v	great_a	speak_v	2,174	5	4.1269	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46792	A thanksgiving sermon preach'd upon the fifth of November, 1689 by Ben. Jenks.	Jenks, Benjamin, 1646-1724.	1689 (1689)	Wing J623; ESTC R28742	21,433	42

into the Dust at the remembrance of his Glory to whom all Nations are counted even less than Nothing and Vanity Not to dress a God in our Fancy such a one as our poor selves to worship our own misconceits instead of the True God who if we Adore not after the Canon of of his own Word 't is not so much honoring him as humoring our selves with the Will-worship not required at our hands Tho here we need not seruple those lowly Forms of Address which speak us sensible of the vast disproportion between us and our Glorious Maker whose least angry Finger on the Wall could so dash a great King in the midst of all his Jollity Dan. 5. that the thousand Lords his Guests and all his Concubines with the richest Fare and Wine and Musick could no more recover him to his late cheerfulness than they could cease to admire his present Dejection Nor is God less to be honored in his Merciful than in his Majestick Relations those allaying the brightness of his Glory and inviting us out of our Dust as with a Scepter extended to warrant our Approaches Indeed then is he most highly honored when most dearly loved for tho Fear may dwell with Hatred Honor is still the product of Love which sets upon its Object the greatest value and entertains it in the highest Room of the Soul. But we do rather Scandalize than Magnifie the God of Love If we fansie him in such horrid Appearances as fill us more with dread than love so that in our Worship we are only dragg'd to him and never taken up delightfully with him looking upon him only as the Malefactor at the Bar eyes the Scarlet Robe ready to appall the last residue of his Hope with a killing Sentence We must not endure any such Opinions of God as reflect disparagement on the Infinite Goodness which so eminently declares his Greatness in doing such noble works of Mercy as all the Power in the World could not and all the Patience in the World besides would not do But when we behold him as the Father of Mercies and Fountain of all Goodness the most amiable Being whose Love is as boundless as his Nature from which Love the mighty Frame of Nature sprang and who so loved the World even when lost that he took the most amazing method for our recovery to make us gainers even by the sad losses of our Fall putting our Salvation in much safer Hands than when it hung only upon our own Free Will and giving the surest word of Promise that he will put his Spirit in his People which shall cause them to walk in his Statutes and his Fear in their Hearts that shall not suffer them to depart from Him so that we are kept now by the power of God himself through Faith to Salvation By this sweet Contemplation of his first loving us the Divine Love is apt to limn its own Effigies on our Souls and powerfully incline us to him as the blessed and only centre of their Rest And what greater thoughts of God can we conceive in our Minds than to look upon him in Christ reconciling the World to himself by that Redeeming Love which well may be stiled Inestimable whose prevalent strains chang'd our Judge into our Advocate and made him pursue his Enemies with nothing but Bounty and compass them about only with Songs of Deliverance Here the heavenly Criticks themselves can but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lift up the Curtain to pry into this Mystery of Divine Love but even the Tongues of Angels are at a loss when they would turn the Admiration into Expression Never can we more highly exalt the Name of God than to shew him to the World in such lovely Representations not only as the greatest but the best that has done such unspeakable things to approve his love and engage ours and still supplies a world of Creatures that all depend on him for their Being and every Comfort There are such Pleonasms and Redundancies of his kindness that a great deal still falls even to their share who will never so much as thank him for it And thus we do Magnifie the God infinitely Good when we stand in admiration of such Benignity that we should have any comfort with our lives when we have done so much to spoil all with our sins Yea that not a minute should pass but brings us a new favor from above and gives us more assurance still that he desires our felicity and cannot design our ruin who is love it self and hates nothing that he has made delights not even in the death of sinners nor is willing that any should perish indeed suffering none to perish for the want but only for the contempt of mercy who stands not watching for advantages against us but in fatherly consideration of our Frame makes merciful allowance for our Infirmities and all Dispensations still carry so sweet a savour of good Will to Men that not only when he gives us the smiles of the World 't is to draw us to himself with such Cords of Love but even when he threatens it is to prevent the evils denounced yea when he touches with the Rod 't is but to reduce us into the way of Bliss and supersede our eternal smart And thinking thus well of God we do magnifie the Lord and exalt his Name To do all to the Glory of God an Expression oftner us'd than understood is still to propose this End to our selves that the great and good God may be more known and admir'd rever'd and loved believed and obeyed by us and all Men aiming and endeavouring with whatever we are Masters of and all the interest we have in the World to do service to the Truth and promote the credit of God's holy Religion that it may look like it self in us and the way of Truth may not through our means be evil spoken of And when by due Methods we earnestly pursue our own felicity so we bring God the greatest Glory But that we should be willing to perish our selves for the advancement of his Glory as some have screwd it up is a thing so harsh and extravagant that the very naming it is enough to disprove it seeing God has wrought our Salvation in the frame of his own Glory and he can have no ends in our serving him but that we may thereby serve our own best advantage And this is the greatest honor he expects from us that we should do all we are able to promote our own and others happiest Interests in believing the infallible Truth of his holy Word and making the greatest Conscience in all things to be determined by it Nor only giving a total deference to his Will but reposing all our bliss in his Hands For we cannot honor one more than to reckon him worthy in all things to be hearkened to and sole-sufficient to be relied upon as the wisest and ablest best and willingest to do us good But the Properties of