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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31404	King David's deliverance, and thanksgiving applied to the case of our King and nation, in two sermons, the one preached on the second, the other on the ninth of September, 1683 / by John Cave ...	Cave, John, d. 1690.	1683 (1683)	Wing C1584; ESTC R17525	31,577	69

it He gave this resolute Answer to the King of Persia Si propter ista me denegaturum Christum putas ista denuo accipe If you think I value my Honours above Christ pray take them from me again We have another Instance not altogether unlike this in St. Basil The Emperor sent to him to subscribe the Arrian Heresy Theod. and ordered his Agent to treat him at first with fair and enticing Speeches and the promise of great Preferments which he did but to them the good Man replied Alas these are Arts to inveigle Children but we that are nourished and taught by the Holy Scriptures are readier to suffer a thousand Deaths than to renounce one Article of our Creed And when he that dealt with him proceeded from Entreaties to Increpations and told him He was mad his meek return was Opto me in aeternum sic delirare God grant I may be always thus mad that neither Enmity nor Friendship Fears nor Hopes may move me or draw me off from bearing Testimony to the Truth of Jesus We do not we cannot confess to God aright if we are not as ready to own him and glory in him among his Enemies as among his Friends when the Profession and Practice of the True Religion of our Saviour shall bring us to taste of his bitter Cup and we shall be hated of all that is of the generality of Men for his Name 's sake for adhering to his Truths as they have been delivered in the Scriptures and taught in the best and purest Ages of the Church Then and not till then will it appear that we are acted by David's Spirit when we are ready to speak if need be of God's Testimonies even before Kings that oppose them and not be ashamed of them Then do we approve our selves the Servants and Worshippers of Daniel's God when we own him with the hazard nay with the certain loss of Reputation Liberty and utmost danger of Life it self This Constancy and Courage for the Truth was it which denominated those Heroick Christians of former Ages Confessors namely their taking up their Master's Cross and owning him among their Heathen Persecutors My Brethren through the infinite Patience and Goodness of God towards us who have deserved no such thing we have been delivered from our Blood-thirsty Enemies Papists and another sort of Men who have made use of the Protestant Name as a Cloak to secure them in opposing of the Protestant Cause and undermining the Established Religion And we are at present exempt from those Sufferings and Martyrdoms which in other Ages and in our own Country have been the Lot of God's most faithful Servants But alas we know not how soon our Heaven may overcast again and the Clouds follow after the Rain The great Fear is lest the Papists should imitate the True Protestant Policy and either pursue their Old or set on foot a New Plot in hopes that if it do or do not take they may leave it at other Mens Doors and as easily now make the World believe that it was a Phanatick Plot as the Phanaticks could hope to perswade us that theirs was a Popish One and so the latter end of our Fears and Troubles may prove worse than the beginning It will be the wisdom of our Piety in the midst of our Jubilees and Triumphs to prepare for new Dangers and Trials and to resolve That the God of our Mercies and Deliverances shall be our God in every Condition that his Rod as well as his Staff shall comfort us and that we will put our whole trust in him as well when he slays as when he saves us This God shall be our God for ever and ever he shall be our Guide even unto death And this minds me of a Third Particular in this our Confessing and Acknowledging of God's Almighty Goodness in our Deliverance and that is Dependance upon him for relief and rescue in the like distress Let not our Courage sink our Spirits be disquieted or dejected with misboding Apprehensions of Future Evils but let us humbly trust in his continued Aid who hath been our present help in Trouble considering that Donando debet as St. Cyprian speaks God's past Blessings and Deliverances if we make a good use of them are Pawns and Engagements of Future I say if we make a due return for them and a right improvement of them Which brings me to the upshot of all the main Duty of my Text and of this Day especially II. The speaking singing living of Praises unto the Name of our God What we have spoken already concerning Confession unto God may denote a serious and wise consideration of his doings towards and dealings with us and some more silent shews of our Gratitude in our adherence to him and affiance in him I am now to speak of the Solemn Proclamations of his Greatness and Goodness which we are to make with the Voice of Thanksgiving When we have exercised our observing Faculty in regarding the Works of the Lord we must employ our Mouths to express the Thanks of our Minds and make known his Faithfulness to all Generations St. Basil in Psal 28. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Action must follow Contemplation in our Case And when we have considered the Operation of God's Hand our Mouth must praise him with joyful Lips not concealing his loving-kindness and his Truth from the great Congregation We must employ the best Organ we have our Tongue which the Royal Psalmist stiles our Glory in this best this heavenly this glorious Service of Praise And indeed if a grateful Affection live in our Hearts it will proceed forth of our Lips there will be a Conspiracy and faithful Correspondency between our Mind and our Tongue if the one be sensible the other will not be silent We shall talk of his loving-kindness in the Morning and of his faithfulness every Night uttering abundantly the memory of his great Goodness and singing of his Righteousness making known to the Sons of Men his mighty Acts and the glorious Majesty of his Kingdom according to the Expressions of our sweet singer in sundry places Acknowledgments of the Divine Goodness and solemn Testifications of our thankful sense thereof how indisposed and averse soever our sluggish Minds are thereunto was always and ever will be the principal and most noble part of all Religion immediatly addressed to God It is the only Heavenly Work that can be done upon Earth the only joyful Employment which shall last to all Eternity and which should ever wait for God in Sion and upon all occasions be exercised here in the Assemblies of the Faithful When the ordinary effects of the Divine Providence do in any advantageous manner present themselves to our view when we peruse the Volumes of Story and therein observe the various Events of humane Actions especially the seasonable Rewards of Vertue the notable Protection and Deliverance of Innocence and the deserved Punishments of malicious Wickedness Then is it