Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	father_n	know_v	worship_v	2,551	5	9.5681	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77742	St. Paul's thanksgiving: set forth in a sermon preached before the right honorable House of Peers in the Abby-Church Westminster, on Thursday May 10. being the day of solemn thanksgivng to almighty God for his late blessings upon this kingdom. By James Buck, B.D. Vicar of Stradbrook in Suff. and domestick chaplian to the right honorable Theophilus Earl of Lincoln.	Buck, James.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1660 (1660)	Wing B5308; Thomason E1033_2; ESTC R208955	19,136	33

and the fidelity of his gracious covenant in Christ for whose sake all things are intended guided and collated for our good if we would so take them that whether God give or take whether he afflict or inlarge we may alwayes say with patient Job The Lord hath given the Lord hath taken as it pleaseth the Lord so come things to pass blessed be the name of the Lord for ever and ever Job 1.21 2. For Admiration the kingly Prophet saying Let my soul live and it shall praise thee Psal 119.175 declares not onely that he desired life for no other cause in chief but that he might therein give thanks and glorifie God but also that the praises of Gods children here have in some respects prelation above the hymns of glorified spirits Which Hezekiah also affirms protesting that Hell cannot praise God but the living the living he shall praise God Esa 38.18 whereupon those religious Kings notwithstanding the trust they had to celebrate among the Fathers immortal thanks petitioned that they might abide here to praise God In pirke avoth It was a wise apothegme of Rabbi Jacob that one hour of repentance and good works in this world is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 better than all the life of the world to come and one hour of refreshment in the world to come is better than all the life of this world The complete praises of the other world are without comparison diviner than our imperfect thanksgivings upon earth in regard of the acts themselves but praises here have their priviledge in that they be exemplary to sinners and converting praises not seldom attracting others from vanity to be companions in the true worshiping of God as godly Hezekiah hints in those words The father to the children shall make known thy truth Moreover divine praises here be operative and efficiently antecedent to our glory there After death the blessed rest Apoc. 14.13 and cannot promote in bliss and the state of glory in heaven is proportioned to the measure of vertue and praise upon earth whiles we are in the way every praise addes to the treasury of our future glory when we come home into our country we take up our standing and can proceed no further here must we furnish our everlasting mansions here must we lay up in store for our selves a good foundation for the future 1 Tim. 6.19 and procure that degree of honour wherein we would sempiternally praise God 3. For Exhortation urging us above all studies to intend thanksgiving and frequent Gods praises as in our Lords prayer we are taught to begin our petitions with praying first and principally Hallowed be thy name enable us and all thy creatures to glorifie and praise thee and in the close annexed in many Greek copies to that prayer Mat. 6.13 to ascribe Kingdom Power and Glory to God as the father of lights and donor of every good and perfect gift which is the summary of thanksgiving The hellishness of hell and most horrible evil there and that which most terrifies the godly in their contemplations is that the damned perpetually gnash their teeth Psal 112.10 and blaspheme and curse God that is blessed for ever Apoc. 16.10 11. They gnawed their tongues in pain and blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and repented not of their evils if reprobates do so on earth what will they ●o in hell And this is to the minds of them that fear God the heaven of heaven that there is no cessation nor end of praising God there Apoc. 5.13 none is silent in the heavenly Chorus Every creature which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and such as are in the sea heard I saying Blessing honour glory and power be unto him that sittteth upon the throne and unto the Lamb for ever Apoc. 7.9 10. Sect. 9 Swasives to thanksgiving Will you be pleased to ponder the commendations heaped upon sacred thanksgivings Psal 147.1 It is good to sing praises unto God it is pleasant and praise is comely It is good and by consequence hath force to draw and allure every rational will as convenient for it vox hominem sonat it is a speech for a man to men who will shew us any good therefore God commends this duty to us as men it is good it is right Eph. 6.1 it hath all reason for it It is pleasant not onely pleasing to God whose pleasure is more acceptable to the pious than any life but pleasant to the thanksgiver a duty which cannot possibly be performed without pleasure on his part For that our good Lord would have us rejoyce evermore 1 Thes 5.16 Be alwayes chearful he passes an injunction that we should in every thing be thankful vers 18. Would any learn to go easily away with his burthen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In pareticis c. 35. let him hearken to Saint Nile In adversity give thanks and the yoke of afflictions will be easie and light when and wherein soever we are discontent we detain praises in unthankfulness and give not God the honour of governing all things for the best Thank God unfeignedly for thy portion for thy corrections for all thy tryals and the Lords dealing ceases to be any longer displeasant to thee It is comely there is nothing so unseemly and odious as ingratitude nothing so amiable and decent in all eyes as thankfulness how then doth it become Psal 51.12 the free ingenuous and princely spirit wherewith we are sealed to officiate in this divine service and sacrifice continual thank-offerings to the God of our praise who hath made us his praise in preeminence of heavenly collations 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 P● Martyr Ju●●●●m O happy David for an heroick spirit in practising Divinity Psal 116.12 What shall I render unto God which is wisely expended by St. Basil to be the voice of one that was bravely in straits and saw his penury on all sides that he had nothing fit for retribution but to the utmost of his power he was willing to lay out himself and spend and be spent for God and that he was glad of an opportunity to serve his generation and advance the interests of his maker Honourable Lords there is no higher decorum than to study grateful returns do something worthy of God and your Nobility and this day of your triumph and joy And whereas your goods and goodness cannot reach to God but may reach to his substitutes the receivers and takers of the King of heaven let me beg leave to speak a word for Christs poverty in our Land that in reception of so transcendent blessings you would remember the poor and signalize this happy year with a provision that there may be no complaining no begging in our streets and work-houses may be erected in these rich and populous cities that all that are able to work may be blessed in eating the labour of their own hands Psal 128.2 and all that are absolutely