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truth_n	good_a	holy_a	spirit_n	3,941	5	4.8416	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62447	The treasures of the sea A sermon to the mariners upon Deut. XXXIII. xviii, xix. And of Zabulun, he said, Rejoice Zabulun in thy ports, and Issachar in thy tents. They shall call the people unto the mountain, there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treaures hid in the sand.	Thomson, William, d. 1699.	1683 (1683)	Wing T1036A; ESTC R203769	22,323	44

shall be nursed at thy side Then thou shalt see and flow together and thine heart shall fear and be enlarged because the abundance of the Sea shall be converted unto thee the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee As if he had said Look about thee little flock fear not All this strength these Arms this wealth of Sea and Land all this Wit Learning Arts and Sciences and whatever thou beholdest now so obstinately set against thee shall all come in and prostrate themselves at thy feet for thy defence support and ornament For as the same Prophet chap. 49. 22 23. Behold I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles and set up my Standard to the people saith the Lord and they shall bring my Sons in their Arms and thy Daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders And Kings shall be thy nursing-fathers and Queens thy nursing-mothers They shall bow down to thee with their face toward the Earth and lick up the dust of thy feet and thou shalt know that I am the Lord For they shall not be ashamed that wait for me Happy Monarchs to be made the Parents of a Religion so holy and so salutiferous to men May the Eternal Jesus the Prince of Peace bless your Persons unite your Counsels strengthen your Arms that Religion may daily spread it self under your conduct over all the corners of the World May the Enemies of God if any seel the force of your Weapons and see the Trophies of your Valours but being at unity amongst your selves may we who profess the name of Jesus ever serve him in the beauty of Holiness in the decency of Order in the protections of Peace and if possible in the blessings of Unity But above all mayst thou ever be happy Great Defender of the Faith Apostolick ever triumphant over the Enemies of thy Peace and ours May thy reign never cease O Breath of our nostrils but having long protected us in Peace and the enjoyments of a most happy Religion mayst thou be translated to the Kingdom of Jesus to raign with him for ever And may all the outward advantages of Religion serve only for her defence and comely ornament for the suppression of Heresie Schism and all ungodliness and licentious disorder but never minister to our Covetousness Pride Lust or other enormities that so we may ever worship the Divine Majesty in the profession and practice of that truth and holiness which becomes the redeemed of the Lord Jesus And in order hereunto the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ by his Eternal Spirit make us all faithful in our Ministry devout in our Prayers powerful in our Preaching pure in the administration of his Holy Sacraments charitable in good works temperate in our lives meek and humble in our conversations and bring a plentiful Harvest to his Kingdom by our labours There is also another sense of these words which though far more remote is yet of greatest advantage to Zabulun and Issachar and indeed unto us all and that is Christ himself shall the most happily accomplish this benediction He shall to the eternal purposes of Salvation of his Elect suck the abundance of the Seas and treasures bid in the Sand when the last 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 shall call up those that groan under the Waters in the houses of the Giants and awake them that sleep in the dust to meet their King in the air to be with the Lord for ever 1 Thess 4. 17. For they indeed are the true riches of the deep and treasures of the Sand. Other things how strong or precious soever shall yield to the fury of the devouring Element and the same power that brought them out of nothing shall reduce them thither again But the Bodies of his Saints and their separated dust after so many Pilgrimages and Transformations into the parts of Minerals Plants Animals which the natural order of things must necessarily carry them into shall return to their primitive shape and join again to their primary and predestinate forms And as at the Creation there was a Separation of that confused Mass into its species so at the destruction thereof there shall be a Separation into its distinct Individuals Which great Truth though perplext with some nice curiosities is more fully explicated unto us than any other mystery of our Faith For seeing as most aver our Salvation consisteth in the knowledge of three principal Articles the Trinity the Incarnation with its effects and consequences and the Resurrection Whereas the other two do sometimes like the top of Olympus hide themselves in clouds and darkness yet in this God disposing himself more to our ends than his own has more abundantly explained the point than any other as an arcle most relating to our peculiar felicities For it is well enough known that having afforded the Ancients but very obscure knowledges of the Trinity and Incarnation he has proclaim'd the Resurrection by the Law of Nature by the order of the World by the publications of the Law Mosaical and more fully by the Evangelical Word In Nature there is not a flower a grain a plant which preaches not this Homily and Art its great Imitatrix will drive old Proteus through a thousand forms and when they please bring the Prodigal back again home to his Fathers house and fix him there in the embraces of his Kindred In Mundane affairs we see Governments are born and grow up to a certain maturity and decay and die and rise again The fancies genius's fortunes of the dead rise daily and fall again to be imitated by after generations Humane Nature is not capable of more variety than may be seen in a few Ages and therefore Providence has been kind to make our days so few lest we should too often behold the resurrection of our own follies and miseries Job a man before all Letters all Doctors all Schools cries out in a condition the most forlorn I know that my Redeemer liveth and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth and though after my skin worms destroy this body yet in my flesh shall I see God whom I shall see for my self and mine eyes shall behold and not another Job 19. 25 26 27. The eternal Truth pronounced himself in the Law of Moses Exod. 3. 8. The God of Abraham the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob which himself interprets to signifie a relation to the Resurrection Mat. 22. In the Evangelical Dispensations besides the passages of S. Mat. S. Joh. and S. Paul our Saviour after his Resurrection conversed forty days upon Earth and was seen of five hundred people at once to ingraft this mystery in the hearts of the Faithful That he who is the first fruits of the dead will sanctifie the whole lump What Riches what Pearls may we imagine shall then be found in the deep what Treasures what Stones in the Sands to build up the great City the Heavenly Jerusalem Come Lord Jesus come