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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60353	A sermon preached on the thanksgiving day the 27 day of October, 1692 at Crosby Square by Samuel Slater.	Slater, Samuel, d. 1704.	1693 (1693)	Wing S3974; ESTC R23646	19,638	40

and People were ready to sink under the weight of their Iniquities but David came in and set his Shoulder to it I bear up the pillars of it I am the Basis that doth uphold those things upon which the Earth should stand and without which Kingdoms must and will fall into Decay and Ruine I make it my business to reduce all into Order to set and keep matters in a due Frame and Posture by a regular and religious Government And upon this account also blessed yea for ever blessed be the Father of Mercies for putting his Everlasting Arms under our King and Queen and for bearing them up who bear up the Pillars of our Country without this we should soon have had among us a terrible Earthquake to an utter Overthrow But once more Sixthly It is most certainly the Peoples Duty to increase their Joy in the Lord upon the Prince's Salvation when it doth not come alone but attended with a great and lovely Train and bringeth other choice and desirable Mercies in its company when it is usher'd in by some and followed by others so that we may say Behold a Troop cometh Had there been no more than the single Deliverance and Preservation of our King who in our Quarrel ventur'd himself in the high places of the Field and upon the mighty Waters we should have been mightily concerned in it and therefore greatly obliged to bless God But as Affliction doth not use to go alone so neither did this Mercy God hath compasted us with Favours and laden us with Benefits of which we may well be glad How precious have his Thoughts been concerning us and how open his Hand of Bounty to us Who can tell the number of the former or measure the largeness of the latter Day unto day hath shewn his Love and night unto night his Faithfulness Take a few Instances and set a mark upon them How gracious hath God been in the Preservation of our Queen let us give him the Glory of that and of his directing and assisting her in a most prudent most just and most gracious Administration of Government His Mercy in the late Earthquake that he did so gently shake his Rod over us and not stir up all his Wrath nor rise up to that height of Severity which he had used a little before upon Jamaica but only shewed us what he could do and we deserved still drawing out upon us a longer Line of Life and Tranquility and giving us space for Repentance Mercy in continuing the Peace of the Nation so that none have been able to disturb or interrupt it Mercy in his gracious Presence with you of this great City in the Choice of your Magistrates under whose Conduct we may promise our selves Encouragement of them that do well and the Suppression of those crying Abominations which have abounded among us And likewise wonderful Mercy in that great and signal Victory given to their Majesties Navy over the French Fleet whereby the Marine Power of that Cruel Nimrod was greatly shaken and shatter'd and his intolerable Pride may well be abated Neither may we forget or in Silence pass by that seasonable Weather which was given to the laborious but then sorrowful Country-man for the gathering in the Fruits of the Earth when the great and continued Rains had threatned us and some begun to hoard up Corn and most did apprehend a Scarcity approaching and at the very Door Shall I bind these up together Our King hath had Salvation abroad our Queen been blest and made a Blessing at home our Forces have been crown'd with Victory our Land enjoyeth Peace when neighbouring Countries have been the Seat of a devouring War we have Plenty as well as Peace yea and the true Religion and Gospel-Truths and ordinances to sweeten all the rest For all this praise the Lord O England praise thy God O London whose Name alone is excellent and his Glory above the Earth In the next place we are to consider what should be the Qualifications what the Properties of this Joy and that I shall do in these three Things I. Our Joy ought to be an hearty Joy not feigned but real not hypocritical but sincere the joyful Sound we make ought not to be an empty Sound It is an impossible thing to deceive God and a dangerous thing to moek him Do not you mock him in your meeting together at this time I wish none might be guilty of it though I fear some will who for Example sake because others do so or out of Fear and to avoid Suspicion will go to Church somewhere or other and sit out the Publick Worship though very uneasily and as upon Thorns and then go to the Tavern and meet their vain Companions and with them drink Confusion to their Majesties sacred Persons and Health to their Enemies Let not such Guilt come upon any one here before the Lord whose eye is upon you that pure and peircing Eye which searcheth the Hearts and looks for Truth What you do this day do it as to the Lord as in the sight of God be affected indeed with this Salvation and with these Mercies and with the great Goodness of God in them and be thankful indeed The Apostle tells you your Love must be such not in word and in tongue viz. only but in deed and in truth Call upon yourselves as that holy Man did 103 Psal. 1 2. Bless the Lord O my soul and all that is within me Bless his holy name bless the Lord O my soul and forget not all his benefits Or let me bespeak you in those words which you have in the 105 Psal. 3. Glory ye in his holy name and let the heart of them rejoyce that seek the Lord. You have been a seeking People you have fought the Lord his Face and Favour and Strength you have been seeking frequently earnestly you have been seeking the Lord on the behalf of your King and Queen we have done it frequently earnestly together and apart many and many a Prayer we have lifted up to Heaven for them and God hath graciously heard us and been found of us Our King hath found God near to him and round about him He hath been followed and guarded with an Army of Prayers and he hath been brought home to us in the Arms of Prayer Now as you have been hearty in your Praying make sure that you be so likewise in your Rejoycing Let the hearts of them rejoyce that have sought the Lord. It is as the Prayer so the Praise of the Upright that is God's Delight It is an Harmony between the Heart and the Lip a Consent and Agreement between the inward Affections and outward Expressions that makes Melody in the Divine Ears Therefore that Request in the 19. Psal. 14. Let the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable in thy sight O Lord my strength and my redeemer II. Our Joy must not be light and frothy but a solid Ioy There is