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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50176	The wonderful works of God commemorated praises bespoke for the God of heaven in a thanksgiving sermon delivered on Decemb. 19, 1689 : containing reflections upon the excellent things done by the great God ... : to which is added A sermon preached unto a convention of the Massachuset-colony in New-England ... / by Cotton Mather.	Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.; Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728. A sermon preached to the honourable convention of the governour, council, and representatives of the Massachuset-colony in New-England on May 23, 1689.	1690 (1690)	Wing M1171; ESTC W24924	55,477	128

all the Fullness of God will be Filled with praises to Him for all his Workmanship We should be like him that said in Psal 139.14 I will praise thee for marvellous are thy Works Whatever our God is Doing we should upon the sight thereof be praising and we should Acknowledge Him in all those Excellent Things which we see done in any part of the Universe It was said in Psal. 40.5 Many O Lord my God are the Wonderful Works which thou hast done God has done many Wonderful Works and many Excellent Things in which we our selves have not an Immediate or at least not a peculiar share but we should all render praises unto Him on the account thereof It is mentioned as the priviledge of a Righteous man in Psal. 112.9 His Horn shall be exalted What if one thing intended in it should be This That as the praises of God were sounded by His People in Cornets of old so there were Exalted Horns or Exalted Notes which He would have their praises to be Raised with Thus we read in 1 Chron. 25.5 of Words to Lift up the Horn To accommodate the Allusion The Praises of God are to Sound High in our Devotions When we praise God for being Excellently Good unto our selves we do well but we are to Raise our praises unto an Higher pitch than so they are to Expatiate upon all those things wherein our God has exhibited Himself as Excellently Great throughout the world Such Abstracted Praises are agreeable to the Inclinations of every Godly man he argues at that Rate Great is the Lord and therefore Greatly to be praised PROPOSITION II. We ought both to Sing and to Spread the praises which we owe unto the God of Heaven Behold a double Office incumbent on us with respect unto those Acknowledgments which we are to pay unto our God beside and beyond the first Motions of them in our own Souls Indeed the Spring of all the Acknowledgments which we make unto God must be in our Hearts and the gracious Opinions and Resentmen●s which are first formed there We must first look to this that God be praised by the Thoughts in our minds and as the Psalmist speaks by All that is within us Blessing his Holy Name They never will praise God sufficiently or acceptably who cannot say as in Luke 1.46 My Soul does Magnify the Lord. As all worship of God so particularly all praising of God must be performed in Spirit otherwise it will not be in Truth But the praises of God being shaped in the Honourable Thoughts of our Souls what are we then to do First We are to Sing the praises due to God for the Excellent Things that He hath done And if we keep close to the Text we shall see two things here demanded of us First There should be an Exactness used in our praising of God There should be in our Praises as on one side an Amputation of all that is improper so on the other side no Omission of any Article that calls for our meditations The charge given to us is That in Psal. 103.2 Forget not all His Benefits We should not Forget so much as One of the Excellent Things which we can Remember to be done by God The skipping of One stroke in a Lesson often spoils the grace of the Musick So does the missing of One Thing in a Commemoration of what God has done We should be careful with an often yea with a daily Examination to inform our selves about the Things for which God is to be praised It is hardly convenient for a man to sleep at Night until he have pondered What New Excellent Thing has been done by God this Day that I should particularly praise Him for And we should be careful that our Sorrows do not swallow up our praises 'T is often so that as that worthy woman of old could not eat of the Peace Offerings which was a Thank-Offering because She Wept thus we can't praise God because He Smites us We cannot see Excellent Things done by God because we feel Terrible Thins done to our selves But this is our Folly Where we have One Trouble we have a Thousand mercies of our own to be praising for And if we were a million times more afflicted than we are yet the Lord might challenge our Praises It was a great Speech of the Renowned Gerson Quiequid deme ordinaverit Deus said He However God may dispose of me for ever whether to Eternal Weal or Wo yet This I know that He is worthy of my praises and He shall have them all Indeed Praises are a Debt owing to Him even from those woful Spirits that are broken in the place of Dragons and covered with the shadow of Death Secondly There should also be an Instrument used in our Praising of God But of what kind Far be it from us to plead for that which is properly instrumental Music in the Church of the Lord Jesus Indeed before the coming of our Lord there was in the Church a Divine appointment for such a thing and between the Neginoth and the Nehiloth I find if I miscount not sixteen or more kinds of Instruments for the maintaining of it But upon the Abolition of the Mosaic Pedagogy we have no order for the continuance of this Temple Worship by introducing of it into our Synagogues The Primitive Church had it not as even a Bellarmine tells you the Ancients often loudly declaim against it and Aquinas himself about four hundred years ago notwithstanding all his Popery and Bigottry yet bestows none of the kindest Remarks upon it The Schoolmen themselves own that Aliquid Fig●rabat it was a Typical thing and we having in the Tydings of the Gospel that grace and joy which this was a figure of ought not to Iudaize by upholding the shadow in the presence of the Substance nor ought we to bring into the House of God a Troop of Officers which the Lord Jesus never instituted What Instruments are we then to praise God withal we are all furnished with two at least First Our Lips are to be employed in the praises of God The Psalmist called his Tongue my glory Our Tongues are then our glory when we glorifie God therewith all 'T is a proper service for them Hence the Apostle sayes Therewith we bless God It is Desired for the Saints in Psal. 149 6. let the High Praises of God be in their mouthes And it is Resolved by one of them in Psal. 145.21 My mouth shall speak the praises of the Lord. Hence the Apostle urges it in Heb. 13.15 let us offer the Sacrifice of praises to God continually that is the fruit of our lips There were Offerings of many sorts which God was praised withal of old but our Lips are to be instead of the Calves and Lambs and other Euchrristical Offerings that then were customary With our Lips we are to rehearse and recite the Excellent Things that have been done by God especially when we are with bended