Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	kindness_n	lord_n	love_a	1,686	5	9.5041	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64422	The merchants and mariners preservation and thanksgiving. Or, Thankfulnesse returned, for mercies received Set forth in a sermon of thanksgiving, preached at S. Andrewes Undershaft, Sept. 6. 1649. To the r. worshipfull, the Comittee of Merchants, trading for the eastern India, upon a late returne of seven of their ships together. By Edvvard Terry, minister of the Word, (who was sometime in their service, there) now rector of the Church of Great-Greenford, in the county of Middlesex. Octob. 4. 1649. Imprimatur. John Downame.	Terry, Edward, 1590-1660.	1649 (1649)	Wing T780; ESTC R219187	28,101	40

of Lyons and Leopards and Bears and sometimes go higher calling them Angels and Arch-angels but when you have so done as Themistocles called the Ships of Athens wooden wals so these are but woodden Beasts woodden Angels woodden Archangels and woe be unto them that say unto a peece of wood thou art my helper Yee call them too Boniventures and Speedewells and the like there being good speed good hap written upon their names but many misfortunes happening sometimes in their labours in their successes The Navy of Tyrus as the Prophet Ezekiel describes it Ezek. 27 was one of the most famous Fleetes that ever furrowed the Waters but the Eastwinde saith the story broke them in the middest of the Seas v. 26. And their Merchants and Pilotes and Mariners and men of Warre were all ruined overthrowne and came to nothing v. 27. God hath dealt otherwise with you at this time having sent and taken you out of many Waters in preserving and returning home to you in safety a great Fleete at once and not at this time onely but many other times also and as his loving kindenesse is come downe to you so your thankefullnesse must returne up to him your thankefullnesse being Gods custome his tribute his due he lookes for it and he must have it for as he is a very free and a liberall bestower of benefits so is he a most strict a most severe exacter of thankfulnesse And therefore the Psalmist tells us Psal. 65.1 that praise waiteth upon God in Syon because his people in his Church are ever waiting and attending there to tender it to take notice of the favours and mercies that continually fall from God and to take them as it were at the first bound that they may presently acknowledge them the receit of every mercy making them like Doves who at every graine of Corne they pick up looke upward as acknowledging from whence it came Not like the beasts of the field who take their fill and alwayes keepe their faces downeward not once eying the place from whence 't is sent 'T is very well observed of Noah that so soone as he set his feete upon the dry Land after the Waters that had long prevailed upon the face of the Earth were asswaged that the first thing he did was this Gen. 8.20 he built an Altar for God not an house for himselfe but an Altar unto the Lord that thereon he might offer a sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving unto Almighty God who had pickt him with some few others as so many graines of Corne out of a World of Chaffe and preserved them from the deluge In the 17. of Exodus when the Israelites had been complaining against and quarrelling with Moses their lawfull Governour and their Rebellion was come up to that height that they were almost ready to stone him v. 4. presently God sends Amalekites to quarrell with them v. 8. 'T is very just that such as love to draw the sword should feele the sharpenesse of it and have sword enough Amalec comes heere and fights with Israel and doubtlesse had it not been now for Moses who knew how to stand in the gap and for some few others Esau would now have revenged his long conceived and therefore deadly displeasure upon the Posterity of Iacob by the hands of his Grandchilde Amalec But heere let us take notice of the infinite goodnesse of God who when Israel in generall had forgotten him yet God will still remember his Covenant made with Israel not to leave nor forsake them Amalec is therefore beaten and Israel prevailes and what then The Souldery of the Israelites doe not grow high swell big upon this their Victory as if they were able to drive the World before them as if no power either in Heaven or Earth could contradict them but they build unto God an Altar and call it Iehovah-Nissi signifying the Lord is my Banner expressing their deliverance in the very name of of the Altar they built to offer sacrifices unto God who was their deliverer And thus in those ancienter times the people of God testified their thankefullnesse for mercies they received by pitching of heapes of stones by raising of Pillars by dedication of Feasts or by writing of Bookes all Trophies of their mercies their deliverances that their childrens children by asking what those things meant might be instructed by and in the remembrance of Gods ancient mercies Arguments or reasons to presse home this truth this duty yet further might be more then many this duty must be performed 1. Reason Because it is a good thing saith the Psalmist to sing praise unto the name of the Lord to declare his loving kindenesse in the morning and his truth in the night season Ps. 92.1.2 1. It is a good thing in respect of the action for it is better to blesse then curse to give thankes then to give out the voice of grudgings 2. It is a good thing in respect of the act for God commands it and besides wee hold all in capite from the Lord who is the giver of every good guift as the Apostle tells us James 1.17 and therefore as all Rivers runne into the Sea from whence they were taken and all Plants at last fall to the Earth that gave them nourishment So all our praises must returne unto God who is the God of all our mercies 3. It is a good thing in respect of the acceptance he that gives me praise and thanks saith God he honours me Psal. 50. last verse and what a thing is it to consider that so good so glorious so great a God should thinke himselfe magnified by the praises that proceed out of Polluted lippes And therefore the reason given by Divines why David was called a man after Gods owne heart was because he had a breast so enlarged in praises in thanksgivings unto God 4. And lastly 't is good in respect of the consequence for never any lost by a faithfull performance of this duty offer unto God thanksgiving and pay thy vowes unto the most high and call upon me in the times of trouble and I will deliver thee Psal. 50.14.15 as if he had said I that have will still deliver thee it being the onely way to have mercies renewed and continued unto us to be thankefull for those wee have formerly received 2. Reason This duty of rendring praise and thankes unto Almighty God must be performed because it is a most delightfull duty for first the Saints the holy men of God have ever delighted in it as wee have shewed as wee might shew further most abundantly Secondly God delights in it likewise for we told you even now that he esteemes himselfe honoured by it Those golden viols of sweete odors Revel. 5.8 that are so pleasing unto God what are they but the prayers and praises of the Saints Let me heare thy voice saith Christ to his Church Cant. 2.14 for it is sweete no tender father is so pleased to heare the voice of