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A54489 A sermon preached at St. Mary's Truro, on the second of December, 1697, being the day appointed for a public Thanksgiving for peace by Sim. Paget ... Paget, Simon, 1665 or 6-1716? 1698 (1698) Wing P168; ESTC R5324 15,036 38

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any more conceive such hard thoughts of God as to expostulate with him Isa 58.3 Wherefore have we fasted and thou seest not Wherefore have we afflicted our Soul and thou takest no knowledge For now we lie under a comfortable Assurance that he that is our God is a God of Salvation Psalm 68.20 Now we perceive the blessed fruits and benefits of putting our Trust in the Lord amidst all our vast Preparations our deep Counsels our indefatigable Endeavours in carrying on the War and making our Enemies yield to our own Terms and Conditions of Peace Now we find what it is to have waited patiently for the Lord and to have tarried his time for the Accomplishment of his Mercies towards us For having waited we are not ashamed and having patiently endured we have obtained the Promise Now we trust that Mercy and Truth are met together and that Righteousness and Peace have kissed each other 3. Having tasted and seen that the Lord is good let us resolve from henceforth to put our full trust and confidence in him and believe that with this great Blessing of Peace he will bestow upon us whatever may contribute to a lasting and happy enjoyment of it This is St. Paul's argument with respect to God's great Love in redeeming Mankind by the death of his Son He who did not spare his own Son but delivered him up for us all how shall he not with him also freely give us all things i.e. give us all things necessary and convenient for the Completion of so great a Blessing And to use the same argument since God has been pleased freely to bestow upon us so great a Blessing as Peace let us firmly depend upon him for the Accommodation of all subservient Mercies let us trust that he will bless the King with a long Life as the Guardian-Angel of the Peace he has given us and cause him to be as sweet a nursing Father in Peace as he was our gallant Champion in War that now having given repose to Europe by checking the Progress of so powerfull an Enemy abroad he will secure England's Peace by turning his Arms against the insulting Foe at home I mean Vice and Prophaneness Heresies and Schisms which so long as suffer'd amongst us will continually keep up a War in our Bowels and make us the greater Sufferers by the Peace we have got Let us trust that he will direct our Counsels and bless our Undertakings and make us all obedient to Government and loving one to another that so our Peace may be a Blessing indeed and the Effects of it an universal Happiness both to Church and State for many Generations 4. From hence we may perceive what strong Obligations we lie under to praise and glorifie the great God of Heaven and Earth who in great Mercy hath delivered us from the Calamities of War and given us the inestimable Blessing of Peace within our Borders There is so much of the Perfections of God shining forth in the works of Peace especially such transcendent Rays of his Goodness the very Flower and Beauty of all his Excellence that we must not only be guilty of the greatest Blindness in not observing such manifest discoveries of the divine Attributes in general but likewise of the deepest Ingratitude in suffering such an Ooean of the Divine Goodness to run out upon our Score without meeting with a suitable return of Glory and Praise from us Now it we would make some gratefull return to God for the signal Deliverances we this Day commemorate and glorifie his Perfections as we ought to do for bestowing this Peace upon us We must in the first place under a due sense and esteem of all God's Favours towards us more especially of this last signal display of his Goodness in blessing us with Peace we must send up our sincere Acknowledgments to Heaven and humbly thank God the Author of our Life and Happiness for this and all other his Favours towards us since the beginning of the War This is absolutely necessary in order to the setting forth of Gods Glory upon all occasions of his Goodness towards us we must do it with a thankfull Heart otherwise we shall never glorifie him aright And therefore Rev. 7.12 we find Thanksgiving and Honour to God joyned together And Rom. 1 2● St. Paul gives a very good reason why the Gnosticks did not glorifie God as God they were not thankfull And accordingly we find it to have been the constant practice of holy Men of old especially of that unimitable Pattern of Gratitude and most devout Admirer and Publisher of the Divine Goodness the Royal Prophet David to celebrate God's Honour and Glory for his loving Kindness towards them with the utmost Thankfulness their inflamed Hearts were capable of sending forth Thus Psalm 107.21 22. O that Men would praise the Lord for his Goodness and for his wonderfull Works to the Children of Men and let them sacrifice the Sacrifice of Thanksgiving and declare his Works with rejoycing And Psal 60.30 I will praise the Name of God with a Song and will magnifie him with Thanksgiving and in the following Verse he gives a very good reason for it This also shall please the Lord better than an Ox or Bullock that hath horns and hoofs This cheap return of Thankfulness to God for Peace will please him better than all our sumptuous and chargeable expressions of Joy 'T will reach the Heavens sooner than our loudest Acclamations and be more acceptable to God than our richest Banquets For will God eat the Flesh of Bulls or drink the Blood of Goats No offer unto God Thanksgiving for whoso offereth Praise he 't is that glorifieth him And then because God usually works by a train of dependent means and brings a people out of Misery by degrees and by a constant Succession of many Favours and Mercies which like a Chain hold altogether and at length terminate in a general Happiness Therefore in our thankfull returns to God for this great Blessing of Peace a Blessing which we have all along prayed for and do now receive as the very Crown and Perfection of all our worldly Happiness we should make very sensible Reflections upon and be sincerely thankfull for all those Deliverances and Successes which we have met with since the beginning of the War as tending all of them in their own Nature and by the kind Influences of Heaven to produce this grand Happiness of all viz. Peace O now we are got into the Land of Canaan let us not be so stupid as to forget our Redemption out of Egypt Let us still remember God's wonders of old though we cannot forbear being transported with his present Mercies Let us still remember the House of Bondage the Hand whereby and the Day whereon we were delivered out of it Let us still remember the many kind Stages of Providence whereby we safely passed from Danger to Danger from one hazardous Enterprize to another with Success and Victory