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work_n	creation_n	day_n	sabbath_n	8,102	5	9.9122	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77005	Oriens ab occidente: or, A dawning in the vvest· As it was delivered in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons, at Westminster; upon their day of thanksgiving, for severall victories in the west, &c. By John Bond Mr of the Savoy, and one of the Assembly of Divines.	Bond, John, 1612-1676.	1645 (1645)	Wing B3572A; ESTC R211371	30,002	52

as verse 2. The Lord hath made knowne his salvation The salvation is his it was knowne to bee his yea men were forced or made to know it nay the very Infidels could not choose but see and say it His righteousnesse hath he openly shewed in the fight of the heathen Verse 3. All the ends of the earth have seene the salvation of our God And what of all this Why therefore we ought especially to be glad and rejoyce in such a worke Verse 4. Make a joyfull noise unto the Lord all the earth make a loud noise and rejoyce and sing praise Verse 5. Sing unto the Lord with the harpe Verse 6. With trumpet and sound of cornet with instruments used both in warre and worship Verse 7. Let the sea roare and the world and they that dwell therein Quest. But why such mostnesse of joy for those victories in which there appeareth most of God Answ Vpon these two grounds or reasons Grounds 2. 1. Ground First because the more of God in a worke c. the more of perfection and excellency and by consequence then the more of lovelinesse Psal 111.3 His worke is honourable and glorious The Originall readeth it in the abstract his worke that is every worke of his is glory and honour And that onely because it is his worke For such as the Parent is such will be the child such as is the work-man such must be his work And in another song He is the rock Deut. 32.4 his work is perfect The Greek reads it plurally his * Septuagins 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 works implying saith one both his work of Creation and his worke of Redemption and therefore in that Psalme intituled a Psalme or Song for the Sabbath day in which day both those volumes of Creation Psal 92.1 2 3 4 5. and Redemption or of the Word and Works are to be studied in that song wee find this sequell and inference most clearly and fully laid downe namely that we ought to rejoyce most in the salvations that are most divine because they are most glorious and perfect Take but a taste in two verses Verse 4. For thou Lord hast made me glad through thy workes I will triumph in the workes of thine hands And why in his workes especially O Lord how great are thy workes Verse 5. And thy thoughts are very deep Ground 2 Secondly because the more of God there is in a work of deliverance and salvation to a people the more may that people hope and conclude ordinarily the Lords neerenesse to them and ingagement for them which is the greatest nationall cause of rejoycing in the world It is very much to have the Lord once to appeare and shew himselfe openly in a cause for a people or person for he will not nay let me speak it with reverence hee cannot then easily and slightly retreat and goe back againe but his very honour is ingaged to proceed Hence it is that the Saints in their greatest difficulties and distresses have taken the advantage of this argument even the Lords appearing for them and have pressed him with it to spare and deliver them Thus Moses at Horeb when Israel by making a calfe had so provoked the Lord Exod. 32.20 c. that he said Let me alone that my wrath may wax hot against them and that I may consume them At this sad pinch Moses betakes himselfe to this great argument of the Lords ingagement Verse 11. Why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mightie hand Verse 13. Wherefore should the Egyptians speak and say c. Remember Abraham Isaac and Jacob c. And by this argument he bringeth the Lord to a kind of repentance saith the Text O high expression Verse 14. And the Lord repented of the evill which he thought to doe unto his people The like practise we find in Joshua Moses his Pupill and Successor Jo● 7.9 it seemes he learn'd it of his Tutor And what wilt thou doe to thy great name Yea a whole cloud of other witnesses might be brought to the same purpose But that which hath been said doth suffice to evince both that and why we ought especially to be glad and rejoyce in those salvations which have in them most of God Next let us draw downe to Application Vse 1 First here in the entrance let me speak Reproofe to all such brutish Carnalists Reprehension as both in their prayers for victories and salvations and in their rejoycings in them doe look altogether at least principally at that which is carnall temporall and outward but observe not how much or how little of God is to be seen there That you may understand this Vse aright you are to know that there are two sides as I may call them or two parts or to speak plainly two sorts of benefits observable in every victorie First there is an out-side of mercy that is there are benefits externall and there is an in-side that is all such internall benefits and commodities as are gotten thereby The out-side or externalls are all the temporall civill benefits and gaines by with and in a victory as the great number of prisoners with horse and armes that are taken the great quantity of ammunition provisions treasures c. All these and the like are but the out-side of a victory that is the carnall temporall benefits that do come thereby Secondly in a victory there is an in-side or there are benefits internall that is of an inward and divine nature such are all soule-mercies and Church-mercies and all other spirituall profits and advantages that may bee laid up in the heart that may be laid out in the life for God or that may be laid up in heaven for our selves These treasures are the in-side of a victory the former are but as the husks the shells the bones these are the kernells the fruits the marrow within and there is as much difference between them as betwixt the blessings of Jacob and Esau Gen. 27.37 Yet alas alas how do the greater part of the world terminate both their desires and joyes in those carnall and huskie parts of deliverance How doe they preferre them both in their prayers and praises In their prayers they doe deprecate evils of punishment Exod. 8.8 saying as Pharaoh Take away or keepe away the frogs and in their petitions they houle upon their beds for the corne Hos 7.14 the wine the oyle that may come by such a successe These men doe measure victories altogether by the greatnesse of externall temporall Two differences betwixt the spirituall and temporall benefits by victory 1. In peculiarity carnall emoluments and commodities But that I may discover their errour before I enter upon my great Vse let me tell them there is a vast difference between the spiritualls and the temporalls of a victory