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A19189	Bee thankfull London and her sisters; or, A sermon of thankfulnesse setting downe the kindnesse of God to vs ... by Robert Abbott ...	Abbot, Robert, 1588?-1662?	1626 (1626)	STC 56; ESTC S100550	29,366	42

grieuous burthen yet hath our good God in whom alone wee must trust deliuered vs from it both past and approching As for times past how powerfull and louing hath God shewed himselfe in smiting our enemies vpon the cheeke Psal 3. 7. bone and disappointing them of their hopes Some through maleuolence would haue brought disgraces to our persons troubles to our liues vnquietnesse to our mindes by vnchristian aduantages and politique wresting of simple tolerable and good actions to badnesse as the Iesuites declamations may witnesse yet blessed be God we stand in the same condition as before And doe wee not call to minde the proud Armado of Spaine in eighty eight which was to no purpose called Inuincible We were like the Israelites two little flocks of Kids and they like the Aramites who couered the Sea They laughed at our handfulls and confidently expected our ruine but he that sits in Heauen laughed them to scorn Psal 2. the Lord had them in derision he brake the snare and we were deliuered And can we euer forget that Gun-powder plot of Gods and our enemies which should haue beene the ruine of Prince and people Who could deliuer vs from this but God He that must do it must haue praescience to foreknow the mischiefe wisdome to supplant it and power to withstand it And where are these but in God and in them to whom God leudeth them Thus hath God defeated our enemies in times past and hath he not done so for the present It is not long since Iesuiticall brags were euidences of their hopes their facings of an assurance of a triumphant day but God hath once more driuen those stout Confessors heads into an hole And it is but as yesterday that our hollow friends beyond the Seas looked towards vs either to affright vs or else as from the top of Pisgah to looke towards our Land of Canaan with a desire to plant themselues and root out vs and our posterity but as Saul had tidings which drew him from the Wildernesse of Maon so there was a Flea in their eare which blessed bee God hath for the present sent them another way So euen so Iud. 5. Lord let thine enemies perish be consounded or disappointed still Secondly as God hath beene kinde in remouing the misery of our enemies abroad so of a wonderfull abating the Plague of Pestilence at home The grieuousnesse of the euill will make the more for the greatnesse of the deliuerance And that the Plague is a grieuous euill besides our wofull experience I thinke these considerations will make good First it is a powring out of Gods Ezek. 14. 19. wrath vpon a Land in bloud and a pleading against a people Ezek. 38 22. with pestilence and bloud as the Prophet calleth it And it may be called so either because it poysoneth the bloud so as no disease doth the like or else because in the generall though not in euery particular vpon whom it seazeth it is an argument of an angry God who will not bee pacified with the light skirmishes of Feuers Aches Gouts Rheumes and the like but will haue bloud and that in abundance and stremes answerable to the iniquities which haue gone before as when he saith Hee will make his Arrowes drunke with bloud and his Sword shall eat Deut. 32. 42. flesh Secondly it is the Plague of wofull euils or the noisome Pestilence as the Psalmist calleth it For it poysoneth Psal 91. 3. the spirits both Animall and Vitall choking the one in the braine and stifling and ouercomming the other in the heart yea it Infecteth Houses Clothes Breath and the Aire it selfe It is true that I doe not thinke it naturally to haue such a malignant quality as other poysons haue for then as they doe in some degrees or other it would seaze vpon all persons where it comes which it doth not but according to the Commission which as a seruant it hath from God to doe his pleasure yet that it noysomly infecteth I thinke wee haue no iust cause to doubt if we consider that God setteth his extraordinary prouidence on worke to keepe them that trust in him if they haue not done all that businesse Psal 91. 4. which he hath for them in this world from the infection of it Thirdly that it is the terrour of the night Psal 91. 5 6. which is so much the more terrible because like a thiefe it walketh in the darke and surpriseth a man before he is aware Hence is it that it breeds a strangenesse betwixt Father and Son Mother Daughter Brother Brother one friend and another Hence is it that some in places of danger grew cruell others not in so great danger grew vnkind Hence is it that there is flight on all sides in times of infectiō The wicked do fly out of rashnes contempt of Gods stroke like rebellious sons who when they see that their father hath prouided a Rod for them do run out of the house from him will neither submit to his correction nor amend their faults for which he doth correct them Oh too many such fly frō the Plague out of the City are plagues vnto the Country by disorderlinesse But these must know that if they bee now appointed vnto death Gods hunter shal bring thē into the snare if not except they shall with bleeding soules amend their wayes God hath reserued thē for greater miseries The good do flye out of humble submission to the vse of those means which daly experience warrants to be the way to safety at some times and to some persons Therefore like fearefull children yea and good ones too when they see their father reach downe a Rod they run away not out of contempt but with deep cries lamentations out of tendernesse of nature sorrow for offence and hope of pardon so sometimes Gods good children doe flye also but with humblings in the sight of God for the weaknesse of their faith want of preparednesse to meet God and the like and doe in their absence not thinke themselues so safe but that God may smite them and therefore they spend much time in deprecating the wrath in mourning with them that mourne and to their power in relieuing the necessities of their forsaken brethren that are in aduersity These three things if we speake of no other doe either make or shew the Plague to be a grieuous euill yet some of vs may say with the Psalmist which some change A thousand hath fallen besides mee and ten thousand at my Psal 91. 7. right hand but it hath not come neere me And where it hath come may say I haue beene as Aaron standing betwixt Numb 16. 48. the liuing and the dead but the Name of the Lord hath Prou. 18. 10. beene a strong Tower And many that had the Pestilence and are yet escaped may say We haue been sore afflicted but it is thou Lord which hast not deliuered vs

Deut. 26. 2. must put it in a Basket and carried to the place which the Lord did choose Now why doth the Lord require all this of his people Surely this is one reason that hee might shew what reckoning he makes of thankfulnesse for all the mercies which we receiue from his hand And therefore must we be thankfull Againe we must praise God in respect of men both bad and good If we looke to bad men they doe encourage themselues to be thankfull to the gods of siluer and Dan. 5. 4. gold to whom no thankes is due as wee may see in Belshazzar and should not we much more doe it to him to whom all is due If we looke to good men they haue beene plentifull in this kinde of duty When the Flouds ceased thankfull Noah built an Altar and offered vnto the Gen. 8. 20. Lord. When God renewed his promise to Abraham he thankefully built an Altar to the Lord in the plaine of Gen. 13. 18. Mamre Agar had learned so much in religious Abrahams house therefore when God had comforted her in her banishment she called his Name Thou God lookest on me Gen. 16. 13. much more would the Iewes and therefore they thankfully kept a feast of remembrance for Hamans destruction Hest 9. and their deliuerance Thus all sorts of men haue incouraged vs to this duty Lastly we must praise God in respect of the excellency of the duty it selfe And this may bee seene in foure particulars First in this that our God doth account it a gift as Dauid saith Giue vnto the Lord glory Psal 29. 2. due vnto his name that is praise him Alas what are we that we should giue to God We must say with Dauid Who are wee that wee should be able to offer willingly to thee 1 Chron. 29. 14. our God For all things come of thee and of thine owne hand we haue giuen thee Yet it pleaseth God to account them gifts and we know that it is a more blessed thing to Acts 20 35. giue then to receiue Secondly God doth not onely account our praise a gift but a sacrifice the best gift as the Psalmist saith Let them offer sacrifices of praise Yet remember Psal 107. 22. that it is not a sacrifice of redemption for so is Iesus Christ alone but of thanksgiuing Therefore offer to God praise and pay thy Vowes vnto the most high Thirdly Psal 50. 14. God doth not onely account our praise a gift and a sacrifice but doth preferre it before all sacrifice Will I saith God eat the flesh of Bulls and drinke the bloud of Psal 50. 8. to 15. Goats offer to me praise As if he should say This is that which I prefer to all outward seruice as being a part of my inward worship And in another place he saith That is better then a Bullock that hath hornes hoofes i. a perfect Psal 69. 30 31. Bull. Take a Bullocke at the best and Praise is better then it and as with hornes through the mighty power of Mal. 1. God will push downe our enemies and as with hoofes will inable vs to wade thorow any difficulties Fourthly God doth not onely account our praise a gift a Sacrifice better then a sacrifice but by it giues vs communion with the seruice of the life to come in Heauen Men full of wants do pray but Angels and Saints full of grace and glory doe practise The Angels cryed saith the Prophet Holy holy holy is the Lord of Hosts The Angels said Esay 6. 3. saith Iohn Praise and glory and wisdome and thankes and honour and Apoc. 7. 11 12. power and might be vnto our God for euermore Amen These foure things doe manifest vnto vs the excellency of this duty to presse vs to lift it vp from the feet of swine and to set it like a Iewell in our hearts that it may giue luster vnto our liues and conuersations and may euidence that we liue to God and not to our selues Thus haue I shewed you in some measure why wee must praise God for his maruellous great kindnes which he hath shewed vnto vs. Vse Now therefore let vs be exhorted in the feare of God to sing ioyfully and freely with Dauid Blessed be our good God who hath shewed vs maruellous great kindnesse in City Towne and Country He might iustly haue giuen vs ouer as a prey to all his Plagues He might haue sent the Sword Es 1. 20. to deuoure vs and brought in the battaile of the Warriour Es 9. 5. which is with noise and with tumbling of garments in bloud He might haue sent vs a Famine and made the life of our Lamen 2. 19 20. young children faint for hunger in the corners of all our streets King 6. 28 29. and our cockering women to eat their fruit and their children Lam. 4 2 7 8. of a span long and our Nobles who are comparable to fine gold to be esteemed earthen Pitchers and our Nazarites who were whiter then Milke and purer then Snow to be blacker then a cole to haue their skinne cleaue to their bones and wither like a stocke Thus I say the Lord might haue done by making an Asses head at fourescore peeces of 2 Kings 6. 25. siluer and the fourth part of a cab of Doues dongue at fiue peeces of siluer through a fearefull Famine amongst vs. He might haue made the Plague of Pestilence more wonderfull and not only seazed vpon some few Cities and Townes amongst vs but coasted from Dan to Beershebah 2 Sam. 24. by his deuouring Angell from one part of the Kingdome Psal 91. 3. to the other to finde out men and women and children that might iustly haue beene appointed to dye What might not God in Iustice haue done vnto vs who are a rebellious and gaine-saying people Wee must needes say though God haue looked vpon vs for good and not for euill that we are full of sores from the crowne of the head to the sole of the foot as Daniel saith Wee haue Esay 1. 6. sinned and haue committed iniquity and done wickedly yea Dan. 9. 5 6. we haue rebelled and departed from thy precepts and from thy iudgements for we would not obey thy seruants the Prophets which spake in thy Name to our Kings to our Princes and to our Fathers and to all the people of the Land Who sees not that we haue beene heauy at the whole heart notwithstanding Esay 1. 5. all the Lords chastisements yea euen as wicked King Ahaz in the time of our tribulation Wee did trespasse more against the Lord when wee would bee 2 Chron. 28. 22. wanton in our Feastings yea in our Fastings as being loth that outward Discipline should speake angrily to our bellies which are our God though God haue spoken Phil. 3. angrily both to our bodies and soules And how could we doe otherwise Can the blacke-More change