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A77742	St. Paul's thanksgiving: set forth in a sermon preached before the right honorable House of Peers in the Abby-Church Westminster, on Thursday May 10. being the day of solemn thanksgivng to almighty God for his late blessings upon this kingdom. By James Buck, B.D. Vicar of Stradbrook in Suff. and domestick chaplian to the right honorable Theophilus Earl of Lincoln.	Buck, James.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1660 (1660)	Wing B5308; Thomason E1033_2; ESTC R208955	19,136	33

third of that for the maintenance of a right Owner which was forcibly took from them to keep in an Intruder He that another day shall feel in himself a tentation of unreadiness to pay taxes to his Prince let him record this day wherein after many years slavery under the tyranny of servants our Sovereign Master being owned there was as universal and as real a thanksgiving as ever was known in England and he for one heartily cried out I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Sect. 6 That spiritual blessings are the main objects for which the regenerate thank God in Christ And so we are conducted to our fourth resting-place That spiritual blessings are the main objects for which regenerate thank God in Christ As our Apostle here thanks God for the delivery from sin and the Psalmist quickens all his powers to unite their faculties in praising God for remission of sin and for sanctification Psal 103.1 2 3. Bless the Lord O my soul and all that is within me bless his holy Name who forgiveth all thine iniquities who healeth all thine infirmities This Truth is considerable for distinction for discretion for devotion For distinction this differenceth the Church and the world The love of the Father is not in the world 1 John 2.15 the Nations have some love of God as the prime good and being but it is without any consideration of Gods existing a Father to Christ and us in him therefore at the best it is but Philosophical love it is no Christian nor Theological charity Mat. 15.31 They glorified the God of Israel not the God of heaven and earth as he was discern'd in light of Nature to the world but the God of Israel as he was discovered by light of sacred Scripture to the Church In the Old Testament the Lord is familiarly styled the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob not of Europe Asia and Africa nor the God of the four Elements c. to intimate that the saving knowledge is not by manifestation from the creature but by revelation to the Patriarchs Prophets Apostles c. Ephes 5.20 true thanksgiving and accepted with God is in the name of Christ to God and the Father to God not barely considered as God but to God as eternally the Father of our Lord Jesus and in good time our Father through Christ Col. 3.7 as Christians apprehend him and assume all the benefits for which they praise him qualified in the relation of a Father and the mediation of a Redeemer Let me adde this to your meditations Psal 4.6 7. the world many times word and mouthe some thanks to God for Corn and Wine and Oyle but never is thankful about any oblations of praise to God for succours purely Evangelical victory in tentations assistance against sin which ravisht Paul into this doxology Carnal men may for self-love really beg favors and pray give and forgive they cannot for Gods love cause their hearts to say hallowed be thy name because thou leadest not into temptation but deliverest from evil which is the effect of the Apostles thanksgiving For discretion to be intirely thankful we must distinguish betwixt our tentations and our sins Paul was grievously buffeted by motions to sin so as to wax weary of his life but all the while he resisted it was his infelicity not his fault it was concupiscence that sinned not St. Paul Rom. 7.17 and therefore in abatement of the agony he bursts out in thanksgiving Vid. in ●●tis Sanctorum Ap. 29. Catherine of Senes a spiritual woman in her Age having been vext with all manner of blasphemous thoughts and horrid suggestions after some release and Christs gracious return inquires in a Soliloquie Where wast thou dear Lord when my poor heart was pierced with fiery darts and harased in woful wise and had for answer Fui in medio cordis tui I was in the centre of thy heart rendring those injections abominable withholding thy consent and enabling thee to stand out in resistance For devotion not to rest till we attain Christian inspiration and expirtion and be able with St. Paul to breath Gospel-ayrs Eph. 1.3 Blessed be God who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in which we are incomparably more happy than in any worldly enjoyments which then onely are matters of true content and thankfulness when they are embraced as tokens of Gods good will paternity and gracious reference in Christ Sect. 6 That our temporals require many thanks of Englishmen and our spirituals many more The occasion of this solemnity calls upon me to insist a while upon this subject that our temporals require many thanks our spirituals many more Our temporals require many thanks Psal 12.1 When the Lord turned again the captivity of Sion we were as them that dream It fares with us now as it did with the Jews discharged from their captivity in Babylon by the gallant Emperor Cyrus the turn was so unlikely that an helpless poor company of Bondmen should get out of the hands of the mightiest Lords in the world that when the Proclamation of Cyrus set them all free and encouraged his loyal subjects to relieve them for their passage and commanded his Officers to allow the expences for rebuilding the Temple out of his Imperial Exchequer it was so much beyond the hope of the distressed Jews that it lookt more like the dream of one asleep than the vision of one awake Likewise we in these our excessive joys can scarce believe our senses and hardly think our selves well awake that our vouchsafements are in reality and not the aiery imagination of dreamers Far be it from me to rip up and publish in a Pulpit the foul proceedings which the goodness of our most gracious King the wisdom of the Parliament the charity of the Nation would have buried in forgetfulness by an Act of oblivion give me leave onely to propose the Parable of Jotham Jud. 9.9 The Trees would needs be making themselves a King and tender the Kingship to the Olive-tree the Fig-tree and the Vine severally which are trees of the best quality and fruit but they all joyntly refuse to take supreme dominion then they offer it to the Bramble no tree but a sorry shrub and the Bramble at the first moving assumes domination that which the most noble Families trembled to hear of a younger sprig of a stock in the Gentry boldly ventures upon and mounts into the throne and seat of highest Majesty and State what is the issue verse 15. fire proceeds out of the Bramble and devours the Cedars Mark the profundity of divine Scripture in Simile's Lyranus out of Isidore informes us the Bramble is a petty bush Rhamnus est dumus parvus qui vento agitatus ex se enittitignem which tost up and down to and fro by the wind emits and springs fire out of it self in the hotter regions and countries the Bramble at times by the agitation of the wind conceives fire and

long to have them all replenisht with the endless praising of God And so you have a little taste that all thanks and praises be due to God Sect. 3 That due praise and thanks to God cannot be exhibited without Christ 2. Our second task is to shew that due praise and thanks to God cannot be exhibited without Christ I thank God through Jesus Christ Mat. 11.27 None knoweth the Father but the Son he onely understanding the universal goodness of God is alone able condignly to praise him with praises equal to his supreme worthiness The praises of all men and Angels fall short and have no proportion to the divine goodness and therefore all Angels and men ought to prefer their praises as well as their prayers in Christ Again Thanksgiving is a part of divine Worship and St. De Trinit l. 1. Sine Deo Christo unum Deum confiteri irreligiositas sit Hilary teaches right It is Paganism and irreligion to worship God out of Christ in whom alone he is well-pleased and out of whom praises are natural not Christian not spiritual and therefore in no order to life eternal In Christ the thanksgiver renders praises to God cordially and reverently cordially for Christ is truth and nothing void of sincerity can rise to his hand to be thereby given unto God none must imagine lip-labour shall serve because thanksgiving is expressed by fruit of our lips Heb. 13.15 The Latines do finely circumscribe thankfulness by Gratus animus the hymne that praises God must be sung with grace in the heart Col. 3.16 which makes melody in the heart Ephes 5.19 when all the strings thereof all the faculties therein are tuned by the holy Spirit to consent in Gods will and blessing him as the strings in an Instrument are fitted to consent in Musick Very divinely St. Athanasius the Great 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ad Marcellum p. 756. Reason would that a man should not be in discords with himself As the best instrument gives an harsh sound if all the strings be not tunable and in mutual harmony so our actions and praises yield an unpleasant sound in Gods ears unless our whole spirit soul and body in all their parts and powers be in conformity to his wil and united in his praise Reverently as Paul performs it here like a sacred dutie of divine adoration and holy worship with spirituall elevation in Christ Psal 111.9 Holy and reverend is his Name and therefore not to be mentioned but with religious and awfull reverence we must wash our mouths in Christ laver before we presume to take Gods praises into them Tingebat calamum linguae fonte Sancti Spiritus ut mundas Deo laudes diceret as Paschasius writes of the worthy Prince St. Adelhard that was uncle to Charles the Great he dipt the tip of his tongue in the fountain of the Holy Ghost that he might utter pure praises to God This observation serves for warning for learning and for quickening For warning that God is Exod. 15.11 dreadfull in praises which reproves them that take the name and praises of God in vain that lightly and inconsiderately use thanksgiving and tremble not in recounting Gods holy and venerable praises bold people that are not afraid to have the glorious praises of God at their tongues end and thank the Lord at every second word perfunctorily without advancing of their spirits and praises to him in Christ or regard agreeable to acts of divine worship have their consciences charged with the guilt of great irreverence As for us we are not worthy to take the high praises of God into our mouths and defect in offering them if we shall dare to present them by themselves without joyning Christs praising with them or if we shall presume any acceptation of our praises without Christs merits which who so do must look to answer for ill setting forth and counterfeiting the divine vertues For learning whence the Saints come to have such sense and feeling of their own poverty and insufficiency in praising God Psal 72.20 the Psalmist having poured forth his spirit to the utmost in praising the divine favours and finding himself extremely short of them Defecerunt laudes David filii Jesse daintily subjoyns The praises of David the son of Jesse are finite and ended which sentence is curiously contrived for the conclusion of the second book of Davids Psalms the whole Psaltery according to the Jews consisting of five Books and for insinuation that all hymns are of too narrow limits to correspond in any degree unto the infinite glories and praises of God And hereupon inspired men out of their longing that God might be duly praised not onely summe up all their own parts and appurtenances Psal 57.8 Awake my glory awake Lute and Harp I my self will awake but also invoke the aid and concurrence of all creatures to assist them by their several vertues excellent properties and abilities Psal 148. the religious soul conceives so highly of God as to burn in desires that all creatures in the whole Universe would lay their forces together and especially that in the world of pure praises the holy Angels and perfected spirits would busie themselves in extolling him But for us poor and ingrate souls when we repeat the clauses wherein all creatures are invited to associate with us in setting out the praises of God we may profitably remember that of Arnobius junior We excite provoke and exhort all creatures to the praising of God and unhappy we sleep our selves behold all things that we call upon come together saying Why do you call upon us we are come together that we might praise God and we find his holy name blasphemed onely by your fault your seat and place is onely vacant in the Chorus For quickning in Christs supply not to despair of our praising God Tacitus writes judiciously Beneficia cô usque laeta sunt dum videntur exolvi posse si multum antev●nere pro gratia●adium redditur Anal. 5. Favors are so far satisfactory as they seem returnable if they much exceed that hatred is rendered for good will good deeds are burthens when they be above mens possibility of requital For this cause being our own thanksgivings are defective and the praises of all creatures in earth and in heaven it self incompetent sufficiently to glorifie God that our aspiring worthily to honour God may be satisfied we must be sure to get Christs praises conjoyned with ours and offer ours in union and merit of them That whether we eat or drink or whatsoever we do we may do all to the glory of God 1 Cor. 10.30 Mingle Christs odors with our works of grace and nature of Christian vocation and common calling and so present them to God as a perfume compounded of sundry fragrant scents Cant. 1.13 make a posie of Mirrh and the other odoriferous ingredients of our Lords oyntment and by their mixture put value upon our praises It were envy not