Provoking Guilt and Offences against Heaven the Lord thus Appeared for us Could we Behold what Excellent Wisdom how Glorious Power what Free Goodness how Exceeding Great Compassions what Wonderful Patience and Long-Suffering the Lord has Displayed in Working out this our so Great and Multiplied Salvation with What Thankful Hearts Raised Affections Praising Tongues and Eminently-Fruitful Lives should we Set our selves to Bless Extoll Serve and Magnify our Good God Casting on Him the Glory of All What we Are the Lord has Made us What we Enjoy is the Gift of his Free Bounty Fetched by his Mighty Arm as out of the Fire and Handed to Us from the very Jaws of Ruin The Lord has Gone before Us in the Greatness of his Strength has been a Jer. 14. 8. the Hope of our Israel the Saviour thereof in the time of Trouble b Psal 72. 4. Who has Judged the Poor of our People and Saved the Children of the Needy and Broken in pieces oâ—â— Oppressours c Psal 72 14. he has Redeemed our Soul from Deceit and Violence and Precious has our Blood been in his Sight Even he d Jer. 10. 10. the Onely True and Living God the Everlasting King at whose Wrath the Earth doth Tremble and whose Indignation the Nations are not able to Abide has Looked on Us in our Low Estate Saved Us from Job 5. 15 20. the Power of the Sword f Job 5. 12. Disappointed the Devices of our Crafty Enemies so that their Hands could not Perform their Enterprize and does now Abound toward us in Riches of Goodness and Forbearance and Long-suffering Purposely to Lead us to Repentance O therefore let us Duely Oâ—â— Him Rightly Mention his Holy Name and Shew forth All his Praises Let us Break off oâ—â— Iniquities by Repentance and Turn unto the Lord with all our Hearts and not feignedly Let us study What to Render unto the Lord for all Hiâ— Benefits And according to the Modell of Truâ— Thankfulness though alas too short and lamâ— that has been Set before you always Strive to your Utmost with Heart Lip and Life with All you Are Have Meet with and Can Dâ— to Yeild unto the Lord the Glorious Honour of his Majesty and of his Wondrous Works Psal 145. 5. And to Provoke Us to such a God-Glorifying Course Know we and Consider well 1. That we are no True Christians nor will God so Account of us if we Do it not Taking the Name of the Lord upon us without Living after His Example who spent his Days in g John 17. 4. Glorifying His Father and h Acts 10. 38. Going about â—â—d Doing Good or Doing His Holy Will or Following the Conduct of His Spirit will Avail us Nothing Then only are we Christians in Truth when our Souls are Renewed Our Hearts Withdrawn from Vanity Wills Subdued to God and our Whole Man Absolutely Devoted to the Honouring of God in Christ Believe it To be a Christian indeed is a Very Great and Serious Business a Business which will not be Done with a Careless Mind or a Slothful Unresolved Soul nor with the Thoughts and Hours which Pride and Vanity can Spare and which are the Leavings of Fleshly-Lusts and Pleasures And Persons will One Day Find that Christ will not be Put off with Vain Complements or Reward Any who under His Livery Pleased the Flesh and Served the World 2. What ever Mercies and Gifts God Bestoweth on Any He Expecteth to Receive again with Usury The 19. Luke 12 13 23. Deserves your Serious and Lasting Consideration The Lord Keeps Account of What ye Have and will have a Reckoning with you to See What Work you have been Minding and whether you have Served His Interest with what you had or Proâ—â—gally Wasted it on thâ—t of the Flesh If you have Wealth Interest and Power and you Succour not the Poor do not Right and Protect the Distressed and Promote the Cause of God and the Common Good But a Job 29. 12. Ye Refuse to Dâ—liver the Poor that Cry and the Fatherless and him that hath none to Help him If ye b Isa 58. 7. Draâ— not forth your Soul to the Hungry c. If you Decline c Ezek. 18. 16. Loosing the Bands of Wickedness and Undoing Heavy Burdens to let the Oppressed Gâ— Free i. e. if you will not Honour God with Hâ— Own nor be the Instruments of His Beneficence to Others nor as Faithful Stewards Improve the Talents He has Entrusted you with to Holy Uses and Ends You 'll be Cast and Ruined in the Great Day of Account Live not therefore as if it were enough to Do No Harm and say as the Slothful Servant Here is thy Talent which I hid 3. 'T is most Excellent and Honourable Work the Lord Calls you to herein And Christianity surely is a most Noble Thing when it Requirâ—s and Makes Persons to be so Like unto the Holy God It 's Work and Business being but to Represent God's Glorious Perfections and by the Light of Holy Living to Shew forth and Recommend the Divine Majesty to a Darkenel World as a Candle Lighteth what Way so-ever it Goeth It Instates us into God's Family and Imploys us in that which is the Work yea the very Glory of Heaven it self Shall a Creature be Called forth to the Honouring his Maker and a Mean Worm be said to Glorify God O who can Conceive of the Glory and Honour hereof We Read Psal 78. 25. How Maâ— did Eat Angel's Food but we are Call'd to Angel's Work 4. The Neglect of this Duty Forfeits All our Mercies and Lays us open to All Miseries whatever a Deut. 28. 47 48. Because thou Servedst not the Lord thy God with Joyfulness and with Gladness of Heart for the Abundance of All Things Therefore shalt thou Serve thine Enemies which the Lord shall Send upon thee in Hunger and in Thirst and in Nakedness and in Want of All things and he shall Put a Yoke of thy Neck c. This Text was Greatly Verified on our Selves in the two Late Reigns untill the Happy Revolution under our Present Gracious Sovereign the Lord Making us to Feel that b 2 Chron. 15. 2. He will be no Longer with a People than they are with Him and that He will Forsake Them when They Forsake Him Where a Mic. 2. 7. Hos 2. 9. Religion Decays States or People cannot Thrive 5. A Good Discharge of this Duty is the onely Way to Put an Utter End to our Remaining Fears and Troubles and Make us Happy here and hereafter b Isa 4. 5. Upon the Glory there shall be a Defence The * A Bishop of Magdenburg hearing the Duke of Saxony was Preparing War against him fell to Reforming his Church and amending what was amiss And being ask'd by one of the Duke's Spiâ—s if he did not hear what the Duke was intending against him because he made no Defensive Preparation He said Year but Ego
curabo Ecclesiam Deus pro me pugnabit I 'll take care of my Charge and the Defence of me belongs to God On the tidings of which the Duke disbanded his Forces Luther Expos in Isa 30. 15. Reformation and Holy Living of a Kingdom or Persons is Meant the Glory that Being indeed the Excellency and Glory of them God and his People being both Glorious in Holiness Now upon this Glory God Promiseth a Defensive-Shelter A greeably the Lord has Ingaged to Make that People's Enemies to be at Peace with them who in their Ways Please and Honour Him Prov. 16. 7. Nor can the Mightiest Force of the most Formidable Enemy Do any Hurt against those who Keep in with God and have Him on their Side as in Isa 8. 9 10. and Isa 54 1â— Whosoever shall Gather together against thee shâ—l Fall for thy Sake Without God there is Littâ—â— Hope but Against Him there is Certain Ruiâ— Yea further as Evill will be Prevented so All Good will be Obtained by Giving the Lord his Due Honour Hag. 2. 19. From this Day forward will I Bless Thee viz. from the Day that they Took Care of the Temple Thus c 2 Chron. 7. 11. Aâ— that Came into Solomon ' s Heart to Make in his own House and the House of the Lord he Prosâ—â—rously Effected Carrying on God's House with his own he Prospered in his Way d 1 Chron. 29 12 14. Both Richâ—â— and Honour Come of Thee and in thy Hand it iâ— to Make Great and to Give Strength unto All. And his Promises of Blessing both for Thâ—â— Life and That to Come are Made to Trâ—â— Godliness All Blessednesses according to the Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are Due to him that Shuns God Reproaching Courses and Delights in God's Laâ— Psal 1. 2 and Ver 3. Universal Good Success Attends him God Metes out to Persons in their own Measure and Makes their Outward Estate to Carry Proportion to their Inward As â—â— Rise or Fall in our Respects to the Lord accordingly shall we be Made either the Head or the Tail among the Nations The Stories of Joseph Judg. 6. 11. Psal 78. 70. Job 42. 12. Psal 113. 7 8. Moses David Gideon Job Daniel c. Shew us how God will Raise from the very Thrâ—shing-Floor from the Sheepfold and the Dunghil those Poor and Needy Ones who Signally Honour Him to Set them among Princes and to Make Them Inherit the Throne of Glory As Contrarily He Abaseth such as Refuse him His Glory by Hurling Some out of their Kingdoms and Throwing Down Others from their Principalities and Great Dignities turning them to Graze with Oxen to Teach them that the Most High Ruleth in the Kingdoms of Men and will â—e had in Reverence and his Name Sanctified by All People To Draw then to a Conclusion know ye That it Lieth much on the Inhabitants of our Kingdoms under God Whether such Good Beginnings of Mercy as we Commemorate this Day shall have an Happy End and Progress or a. Sudden and Doleful Conclusion And I must Profess my Serious Thoughts and Belief hereof hath Wrought within me a Posture of Soul much-Like to that of Eli's of 1 Sam. 4. 13. old When he Sate on a Seat by the Way-side Watching to Hear Tidings of his People's Welfare his Heart Trembling the mean while for the Ark of God the Pledg of his Gracious Presence O Christians I must tell you That as our Outward Deliverances and All other Temporal Mercies are very Imperfect Things and being but Means to Greater Matters the Interest of God and the Good of Souls can be of no Further Significancy or Advantage to us than as they Further us in God's Service so the Diverting of them to Other Uses contrary to the Design and Honour of the Lord may Easily Draw down Fiercer Indignation and much Sorer Judgments from Heaven on Us than we ever yet Felt or Suffered according to Ezra 9. 13 14. Believe it Brethren and so may All England with you That the Lord will be Lord over us and will Rule us either as Subjects or Rebels If by God's Establishing the Kingdom in the Hands of our Gracious King His Heart with Jehosaphat's shall be Lifted up in the Ways of 2 Chron 25. 16. the Lord and All our People shall Set their Hearts to Glorify their God who has thus Woâ—derfully Delivered them the Lord will Rejoyce over us to Do us further Good as having his Hand upon them for Good that thus seek him Ezra 8. 22. But on the other Hand if we will not Conside the Operation of God's Hands nor Advance the Honour of his Name and the Welfare of Christ's Kingdom by the Blessings he Gives us to that Josh 24. 20. End He will Turn and Do us Hurt and Consume us after that he hath Done us Good I Close All therefore with my most Hearty Wishes That We may All from the Highest to the Lowest be Strong in Holy Purposes and very Couragious to Serve the Cause of God and the Publick Good with Absolute Resolution as firmly Believing That them that Honour God He will Honour and they that Despise Him shall be Lightly Esteemed 1 Sam. 2. 30. FINIS Page 42. Line 12. after for it adde Here then let All among us who in these Times of Common Danger have Perfidiously Enriched themselves by the Spoils of the Publick and made themselves Great by Robbing the Nation do their part and come forth with Achan and Give Glory unto the Lord by making Josh 7. 19. Luke 19. 8. Confession and with Zacheus full Restitution Their Sin is Villainous and Crying every such Offender being not only the Agent Mr. Baxt. Dir. of the Devill but his Image that Wicked Spirit making it his Businesse to Undo Men and bring them into Distresse and Misery 'T was Treachery against the Whole State Endangering the Publick Peace the Safety of the Government and the Souls and Bodies of Men by Tempting those that were less able to bear such Oppressions into Discontents Sedition and Insurrections Let therefore the Guilty in this kind know That it 's a Determin'd Case in Divinity that such Unlawfull Wealth ought to be Restored with all Damages and that there can't be a just Compensation made for such Wrong but according to the Proportion of the Guilt and the Loss compared together St. Austin tells them Non Remittitur Peccatum niâ—â— Restituitur ablatum Aug. That Without Restitution they can have no Remission and the Holy Movet Câ—rnicula risum Furtivis nudata coloribus Hor. Spirit assures them that How Great soever they may now look in the Kingdoms of Man they shall be Least and not thought worthy of a place in the Kingdom of God The Author's Absence hath occasion'd these Errata to Escape the Press As for Pointing and other small Literals the Reader is desired to pass 'em by PAge 4. l. 24. r. Sennacherib p. 5. l. 20. r. Affliction ib l. 29. r. Ps 66. p. 6. in Marg. r. Hos 14. 4. Ps 12. 5. p. 7. l. 26. r. Counsels p. 10. l. penult r. Arising p. 14. l. 18. r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 16. l. 4. r. Jehoshaphat p. 18. in Marg. r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 19. l. 30. r. he was p. 21. l. ult r. 2 Chron. p. 23. l. 16. r. Judges 7. p. 24. l. 5. r. Justice p. 25. l. 27. r. Conceitedly ib. l. 31. r. Counsel p. 27. l. 16. r. Doctrine p. 35. l. 27. r. Consecrating p. 37. l. 5. r. Blessings p. 38. l. ult r. and Prudent p. 44. in Marg. Ps 116. 2.
the Tempest God's Help comes often in Extremity In Zach. 4. 2. The Candlesick of the Church has seven Pipes and seven Lamps signifying God's having seven Pipes to Convey Succour and Mercy to his Church and seven Lamps whereby to Discern its Straits i. e. his Providence for their help is as Vasâ— as his Omniscience and Knowledge of their Needs Again As the Text and Doctrines tell us That God takes a time to Deliver his Church in General from Distressing Troubles and Dangers So this Day witnesseth that he hath taken his Time to Deliver Us in Particular from Manifold felt and Many More Feared Sore Straits and Calamities and therefore Bespeaks our Blessing Praising and Honouring of Him And this brings me to the Third and Principal Proposition or Doctrinal Conclusion in our Text. Doct. III Viz. That it is the Duty of Delivered Kingdoms or Persons to Glorify God their Deliverer In speaking to This I shall first Explain this Great Duty of Glorifying God And Secondly Enforce it And Thirdly Apply it Now the Word in the Original for Gloâ—fying is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Pihel where Dagesh â—â—creases the Signification thou shalt very greâ—â— Honour me from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Kal signifying to be Weighty and Honoured And the Hebrâ—â— Noun 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 answereth to the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 â— the Hebrew Verb doth to the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is rendred by three Words * Glorifico honorifico clarifico Glorificare honorificare clarificare tria quidem verba sed res una quod Graecè dictatur 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aug. I. cont sem Arian c. 23. Apud Graecos 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 apud Hebraeos 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 unum verbum â—â— sed nos pro Lat. Ling. proprietate Honorem posuimus Hierâ—n â—â— Malach. c. 1. p. 291. aiminâ— at one and the same thing And in the Fiâ—â— place it signifies to Think and Esteem and â—â— the next to Celebrate render Illustrious and â— Honour and Reverence unto Sometimes it is Attributed to God Thus he Glorified Christ in his Humane Nature whâ—â— Subjecting all his Enemies under his feet he Raised him from the Grave and took him â—â— into Heaven Placing him at his Right Hanâ— and thereby Manifesting him to be His Sâ—â— and the Only Mediator and Saviour of the World So likewise does he Confer Honouâ— and Glory on Us enriching us with Giâ—â—â— and Graces various ways dignifying us with Grace Here and Glory Hereafter Psal 149. 4. Rom. 8. 30. Otherwise it is Attributed to Men who are said and Required to Glorify God as in our Text with other places And here know That God is Glorified by Men two Ways Actionly and Passively The Latter Way God gets Glory to Himself by an Infinitely-Wise Over-Ruling All even the very Worst Actions and Rebellious Ways of Men and Making them Subservient to His Own Holy Ends and Counsels and so by Working Good out of Evil sets forth the Glory of his Great Power and Wisdom As a Physician 's Skill is discover'd and honour'd by Conquering the Malignity of a â—ost desperate Disease In this Passive Sense Men are but an Occasion of God's being Glorified But then in the Former Way God is Glorified Actively by Men When they Chiefly Intend and Aim at His Glory in the Things they do and the Course of Life they lead When the Honouring and Pleasing of God doth take up the Greatest and Best Part of their Thoughts Cares and Endeavours in All their Duties and Concerns with both God and Men. Here Note That God has not ever the more real Glory by any thing we can Do for him or Yeild unto him Nor can he Want any thing from his Creatures who Receive their All from Him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Non ut Naz. in Orat. The Honour given God is not reipâ—â verè and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but Testimonio Agnitione ita solùm 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 gloriae aliquid accedat Deo We Glorifie him not by Adding unto him but by Receiving from him and his Glorious Perfections In our Discharge of this Duty there is not the â—ast Accession made to either God's Greatness or Happiness But only an Acknowledging Loving and Declaring him as he is Glorifying of God is but the Giving God his Own viz. The Reverence of the Inward and Outward Man according to that Worth and Weight of Excellency that is in the Divine Majesty We are to Bring Honour to his Great Name or Maâ—â— it Glorious by Acknowledging Him with oâ—â— Hearts Inwardly and with our Words and Dâ—â— Outwardly to be such an one as he hath â—â—vealed himself that so our selves and other may thereby Become truly Wise and Good and Happy For he will be Honoured in oâ—â— Minds by our Tongues and in our Way anâ— Course of Life But to be more Particular and Express in order to make it still more Plain Know I. We are to Glorify God in our Hearts bâ— Entertaining such Conceptions and Estimation oâ— Him and of his Works and Word and Wheâ— ever Relates to him as are Suitable to his Excellent Majesty and Infinite Perfections We must not Entertain any Low Mean Unequâ—â— Thoughts of so Glorious a Being But ever Conceive of him according to his Peerless Eminence as being Superlative in Power Knowledge and Goodness and so to be Feared Loved and Trusted above All. Yeild him therefore that Internal Reverence and Practical Estâ—â— that is Becoming him who is the End of the whole Creation and the Pleasing of whose Waâ— ye are Chiefly to Intend in All that ye Aâ—â— Have and Do. Also be seriously Affected with the Agreeable Awful Apprehersions of such an â—â— comprehensible Being And see that as All your Thoughts and Apprehensions of his Wonderful Perfections be Worthy of them so that they be Lively and Influential Working up All the Counsels Affections and Purposes of the Heart to an Agreeableness to the said Perfections So Behold Believe Consider and Imbrace the Divine Excellencies as they may have a Proper and Peculiar and Distinct Effect suitable to every one of them upon the Heart and Spirit Let a Good Image of God's Glorious Attributes be so Received and Entertained in your Hearts as that you may Answer the same with suitable Affections Let God's Wonderful Excellencies be Imprinted within you As v. g. So Conceive of his Goodness as to Enkindle in you a Superlative Love unto him and Cheerful Resolution for his Service and to Prevent Distrustfulness of his Providence Let the Apprehensions of his Greatness Impress on you an Holy Fear of Him and Steady Confidence in Him according to the Tenor of His Covenant and Promises Let the Thoughts of his Omniscience and Wisdom be such as to beget a Cheerful Resting and Entire Acquiescence in His Determinations and Disposals Let the Consideration of His Justice Keep you from Transgressions against His Law and Comfort you in your Way of