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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96298	A thankefull remembrance of Gods mercy to several persons at Quabaug or Brookfield partly in a collection of providences about them, and gracious appearances for them: and partly in a sermon preached by Mr. Edward Bulkley, Pastor of the Church of Christ at Concord, upon a day of thanksgiving, kept by divers for their wonderfull deliverance there. Published by Capt. Thomas VVheeler. [Five lines from Psalms]	Wheeler, Thomas, ca. 1620-1676.; Bulkley, Edward, d. 1696.	1676 (1676)	Wing W1600; ESTC W35426	40,779	64

us 6thly It is a most Heavenly duty the very work of the Saints in Heaven When all other work Ceaseth this shall not Cease to all Eternity The more you are in the Exercise of this Spiritual Service the more there is of the Life of Heaven upon Earth This day you meet together to praise the Name of the Lord who were together in such a danger that you almost despaired of Life as the Apostle saith 2 Cor. 1.8 Look that your praises be such that God may be well pleased with them and with you in the performance of this Service 1. Let them be Cordial with the heart yea with the whole heart Psal 9.1 1. See that your hearts be taken up with an Admiration of Gods favour and Bounty towards you as David Psal 139.14 Admire the Lords sparing delivering and restoring mercy 2. All our Service and worship of God must be with the heart and from the heart God calls for the Heart in all Prov. 23.26 He would have the Heart in prayer praise hearing the word and all other performances the Lord is n Spirit and will be worshipped in Spirit and Truth John 4.24 2. Let them be Verbal Psal 34.1 and 51.15 Hos 14.2 We will Render the Calves of our lips 1. In singing Psalms a duty in Gospel times Col 3.16 And then most seasonable when God gives Cause of Rejoycing in his mercies James 5.13 If any be merry let him sing Psalms Psal 126.1 2. when the Lord turned the Captivity of Zion c. our mouth was filled with Laughter and our Tongues with singing 2. In declaring Gods goodness unto others Extolling his Name speaking of his loving kindness Psal 66.18 Come hither saith the Prophet all you that fear God and I will tell what he hath done for my Soul What Deliverances I have received and Victories I have obtained what Answers of prayer I have had So Psal 145.21 my mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord c. In Luk. 8.38 39. Christ Commands the man out of whom he had cast the Devils to shew how great things God hath done for him 3. Let them be real praises praise him not only in our words but in all our wayes living to the honour of his Name which is called upon us and of the Gospel professed by us Phil. 1.27 Only let your Conversation be at becomes the Gospel of Christ That is a main thing to be attended to Psal 50.23 He that will offer praise aright must also order his Conversation aright Confession and Conversation must go together in a thankful man Psal 116.8 9. I will walk before God in the Land of the living Inward Affection must be manifested in our outward Conversation Therefore look well to your wayes Elder and younger walk holily and Righteously live soberly Righteously and godly in this present world else all your praises are vain The Lord will not accept them Let our praises be Continual Psal 34.1 and Psal 63.4 I will bless thee while I live Rest not in the work of a day but remember Gods mercies all your dayes Be not like the Israelites Psal 106.12 They sang his praises but soon forgot his works You that are young remember the Lord in your best dayes and let us all both Elder and younger remember him all our dayes Remember him to Love him serve honour and glorifie him Remember your Promises and Engagements to him If we remember not his mercies to praise him he will remember our Ingratitude against him therein by Cutting us short of his blessings and plaguing us with his Judgements 5. Let all our Sacrifices of praise be offered up to God in the Name of Jesus Christ that so they may be a sweet savour before him God smelled a sweet savour in Noahs Sacrifice after that wonderful preservation from the Floud of waters Gen. 8.20 Noah looked to Christ Heb. 13.15 Col. 3.17 In him God will be well pleased with you And that Testimony you shall have one day from him that you pleased him in your returns to him Let us thus now Render to God whiles we are here on Earth and we shall Reap the Fruit of all in the great day of Christs appearance when God will Render to every one according to their works Rom. 2.6 7. Then those that have carefully observed all Gods dispensations about them and been follicitous what to Render to him giving up themselves to him Loving fearing and obeying him walking in holy Fellowship with him in his own Appointments they shall be received by him into his Everlasting Kingdome there to be with him singing praises to him that sits on the Throne and to the Lamb for Evermore FINIS

easy as to David Psal 119.97.127 All will say they love God but little Care appears in many men and women to please God Some will please themselves whither God be pleased or no. 4. Manifest your Love to God in your Love to the Church of God Psal 122.6 1. In loving Church Assemblies Psal 42.1 2. and 26.8 and the Fellowship of all Saints Psal 16.3 2. In grieving in the Churches affliction and rejoycing in its prosperity as Ietbro Exod. 18.9 and Neh. 1.4 3. In seeking and promoting the Churches welsare in our measure and according to our power and opportunity so David promised Psal 122.7 8. so did Mordecai Esther 10.3 so Paul 2 Cor. 11.28 4. Manifest a sincere love of God in minding the things of God whereby he may be honoured his Name advanced his Truths propagated from generation to generation Love will stick at nothing whereby it may honour God It is a Bountiful affection Gods love to man did make him part with his only begotten Son he spared not him but gave him to dye c. John 3.16 Abraham will part with his Isaack at Gods Command nay Love never knoweth when it hath done enough It knows no such thing as too much or too soon The Soul thinks it cannot be too quick too forward in any Service of God It cannot have too much holiness c. nay when one hath done his best yet he is ashamed he hath done so little and though he takes comfort in what he hath been enabled to do yet he looks at all as nothing as Paul 2 Cor. 12.11 and prayes for sparing mercy as Nehem. 13.22 Thus return love to God This is a good Return whereby the Soul takes more Content in God more delight in Fellowship with him which is the nature of Love Deut. 10.12 That mercy is made an affliction to us that doth not engage our hearts to love God more they should not take off our hearts from the love of God but quicken us to abound in more love Psal 31.23 And therefore you that have been delivered Consider It is now some time since you were in that distress and had such a remarkable deliverance Is your love to God Increased by it Care to please him and to walk in obedience to his holy Commandments know it this return God expects from you and therefore see that you sail not his Expectation 5. Return worship to God so David promiseth to do upon the receipt of mercy from God Psal 5.7 In thy fear will I worship c. This we are exhorted to 1 Chron. 16.29 worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness Worship him in all his holy Institutions in his house Let such of you as have neglected some Ordinances of his worship and preparation of your selves for them take heed of neglecting still God is a Jealous God he accounts them haters of him that do not worship him in his own Institutions when they have liberty and opportunity to enjoy them Exod. 20.5 you that are not in full Church Communion either you are prepared or unprepared with respect to your present state If still unprepared yet in a Carnal state what would have become of you if you had dyed at the Swampe or in the Garrison if you had then been taken away If you be prepared having a true faith in Iesus Christ and you neglect his Ordinances God may cut you down by some temporal Judgement though you be not damned for it Consider that place Numb 9.13 The man that is clean and for beareth to keep the Passover the same Soul shall be cut off from his people because he brought not the offering of the Lord in his appointed season that man shall bear his sin As for you that do enjoy all Ordinances in Gods house be you exhorted to worship God in the participation thereof more spiritually and chearfully serve him with more joy and delight with more Reverence and Fervency of Spirit In special Return prayer to God which is such a principal part of worship that it is sometimes put for the whole worship of God Rom. 10.13 Be much with God in prayer Thus the prophet here Psal 116 2. and 13. verses God having answered his prayer and given him so great a deliverance he shall therefore call upon God as long as he lives This will be one thing that he will Render to God so mercy received he will be still calling upon God Let us improve all the Answers we have received from God to encourage us to for ther prayer to him Mot. 1. Consider we cannot weary the Lord with often going to him It is sometimes an Argument of Encouragement in requesting help or kindness from men He is an old friend a tryed friend he hath helped me when I was in a great streight and therefore I will go to him again much more here But though men may be weary of our often coming to them yet God will not he taketh it as a good return when we are much yea more in prayer with him Mot. 2. When we have prevailed with God for any special mercy deliverance or help in a day of trouble there is yet great need of prayer and Continuance thereof 1. For a thankful heart to the giver of every good and perfect gift the God of our Salvations 2. For the Continuance of the mercy that it may not be taken away from us that the Evil removed may not again return 3. For the Sanctification of the mercy and blessing to us need to pray for an heart to use it in a right manner to the honour of Gods Name and others good That it may not be an occasion of sin to us that it may not be abused by us That when God is good to us we may not be the worse in our wayes towards him There is great need of prayer to God in a time of prosperity that we may improve it to glorifie him in our particular places wherein we are set by him 4. we shall be yet needing more and renewed mercies daily whilst we are here in this world and therefore we must be Beggars till we get to Heaven we need more grace wisdome for our work and business in our stations more mortification of our Corruptions more power against our great Adversary Satan c. And therefore have we prayed and obteined what you asked pray still that you may receive still from the same bountiful hand gracious Answers of your Requests As we are to go to the Throne rf grace in our wants so also in our Receipts of mercies that they may be Continued and Sanctified to us and also improved by us according to his will 4. Render to God the Vows that you have made to him in the time of your Trouble in the day of your great distress pay your Vows to the most high God Thus the Prophet in this Psalm 14.15 vers-whether your Vows have been more solemn or only a bare Resolution of your Heart Have you vowed to