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A86505	A sermon preached before the Parliament, the Councill of State, the Lord Major, aldermen, and Common Councill of the city of London, and the officers of the Army, in Christ-Church London, Octob. the 6th. A.D. 1659. Being the publick day of Thanksgiving appointed by the Parliament, to be celebrated in the cities of London and Westminster, and parts adjacent, for the suppression of the northern insurrection. By Doctor Nathanael Homes.	Homes, Nathanael, 1599-1678.	1659 (1659)	Wing H2577; Thomason E1001_1; ESTC R207844	20,201	48

A SERMON Preached before the Parliament the Councill of State the Lord Major Aldermen and Common Councill of the City of London and the Officers of the Army In Christ-Church London Octob. the 6th A. D. 1659. Being the Publick day of Thanksgiving appointed by the PARLIAMENT to be celebrated in the Cities of London and Westminster and parts adjacent for the suppression of the Northern Insurrection By Doctor NATHANAEL HOMES London Printed By J. B. for Edward Brewster at the Crane in Paul's Church yard 1660. Friday Octob. 7. 1659. ORdered that the thanks of this House be given to Doctor Homes for his great pains taken in preaching and carrying on the duty of publick thanksgiving on Thursday the 6th of October instant before the Parlament in Christ-Church London And that M. Blagrave do give him the thanks The like Order to M. Caryl ORdered that the Ministers be desired to print and publish their Sermons and that they have the like priviledge as hath been allowed to others in the like case Thomas St Nicholas Clerk of the Parliament I do appoint Edward Brewster Bookseller and Citizen of London to print the said Sermon in witness whereof I hereto subscribe my hand Oct. 11. 1659. NATH HOMES To the Parliament of the Com●…wealth of England and Councill of State My most Honoured Masters IT had not been possible for me sanâ mente I speak the truth before the Lord to have deemed this Sermon worthy of that dignitie to be printed much less to be presented to your Honours but that your destres exprest in your Order and much otherwise which are a sufficient Command to me stampt upon it that respect Therefore I have not counterfeitingly painted the face thereof fairer then it was Nor have I cowardly maimed it of anything I then delivered But just as ye then liked it 't is now as like it as possibly may be said of the same in complexion physiognomy stature The stream is as it first flowed thorow my mind then to my mouth thence to your ears and now to your eyes If now in this last running the Spirits of it seem not flatt and weaker to your fast but that it still reteins its first life and vigor on your Spirits to incite your further praises for mercies and trusting in the God of your mercies I shall the less care for the censures of men And as God was pleased so 〈…〉 it and ye could not prevent it that I should be much straitned in time to prepare for so great a work that all the Glory might be to him the fountain and helper so I am fully satisfied and do desire that he may have it and not I. I shall say no more for prolix tediousness in any thing is irksom to my selfe but what John Gerson the Schoolman was wont to say viz. When the Preacher hath ENDED the Sermon is not DONE For indeed it is still in Doing in the hearts and prastise of spirituall living hearers which is the prayer for your Honours of your most obliged Servant NATHANAEL HOMES From my Study at Mary Staynings London Octob. 11. 1659. Psalm 33.1 Later Clause Praise is Comely for the upright The FOR prefixed in our English is not in the Hebrew Therefore I considered the Text no further then as an absolute sentence on the present occasion WE are ye see at the head of the Psalm Therefore no need of an Analysis to find the posture of the Text. It will be sufficient to tell you 't is part of the Proposition of the Psalm in which we have the Duty Comly praise and the Doers the upright But who say ye is the Object viz. the person to bee praised Yee have him named in the former part of the verse in which is my Text Rejoyce in the LORD But where is the subject-matter for which wee must praise It is in the sequel of the Psalm enumerating many Mercies pressing the said proposition So that the sence of the Text and sentence of the Doctrine come to hand both together without much a do Praising God for mercies Doctrine is comely for the upright In which Doctrine Four things are to be opened to make it fit for Use 1. Praising which we have ranck'd in that order as the former may best give light to the later 2. Vpright which we have ranck'd in that order as the former may best give light to the later 3. Mercies which we have ranck'd in that order as the former may best give light to the later 4. Comely which we have ranck'd in that order as the former may best give light to the later 1. Praising we have rendered it in the Act for that 's the sence of the Text. God is Laus the praise of Israel Laudatio the Act of praising that 's ours Praising is a Cordiall emanation of our affections into words and deeds What praising of God is acknowledging God's greatness and goodness in himself and unto us Psal 135.3 and 5. Praise the Lord for he is good Sing praises to his name for I know he is great And Psal 119.68 Thou art good and dost good spoken in way of praising God And this praise is of the higher form of expressions For praedicamus ut res sunt we predicate enunciate or declare as things are Approbamus quod bonum est we approve that which is good Laudamus quod excellit we praise that which excells Suitably praise is most due to the most excellent God In Divinity the things Glorifying God Honouring God and praising God Concentre to the same generall issue viz. to manifest our thankfulnesse to God but the words critically considered contein a graduall difference Glorifying God is our due estimation of him Psal 24 last verse The Lord of Hosts he is the King of Glory Honouring God is our manifestation of that esteem in action and behaviour Mal. 1.6 A Son honoureth his Father If I be a Father where is mine Honour Praising God is our accumulating extollings of God with Arguments giving reasons of our said estimation and actions Praedicamus voce laudamus argumentis Thus the Psalmist Psal 103 2 3 4. c. Bless the Lord O my soul and forget not all his benefits who forgiveth all thine iniquities who healeth all thy diseases who redeemeth thy lite from destruction who crowneth thee with loving kindness and tender mercy who satisfieth thy mouth with good things c. And Psal 136. throughout O give thanks to the Lord for he is good for his mercy endureth for ever O give thanks to the God of Gods for his mercy endureth for ever O give thanks to the Lord of Lords for his mercy endureth for ever To him who alone doth great wonders for his mercy endureth for ever To him who smote great Kings for his mercy endureth for ever and sl●w famous Kings for his mercy endureth for ever c. Thus ye see a Praise and an Argument a Praise and an Argument Like Aarons Coat when he praised God

when the generality of the people were about instantly to stone him then very then in that instant Namb. 14.10 the glory of the Lord came down upon the Tabernacle and daunted them from their dismall design Or like the deliverance of Israel at the Red-sea If the Sea bee not divided that very night a great work to bee done in a night then good night to the Israelites lives Ex● 14.21 or liberties or both It was an astonishment to us to think that whiles we were all Gen. 22.14 most intentively gazing and admiring at the setting of a single person and glorying in the rising and ascending up of this Parliament O happy day the enemy in all parts are ready to swarm and to come about us like Bees But as the Psalmist saith so say we in the name of the Lord they were destroyed according to that divine Hebrew proverb of old Behas yehofa yeraeh That is in the Mount of the Lord it shall be seen For so in the 18 and 19. verses after my Text pressing our duty in it Behold the eye of the Lord is on them that fear him upon them that hope in his mercie to deliver their soul from death Deus videt ridet God saw and laughed the enemie to scorn 3. The manner of our deliverance viz. a most bloody design prevented almost by a bloodless victorie Of which we are glad as well as our enemies A rare Sympathy between two adversarie Armies 4. The Means of our deliverance viz. Digitus Dei The finger of God Wee acknowledge the diligence forwardness and resolution of the Souldierie And that was of God too 'T is God and his Cause that carries it We have it demonstrated by the contrarie too viz. the ill success when these have been left though I have not the place But in this our deliverance behold further in special Digitus Dei the finger of God the movings of God upon the heart For though the enemie were greatly prepared and mighty in strength and that in a chiefe strength of an Army viz. in Horse especially for such a design suddainly to over run and subdue a whole Nation inflamed also as they pretended with great zeal and most specious pretences yet in the day of Battle they had no heart nor courage sutable to such a day God had sent the Hornet of fear and daunted them So that our Armie Venit vidit vicit God the great Master and Commander of hearts for all their mighty power had taken away their heart So that to this we may apply that in the 16 and 17 verses after my Text pressing the practi●e of it upon us There is no King saved by the MULTITUDE of an Host a mighty man is not delivered by much strength An HORSE is a vain thing for safety neither shal he deliver any by his great strength Surely no when God takes away the heart of the Rider yea and of his Infantry too And this is a main thing that I desire we may mainly mind That the grand things that God hath done for us in this last and great revolution hath been by heart-work wherein none can make any shew of claim to share in his honour God wrought upon the hearts of the Armie a jealousie of a design to set over us an anti-interested single person contrary to our interest and Common-Wealth which made them so effectually importune the dissolution of the last convention God again wrought upon the hearts of the same Armie a sensible satisfaction that their interest was involved in the interest of this Parliament and that both their safeties and of the whole Common-wealth were inseparably twisted together and like Hypocrates Twinns live and die together whereupon the former Conventions being dethroned the Souldiery importuned this Parliament to return to their duties So that in these God wrought in our Army a kind of change of their hearts whereby of ill masters they became excellent servants to this Common-wealth and came off Gallantly Again God works for us with heart work upon and in our enemies 1. God took away the wit or courage or both of many parties in many Counties that they were not up in Armes considerably at the nick of time 2. That from that most considerabe body in the North-East God took away as we said their courage So that in these things God took away the heart And thus to close our Sermon should wee well weigh mercies praising comes of prizing we should weigh them like gold every cinder and Scintil to a grain And measure them all so exactly considering them as a Ball of Silk not what is the Globe or bulk of it only but to what a length it will run and what it wil make in the improvment Verily we should discern the length of this days mercies by the length of our miseries if the plot had taken And thence conclude that our present deliverance if we have the grace to keep the Talent God hath given us extendeth from this generation to the next and so the next c. till Christ come Now if for future mercies the Apostle puts the Question 2 Pet. 3.11 Seeing we look for new Heavens and a new earth wherein dwells righteousnese the old being dissolved by fire what manner of persons ought we to be in all holy conversation and godliness How thankfull and holy should we be for present mercies so as to be as it were distressed with the Psalmist Psal 116.12 what and how to render to God praise and obedience good enough and great enough for all the greatnesse of his goodness towards us For surely the Lord doth overcome us yea overcome our very thoughts with the hughness and highness of his numerous mercies Eph. 3.20 He doth for us above what we could ask or think And his mercie as Psa 36.5 6. is to the heavens his faithfulness reacheth to the clouds his righteousness is like the great mountains and his judgements like a great deep Therefore let the people praise and sing and let the heavens ring with Halel●jah's praise honour and glory be given to him that sits on the Throne and to the Lamb for evermore Amen Delivered to the Printer Octob. 11. 1659. ERRATA p. 5. margin at line 20. read Plin. p. 6. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 8. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 13. line 19. Till p. 24. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 29. l. ingratum p. 37. margin vulgi