Israels prayer in time of trouble with Gods gracious answer thereunto, or, An explication…

From hence we learn, that sound conversion and repentance enlargeth the heart in thankfulness towards God, and disposeth it to offer up the sacrifice of praise. And this duty here promised, cometh in this place under several considerations, for we may consider it.

From hence we learn, that sound conversion and repentance enlargeth the heart in thankfulnesse towards God, and disposeth it to offer up the sacrifice of praise. And this duty here promised, cometh in this place under severall considerations, for we may consider it.

I. Ut materiam pacti, as the matter of a Covenant or compact,¹ which we promise to render unto God in acknowledgement of his great mercy in answering the prayers which we put up unto him for pardon and grace. It is observable that most of those Psalms wherein ^bDavid imploreth help from God, are closed with thanksgiving unto him, as Psal. 7.17.13, 6.56, 12, 13, 57, 7, 10, &c. David thus by an holy craft insinuating into Gods favour, and driving a trade between earth & heaven, receiving and returning, importing one commodity, & transporting another, letting God know that his mercies shall not be lost, that as he bestows the comforts of them upon him, so he would return the praises of them unto heaven again. ^cThose CounCountries ⟨p. 3⟩that have rich & staple commodities to exchange and return unto others, have usually the freest and fullest traffic and resort of trade made unto them. Now there is no such rich return from earth to heaven as praises; This is indeed the only tribute we can pay unto God, to value, and to celebrate his goodness towards us. As in the flux and reflux of the sea, the water that in the one comes from the sea unto the shore, doth in the other but run back into it self again: so praises