Christs coming opened in a sermon before the honourable house of commons in Margaret's…

But yet observe, still some monument of praise was erected; sometimes a stone, sometimes an Altar, always one monument or other of praise. And have we no Altar? no stone now? no name of God to celebrate now? no present of thankfulness to bring to our God this day? is there no act of mercy to be shown? none of Christs friends to be relieved? shall we make no progress? shall we stand still? do nothing? as men in a maze? shall we make no improvement of this deliverance and victory? why should we not all sit down under our relations, and say, How shall I make improvement of this mercy? what shall I do now for God and Christ that I did not before? Is there nothing in your hand? what? No present to be given to Christ? have we nothing at all? then let us bring the sense of our own Nothing; for the more humble ye are after victories, the more thankful for victories. And if ye have no present in your hand this day to bring unto God for this victory, ¹yet bring the victory it self, and give it to God. Ye give to Cesar the things that are Caesars: why? because his image is upon them; and hath not this victory much of the image of God upon it? When David was delivered from his enemies, we read in the 116. Psalm, that he checks himself for his former unbelief, I said in my haste, &c. and gathers up himself into God again; ²Return unto thy rest O my soul. When delivered from his enemies, as we read in the 118. Psalm, he sounds a retreat from man, O my soul, trust not in Princes, not in man, nor in the sons of men, trust not in Princes. The word in the Hebrew is, Ingenuous men, for Princes should be ingenuous; and if any men are to be trusted ⟨p. 19⟩to, they are ingenuous men; but being delivered from men, he retreats from men, and says, O my soul, trust not in men, nor in the sons of men, not in Princes, not in ingenuous men.

But yet observe, still some monument of praise was erected; sometimes a stone, sometimes an Altar, alwayes one monument or other of praise. And have we no Altar? no stone now? no name of God to celebrate now? no present of thankfulnesse to bring to our God this day? is there no act of mercy to be showne? none of Christs friends to be relieved? shall we make no progresse? shall we stand still? doe nothing? as men in a maze? shall we make no improvement of this deliverance and victory? why should we not all sit down under our relations, and say, How shall I make improvement of this mercy? what shall I do now for God and Christ that I did not before? Is there nothing in your hand? what? No present to be given to Christ? have we nothing at all? then let us bring the sence of our own Nothing; for the more humble ye are after victories, the more thankfull for victories. And if ye have no present in your hand this day to bring unto God for this victory,