A81152:104
Englands plus ultra both of hoped mercies, and of required duties
Englands plus ultra both of hoped mercies, and of required duties : showed in a sermon preached to the honourable Houses of Parliament, the Lord Major, Court of Aldermen, and Common-Council of London, together with the Assembly of Divines, at Christ-Church, April 2, 1646 : being the day of their public thanksgiving to Almighty God for the great success of the Parliaments army in the West, especially in Cornwall, under the conduct of his excellency Sr. Thomas Fairfax / by Joseph Caryl, minister of the Gospel at Magnus near the bridge, London, and a member of the Assembly of Divines.Englands plus ultra both of hoped mercies, and of required duties : shewed in a sermon preached to the honourable Houses of Parliament, the Lord Major, Court of Aldermen, and Common-Councell of London, together with the Assembly of Divines, at Christ-Church, April 2, 1646 : being the day of their publike thanksgiving to Almighty God for the great successe of the Parliaments army in the West, especially in Cornwall, under the conduct of his excellency Sr. Thomas Fairfax / by Joseph Caryl, minister of the Gospel at Magnus neer the bridge, London, and a member of the Assembly of Divines.
London: printed by G.M. for John Rothwell, 1646
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
And declare the works of the Lord.
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That all received mercies should be designed to the glory of God.
This is the design of the Saints, when they pray for mercies (Joel 2. 14.) Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; For whom? for you? Nay, Even a meat-offering, and a drink-offering to the Lord your God. The captive Jews were taxed, because they fasted for themselves, and not unto God (Zech. 7.) It must be the project of prayer and fasting, that we may receive mercies to honour God with: and it should be our project in days of praise and thanksgiving to honour God with the mercies we have received. So much of our lives is as lost, and so many of our mercies are as buried, with which the name of God is not lifted up and advanced. To seek our own glory, is not glory; or to deal with God, as the Story speaks of one, who wrote the founders name that had been at the cost and charge of a curious fabric upon the plaster of the wall, but cut his own name in a marble stone underneath: While worldly men bestow outward thanks on God, Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling place to all generations, and they call their lands after their own names,