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A sermon pressing to, and directing in, that great duty of praising God. Preached…
A sermon pressing to, and directing in, that great duty of praising God. Preached to the Parliament at Westminster, Octob: 8. 1656. Being the day of their solemn thanksgiving to God for that late success given to some part of the fleet of this Common-wealth against the Spanish fleet in its return from the West Indies. / By Joseph Caryl, minister of the Gospel at Magnus near London Bridge.A sermon pressing to, and directing in, that great duty of praising God. Preached to the Parliament at Westminster, Octob: 8. 1656. Being the day of their solemn thanksgiving to God for that late successe given to some part of the fleet of this Common-wealth against the Spanish fleet in its return from the West Indies. / By Joseph Caryl, minister of the Gospel at Magnus near London Bridge.
London: printed by M. Simmons, 1657
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yea not only swallowed up in unthankfulness, but murdered in our murmurings and discontents; to what a height then is the sinfulness of this age like to increase? seeing they who with hold from God the glory of his mercies are in a readiness to with hold obedience to his commands, yea, in that, they with hold obedience to his greatest and most comprehensive commands. How can it be but the unthankful must needs be unholy, seeing unthankfulness is the sum of all unholiness? A heathen could say, Call a man unthankful, and you have called him all that's bad or nought; or (as we speak) you have Called him all to nought.
yea not onely swallowed up in unthankfulnesse, but murthered in our murmurings and discontents; to what a height then is the sinfulnesse of this age like to encrease? seing they who with hold from God the glory of his mercies are in a readinesse to with hold obedience to his commands, yea, in that, they with hold obedience to his greatest and most comprehensive commands. How can it be but the unthankfull must needs be unholy, seing unthankfulness is the sum of all unholiness? A heathen could say, Call a man unthankfull, and you have called him all that's bad or nought; or (as we speak) you have Call'd him all to nought.
Let the unthankful remember, That the inanimate creatures will rise up in judgement against them; for they praise God continually after their manner, or as well as they can. The Sun Moon and stars, fire, and hail, snow, and vapour, stormy winds, fulfilling his word, mountains, and all hills, fruitful trees and Cedars, beasts and all cattle, creeping things, and ⟨p. 11⟩flying fowl, Dragons, and all deeps, are commanded to praise the Lord, and they do it; And are not all men, Kings of the earth, and all people, Princes, and all the Judges of the earth, both young men and maidens, old men and children, more, commanded to praise the Lord? and are not Saints commanded and bound to praise the Lord more then all other men? And are not those Saints that have prayed for such a mercy, and who have personally tasted the sweetness of such a mercy, and whose interest is much advanced and strengthened by the mercy obtained, have not they more cause to Praise God for it then all other Saints? And is not this the case of many here present, and of many more absent in the several parts of these Dominions?