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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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And that we may come forth freely in our Praises of the Lord, and sing Hallelujahs to his name alone; give me leave to set the stamp or character of those works of God which are instanced in this text, upon those works of God, which are the occasion and matter of our Praise this day, and to show how all those grounds which that sweet singer of Israel laid as the foundation of his own and his peoples Praises, meet and centre in ours.
And that we may come forth freely in our Praises of the Lord, and sing Halalujahs to his name alone; give me leave to set the stamp or character of those works of God which are instanced in this text, upon those works of God, which are the occasion and matter of our Praise this day, and to shew how all those grounds which that sweet singer of Israel laid as the foundation of his own and his peoples Praises, meet and center in ours.
First, (saith David) The works of the Lord are great. And surely, we are not called this day to Praise the Lord for some small or little work; indeed, all the works of the Lord are great, great as done by him, for he leaves the impression of his own greatness upon all that he doth: as every sin, the least sin is a great sin, because committed against the great God; so every mercy is a great mercy, as it comes forth from the hand of the great God; but I speak not of the greatness of the works of God here in this notion, but as they are great both in themselves and comparatively with others. And as for the work of this day we may affirm the greatness of it in a threefold consideration.
First, (saith David) The works of the Lord are great. And surely, we are not called this day to Praise the Lord for some small or little work; indeed, all the works of the Lord are great, great as done by him, for he leaves the impression of his own greatnesse upon all that he doth: as every sin, the least sin is a great sin, because committed against the great God; so every mercy is a great mercy, as it comes forth from the hand of the great God; but I speak not of the greatnesse of the works of God here in this notion, but as they are great both in themselves and comparatively with others. And as for the work of this day we may affirme the greatnesse of it in a threefold consideration.