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<P>&Tgr;&Agr;&Pgr;&Egr;&Igr;&Ngr;&Agr;&Igr;&Ngr;&Ogr;&Sgr;, Humble Prai&s;e, Offered up in the Publick Solemnity, <HI>June</HI> the 28^t^h 1660.</P>
<P>Being a day of Thanksgiving for his Maje&s;ties happy Re&s;tauration.</P>
<P>By <HI>T. A.</HI> an unwothy Servant of the Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t in the work of the Go&s;pel.</P>
<Q><HI>Non Deus humiles quibus dat gratiam ante datam hu+miles invenit; &s;ed dando gratiam humiles facit; hoc ip&s;um enim, gratiam, Deus per gratiam donat, ut qui&s;|quis eam acceperit humiles fiat.</HI> <BIBL>Fulg. 2. 41.</BIBL></Q>
<Q>The humble &s;hall &s;ee this and be glad, and your heart &s;hall live that &s;eeke God.</Q>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>Luke Fawne,</HI> at the Sign of the <HI>Parrot</HI> in S. <HI>Pauls Church-yard,</HI> 1660.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>To the Right Honourable, Sir</HI> EDWARD HYDE <HI>K^t^. Lord Chancellor of</HI> England, <HI>One of his Maje&s;ties mo&s;t Honourable Privy Council.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>IT's a &s;afe Rule, that State&s;men mu&s;t have no more anger then will &s;erve their de&s;ign; for &s;ubjection to powerful wrath is dangerous both <HI>ab intra,</HI> being a con&s;tant di&s;ea&s;e, a fire that commonly con&s;umes the hou&s;e where fir&s;t it kindles; and <HI>ab extra,</HI> it betrayes to ignoble acts, and the unavoidable cen&s;ure of the Soveraign. The la&s;t Century hath been too fruitful in &s;uch in&s;tances.</P>
<P>And herein Prudence &s;peaks her Mother tongue, and hath learnt it from Religion, which further &s;aith, <HI>Ira &s;imulata charitas vera.</HI> Let Anger be the dark &s;ha|dow, Love the beautiful body, the one to fright the evil from their wayes, and deliver from death; the other cor|dially and con&s;tantly endeavouring every mans peace, comfort, and joy. This is living in <HI>love,</HI> and living in <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign"> <HI>&amp;c. N<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">hi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">pectu jacundius quam bonorum virorum con|&s;. n&s;us.</HI> Plat. <HI>in</HI> 2 <HI>Epi&s;t.</HI></NOTE> <HI>God.</HI> Oh that all the Subjects of our Soveraign Lord were thus qualified, for advancing his Title <HI>King of Saints.</HI> We have too long ob&s;erved what Factions have done for us, and for them&s;elves. In patience the rea&s;on|able Soul may be po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed, which the di&s;temper of impa|tience doth turn out to the courte&s;ie of others, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> una|wares it's taken away. If Lu&s;t unto de&s;truction were a
<PB REF="3"> nece&s;&s;ary or lawfull concernment of Mankind, there would be le&s;s need of an able Mini&s;try.</P>
<P><HI>My Lord,</HI> as I dare not here touch your <HI>Honours Name,</HI> choice&s;t Pictures are not for Tents and Boothes, &s;o I cannot &s;mother this common &s;ence; for its general|ly noted in your Honour with great applau&s;e, that your con&s;tant carriage doth rebuke the envy of tho&s;e that would better conform to his Maje&s;ties Royal plea&s;ure by endeavours for union.</P>
<P>I have good rea&s;on for this, and all dutiful Addre&s;&s;es to your Honour; for my native Soyl is the Inheritance of your noble and renowned Family, my Chri&s;tian name, with admi&s;&s;ion to the vi&s;ible Church, and divers com|forts of my life, I owe your near <HI>Relations,</HI> and as I may a&s;&s;ert faithfulne&s;s, from former Generations; &s;o I &s;hall mo&s;t gladly engage me and mine.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Your Honours in all Duty and Service,</HI> Tho. Arnold.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<BIBL>DANIEL 6. 10.</BIBL>
<Q><HI>Now when</HI> Daniel <HI>knew that the Writing was &s;igned, he went into his hou&s;e, and his window being open in his Chamber toward Jeru&s;alem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.</HI></Q>
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<P>FOr a Preface to this Text, take the Hi&s;tory of the Penman.</P>
<P N="1">1. His De&s;cent was Noble, Of the &s;eed Royal of <HI>Judah,</HI> Thought meet for a Cour|tier to the greate&s;t Earthly Monarch of his <NOTE PLACE="marg">Cap. 1. 3.</NOTE> time, and cho&s;en Secretary to the King of Kings.</P>
<P N="2">2. His Attainment was admirable, whether, 1. Na|tural, he was a lovely lad, in whom was no blemi&s;h, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Cap. 1. 4.</NOTE> as the Spou&s;e of Chri&s;t, all fair without &s;pots; and as this is the ground of natural love, uniting the heart of <HI>Shekem</HI> to <HI>Dinah,</HI> and <HI>Jacob</HI> to <HI>Rachel;</HI> &s;o 'tis likewi&s;e of &s;piritual 'twixt Chri&s;t and his Spou&s;e, God and his Church (perfectly beautified with his own comline&s;s) <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ezek. 16.</NOTE> and eternal love &s;prings hence al&s;o; for as horrid de|formity cau&s;eth that helli&s;h rage in the damned to one another, and them&s;elves, &s;o cele&s;tial beauties (&s;hining with the rayes of divine glory) move hea|venly delight, called by the Apo&s;tle, <HI>The bond of per|fection.</HI> Love is the golden chain that doth unite glori|fied Saints together. 2. His acquired parts are no <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign"> <HI>Septuagint.</HI></NOTE> le&s;s rare, as <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> was as learned as <HI>Aegypt</HI> could make him, &s;o <HI>Daniel</HI> wanted no <HI>Chaldean</HI> accompli&s;hment, which had now engro&s;&s;ed the excellencies of all neigh|bour Nations. He was fraught with all wi&s;dom, un|der&s;tanding
<PB N="2" REF="4" MS="y"> <HI>Science,</HI> skilful in Letters, and the rare&s;t <HI>Tongues.</HI> Now in this pure and well prepared gold was &s;et the Jewel; for, 3. His in&s;pired Attainment graces all, an excellent &s;pirit is found in him, the &s;pirit of the holy gods, &s;aid the <HI>Magicians,</HI> who onely had fami|liarity with the gods that dwelt with fle&s;h, &s;uch as the Witch of <HI>Endor</HI> conjured out of the Earth: But as his name <HI>Daniel</HI> &s;ignifies the wi&s;dome or judgement of God, and <HI>Nebuchadnezzar</HI> called him <HI>Belte&s;hazzar,</HI> after the name of his god, &s;o he was incomparably in&s;pired by the onely wi&s;e God.</P>
<P N="3">3. His Preferment begins this Chapter, and who can better de&s;erve it then our <HI>Daniel.</HI> God promotes his &s;ervants by heathen Princes, and 'tis the intere&s;t of greate&s;t Monarchs to advance &s;uch, for it's an ho|nour to them as the name of Chri&s;t is bla&s;phemed by di&s;ordered Chri&s;tians, the treacherous carriage of &s;uch hath hardned the Turks again&s;t Chri&s;t, and a lewd &s;ervant is the &s;hame of his Ma&s;ter (for if his lewdne&s;s &s;peaks his Ma&s;ters temper, 'tis the greate&s;t di&s;grace; and if his Ma&s;ter cannot &s;peak him into bet|ter manners, 'tis none of the lea&s;t) &s;o 'tis an honour to be nobly &s;erved. Be&s;ides, they are mo&s;t faithful; <HI>Oba|diah</HI> is a good Steward to <HI>Ahab,</HI> none in the Court more careful to the King <HI>Aha&s;uerus,</HI> nor &s;o ready to di&s;cover Traytors as <HI>Mordecai. Artaxerxes</HI> is loath to have good <HI>Nehemiah</HI> his Cup-bearer go from his el|bow. And moreover, they ordinarily bring a ble&s;&s;ing with them, this <HI>Laban</HI> got by <HI>Jocob's</HI> &s;ervice, and <HI>Potiphar;</HI> but e&s;pecially <HI>Pharaoh</HI> by <HI>Jo&s;eph's.</HI></P>
<P N="4">4. In the next place we read of his danger, the cau&s;e whereof is envy; he was now lifted up and made the fairer mark. <HI>Jo&s;eph's</HI> gay Coat was a light to the Ar|chers that &s;hot &s;o &s;orely at him. Per&s;ons in great pla|ces are commonly &s;truck at. The Adver&s;arie's plot is
<PB N="3" REF="4"> this, by irreligion they would &s;hew their loyalty, all the Courtiers were confederate herein; but the&s;e were <HI>Per&s;ians</HI> that wor&s;hip the Moon, (the emblem of worldly vanity) and will do any thing for their god the world: No wonder then if &s;ome Court flyes a|mong us of the like di&s;po&s;ition are &s;o fruitful in like <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>From</HI> May 29. <HI>to</HI> June 28. <HI>is just</HI> 30 <HI>dayes.</HI></NOTE> devotions, and have neither troubled God nor man, &s;o much as his Maje&s;ty with their Petitions, during the&s;e thirty dayes, &s;ince <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> turn home. Our Monarch may vye Petitions with theirs, though to their Cae&s;ar was engro&s;&s;ed Gods part al&s;o, which with ours is &s;acred.</P>
<P N="5">5. Here in the Text is his practice in his danger; godly exerci&s;e, and clo&s;e walking with God.</P>
<P N="6">6. His reward twofold; 1. Evil from his Adver|&s;aries, who ca&s;t him into the Lions den. 2. Good from God and the King, who pre&s;erved and promoted him.</P>
<P N="7">7. And la&s;tly, his great End accompli&s;hed, Gods honour is advanced and e&s;tabli&s;hed by the Kings de|cree.</P>
<P>The Text is fairly tran&s;lated, He that will make no &s;trife, &s;hall find none here, allowing onely variety of terms to &s;everal Tran&s;lators.</P>
<P>The Text opened, &s;hews us <GAP DESC="foreign">, godline&s;s in &s;everal parts, with their harmonious dependance.</P>
<P N="1">1. Con&s;tancy; but to be con&s;tant and faithful, there's required &s;everity, and &s;trength of &s;pirit; this he wants not, for</P>
<P N="2">2. Here's his &s;ecrecy; He goes into his hou&s;e. Some re&s;ervations are incon&s;i&s;tent with hone&s;ty; but here's no unhand&s;om &s;hift, or treacherous concealment; for</P>
<P N="3">3. Behold his faith, looking (through his opened window) to Jeru&s;alem, and the Temple. And is he not over confident? is not this pre&s;umption? no, for</P>
<P N="4">4. See his humility; he is upon his knees. Though a complement doth not alwayes declare humility, yet many acts do a habit; for this</P>
<P N="5"><PB N="4" REF="5"> 5. Ob&s;erve his frequency in duty, three times a day, but are his addre&s;&s;es according to the divine will? Yes, witne&s;s,</P>
<P N="6">6. His piety, his &s;ervice is holy, con&s;i&s;ting of the&s;e two parts, Prayer and Prai&s;e. But is he as thankful now as formerly, when in greate&s;t &s;tate? doth not his dan|ger &s;horten this part? no,</P>
<P N="7">7. La&s;tly, His alacrity and equanimity is &s;een, in &s;er|ving and prai&s;ing God now as he did aforetime.</P>
<P>Now becau&s;e <HI>Wi&s;doms words</HI> are <HI>&s;weet</HI> to the <HI>&s;oul,</HI> and variety makes a fea&s;t; let us touch every flower in the <HI>Text,</HI> and <HI>ta&s;te</HI> the <HI>hony</HI> that our <HI>eyes</HI> may be <HI>inlightned.</HI></P>
<P>The writing was &s;igned, &s;o we read, and <HI>Tremelius</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Exeratum illud &s;criptum e&s;&s;et,</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign">. Sept. <HI>Statutum decre|tum cum cogno|vi&s;&s;et.</HI></NOTE> (that learned Jew) and divers other Tran&s;lators with us: The Septuagint (of great authority in the new Te&s;tament) read it, the Decree was e&s;tabli&s;hed, all to one &s;ence; and <HI>Daniel</HI> knew it, or had taken full know|ledge of it, yet he adventures to his devotions: hence note,</P>
<P>1. The greate&s;t dangers and difficulties, cannot ter|rifie a godly &s;oul from his duty. Here are three good witne&s;&s;es near at hand (and his companions) who will <NOTE PLACE="marg">Dan. 3.</NOTE> not give Gods glory to another, nor his prai&s;e to gra|ven Images, but will rather offer them&s;elves a burnt &s;acrifice then he &s;hall want a &s;ervice; and this is from, 1. The law of God, his enemies had got a law again&s;t him, which he will rather &s;atisfie with his blood, then deny God his bodily &s;ervice. It's &s;afer to obey God then man. Princes have great power in their com|mands; upon the command of <HI>Jacob</HI> and <HI>Abner,</HI> the young men &s;port away their lives to plea&s;e their Ge|nerals. It's &s;aid, the Grand Signeur (to entertain an Amba&s;&s;adour) commanded one of his Train to ride (in full career over a &s;teep cliff) into the Sea, and then asked the Amba&s;&s;ador how many &s;uch &s;ervants his
<PB N="5" REF="5"> Ma&s;ter had. Our Lord hath many &s;uch &s;ervants, we have <HI>Daniel, Paul,</HI> and many Worthies more. 2. Their <NOTE PLACE="marg">Heb. 11. Rev. 6.</NOTE> love likewi&s;e doth move them thereunto; this is &s;trong as death, it crops the faire&s;t flowers in their prime, it brings &s;trength and beauty to du&s;t and a&s;hes in amo|rous per&s;ons of both &s;exes. The wives of dead hea|thens have contended (urging before the judges, their love and loyalty that they might burn with the bodies of their decea&s;ed husbands) and is &s;piritual love le&s;s powerful? &s;urely no. <HI>Paul</HI> counted not his life dear for Chri&s;ts &s;ake, and <HI>Peters</HI> love at la&s;t con|&s;trained <NOTE PLACE="marg">Acts 20. 24.</NOTE> him to follow his Ma&s;ter in the like death, though a &s;adder &s;pectacle being crucified with his head down-ward: and</P>
<P>3. The &s;ence of Gods love to them, makes them thus valiant. <HI>Stephen</HI> re&s;igned his &s;oul to this revelati|on. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Acts 7.</NOTE> The good&s;hip fears neither &s;torms nor tempe&s;ts if it hath Sea room enough. Gods love is not onely a Fountain, but an Ocean; and <HI>Paul</HI> concludes, that neither depths nor death can &s;eparate a godly &s;oul <NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 8. ult.</NOTE> there from.</P>
<P>Therefore let us be incouraged to zeal, and Chri&s;tian valor, what thou wante&s;t in comfortable experiences, make up in faith. Chri&s;t is the Captain of our &s;alvati|on, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Heb. 2. 11.</NOTE> and we his Souldiers, and what makes &s;ouldiers adventerers in a field-fight; or &s;torm, not &s;o much their pre&s;ent pay and maintenance, as the Generals promi&s;e of Victory, Honour, Booty, and Preferment; there|fore <NOTE PLACE="marg">Heb. 3. 12.</NOTE> this caution is added, <HI>Take heed le&s;t there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.</HI> If we believe not Gods promi&s;es, we &s;hall be terrified with the hard&s;hips of his &s;ervice. Yet <HI>Da|niel</HI> is wi&s;e and retires him&s;elf.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="Ob&s;er."> Whence note, Gods &s;ervans are &s;erious and &s;ecret in his &s;ervice. The rule of Chri&s;t would lead us not <NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 6. 6.</NOTE>
<PB N="6" REF="6" MS="y"> onely into the Hou&s;e, and Chamber, but clo&s;et. Vain-glory in Religion is an undoubted &s;ign of hypo|cri&s;ie. Men do their be&s;t before tho&s;e from whom they expect their reward. <HI>Jehu</HI> will boa&s;t of his zeal, and &s;hew it to the world; he hath therefore the better ac|ceptance with men, and the le&s;s with God. The <HI>Phari|&s;ees</HI> in their religious duties, had this aim to be &s;een of men, and they had their expected reward.</P>
<P>Let's pre&s;ent an in&s;tance, 'tis better then a Play, or May-pole.</P>
<P>Here's one &s;tands in the corners of the &s;treets, or <NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 6. 5. <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>In quibus fere habentur homi|num conventus.</HI> B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">za.</NOTE> rather angles, turnings, and cro&s;s wayes, to be &s;een four ways; 'tis the <HI>forum</HI> or market where the greate&s;t concour&s;e of people is. The people flock about him and thus admrie, &s;ee what a holy man he is, what a devout look he hath, what markes of mortification are in his face. Look <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> his <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">A Plate of Bra&s;s upon his brows, with the Dialogue in|&s;cribed.</NOTE> Frontlet, he hath the Law and fear of God before his eyes, what a demure po|&s;ture he &s;tands in, (no butter &s;hall melt in his mouth, for he fa&s;ts) behold his religious habit, his large Phi|lacteries on the Hemme and borders of his Garment; <NOTE PLACE="marg">Hence was a &s;uper&s;titious re&s;pect for the Hemme of the Garment.</NOTE> there's holine&s;s to the <HI>Lord,</HI> and many divine &s;entences wrought, take notice of his patience and can&s;tancy, he hath &s;tood here a great while, he makes long and ma|ny prayers.</P>
<P>From this ob&s;ervation, the people are alarum'd away with a <HI>Trumpet</HI> &s;ounding a call; why, whats the mat|ter? O there's a <HI>merciful</HI> man doing his <HI>alms,</HI> and 'tis pitty but the world &s;hould know how good a man he is, what a bountiful alms is here, this is a noble Bene|factor, his charity declares that his ability is great; a great man and a good man, this is a Rabbi indeed.</P>
<P>And this is their u&s;ual cour&s;e in their Synagogues, ever &s;abbath in the mid&s;t of their &s;ervice (after the law written in parchment Roles is carried about, and ki&s;&s;ed <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ip&s;e vidi.</NOTE>
<PB N="7" REF="6"> by all the people, as the wi&s;e Papi&s;ts ki&s;s their Cro&s;&s;es, Images, &amp;c.) they have a collection for the Prie&s;t, and the Collector (while gathering) turns to the Prie&s;t, and tels aloud every mans gift, and the Prie&s;t or Levite ble&s;&s;es him accordingly. But the truly reli|gious man is better retired: for he &s;eeks the honour that comes from God <HI>alone;</HI> he that hath rarities for the King, will not open them in the way to the Court. Chri&s;ts &s;pou&s;e is a beauty, that will not be blown up|on. 'Tis held in Philo&s;ophy, that the motion of the <NOTE PLACE="marg">Stellae motus uon edit&s;onum; Sancti non &s;u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">t &s;onantes.</NOTE> Stars is without noi&s;e. True Saints are not &s;ounding <HI>bra&s;s,</HI> or tinkling <HI>cymbals</HI> that have but one note, no mu&s;ical variety that makes a noi&s;e without melody.</P>
<P>But though he be within doors his faith flyes out; his windows were open; they &s;eldom &s;hut their windows thereabouts, for they have white <HI>ceiled</HI> hou&s;es, little <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Hag.</HI> 1. 4.</NOTE> windows, and no gla&s;s, and he looks to <HI>Ieru&s;alem</HI> and the Temple: Where Note, <HI>Faith is an ingredient to all Chri&s;tian &s;ervices.</HI> <MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="Ob&s;erv."> The <HI>Temple</HI> here prefigured <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> and how they agree we &s;hall &s;ee. As upon Al|legories, Parables, and Similitudes, there may be an unhappy u&s;e of invention; (for particulars in &s;uch ca&s;es, be&s;ides the &s;cope, are not argumentative) &s;o we mu&s;t diligently regard the main parts of re&s;emblance.</P>
<P N="1">1. It was an in&s;titution that the Temple &s;hould be re|&s;pected <NOTE PLACE="marg">1 <HI>King.</HI> 8.</NOTE> in Prayer, as doth plentifully appear in the dedication thereof: So the Lord &s;aid concerning his Son, <HI>Look</HI> unto him and be <HI>&s;aved;</HI> and him had <HI>Jonah</HI> re&s;pect to under the type: for we reade, That he look|ed towards the Temple, when he was in the depth of <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Iona</HI> 2. 4.</NOTE> the Sea, and had lo&s;t the points of the Compa&s;s, he could not know Ea&s;t from We&s;t; be&s;ides he was in the dark cave of the Whales belly, and was muffled and blind folded with weeds wrap't about his head:
<PB N="8" REF="7"> This then was onely the working of his faith, towards the &s;eat and center of Gods mercy, which is really Je|&s;us Chri&s;t, and in Go&s;pel language is called our <HI>ap|proach</HI> to God through <HI>him,</HI> and asking in his name.</P>
<P N="2">2. The Temple was the rare&s;t piece in the world, for materials and workman&s;hip, the mo&s;t rich and beauti|ful building; no &s;uch &s;tately and magnificent &s;tructure as the Lords hou&s;e. The &s;econd Temple, that was yet nothing to <HI>Solomons,</HI> was admirable in Chri&s;ts time, 'twas glorious for outward glory, &amp; holy for external &s;anctity: &s;o our Lord Je&s;us, the rare&s;t piece that ever the worlds eye &s;aw, the faire&s;t among&s;t men, never the like made of fle&s;h and blood. The Church &s;ets him out to &s;trangers in his colours of <HI>white and red,</HI> and his <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Cant.</HI> 5. 10.</NOTE> <HI>office</HI> a <HI>Standard bearer,</HI> which we corruptly read the <HI>chiefe&s;t:</HI> The goodlie&s;t per&s;on in the Ho&s;t is cho&s;en to bear the Royal Standard, and his imployment is his highe&s;t grace. They that look no higher then his per|&s;onal appearance &s;hall never now his worth; but be|lievers lift up their eyes and &s;ee him di&s;playing the Royal <HI>En&s;ign</HI> of divine favour; and here's his glory.</P>
<P N="3">3. The Temple was &s;o holy that it &s;anctified the gifts, the Gold and other oblations were hallowed by its holine&s;s. So our Lord Je&s;us doth our &s;ervices, though &s;eemingly as pure as gold, yet they will not pa&s;s above, without his image upon them. To our prayers there goes his incen&s;e, if he takes not up our <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Rev.</HI> 8. 3.</NOTE> names, in vain do we his.</P>
<P N="4">4. The Temple was graced with the pre&s;ence of God this was the cho&s;en habitation of the mighty God of <HI>Iacob. Ionah</HI> &s;aid his prayer came in unto him in his holy Temple; hither he appointed all the Males to come three times a year to meet him. Here <HI>I&s;aiah</HI> be|held his Maje&s;ty, and <HI>David</HI> his beauty, who hath re|cour&s;e <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>I&s;ai.</HI> 6. 1. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 27. 4.</NOTE>
<PB N="9" REF="7"> to a Temple-revelation, when he would <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 63. 3. 4.</NOTE> have his wi&s;h his fill of God. And this Chri&s;t owns to <HI>Philip, If thou ha&s;t &s;een me, thou ha&s;t &s;een the Fa|ther.</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Iob.</HI> 14. 8.</NOTE> The Godhead is in&s;eparably united to the Man hood in Chri&s;t, who is the medium for commu|nion between God and man, witne&s;s his own words, <HI>Thou father in me, and I in them.</HI> God <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Iob.</HI> 17.</NOTE> gives us a meeting in <HI>grace</HI> which we embrace by <HI>faith</HI> in <HI>Chri&s;t.</HI></P>
<P N="5">5. From the Temple came the ble&s;&s;ing; &s;o <HI>David, They &s;hall be abundantly &s;atisfied with the</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 36.</NOTE> <HI>fatne&s;s of thy Hou&s;e,</HI> 'twas the place of dole; here the Lord commanded the ble&s;&s;ing. In his Temple did every man &s;peak of his <HI>honour,</HI> be|cau&s;e there they received his <HI>favour.</HI> Now this is Chri&s;ts &s;ingular prerogative, as without him we can do nothing, &s;o receive nothing, all comforts and &s;piritual ble&s;&s;ings (promoting us to heavenly <NOTE PLACE="marg">2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 1. 4. <HI>Ephe&s;.</HI> 1. 6.</NOTE> places) we have through him, he entertains our faith with heavenly delicates, joy un&s;peakable, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Fides gratia &amp; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">peratio dei, qua deus credi|tur, vita purga|tur &amp; anima con&s;olatur.</NOTE> &s;ome <HI>Grapes</HI> of <HI>Canaan, fir&s;t-fruits</HI> of glory, the very <HI>&s;ub&s;tance</HI> of things hoped for, though &s;o little that 'tis but the <HI>evidence</HI> of things not &s;een.</P>
<P N="6">6. Chr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="3 letters"> makes a likene&s;s 'twixt his dying body, and the Temples overthrow: <HI>Solomons</HI> was de|&s;troyed, and another re-edified, with this promi&s;e; The glory of the <HI>&s;econd</HI> Temple &s;hall be greater then the <HI>fir&s;t;</HI> which was true in Chri&s;t, who &s;aith, <HI>De&s;troy this Temple, and in three dayes I will rai&s;e it up;</HI> and this he &s;pake of his body, which &s;hall now dye no more; and how glorious 'tis, tho&s;e that have &s;een him him &s;ince his a&s;cen&s;ion (as <HI>Ste|phen</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Acts</HI> 7. <HI>ult. &amp;</HI> 22. 6. 11. <HI>Rev.</HI> 1. 13. 14, 15, 16.</NOTE> at his di&s;&s;olution, <HI>Paul</HI> at his conver&s;ion, and <HI>Iohn</HI> in his Revelation) will give &s;ome light.
<PB N="10" REF="8"> And hereby we obtain this comfortable hope, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Tanta erit di&s;paritas inter corpus &s;piritu|ale &amp; naturale, quanta &s;it inter corpus naturale &amp; &s;emen gene|rationis. Ob&s;erv.</NOTE> that our bodies (that &s;hall be) will as far exceed the&s;e in glory, as the&s;e their &s;eed, or du&s;t whereof they are made. But though his faith be high, his ge&s;ture is lowly and meek, he is upon his knees.</P>
<P>4. Whence we conclude, Our duty to God mu&s;t be performed with humility; We mu&s;t &s;erve the Lord with reverence, and <HI>James</HI> injoyns it in &s;e|veral <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Sam.</HI> 4. 9. 10.</NOTE> of his terms, be <HI>afflected, mourn, weep, humble</HI> your &s;elves in the &s;ight of God, and he &s;hall lift you up. Our ge&s;ture in Prayer mu&s;t declare an humbled heart; 'tis &s;uper&s;titious to tye up our &s;elves to any one ge&s;ture. The Phari&s;ees as we have heard, <HI>&s;tood</HI> praying, and Chri&s;t approves that po&s;ture (&s;aying) when he <HI>&s;tand</HI> praying, for|give. <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Mar.</HI> 11. 25.</NOTE> <HI>Daniel</HI> kneeled, with many others (both dutiful po&s;tures) the &s;ervant &s;tands before his Ma&s;ter, the &s;ubject kneels before his Soveraign; we read much in Scripture of another po&s;ture <HI>pro|&s;tration,</HI> lying on the face, con&s;tantly u&s;ed by the Turks unto this day. Again,</P>
<P>5. Pious &s;ouls are frequent in holy duties; The <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ob&s;erv.</NOTE> Turks fill their Mo&s;ques, or Temples &s;even times a day in their Cities, to our &s;hame. The Papi&s;ts ju&s;tly upbraid us with negligence and lukewarm|ne&s;s. A <HI>fervent</HI> &s;pirit, a heart hot in love gadly <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Rom.</HI> 12. 11. <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>in most Copies, and 'tis rejected for this mi&s;ta|ken &s;ence, that Chri&s;tians mu&s;t be time-&s;ervers. P&s;al.</HI> 55. 17, 22, 29, 92, 14.</NOTE> embraces every <HI>opportunity</HI> to di&s;cover it &s;elf. At evening, morning, and at noonday will; * I pray, &s;aid holy <HI>David.</HI> They that be fat &s;hall <HI>eat,</HI> and <HI>wor&s;hip.</HI> When we &s;erve our &s;elves of the creatures, we &s;hould remember to &s;erve the Creator. Cor|pulent bodies have left i&s;&s;ue, and are &s;oone&s;t bar|ren; but <HI>fat</HI> &s;ouls in <HI>old</HI> age are mo&s;t <HI>fruitful:</HI> but what's the duty?</P>
<PB N="11" REF="8">
<P> 6. Prayer is a daily exerci&s;e of Gods people, (mo&s;t u&s;eful in times of danger and di&s;tre&s;s) 'twas that which fir&s;t drove man to God, when <HI>En<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;h</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Gen.</HI> 4. 2<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> (&s;ignifying calamitous man) was born, then be|gan men to call upon the name of the Lord. It's a flower that &s;prings from the miry pit of affliction. The I&s;raelites <HI>pre&s;&s;ures</HI> made them <HI>groan;</HI> thus God tels <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> I have <HI>&s;een</HI> their <HI>affliction, and</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 69. 1. 2. &amp; 130. 1. <HI>Ho&s;.</HI> 5. 15.</NOTE> <HI>heard</HI> their <HI>cry.</HI> God <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> makes the day of evil for this end; he calls it a &s;ea&s;onable, an acceptable time, when he is near, and promi&s;es help and de|liverance. Chri&s;t withdrew his invi&s;ible &s;upport from <HI>Peter</HI> to have his Prayer, and when the earthen Ve&s;&s;el was &s;inking, and the waters com|ing in upon his &s;oul, this divine air and holy breath bubled forth, Lord <HI>&s;ave</HI> me, I <HI>peri&s;h:</HI> We conclude this, remembring Chri&s;t to <HI>Thomas,</HI> Thou ha&s;t &s;een the evil day, and ha&s;t prayed, but ble&s;&s;ed are they that (live in this air, and) frequent this duty, in their be&s;t and happie&s;t dayes. In the mid&s;t of thy comforts, thou ha&s;t cau&s;e enough to come to God by Prayer.</P>
<P>And now have we made way to the la&s;t <HI>Ob&s;er|vation,</HI> the mo&s;t proper <HI>&s;ubject</HI> for this day, <HI>Da|niels</HI> prai&s;e: And the truth hence is,</P>
<P N="7">7. The mole&s;tations of Gods people do not <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ob&s;erv.</NOTE> ob&s;truct his prai&s;e; this is evident in <HI>Iob,</HI> a perfect <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Iob.</HI> 1. 21.</NOTE> man, very great in grace, and goods; in an hour he hears of the lo&s;s of cattel, &s;ervants, children and all, he rents his mantle, and looks upon him&s;elf &s;tript, as <HI>naked</HI> as when he was born, and yet cryes out, <HI>Ble&s;&s;ed be the name of the Lord.</HI></P>
<P>The next witne&s;s is <HI>David,</HI> a man beloved of <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 42.</NOTE> God, born to a Kingdom, accu&s;tomed to holy
<PB N="12" REF="9" MS="y"> &s;olemnities, and joyful fea&s;ts, &s;tript of all his com|forts, bani&s;ht from Gods wor&s;hip (&s;o dear to him) pierc't with the Adver&s;aries reproach (that cryed, where's thy God?) yet in this condition he &s;tirs up his &s;oul to an exerci&s;e of <HI>prai&s;e.</HI> We have like|wi&s;e the te&s;timony of <HI>Paul</HI> and <HI>Silas,</HI> who recei|ved <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Acts</HI> 16. 25.</NOTE> many &s;tripes, were ca&s;t into Pri&s;on, and there &s;et in the &s;tocks; yet at <HI>midnight,</HI> the dead time of the night, they <HI>&s;ang</HI> prai&s;e to God.</P>
<P>To confirm this truth, We have three Argu|ments from the remains of comfort, four from the fruit of &s;anctified trouble: And la&s;tly, the command of God. God &s;eldom takes all, thou mai&s;t find nece&s;&s;aries abiding: Now,</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="1" UNIT="Arg."> Ingratitude under the enjoyment of nece&s;&s;aries, is very unchri&s;tian; But God affords thee nece&s;|&s;aries: If thou do&s;t doubt this, compare thy com|forts with Gods &s;ervants in former ages. We can|not find that they eat any fle&s;h before the flood, (when they lived &s;o long) and divers learned men conclude the contrary, and with good rea|&s;on.</P>
<P>See <HI>Iacobs</HI> condition, an heir of the ble&s;&s;ing, <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Gen.</HI> 28.</NOTE> thou can&s;t not have a wor&s;e lodging, the blew heavens are his Canopy, the earth his bed, and the &s;tones his pillow, and here he indented with God, (and conditioned to &s;erve him during life) for <HI>bread</HI> to eat, and <HI>rament</HI> to put on. Is <HI>Elijah's</HI> repa&s;t <NOTE PLACE="marg">1 <HI>King</HI> 19. 6.</NOTE> beyond thy reach, a cake baken on the coals, and a cur&s;e of water? Can&s;t thou not entertain thy friend as well as the old Propht? a man of quality, who called back the young prophet, and it's like &s;et the be&s;t before him (for it was a dear banquet to the young man, it co&s;t him his life, and what
<PB N="13" REF="9"> was it but bread and water? Ha&s;t thou not a hand|ful of parched corn to eat, nor a draught of water <NOTE PLACE="marg">1 <HI>Kin.</HI> 13. 19.</NOTE> to drink, <HI>Hagars</HI> refre&s;hment? which Chri&s;t va|lues and &s;ayes it &s;hall be <HI>rewarded,</HI> therefore thank|fully received. But to leave times and places &s;o remote; 'Tis true we have a good Land, wherein more peri&s;h by wantonne&s;s then want; with meat <NOTE PLACE="marg">In licitis peri|mus.</NOTE> (the <HI>workman&s;hip</HI> of God) our bodies are de&s;troy|ed, rather then with hunger. The Pea&s;antry in <HI>France,</HI> the mountaneers in <HI>Scotland,</HI> and the wilde <NOTE PLACE="marg">Who live by trifoyl or hony|&s;uckle-gra&s;s eaten raw with a little of their butter.</NOTE> <HI>Iri&s;h,</HI> would make the meane&s;t among&s;t us thank|ful. But we'l imagine the want of nece&s;&s;aries, for 'tis po&s;&s;ible though rare, and yet conclude thou ha&s;t life, and thence rea&s;on, to the prai&s;e of God.</P>
<P>The enjoyment of the greate&s;t temporal mercy, will render ingenious Chri&s;tians grateful.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="Arg."> But natural life is the greate&s;t temporal mercy: <HI>Ergo,</HI> This we have from Chri&s;ts own mouth (when he rebukes their needle&s;s care for accom|modations) <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Luk.</HI> 12. 23.</NOTE> The <HI>life</HI> is more then <HI>meat,</HI> and the <HI>body</HI> is more then <HI>rayment,</HI> life is the capacity, the end and &s;um of all other comforts. 'Tis the fir&s;t, and the la&s;t, we willingly redeem it (when endan|gered) with the lo&s;s of our &s;ub&s;tance, we &s;pare not skin, fle&s;h, or limb to pre&s;erve life, lancings, and <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Iob</HI> 2. 4.</NOTE> cutting, cures we undergo to &s;ave it. Life in Scrip|ture is called a <HI>prey,</HI> which is alwayes taken (after the fight in victory) with <HI>joy</HI> and &s;houting. See how this mercy is prized by a hopele&s;s offender, pardoned at the place of execution. But a godly &s;oul may lo&s;e his living, and life too; what remains beyond this to the prai&s;e of God? <HI>An.</HI> His Grace.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="Arg."> Where true Grace is, there is the greate&s;t cau&s;e of thankfulne&s;s. But the children of God have
<PB N="14" REF="10"> true grace, they have the immortal &s;eed, the di|vine nature, the &s;pirit of Chri&s;t, and the life of God, therefore mu&s;t needs be thankful. This <HI>Paul</HI> &s;peaks home to, Having, &s;aith he, acce&s;s into this Grace wherein we &s;tand, we rejoyce in hope <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Rom.</HI> 5. 2. 3.</NOTE> of the glory of God, and <HI>glory</HI> in tribulations. Oh Chri&s;tian; what cau&s;e ha&s;t thou to be thankful, could&s;t thou under&s;tand thine e&s;tate, thy portion? We tell you of Crowns, and Kingdoms, to rai&s;e an apprehen&s;ion which yet never comes near it: We read of a City paved with Gold, walled with <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Rev.</HI> 21.</NOTE> precious Stones, twelve Gates, twelve intire <NOTE PLACE="marg">Nihil in in|tellectu quod non fuit prius in &s;en&s;u.</NOTE> Pearls, becau&s;e the &s;oul is in&s;tructed by &s;en&s;e even in things invi&s;ible. One &s;ayes, the compilers of the Turki&s;h Alcaron formed their Paradi&s;e (of choice Gardens, delicate fruits, rare beauties, re&s;tored virginities, and the like carnal delights) <NOTE PLACE="marg">Non quod ip&s;i it a put&acirc;runt &s;ed quid alias vulgo afficere non potuerunt.</NOTE> rather from the heathen <HI>Poets,</HI> then the <HI>Iew</HI> and <HI>Monk</HI> a&s;&s;i&s;tant; not becau&s;e thus per&s;waded them|&s;elves, but otherwi&s;e they could not affect the people. And therefore the Jews could receive no more then temporal promi&s;es and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions, be|cau&s;e &s;o long be&s;otted with Aegyptian &s;en&s;ual comforts, and becau&s;e &s;o prone to Idolatry, God &s;hamed their Idols with Temple-glory: As that was typical to them, &s;o all that the world and Mi|ni&s;try can &s;ay, is but metaphorical and &s;hadowy to the bright glory that &s;hall be revealed. Thou knowe&s;t (Chri&s;tian friend) that thou can&s;t not alwayes lay-out the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of thy experiences in divine prai&s;es, how then can&s;t thou deal with the rever&s;ion. The recompence of Gods righteou&s;|ne&s;s on us, calls for our highe&s;t admirations, ex|pre&s;&s;ions can go no further.</P>
<PB N="15" REF="10" MS="y">
<P> Now from the fruits of &s;anctified trouble, we plead for Gods prai&s;e.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="Arg."> That which di&s;covers our relation to Chri&s;t &s;hould move us to thankfulne&s;s: But mole&s;tations <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ioh.</HI> 16. <HI>ult.</HI></NOTE> and troubles evidence this; they are the common badge of Chri&s;tianity, every <HI>mark</HI> of our high calling is a <HI>prize,</HI> and the deeper the &s;car, the more honourable. This was <HI>Pauls</HI> evidence, his Reli|gion <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign">. <HI>Gal.</HI> 6. 17.</NOTE> might be read in the&s;e characters, the <HI>markes</HI> of the Lord Je&s;us born in his body, he was &s;o &s;tigmatized and branded, for Chri&s;t that 'twas ea&s;ie to know who&s;e he was. Well &s;aid that old <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ignatius. <HI>Qui non cru|ciatus non Christianus.</HI></NOTE> primitive Saint, Now I begin to be a Chri&s;tian, when his bones were cru&s;hing between the teeth of wild bea&s;ts. Settlement on the Lees, and con|&s;tant pomp is rather for <HI>Dives</HI> then <HI>Daniel.</HI></P>
<P><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="Arg."> What makes us more gracious, &s;hould make us more grateful: But mole&s;tations improve grace. Difficulties makes virtue heroick, and graces glo|rious, as wind to the fire makes the flame mount high. So Chri&s;t, when I am lifed up (in my &s;uf|fering) my graces &s;hall &s;o &s;hine, that I'l gain and draw all men to me. His Cro&s;s was but the bu&s;h &s;et out to the be&s;t wine. They bring forth the quiet fruits of righteou&s;ne&s;s. The Land that is be&s;t plowed is mo&s;t fruitful. When <HI>Paul</HI> in&s;i&s;ts upon <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Rom.</HI> 5. 2, 3, 4.</NOTE> the pedigree, and runs with grace in the; He &s;aies, the root and original is tribulation. <HI>David</HI> feared not the roaring waters, &s;haking Mountains, and <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 46. 3, 4.</NOTE> mo&s;t terrible tempe&s;ts; for there was a <HI>River,</HI> the &s;treams whereof made <HI>glad</HI> the City of God. We gladly endure the falling of great &s;torms after a drought, that &s;o the &s;prings may ri&s;e: and <HI>Iames</HI> wills the rich to <HI>rejoyce,</HI> in that he is made <HI>low,</HI> and <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Jam.</HI> 1. 10.</NOTE>
<PB N="16" REF="11"> adds the rea&s;on, becau&s;e as the flower of the gra&s;s he &s;hall pa&s;s away. The flowers fading in our bo&s;ome, tell us what our joyes and life will come to.</P>
<P>The vanity of our &s;ub&s;tance, doth teach us the mortality of our bodies, and prepares us for im|mortal glory.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="Arg."> What de&s;troyes &s;in &s;hould increa&s;e prai&s;e; but Tribulations make Chri&s;tians le&s;s &s;inful, therefore more thankful: Thunder and Lightning con&s;ume unwhol&s;ome vapours, and clear the air. Gold in the fire lo&s;eth onely its dro&s;s, and &s;harp winters kill the weeds. God &s;aith, His people were <HI>carri|ed</HI> away, and kept in <HI>Babylon</HI> for their <HI>good.</HI> Fle&s;h <NOTE PLACE="marg">Jer.</NOTE> will bide longe&s;t &s;weet in cold weather. If he <HI>hedges</HI> up our way in &s;in, with <HI>thornes</HI> of trouble, <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ho&s;.</HI> 2.</NOTE> we may be thankful. He is wi&s;e, and can de&s;troy the cau&s;e with its own effect, &s;in with &s;orrow. The Scorpions oyl cures the Scorpions &s;ting. We &s;hould therefore ki&s;s the rod; for if we were not <HI>cha&s;tened</HI> of the Lord, we &s;hould run on in &s;in, and <NOTE PLACE="marg">Perii&s;&s;em ni&s;i perij&s;&s;em.</NOTE> be condemned with the world.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="Arg."> That which will make our prai&s;es more high and heavenly in the Kingdom of God, &s;hould make us in a good degree thankful here. But our Tribulations and &s;orrows will advance our prai&s;es there: <HI>Ergo,</HI> For this take the report of him, that often &s;aw what was done above,: <HI>John</HI> in his <HI>Re|velation</HI> &s;aw a company in <HI>white</HI> Robes, and <HI>palms</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Rev.</HI> 7.</NOTE> of victory in their hands, before the Throne, and the Lamb crying with a loud voice, <HI>Salvation, ble&s;sing, glory, wi&s;dome, thanksgiving, honour, po|wer,</HI> and <HI>might,</HI> be to the <HI>Lord,</HI> and the <HI>Lamb</HI> for ever. <HI>John</HI> wonders who the&s;e are, that are &s;o
<PB N="17" REF="11"> high in the prai&s;e of God; he asked one of the heavenly ho&s;t that &s;tood by, who returns this an|&s;wer; The&s;e are they that came out of great <HI>Tri|bulations</HI> &amp;c. The <HI>wrath</HI> of man is here turned to the prai&s;e of God by the &s;aved ones. The Prodi|gals mi&s;ery made the mu&s;ick: He was <HI>lo&s;t,</HI> and is <HI>found,</HI> was the burden of the <HI>Song.</HI></P>
<P>It's noted by one, That Princes are commonly unhappy in this, that nothing is rare to them, their di&s;tance is &s;o little from all comforts, that they cannot ripen a de&s;ire before the enjoyment comes; herein our King is the happie&s;t under heaven. <HI>Cla|rior &egrave; tenebris</HI> is his al&s;o. Therefore the Saints that <HI>&s;leep</HI> in Chri&s;t, &s;hall have more glory then they that are found <HI>alive,</HI> and changed at his com|ing, becau&s;e every mercy takes it ri&s;e and height from the depth of former mi&s;ery; di&s;&s;olution makes the re&s;urrection exceeding glorious.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, to &s;trengthen the former cords, and bind this <HI>&s;acrifice</HI> of <HI>prai&s;e,</HI> to the horns of the <HI>Altar;</HI> Con&s;ider, God requires it.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="Arg."> Now, True Chri&s;tians faithfully apply them|&s;elves to the di&s;charge of every duty: But cheer|fulne&s;s and thankfulne&s;s in every condition is a Chri&s;tians duty. Had we no other argument, this were &s;ufficient. It is the expre&s;s will of God, that <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Phil.</HI> 4. 6.</NOTE> we &s;hould <HI>rejoyce</HI> evermore, and in every thing <HI>give thanks</HI> joyfull&punc; as well as mournful confe&s;|&s;ions, are his in&s;titutions. He will not have an evil report, brought upon a good land; others di&s;|couraged from piety, for want of joy, his com|mands we mu&s;t not di&s;pute, but obey. This &s;hould not &s;tick betwixt God and a Chri&s;tian, as was
<PB N="18" REF="12"> &s;aid to <HI>Naaman,</HI> If the Prophet had bid thee do &s;ome great matter, thou woul&s;t have done it: how much more, when he &s;aith, <HI>Wa&s;h and be clean;</HI> if God had enjoyned a difficult and dangerous &s;er|vice, would&s;t thou have di&s;obeyed him? What command can be more acceptable then this, Be <HI>joyful,</HI> be <HI>thankful.</HI></P>
<P>Some rational <HI>inferences</HI> from the&s;e demon&s;tra|tions will conclude our work.</P>
<P><MILESTONE UNIT="U&s;e."> To condemn ingratitude: 'tis odious to huma|nity, incon&s;i&s;tent with Chri&s;tianity; But not to hover in generals; There are three &s;orts cen&s;ured by this truth, that refu&s;e, with-hold, or le&s;&s;en prai&s;e. 1. Murmurers, that cannot bear the abate|ment even of &s;uperfluities, which &s;infully repine at the lo&s;s of tho&s;e things that they cannot law|fully enjoy. The proud <HI>Lady</HI> frets, if &s;he want <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>I&s;a.</HI> 3: 18, 19, 20, &amp;c.</NOTE> any of that <HI>bravery,</HI> and tho&s;e <HI>ornaments,</HI> whereat the <HI>Lord</HI> chides when he &s;ees them on. Pluck fea|thers from young birds, and the blood follows. The I&s;raelites were &s;ick of this pet in the wilder|ne&s;s; they could not be content with the Lords allowance, though he gave them Angels food, <HI>bread</HI> of his own making, we have nothing but this Manna, &s;aid they: We eat fle&s;h in Aegypt, who who &s;hall give us fle&s;h to eat? They asked meat for their lu&s;t, and as there was &s;in in the de&s;ire, &s;o there was judgment in the grant. They get <HI>Quails,</HI> a rare bird, a &s;econd-cour&s;e di&s;h, for <HI>lu&s;t</HI> and not for hunger; but while the meat was in their mouthes, the wrath of God fell upon them to their de&s;truction. <HI>Phy&s;itians</HI> &s;ay, that Quails are a dangerous meat, for they breed the Epilep&s;ie, or
<PB N="19" REF="12" MS="y"> falling-&s;ickne&s;s. They did eat, and fell, and the meat wrought out at their No&s;trils. Tho&s;e that &s;eek things for them&s;elves, (e&s;pecially in doubtful times) and de&s;pi&s;e the day of &s;mal things, are none of Gods people. 2. But &s;ay &s;ome, this doth not reach me, I di&s;dain no mercies be they never &s;o mean, but my comforts are &s;o &s;mall, my &s;pirits &s;o low, my heart &s;o careful, that I am unfit for an exerci&s;e of prai&s;e, and &s;eldom excited hereunto. The&s;e are negligently ungrateful, &s;uch were the <HI>Lepers.</HI> Before they were clean&s;ed they could beg, now they have nothing to move charity, but mu&s;t fall to labour and work hard for their living. Nine of the ten never acknowledge their clen&s;ing to be a mercy, onely one returns and is thankful, which our Saviour approves, and reproves the other.</P>
<P>Others with-old divine prai&s;e, through timerou&s;|ne&s;s, and evil mode&s;ty and &s;inful fear, that &s;mo|ther the prai&s;es of God with a multitude of jealou|&s;ies, po&s;&s;ibilities of ill con&s;equences, and the like. There were &s;uch in Chri&s;ts time that <HI>believed</HI> on him, but were afraid to <HI>confe&s;s</HI> him, to whom he &s;aies, He that <HI>denies</HI> me before <HI>men,</HI> him will I <HI>de|ny</HI> before my <HI>father;</HI> and his holy <HI>Angels: Without</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Rev.</HI> 21. 6.</NOTE> are the <HI>fearful.</HI></P>
<P>3. Some are partial in the prai&s;e of God, that neither deny nor with-hold, but le&s;&s;en it, and &s;horten this part in times of trouble, contrary to the cour&s;e of <HI>Daniel</HI> here; he prai&s;ed God now as he did <HI>aforetime</HI> in his greate&s;t &s;tate, and why &s;hould afflictions abate any thing of our prai&s;es, when divine <HI>love</HI> or <HI>hatred</HI> is not di&s;cerned in the
<PB N="20" REF="13"> things of providence. The more this Garment of fle&s;h is worn, the clearer the Sun of Righteou&s;ne&s;s is &s;een through. We have a gracious Father, that will not &s;ee us want; when this old &s;uite of our na|tural body is done, we &s;hall have a new and &s;piri|tual one; and the &s;oul that po&s;&s;e&s;&s;eth the lea&s;t &s;en&s;e of divine love, is convinc'd of more mercy then ever he can expre&s;s in his be&s;t and highe&s;t prai&s;e. 'Twas <HI>Abrahams</HI> fault, that while he com|plains of the want of a <HI>child,</HI> he prizes not the pre|&s;ence of his heavenly <HI>father; Rachel</HI> was to blame, &s;he had a loving husband, a fair e&s;tate, her &s;er|vants about her and one Son, which onely encra|&s;ed her de&s;ire, &s;he named him <HI>Jo&s;eph,</HI> cryes, <HI>Addat Jehovh,</HI> takes him as the pledge of another, is all for an addition, till at la&s;t comes <HI>Benoni,</HI> the Son of her &s;orrow, and death. Inordinate de&s;ires for temporal comfort, with the ungrateful conceal|ment of ble&s;&s;ings received, is very di&s;plea&s;ing to God.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="U&s;e"> VVe might hereunto &s;ubjoyn a corrective for the &s;pleen of Adver&s;aries, the vanity of their envy is clearly &s;een; its folly to ju&s;tle with him you cannot overthrow. Enraged minds will not be &s;a|tisfied with le&s;s then the di&s;tre&s;s and de&s;pair of them they oppo&s;e. The envious man wants full as much as the envied hath. If <HI>Hamans</HI> wrath be kindled, not <HI>Mordecai</HI> alone, but the whole Nation of the Jews &s;hall be a &s;acrifice to that flame; but the word of his friends would be thought on. If <HI>Mordecai</HI> be of the &s;eed of the Jews, before whom <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>E&s;ter</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">. 13.</NOTE> thou ha&s;t begun to fall, thou &s;halt not prevail again&s;t him, but &s;hall &s;urely fall before him.</P>
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<P> It &s;ometimes fares with Adver&s;aries, as with tho&s;e three men that ca&s;t in <HI>Daniels</HI> companions into the fiery furnace; they were devoured of tho&s;e flames, prepared to con&s;ume Gods &s;ervants, who through his mercy were pre&s;erved. The &s;er|vants of God have a real &s;pirituall defen&s;itive again&s;t fires of wrath, and waters of trouble, and 'tis Gods <HI>promi&s;e</HI> to his Elect, (who can never fall <NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 43. 2.</NOTE> below joy and prai&s;e) and mole&s;tations give them <NOTE PLACE="marg">Acts 5. 41.</NOTE> fre&s;h occa&s;ions to glory.</P>
<P>The remaining U&s;es are more comfortable.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="U&s;e"> We &s;ee a great difference between the Godly, and ungodly. 1. In re&s;pect of their e&s;tate and condition; the wicked man hath no &s;olid comfort, if his portion be large; his <HI>Table</HI> is a &s;nare to him, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 11. 9. 10.</NOTE> as a trap baited with a chick, his <HI>back is bowed</HI> down like a bea&s;t, he conver&s;eth wholly with this worlds good, and cannot look up, he forgets his God, Whereas (on the other hand) a godly man faith with <HI>Paul,</HI> though <HI>troubled</HI> on every &s;ide, yet not <NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Gor. 4. 8. 9.</NOTE> <HI>distre&s;&s;ed;</HI> though perplexed, not in <HI>di&s;pair; per&s;e|cuted,</HI> but not <HI>for&s;aken; ca&s;t down,</HI> but not <HI>de&s;troyed.</HI> Grace hath it's fre&s;h &s;prings alwayes hotte&s;t in winter. The &s;pirit of con&s;olation (as the wind) breathes where and when it li&s;teth, by night as well as by day. Divine favour (as of old to the I&s;raelites in the wilderne&s;s) is a pillar of <HI>fire,</HI> clear and comfortable in the <HI>night</HI> of adver&s;ity, when many times in the <HI>day</HI> of pro&s;perity its <HI>cloudy.</HI></P>
<P>2. So their carriage is contrary, the natural man is hardly drawn to acknowledg, or ble&s;s God in abundance, <HI>Nebuchadnezzar</HI> in his pride hath lofty looks, which the Lord brings down, and thus
<PB N="22" REF="14"> vaunteth in his Pallace (viewing his Royal City) Is not this great <HI>Babylon</HI> that I have built for the hou&s;e of the Kingdom, by the <HI>might</HI> of my power, and the <HI>honour</HI> of m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> Maje&s;ty? here's little thanks to God; for all this <HI>Daniel</HI> tells him, that before God hath done with him he &s;hall be convinced of his intere&s;t, in all the&s;e things, and that he <HI>di&s;po|&s;eth</HI> them, according to his own good plea&s;ure. And look upon a gracele&s;s wretch in di&s;tre&s;s, and he frets him&s;elf, cur&s;es, bla&s;phemes; and indeed his carriage is &s;o uncomly, that it would trouble us to write or read it. But with the gracious &s;oul 'tis not &s;o, he hath his &s;ongs in the night, the con&s;ola|tions of God are &s;tronger for his joy, then tribu|lations can be for his dejection; he hath the oyl of grace and gladne&s;s, which alwayes gets upper|mo&s;t, and floats upon the waters of affliction, he triumphs over trouble, he ble&s;&s;es and cur&s;es not.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="U&s;e"> This di&s;covers the rea&s;on of Chri&s;tians high adventures, they never engage their be&s;t e&s;tate, they have a <HI>hidden</HI> life, and comforts thereunto <NOTE PLACE="marg">Col. 3. 3.</NOTE> belonging in a &s;afe hand. Its &s;aid, the Indians ca&s;t their Gold to the Spaniards, and laught to &s;ee the &s;cuffle. Some great men will &s;port away too much, yet &s;carce feel the lo&s;s of it. Theeves may break in and &s;teal hou&s;hold goods, but they cannot carry away Land. The Law &s;ecures our earthly, the Go&s;pel our heavenly inheritance. A Chri&s;tian for Chri&s;t makes little of wealth, liberty, and life too. Chri&s;t, when he bids his friends not fear them that can kill the <HI>body,</HI> he backs his coun&s;el with Argu|ments <NOTE PLACE="marg">Luk. 12. 4. 5.</NOTE> from the depths beneath, and heights above the eternal rewards of the evil and good; the one
<PB N="23" REF="14"> &s;hall be <HI>killed</HI> and ca&s;t into <HI>hell;</HI> (better my body burn here, then body and &s;oul forever in hell, &s;ayes the Martyr) And he further adds, He that <HI>con|fe&s;&s;eth</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">v. 8.</NOTE> me before men, him &s;hall the Son of man al&s;o <HI>confe&s;s</HI> before the Angels of God. He that <HI>witne&s;&s;eth</HI> a good confe&s;&s;ion with his blood, &s;hall find the day of his death, the &s;ouls birth-day unto perfect glory.</P>
<P>And it concerns the people of God to be zea|lous, and valiant; for God keeps up the &s;tage of this world, that they may with honour act their parts; their an&s;wer of God to the &s;ouls of them that were <HI>&s;lain</HI> for the word of God, and the te&s;ti|mony <NOTE PLACE="marg">Rev. 6. 9. 11.</NOTE> which they held, is this, that they &s;hould re&s;t yet for a little &s;ea&s;on, untill their fellow-&s;er|vants al&s;o, and their brethren that <HI>&s;hould</HI> be <HI>killed,</HI> as they were, &s;hould be fulfilled,</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="U&s;e"> Hence comes the increa&s;e of mercy to Gods people, they are faithful in that which is little; I had but a <HI>little,</HI> and did <HI>nothing</HI> with it, &s;aid the evil &s;ervant: I have made <HI>much</HI> of my <HI>little,</HI> &s;aid the good &s;ervant; and what &s;aid the Lord? <HI>Thou &s;halt have more.</HI> The words of Chri&s;t to <HI>Natha|niel,</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">Joh. 1.</NOTE> we may well apply; Becau&s;e, I &s;aid, I &s;aw thee under the Fig-tree; believe&s;t thou? (thou &s;halt have more matter for thy faith to work upon) thou &s;halt &s;ee greater things then the&s;e. A Tenant that paid his Rent well in the VVars, &s;hall be bet|ter tru&s;ted by his Landlord in times of peace; ha&s;t thou in thy mole&s;tations brought me prai&s;e, thou &s;halt not want con&s;olations, &s;aith our Lord. If a Son improve a &s;mall Stock-well, the father cares not how great his tru&s;t be. VVhat Chri&s;t &s;peaks of
<PB N="24" REF="15" MS="y"> him&s;elf, belongs al&s;o to Mini&s;ters; He whom God hath <HI>&s;ent,</HI> and <HI>&s;peaketh</HI> the words of God (is faith|ful in <NOTE PLACE="marg">Joh. 3. 34.</NOTE> the di&s;charge of his Mini&s;try) God giveth not his &s;pirit by <HI>mea&s;ure</HI> to him, he &s;hall not be <NOTE PLACE="marg">Joh. 4. 14, 7. 38.</NOTE> &s;tinted in Gifts or Graces: &s;o a Chri&s;tian that in di&s;tre&s;s, &s;peaks the words of Gods prai&s;e, &s;hall obtain his mercy without mea&s;ure.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="U&s;e"> God hath a&s;&s;igned for his &s;ervants even a heaven upon earth, their life is Angelical, a life of prai&s;e. By the golden <HI>Cherubins</HI> in the Temple, is not only meant our protection from, and under them, but our communion with them in holine&s;s and prai&s;es; this is evident, in that two Cherubins co|vered the mercy &s;eat, where the <HI>Oracle</HI> was; thus &s;ignifying that where Gods pre&s;ence and his mer|cy is vouch&s;afed, there Men and Angels rejoyce. And this is drawn to the life in <HI>I&s;aiah's</HI> vi&s;ion, where the whole <HI>Quire</HI> &s;ing, <HI>Holy, holy, holy,</HI> is the <HI>Lord</HI> of <HI>Ho&s;ts,</HI> heaven an earth is full of thy glory.</P>
<P>Though their joy be not alwayes <HI>full,</HI> yet it al|waies <HI>remains</HI> in them, and is &s;ufficient for the work of prai&s;e; though they have &s;eemingly &s;ad hours, yet with the husbandman they plough in hope, and &s;ow <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> hope, their tears are &s;piced with joyes, and they conclude (as <HI>Daniel</HI> here in greate&s;t danger) their &s;upplications, with confe&s;&s;ions of his prai&s;e. They tru&s;t the onely wi&s;e God to order their good in all conditions and providences, they thankful|ly take the <HI>cup</HI> their heavenly <HI>father</HI> gives them; they &s;ay with their Saviour, not ours, <HI>But thy will be done.</HI> Amen.</P>
<CLOSER>Halelujah.</CLOSER>
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