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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1642 edition. Excerpt:... SERMON PREACHED At the late Fast before the Commons House of Parliament. Psal, o.jji pg LordalsoviU bearefugefortbeopprefied, A refuge in times of trouble His Psalme is almost altogether Eucharisticall, for it containing twenty verses, onely three of them are spent in prayer, v. Ij 19,-20. the other 17. are bestowed in thanksgiving. )?"t"l Andcertainely there is much Christianity,muchChristian policy in weaving and working praises and prayers into each other. For as God is highly honoured by prayer, ffal. 116. i?, 14. What shall I render to the Lord fir 'Πhis benefits towards me (saith David) his answer foilowes, / will call p the Name of the Lord, B So So Prayer proves rhe more prevalent, being accompanied with praysesj because when glory is returned unto God for favours formerly afforded, 'his Majesties great desiane is served and his expectatiKjo.iy. orvsatisfied. Iwill deltver andthou flhtlt glorife intj whereupon the thanksull Petitioner may most hopefully expect the speeding of his great petitions at the throne of grace. Let us learne this pious policy, this religious Rheitorick in. osr addresses unto God, (tvm) to preface, to put on our suites of greatest concernment with thanksgivings tothe Lord, for the great things' already done amongst os, by bistfplparartt and remarkable providences. The Occasion of the praises in this Pfi Ime prefented (as it is generally conceived) was some glorious gcneralLdcliverance f rom some very deepeanddesperatetJanger. And some Interpreters conjecture, that the killing of Goliath and the-overthrow of the Pbiti. Htrtes, as a consequence of that victory, occasioned th"is,part of holy Scripture. One ground of this conjecture, is, from these words in thetttle set before...