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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Plates
- Dedication
- General Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Church's Year-Book, Meditations and Devotions from the Resurrection to All Saints' Day
- A Serious and Pathetical Contemplation of the Mercies of God, in Several Most Devout and Sublime Thanksgivings for the same.
- A Letter Concerning this Book from the Publisher to the Bookseller
- To the Reader
- Some Books of Devotion ; Printed for Samuel Keble at the Turks-head in Fleet-street
- Thanksgivings for the Body
- Thanksgivings for the Soul
- Thanksgivings for the Glory of God's Works
- Thanksgivings for the Blessedness of God's Ways
- A Key to the Gate
- Thanksgivings for the Blessedness of his Laws
- Thanksgivings for the Beauty of his Providence
- Thanksgivings for the Wisdom of his WORD
- Appendix to the former Thanksgiving
- Thanksgivings for God's Attributes
- A Thanksgiving and Prayer for the NATION
- Textual Emendations and Notes
- Appendix
- Glossary
A Thanksgiving and Prayer for the NATION
from A Serious and Pathetical Contemplation of the Mercies of God, in Several Most Devout and Sublime Thanksgivings for the same.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2016
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Plates
- Dedication
- General Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Church's Year-Book, Meditations and Devotions from the Resurrection to All Saints' Day
- A Serious and Pathetical Contemplation of the Mercies of God, in Several Most Devout and Sublime Thanksgivings for the same.
- A Letter Concerning this Book from the Publisher to the Bookseller
- To the Reader
- Some Books of Devotion ; Printed for Samuel Keble at the Turks-head in Fleet-street
- Thanksgivings for the Body
- Thanksgivings for the Soul
- Thanksgivings for the Glory of God's Works
- Thanksgivings for the Blessedness of God's Ways
- A Key to the Gate
- Thanksgivings for the Blessedness of his Laws
- Thanksgivings for the Beauty of his Providence
- Thanksgivings for the Wisdom of his WORD
- Appendix to the former Thanksgiving
- Thanksgivings for God's Attributes
- A Thanksgiving and Prayer for the NATION
- Textual Emendations and Notes
- Appendix
- Glossary
Summary
REmember me, O Lord, with the favour that thou bearest to thy people ; O visit me with thy Salvation.
That I may see the good of thy chosen, that I may rejoyce in the gladness of thy Nation, that I may glory with thine Inheritance.
O Lord my God, thou hast compassed me with Mercies on every side.
The Fields and Valleys,
Being truly seen, are inestimable treasures ;
The beauty of the Skies, a magnificent joy ;
To him that was nothing,
Created but yesterday,
Taken from the Dust,
To Day,
Half an hour since,
This very moment.
Rivers, Springs, Trees, Meadows,
Even dry Land it self,
Clouds, Air, Light and Rain,
The Sun and Stars,
Are wonderful works,
Filling me with cheerfulness,
Made to serve us.
I praise thee, O Lord, for the delights of Eden.
Such are these!
Among which, were I alone like Adam ;
Being wise I could not be desolate.
But thou hast compassed me
With innumerable Treasures,
Pleasant for variety,
Of infinite value,
Surmounting the created World 10000. fold.
The World is a Case, Containing Jewels,
A silent Stage,
A Theatre for Actions,
Made for innumerable ends.
In all which thy fatherly wisdom hath shewn it self.
But, O my God, empty Cases,
Cabinets spoiled are dum shews.
The Jewels, O Lord, and Scenes and Actions ;
These are the Treasures which most we prize,
The delights we esteem,
The Crown of Pleasure,
For the sake of which Cabinets were made,
Theatres erected,
Cases valued.
O Lord spare thy people ;
Spare thy people, O my God!
Those Jewels in thy Cabinet, those Persons on thy Stage, that fill the World with wonderful Actions.
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- The Works of Thomas Traherne<I>Church's Year-Book</I>, <I>A Serious and athetical Contemplation of the Mercies of GOD</I>, [<I>Meditations on the Six Days of the Creation</I>], pp. 420 - 429Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2009