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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61463	A thanksgiving sermon preach'd before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, Court of Aldermen, sheriffs, and companies of the city of London at St. Mary-le-bow, April 16, 1696, upon occassion of His Majesty's deliverence from a villanous assassination in order to a French invasion by William Stephens ...	Stephens, William, d. 1718.	1696 (1696)	Wing S5465; ESTC R14197	18,938	34

Appeal lieth to God's Providence and is to be prosecuted by open force of Arms. so that hereby is a bar set to all pretence for an Assassination upon any publick person and indeed no men ever pretended to assassinate but such who had openly cast off all principles of Humanity such as House-breakers High-way Robbers Tories and Banditti and no Prince can be suppos'd to commission these persons but such as Nero who wished that the people of Rome had but one Neck that he with his own hand might be the Executioner of his own people such whose insamous Cowardize maketh way for their Cruelty 'T is fit for him who dares not see his Enemy in the Field to attack him by Russians in his Winter Quarters i. e. his Park his Garden his House or naked in his Bed-chamber and yet if we may believe the dying Speeches of Popish Cut-throats who to gain their own Absolution from the Priest are forced to absolve their Masters since Granval is dead and Du Mont almost forgotten there are now no more Ruffians remaining beyond the Seas But this Assassination was timed to the Popish Carneval the preparation to their holy Fast of Lent was to have been a Riot in the Blood of our excellent Prince a fit Preparation for that barbarous Act of Religion they were to commit when their Fast should be ended which is to eat the Flesh and Drink the Blood of our Redeemer Brutus the first arose against Tarquin the second against Caesar Piso against Nero because those Princes were the known Enemies of publick Liberty And if a Sovereign Prince shall so far degenerate from the Character of a Father to his Country as to make it his business to subvert the Religion Laws and Liberties thereof in such a case a People are not only permitted but obliged by the duty they owe to their Country their Posterity and their own Souls effectually by open force of Arms to remove the cause of such an insupportable Calamity as being fully assured both from the goodness of the divine Nature as well as from the express word of God that the Magistrate is the Minister of God only for good but to commit a Parricide upon such a Prince who defends not only the Liberty of England but Europe is a greater Villany than what was ever thought upon by Cataline How dear should that Life be to us which was so barbarously sought after by the professed Enemies of all that is dear to God and Man how does it become us to be thankfull that the breath of our Nostrils the Anointed of the Lord was not taken in their Pits of whom we said Vnder his shadow we shall live among the Heathen But secondly They who were bringing this Plague upon us did not intend that it should visit us single an Insurrection at Home and an Invasion from Abroad were to have been its Attendants That the natural Enemy of England should invade and hold Correspondence to strengthen his design is not strange altho' carrying on that Correspondence to an Assassination be some diminution to his Glory Nor is it to be admired that English Papists who by the tye of their Religion are united to a foreign Head should forget the Land of their Nativity Nor is it a wonder that they who can believe against their Senses should persuade themselves that Lewis XIV may found an Invasion in self-denial and at the expence of French Blood make a Conquest upon England only to restore James the II. But 't is astonishing that English Protestants of the best and purest Reformation as they themselves assert should be Harbingers to the eldest Son of Antichrist and by an unnatural Conspiracy prepare the way for the grand Nimrod the mighty Hunter after Europe's Liberty and assist him to settle the French Yoke upon their native Country i. e. to suppress the Liberty burn the Body poyson and as much as in him lieth damn the Soul of the Nation For these are the certain and known effects of a French Conquest What could the great Oppressor mean but to found himself a Title to England in Conquest and how inviting has it of late bin to him to know how fond we have some of us bin of that Title especially when crown'd with Success and Settlement And what other thing could be design'd when the Embarking Army had not one English Scotch or so much as Irish Troop in it being made up only of the Veteran Troops of France but that the late King of unhappy memory might march through his former Dominions in safe Custody having only the revenge to see England become the worst of all Conquests a French Conquest For to the French Monarch alone 't is owing that War is made more barbarous than 't was ever known in former Ages His Promises and Oaths make way for his Perjury his Treachery leads on to his Cruelty and what the Sword is uncapable to devour the Fire must consume Did ever any Men before now found an Insurrection only in a revenge upon their own native Country Did ever Men before now form a Rebellion without any other rational prospect but of Slavery to the Souls and Bodies of themselves and their Posterity May not England with astonishment take up the words of Isaiah Hear O Heavens and give ear O Earth I have nourished and brought up Children and they have rebelled against me Isa 1.2 But what does the sense of our wonderfull Deliverance call for Does it not 1. First engage all those who joyn together in a just abhorrence of this unnatural Confederacy to unite together in bonds of mutual love and charity to each other are not all those who have the same common Enemies even thereby compelled to associate themselves together in the strictest Friendship have not French Invasions already joyn'd different Nations of differing Religions together in one common League for mutual safety and may not the same reason prevail for the Union of Protestants of the same Nation at least in brotherly love and charity When the Heathen and the high Church of Israel conspired together against the life of Christ was it not a warning to all his Servants to unite against their confederated Enemies Certainly when the reasons of our mutual agreement with one another are so weighty as hath bin shewn and the causes of our differences so very light nothing but our own ill nature can give an ill turn to the scale 2dly This Deliverance calls us to more caution that we give no further Encouragements to the common Oppressor to invade nor to the home-bred Traytor to assist him Let us no longer preserve as sacred the forseited Right of a Tyrant and no longer refuse to own the legal Right of our Deliverer A Right by Law should be if possible more pretious to us than a Right by Succession since fortuitous birth giveth a Right by Succession but 't is the addition of Heroick Merit to Princely birth which recommends to a Right by Law