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A62599	A sermon preached at Lincolns-Inn-Chappel, on the 31th of January, 1688 being the day appointed for a publick thanksgiving to Almighty God for having made His Highness the Prince of Orange the glorious instrument of the great deliverance of this kingdom from popery & arbitrary power / by John Tillotson ...	Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.	1689 (1689)	Wing T1236; ESTC R6939	16,918	45

One of our Neighbour Nations which hath long pretended to the Profession of the most refin'd and moderate Popery in the World but hath now at last shewed it self in its true Colours and in the Perfection of a Persecuting Spirit and have therein given us a most sad and deplorable Instance of a Religion corrupted and degenerated into that which if it be possible is worse than None And since by the undeserved Mercy of God to us we have upon such easie terms in comparison escap'd their Rage and Fury let us now at length resolve never to join in affinity with the People of these Abominations since our Alliances with them by Marriage have had so fatal an Influence both upon the publick Peace and Tranquillity of the Nation and upon the Welfare also of private Families I have known Many Instances of this kind but hardly ever yet saw One that prov'd happy but a great many that have been pernicious and ruinous to those Protestant Families in which such unequal and as I think unlawful Matches have been made Not that such Marriages are void in themselves but yet for all that sinful because of the apparent Danger and Temptation to which those of our Church and Religion that enter into them do evidently expose themselves of being seduc'd from their Religion not by the good Arguments which the other can offer to that purpose but by the ill Arts which they have the Confidence and the Conscience to make use of in the making of Proselytes And let us pay our most hearty and thankful Acknowledgments chiefly and in the first place to Almighty God the Blessed Author of this Deliverance and under Him to that happy Instrument whom God hath been pleased in great pity to this sinful and unworthy Nation to raise up on purpose for it his Highness the Prince of Orange and to that end did in his All-wise Providence lay the Foundation of our then future Deliverance in that auspicious Match which was concluded here in England about eleven years ago between this Renowned Prince and our Excellent Princess This is that most Illustrious House of Nassau and Orange which God hath so highly honoured above all the Families of the Earth to give a Check to the Two Great aspiring Monarchies of the West and bold Attempters upon the Liberties of Europe To the One in the last Age and to the Other in the present As if the Princes of this Valiant and Victorious Line had been of the Race of Hercules born to rescue Mankind from Oppression and to quell Monsters And lastly let us beseech Almighty God all whose Ways and Works are perfect That he would establish that which he hath wrought and still carry it on to further and greater Perfection Which after such an Earnest of his Favour and Good Will to us we have no reason to doubt but that he is ready to do for us if by our own fickleness and inconstancy disgusting the Deliverance now it is come which we so earnestly desir'd before it came if by our ingrateful Murmurings and Discontents by our own foolish Heats and Animosities kindled and carried on by the ill designs of some working upon the tenderness and scruples of others under the specious pretences of Conscience and Loyalty I say if by some or all these ways we do not refuse the Blessing which God now offers and defeat and frustate the merciful Design of this wonderful Revolution God will still rejoice over us to do us good and think thoughts of Peace towards us thoughts of good and not of evil to give us an expected end of our long Troubles and Confusions But if we will not know in this our day the things which belong to our Peace our Destruction will then be of our selves and there will be no need that God should be angry with us for we shall be undone by our own Differences and Quarrels about the Way and Means of our being saved and so be angry with one another till we be consumed Which God of his infinite Goodness give us all the Grace and Wisdom to prevent for his Mercies sake in Jesus Christ to whom with Thee O Father and the Holy-Ghost be all Honour and Glory Thanksgiving and Praise both now and ever Amen FINIS BOOKS lately Printed for Brabaz Aylmer THE Rule of Faith or An Answer to the Treatise of Mr. J. Sarjant By John Tillotson D. D. Dean of Canterbury To which is adjoined a Reply to Mr. J. S. his Third Appendix c. By Edward Stillingfleet D. D. Dean of St. Paul's The Advice of a Father or Counsel to a Child Directing him how to demean himself in the most important Passages of this Life The True mother-Mother-Church or a Short Discourse concerning the Doctrine and Worship of the First Church at Jerusalem upon Acts II. By Samuel Johnson Author of Reflexions upon Julian Price 2 d. Books Printed for Brab Aylmer and W. Rogers SErmons and Discourses some of which never before printed The Third Volume By the Reverend Dr. Tillotson Dean of Canterbury 8vo A Discourse against Transubstantiation In 8vo Price 3 d. A Perswasive to frequent Communion in the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper By John Tillotson Dean of Canterbury In 8vo Price 3 d. Books Printed for William Rogers AN Answer to a Discourse Intituled Papists protesting against Protestant Popery being a Vindication of Papists not Misrepresented by Protestants 4to A Sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London at ●uild-Hall Chappel on Sunday November the 4th 1688. By William Sherlock D. D. Master of the Temple A Letter of Enquiry to the Reverend Fathers of the Society of Jesus Written in the Person of a Dissatisfied Roman Catholick 1 Chro. 29. 4. Psalm 103. 10. I. II. Lev. 26. 13. Isai. 1. 4. Vers. 5. Isai. 9. 13. Isai. 25. 11. 2 Chro. 28 22. Judg. 8. 34 35. 1 King. 11. 9. 2 Chro. 32. 25. Isai. 1. 2. Vers. 3. Isai. 26. 10. Deut. 13. 1 2. Vers. 5 Numb 14. 22. Judg. 10. 11 12 13 14. Jer. 2. 19. Judg. 10. 13. Gen. 15. 16. Rom. 9. 22. Isai. 1. 5. Matth. 23. 37 38. Psal. 28. 5. Psal. 118. 23 24. 1 Cor. 1●… 9 10 11. Numb 21. 5 6. V. 11.

and by the unwearied Malice and Arts of the Church of Rome the seeds of Dissention were scattered very early amongst us and a sowre humour had been fermenting in the Body of the Nation both upon account of Religion and Civil Interests for a long time before things broke out into a Civil War. And more particularly yet That which is call'd the great Trespass here in the Text their joining in affinity with the People of these abominations by whom they had been detain'd in a long Captivity This I say seems to have had both from the nature of the thing and the just Judgment of God no small influence upon a great part of the Miseries and Calamities which have befallen us For had it not been for the countenance which Popery had by the Marriages and Alliances of our Princes for two or three Generations together with those of that Religion it had not probably had a continuance among us to this day Which will I hope now be a good warning to those who have the Authority to do it to make effectual provision by Law for the prevention of the like inconvenience and mischief in this Nation for ever 2. Another Parallel between our Case and that in the Text is That God hath punish'd us less than our iniquities did deserve And this acknowledgment we have as much reason to make for our selves as Ezra had to do it in behalf of the Jews Thou our God hast punish'd us less than our iniquities deserve Thou our God hast punish'd us there is the reason of so much mercy and mitigation It is God and not Man with whom we have to do and therefore it is that we the children of men are not consumed And it is our God likewise to whom we have a more peculiar relation and with whom by virtue of our Profession of Christianity we are in Covenant Thou our God hast punish'd us less than our Iniquities deserve He might justly have pour'd forth all his wrath and have made his jealousie to have smoak'd against us and have blotted out the remembrance of us from under Heaven He might have given us up to the will of our Enemies and into the hands of those whose tender mercies are cruelty He might have brought us into the net which they had spred for us and have laid a terrible load of affliction upon our loins and suffer'd insolent men to ride over our heads and them that hated us with a perfect hatred to have had the rule over us But he was graciously pleas'd to remember mercy in the midst of judgment and to repent himself for his servants when he saw that their power was gone and that things were come to that extremity that we were in all humane probability utterly unable to have wrought out our own Deliverance 3. The last Parallel between our Case and that in the Text is the great and wonderful Deliverance which God hath wrought for us And whilst I am speaking of this God is my witness whom I serve in the Gospel of his Son that I do not say one word upon this Occasion in flattery to men but in true thankfulness to Almighty God and constrain'd thereto from a just sense of his great mercy to us all in this marvelous Deliverance in this mighty Salvation which he wrought for us So that we may say with Ezra Since thou our God hast given us such a Deliverance as THIS So great that we know not how to compare it with any thing but it Self God hath given us this Deliverance And therefore Not unto us O Lord not unto us but to thy Name be the praise For thou knowest and we are all conscious to our selves that we did in no-wise deserve it but quite the contrary God hath given it and it ought to be so much the welcomer to us for coming from such a Hand It is the Lord 's doing and therefore ought to be the more marvellous in our eyes It is a Deliverance full of Mercy and I had almost said full of Miracle The Finger of God was visibly in it and there are plain Signatures and Characters upon it of a more immediate Divine interposition And if we will not wisely consider the Lord's doings we have reason to stand in awe of that Threatning of His Because they regard not the works of the Lord nor the operation of his hands he shall destroy them and not build them up It was a wonderful Deliverance indeed if we consider all the Circumstances of it The Greatness of it and the strangeness of the Means whereby it was brought about and the Suddenness and Easiness of it The Greatness of it it was a great Deliverance from the greatest Fears and from the greatest Dangers the apparent and imminent Danger of the saddest Thraldom and Bondage Civil and Spiritual both of Soul and Body And it was brought about in a very extraordinary manner and by very strange means Whether we consider the greatness and difficulty of the Enterprise or the closeness and secrecy of the Design which must of necessity be communicated at least to the Chief of those who were to assist and engage in it Especially the States of the United Provinces who were then in so much danger themselves and wanted more than their own Forces for their own Defence and Security a kindness never to be forgotten by the English Nation And besides all this the difficulties and disappointments which happen'd after the Design was open and manifest from the uncertainties of Wind and Weather and many other Accidents impossible to be foreseen and prevented And yet in Conclusion a strange concurrence of all things on all sides to bring the thing which the Providence of God intended to a happy issue and effect And we must not here forget the many Worthies of our Nation who did so generously run all hazards of Life and Fortune for the preservation of our Religion and the asserting of our ancient Laws and Liberties These were all strange and unusual means but which is stranger yet the very counsels and methods of our Enemies did prepare the way for all this and perhaps more effectually than any counsel and contrivance of our own could have done it For even the Jesuits those formal Politicians by Book and Rule without any consideration or true knowledg of the temper and interest and other circumstances of the People they were designing upon and had to deal withal and indeed without any care to know them I say the Jesuits who for so long a time and for so little reason have affected the reputation of the deepest and craftiest States-men in the World have upon this great Occasion and when their whole Kingdom of Darkness lay at stake by a more than ordinary infatuation and blindness so outwitted and over-reach'd themselves in their own counsels that they have really contributed as much or more to our Deliverance from the Destruction which they had designed to bring upon us than