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A31112	A sermon preach'd before the Honourable House of Commons at St. Margaret's Westminster, upon the 16th of April, 1696 being a day of thanksgiving unto Almighty God for discovering and disappointing an horrid and barbarous conspiracy of papists and other traiterous persons to assassinate and murder His Most Gracious Majesty's royal person and for delivering this kingdom from an invasion intended by the French / by Samuel Barton ...	Barton, Samuel, 1647 or 8-1715.	1696 (1696)	Wing B993; ESTC R4253	13,984	40

Spain Tho' perhaps in a more extraordinary and terrible manner in regard to the Blasphemies that have been utter'd and the Outrages that have been offer'd to the Saints and Servants of the most High And thus much I suppose may be sufficient to shew us how very remarkable both our present Deliverance is and also all that Scene of Providence of which it is a part And likewise to excite our devout Admiration of the Power Wisdom Goodness and Faithfulness of Almighty God as manifested therein 2. I come now in the last place briefly to consider how very beneficial and happy a Deliverance this is to us in order to the encreasing of our Thankfulness and putting us upon a suitable Carriage towards God And tho' we cannot say that this Deliverance is sent us as a Reward of our Good Deserts but rather have great reason to bewail the contrary Carriage of the generality amongst us Yet so many as have but sincerely endeavour'd to do their Duty and in an humble Sence of the total Dependence of all upon the Divine Providence have been earnest Suitors and Solicitors at the Throne of Grace for Mercy upon these sinful Nations They may look on this Deliverance as an Answer to their Prayers and an Encouragement to 'em to pray still and to put their Trust in God And as for others it is a great and unspeakable Benefit to them if they have but the hearts to make use of it For 't is a granting 'em farther Respite 'T is the affording 'em another Call to Return and Repent which if they will not hearken to it is their own Fault but the kindness of Almighty God is never the less Neither let any think that since the Reason of this Providence seems rather to be God's high Displeasures at the Designs of our Enemies than any respect that he has to such a sinful People as we are that therefore it signifies no great matter whether they reform or not For doubtless tho' he may still go on to defeat those Enterprizes which are contrary to his Will yet he can easily find Means sufficient to punish all those that are thus harden'd in their Sins and give them but little cause to rejoyce even tho' their Enemies are not suffered to attain their Ends. We may see already how variously God has mix'd good and bad Success in the course of this present War the bad still being owing to our selves and an effect of our own Sins but the good proceeding from an over-ruling Hand of Providence that will not suffer our Enemies to have their Will But now if we wou'd Repent and become a People fit for Mercy we might hope that God wou'd not only bring down our Enemies but cause us to rise by their Fall and grant us that Peace and Prosperity which by our Sins we have so justly deserved to forfeit In the mean time if we consider but what the Effect must have been of our Enemies having their expected Success in this Enterprize which God has been pleas'd so happily to discover and defeat we shall find cause enough for Joy and Thanksgiving if there be any Blessing we enjoy which we think deserves it since there is scarce any which their Success wou'd not have depriv'd us of I know not how strangely some People might flatter themselves and imagine that the Restoration of the late King even by a French Power wou'd have been consistent with the Enjoyment of the free Profession of their Religion and their Liberties that the Forreign Forces shou'd quietly have retir'd so soon as they had set him upon the Throne and that he laying aside all former thoughts wou'd have contented himself in taking a little pleasure to see how they wou'd Persecute and Torment their fellow Protestants and have gone no farther To me this seems so great a piece of Folly and Extravagance as needs only to be nam'd in order to it 's being expos'd And therefore I conclude that if our present Condition be better than that of conquer'd Slaves if it be a Happiness not to fall into the Hands of incens'd and bitter Enemies if the Enjoyment of Peace at home with the hopes of good Success in our Wars abroad if our Laws and Liberties yea if the Light of the Gospel and the free Profession of our Religon be things of any value to us then ought we to be exceeding thankful to that God who has so signally appear'd for us and delivered us in the most seasonable and needful time And that this our Sacrifice of Praise and Thanksgiving may be accepted we shou'd add thereto our hearty and sincere Endeavours to walk worthy of God's Mercies and so to behave our selves in all holy Obedience to his Laws that it may indeed appear that this great Grace and Favour of his in delivering us so oft and so signally as he has done has not been bestow'd in vain upon us nor may ever turn to our greater Condemnation Which God of his infinite Mercy grant FINIS