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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32826	A sermon preached on the fast-day, November the xiiith, 1678 being appointed for fasting and prayer / by Benjamin Camfield ...	Camfield, Benjamin, 1638-1693.	1678 (1678)	Wing C385; ESTC R1375	24,011	55

time of need And now I have with what brevity I could run over the Text It remains that I apply it also briefly to the occasion of our present Assembly which I shall best do by giving you first a short Account of Those sad and troublesome Circumstances we are involved in and then exhorting and encouraging of you together with my self to practise according to this good example set before us But First it will be requisite for us to see and take notice of our Danger An execrable Plot is by God's Gracious Providence discover'd and brought to light whereof the King himself hath given notice to the Parliament and the Parliament upon such witness as they had before them have agreed to declare their Belief of it An execrable Plot I say to take away his Majesties Life subvert the Government we live under and that Protestant Religion which we profess And This Plot long in laying and by the Complication of many Interests design'd at last to be brought to its Effect through the Combination both of Foreign Powers and Domestick Treachery A Plot wherein we have the Venom and poyson of all former Plots in their Quintessence put together and which in its execution was like to have been attended with a General Massacre A Plot wherein our Adversaries said They shall not know neither see Nehem. 4. till we come in the midst among them and slay them And indeed they had found us altogether naked We had been left without all manner of Protection and Defence All Commissions expiring with the Kings Life and the chief places of Trust and Importance both in Church and State predisposed of to our sworn Enemies A Plot the Discovery of which they sought to have prevented or discountenanc'd at its first appearance by the horrid Murther of an Eminent Patriot imploy'd in the search after it The Persons concern'd are all Romish Agents Priests and Jesuites and others of that Communion abetted with Foreign Powers as I said who are Enemies both to our State and Religion These our Enemies are extremely formidable in their Number their Malice their Cruelty their Confederacy in Mischief against us so linked together that it will be hard to make a full Discovery of them Such they are as stand accused for having had an hand in most of those publick and Tragical Calamities we have ever since their defeated Powder-plot groaned under And That which is most execrable they act all in the Name of God under a colour and pretence of Religion and by vertue of the Principles of that Romish Faith which baptizeth Rebellion Faction Sedition Parricide and Murther by an holy Name and Title They look on us all as a Body or pack of Hereticks unfit to live with whom no Faith or Fealty at all is to be kept and whom it is but an Act of Penance nay of Merit to sacrifice upon every Occasion with the utmost hazard for the promotion of what they miscall the Catholick Cause This is the summe of our Case and the greatest mischief is we yet see not into the bottom of this Damnable Contrivance against us only are left to ghess if a little Fire is able to kindle a mighty Conflagration how dismal and amazing Flames so many Incendiaries at work are likely to produce if not timely found out and prevented Psal 64. They encourage themselves in an evil matter They commune of laying Snares privily They say Who shall see They search out iniquities The inward thought of every one of them and the heart is deep Now let us in the next place I beseech you take notice what great reason we have to bless God Almighty and to praise his Name that This so Hellish a Plot is so far discovered already instead of being made known to us only by the fatal Execution of it The God we This day call upon is Worthy to be praised and to be for ever praised by us that he hath hitherto prevented and brought to light This Diabolical Wickedness in so many Tracks and Footsteps of it That He hath Thus far protected and preserved our most Gracious King and all his Loyal Subjects in the freedom and profession of the True Protestant Religion against them that from the Youth up of our Reformation have troubled us The Wisdom and Goodness of Divine Providence is particularly to be adored by us that what they meant and designed for a Terror to all and so to quash the Discovery of This Cursed Plot the Murder I mean of his Majesties Justice employed about Examinations hath been turned by God into the hopeful means of awakening others to enquire into it and thereby to make known their most impious and detestable Villanies We are to praise God further that he hath put it into the Heart of our Gracious Sovereign upon this occasion to summon us all together jointly to Call upon God who alone can save us for his Blessing upon these sinful and miserable Kingdoms and to furnish us with so excellent a Form of Confessions Doxologies Lessons and Prayers for the present purpose That he hath inclined his Heart in This Juncture to give all the assurance that can be had from a Religious Prince to a Loyal People of his Majesties Care and Zeal for the Protestant Interest and the Security of it not only during his own desired and happy Reign but under all that shall hereafter succeed him to the World's end And now it remains that we stirre up and encourage our selves and one another to Call upon God for the Time to come both for his merciful Protection of our Gracious Sovereign and in him of all his Loyal Subjects and for his Direction and Blessing in order to the farther Discovery and defeating of all these cursed Projects To seek unto God Job 5. and commit our Cause unto him who doth great things and unsearchable marvellous things without number who setteth upon high those that be low that they who mourn may be exalted to safety We have good Warrant and Example set before us as you have heard in Holy Scripture for our Imitation Such as That of David in the Text and that of Nehemiah read in the First Lesson for this Morning Service And we have the awakening Motive of our great Perils and Dangers to spur us on to follow these excellent Presidents We have not only our own personal Interest lying wholly at stake but That of our Families nay That of our Children's Children and Posterities in all Ages yet to come That I should have said in the First place of the Glory of God in the Continuance of the profession of True Religion among us to urge us hereunto Let us therefore be excited I beseech you with one consent to put our Shoulders to the work with all Humility and Reverence Fervency and Earnestness Faith and Importunity to call upon God in the Name of his dear Son that we perish not to call upon the Lord who is worthy to be praised