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A32794	Eben-ezer, a thankful memorial of God's mercy in preserving England from the gunpowder-treason, 1605 being a sermon on 1 Sam. 7:12, prepared for Novemb. 5th to be preacht at the cathedral, but preacht for the most part of it at the parish-church of Temple, in the city of Bristol, on the 6th of Novem. being the Lord's day / by John Chetwynd ...	Chetwynd, John, 1623-1692.	1682 (1682)	Wing C3796; ESTC R19751	30,602	46

prosperous would have been seconded by a it one bred Rebelion of which Sir Walter Raleigh saith That it only d●need a Morice on our English Seas And as another 〈…〉 not one bullet into the shore lost many thousand m●n and near 20● ships whereas we lost but one in all Vessel and not an hundred men 2. All secret machinations treacherous Contrivances by poyson pistol dagger powder by Campion a French Lopez a Jew Creighton a Scot some vile Bygotted Gentleman and many others Thus that most excellent Princess notwithstanding all opposition by force and fraud that was made against her maintained Gods Ark not only twenty years as at Kirjath-jearim but twice twenty and five years and died in peace and serenity of mind in her bed in a good old age even the age of man in Moses's time seventy years and doth well deserve notwithstanding all the barkings of lying Papists and the belchings of impure Mouths against her that part of her Epitaph She is she was what can there more be said In earth the first in Heaven the second Maid Which Ark so setled her Successor King James of blessed Memory the most learned and most peaceful Monarch of Great Britain and Ireland maintained continued and established which exceedinly provoked the malice of the Popish Philistines against him Hence they contrived Watson and Clark Cobham and Raleigh's Conspiracy against him in 1603. and that failing this most Hellish Powder-Treason no doubt devised by the Devil but acted by his Instuments Piercy Katesby Digby and others who intended to blow up the King Queen Prince and the great States and Commons of the Land then met in the Upper-House of Parliament and then to lay that horrid fact to the Puritans Sham Plots you see are none of their new devices and so to have taken up thence a pretence by the help of Foreigners whom they had tampered with to root out Protestants and their Religion and establish Popery which no question is and will be their perpetual design and endeavour But blessed be God for ever blessed be his Holy Name God intervened and overruled and O let him do so still and turned Esth 9. 1. it into the contrary God made that day which had they had their wits should have been for Villany and cruelty the most unfortunate day such as Nov. 5. eye hath not seen nor ear heard of unto us most joyful and most glorious when by Gods infinite Goodness and his then most excellent Majesties most fortunate Interpretation of a passage of one of their own Letters which passage was The Danger will be over as soon as the Letter was burnt which was as a learned Prelate speaks more casual than rational not by Grammatical Learning but by divine Revelation and Inspiration and by his Bp. Andrews faithful Councils diligent and discreet Inquisition and search discovered and prevented though those Monsters of men and the Vassals of the Pope had taken the Sacrament of secrecy and the time was near for the execution of it Thus was our great danger by our gracious God prevented and their own deserved ruine by themselves procured The remembrance whereof we ought in all solemn manner to celebrate every fifth of November as we do and long may we and our posterity do it And as we are directed in a Prayer and Thanksgiving in the Office appointed for that day joyfully to bless God and earnestly to intreat him to root out that Babylonish and Antichristian Sect whose Religion is Rebellion whose Faith is Faction whose practice is murdering of souls and bodies from whose Treachery Cruelty Rage Malice good Lord deliver us Amen Text. Then Samuel took a stone c. saying hitherto hath the Lord helped us Having in the former dispatched the first thing proposed viz. What was in the Text supposed their danger and the Cause of it and their enemies I now come to the second thing viz. What is expressed Time will not allow particular insisting on those many things which the Text in its parts would present us with I shall sum up all in these two things 1. Gods helping them 2. Their sense of and thankfulness for that help 1 Gods helping them which though last in words yet being first in nature I shall first speak to and as I proceed compare Gods helping them with his helping us Now what their deliverance was the Text shews us After the Ark was taken by the Philistines at the news whereof and of his two Sons death old Eli died and Ickabod was born ● the glory was departed and they for twenty years were in an afflicted and therefore lamenting Condition v. 1. being fallen into the sin of Idolatry v. 3. Under the bondage of the Philistines who disarmed them left not a Smith c. Samuel having been always a Prophet and Instructor of them never ceasing to pray for them Cap. 12. 1. He having reproved them for exhorted and prevailed with them to put away Baalim and Ashteroth their He-Gods and She-Gods and to serve the Lord now as a Judge in which Office he seems now to be inaugurated he summons them to Mizpeh in order to their further Reformation to fast and pray and confess their sins which the Philistines hearing of they gathered themselves together with an hostile intention No new thing for Satan to imploy his Instuments in the obstructing of good actions At the hearing of whose gathering together the Israelites were afraid being unarmed and unprepared to encounter with them v. 7 and therefore despairing of their own apply themselves to Samuel to pray for Gods help that he would save them v. 8. They were sensible of their own sinfulness being Idolaters and knew that God would not hear sinners They were assured of Samuels Holiness and Innocency and therefore of Gods favour towards him Hence they desired him to pray for them when they were apprehensive of their own unfitness and indisposition to pray for themselves where by the way observe Though graceless sinners in their prosperity scorn and abuse Gods faithful Ministers yet have they then a Conviction in their own Consciences of their Innocency and in time of their distress will seek to such to pray for them as Pharaoh to Moses the people to Samuel they sent not to their fellow-Idolate's nor Pharaoh to the Magicians then Moses then Samuel must be desired to pray for them Thus it is and will be with intelligent though graceless people in reference to scandalous and careless Ministers who do delightfully associate them in their sinful and unwarrantable practices of drin●ing swearing dicing c. even those persons who seem to applaud flatter and admire them yet in their sober moods have so much conviction that in their thoughts they condemn them as the blemishes of their Function and in the 'r extremiti●s little regard their Prayers for them then an Innocent Moses though many times rejected then an holy and blameless Samuel shall be sought to then pray for us then

and common way Ours by no information but inspiration by a Casual rather than a Grammatical interpretation of the dangers being past as soon as the Letter was burnt 3. Time The night before Haman intended to have beg'd Mordecai's life the King could not sleep calls for the Chronicles reads therein what faithful and eminent service Mordecai had done for him and enquiring and understanding that he had received no recompence he resolves to honour him Haman pronounceth how Mordecai should be honoured who was commanded to do what he proposed himself and as he thought for himself and according to the great grief of him he did perform the Kings Command and his own designed honour towards him Haman himself was by the King upon the Queens Complaint judged to be hanged which was done on the same day place gallows that he had designed for Mordecai 4. Issue Deliverance to both the net broke the Fowl escaped yea the Fowler himself taken Israel delivered Pharaoh drown'd Psal 124. Haman hang'd So was it with us and the Powder-Traytors they hoped that their designed puff and net should have divided and scattered our Noble Senators and ancient and glorious Structures and they themselves were deservedly hang'd and quarter'd and their heads and limbs set up on the tops of that house they designed to throw down So that what we read concerning the Jews may as fitly be applied unto us in the day that the enemies of the Jews of us Protestants Esth 9. 1. hoped to have power over them over us it was turned to the contrary that the Jews that our King had rule over them that hated them And oh let it still be marvellous in our eyes Let us be glad Ps 118. 24. and rejoyce in it And indeed Gods deliverances of England have been acts of Wonder Not to insist on the unexpected discovery of the present Popish Plot and let us pray for the full defeating of it the truth whereof I hope no good Subject or true consciencious Protestant dot\h any thing question being attested by such undeniable Evidences viz. his most Gracious Majesty whom God still preserve from it the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the whole House of Commons and which we have still cause to fear though several Artifices are used to smother and stifle it but let us remember that many times the less noise the more danger But to pass this as not so pertinent at present Our work is what the Psalmist was to consider the days of old and the years Psal 77 5 11 12. of ancient times to remember the works of the Lord even his wonders to meditate of all his works and to tell of all his doing Now these ancient mercies God hath made them that they Psal 111. 4. should be had in remembrance that we should declare them to our Children Moses spends the four first Chapters of Deuteronomy in recording of them and God himself made a Statute-Law to Israel which they observed for so we find them speaking I will utter dark Psal 78. 2 3 4 6. sayings of old which we have heard and known and our Fathers have told us We will not hide them from our children shewing to the Generations to come the praises of the Lord and his strength and the wonderful works that he hath done That the Generation to come might know them even the Children which should be born who should arise and declare them to their Children Now to mention no more There are two great deliverances ancient deliverances which God hath given to his Church and people in England from their inveterate and implacable enemies the Papiss From the Spanish Invasion in 88 From the Gunpowder Treason in 1605. Two such deliverances that our eyes have not seen nor our ears have heard nor could our Fathers tell us of the like One by Strand the other by Land One from a Fleet and as they call'd it an invincible Armado sent forth by the King of Spain's great and vast Charge long Preparation the Popes blessing furnished with his best and most zealous Soldiers all manner of Instruments of Cruelty Whips and Knives engraven in Spanish with words which in English are To cut the Throats of the English Hereticks The other from a Vault under ground charged with many Barrels of Gun-powder Billets and Faggots c. A Monks Invention that would had not God prevented with one blast destroyed both King and Kingdom the most sudden cruel and unmerciful instrument of Death Both of these gracious deliverances from the hands of our most implacable enemies the sworn Vassal of the Papal Throne that sought not only and they are still of the same humour our Land and Estates and Livelihoods but our Lives our Souls our Consciences even our utter Destruction to have brought us under the Tyranny of a Foreign Prince and the unutterable and unconceivable Cruelty of the Papal Usurpation and Inquisition Not from roaring Enemies but such as were Vipers that sting to Death without any hissing at all Such was this deliverance the thankful memorial whereof we now celebrate From Hamans Plot to some From Babylons power and dominion to the rest To those who would not comply with them and embrace their superstitious idolatrous Principles and Practises to them from Death To those that were Protestants in Masquerade or Atheistical indifferent to all Religions notwithstanding fancy to the contrary that deliverance was from servitude slavery and bondage Englishmens Land and Goods let the Owners be what they will will be always judged by Jesuited Foreiners heretical when they are victorious over us which God forbid Have we then not great reason that are and have been the redeemed of the Lord whom he hath delivered from the Egyptian darkness of Popery from the worse than Babylonish Cruelty and barbarous oppression of Popish enemies from the Devilish Treachery and Conspiracy of others by the Discovery of the late Plot Have we not great reason I say to sing aloud with the Psalmist and say We will praise the Lord with our whole heart in the Assembly of Psal 111. 1. the upright and in the Congregation The works of the Lord are great sought out of all them that have 2. pleasure therein His work is honourable and glorious and his righteousness endureth 3. for ever He hath made his wonderful works to be remembred the Lord is 4. gracious and full of Compassion He hath sent Redemption unto his people c. 9. In furtherance of this common piety and to refresh our Memories and quicken our Devotion I have made choice of the Scripture first read as pertinent to the occasion Text Then Samuel took a stone and set it between Mizpeh and Shen and called the name of it Eben-Ezer saying hitherto hath God helped us In which we have considerable 1. Something supposed 2. Something exprest 1. Supposed 1. Their danger from their enemies who were the Philistines 2. The cause of it Their

fourteeenth to the twenty-first many particular Instances of his Acts of grace and goodness and greatness he concludes with declaring what was his own and what he desires should be of others My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord. And let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever v. 21. Lo this is the Tenor of our blessing God and declaring our thankfulness to him when we recount to his Glory and Honour what he hath done for us Now this is a wide and comprehensive duty shall we pass over the imperate and only consider the elicite Acts of it such as flow from and constitute the very being of it All which we may find in this of Samuels expression of his and the Israelites for he was but their mouth thankfulness unto God Hitherto hath God helped us Now the elicite Acts of thankfulness are five 1. Observation 2. Remembrance 3. Confession 4. Valuation 5. Retribution 1. Observation For how can we be thankful for that we take no notice of This was Israels sin charged upon them that made them 〈◊〉 1. 1 2. worse than Ox or Ass The Kindness and the Circumstances of it must be observed by us Thus David Thou hast brought me hitherto what am I Thus Samuel Hitherto hath God helped 2. Confession with the tongue Thus Samuel he did not set a stone and say nothing but he called it Eben-Ezer saying hitherto hath God helped We must not stifle nor imprison the Apprehensions we have of Gods Goodness in our hearts but declare them to others Hence David Come my Children hearken unto me and I will tell you what God hath done for my soul And it is a Ps 92. 2. 3. good thing to sing praises unto thy name to show forth thy loving kindness in the Morning and thy faithfulness every night Hence he calls his tongue his Glory How is the mans tongue his Glory but as it is an instrument imployed in the glorifying Ps 16 9. of God wherein stands mans highest praise Acts 2 26. Meer speech is the glory of a man above brute Creatures Eloquent speech is the Glory of the learned above the untaught Gracious speech Language of Prayer and Praises is the Glory of a David a man after Gods own Heart 3. Remembrance Hence the Psalmist when he presseth his soul to praise God calls upon it not to forget any of his Ps 103 2. benefits Reflect we must on the mercies we enjoy or we shall never be thankful Hence God himself instituted Trophies Stones and Days and other Monuments to continue the memorial of them and we read it as a commendable and praise worthy deed of the City of Zurich who engraved the year of their deli●●rance from the Romish Antichrist upon Pillars in Letters of Gold 4. Valuation A d●e estimate of the mercies we enjoy at Gods hands If once we think meanly of them we shall quickly be unthankful for them if we say as Hiran or the Cities which Solomon gave him What Cities are th●se we shall soon forget the kindness and brand with disgrace call them Cabul 1 King 9. 13. If once say with the Israelites Nothing but this Manna we should soon prove Murmurers against and not Praisers of God When Korah thought his being a Levite a small thing then he murmured Numb 16. 9. If Gods Consolation seems small our thanksgivings will be Job 15. 13. very slender 5. Retribution an essential part of thanksgiving hence the Psalmist quid retribuam what shall I render As Ahasucrosh askt What done for Mordecai so we should ask what done for God on his Command to his Glory Certainly all we are have can do suffer are less than the least of Gods mercies Yet an Obligation lieth upon us render we must give up our selves souls bodies all we are have yet all will fall short of what we owe to Gods Glory and we can give him but his own 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 12. 1. Let us then own God in all we have and honour him by all we can do or suffer for him Own him in all our Mercies all our Deliverances this Deliverance our preservation And thus express our thankfulness as Samuel did by a due Observation Remembrance Acknowledgment Valuation and Retribution and by taking care as he did to transmit the memorial of it to Posterity which is the last that comes now to be considered 3. Samuels care for the continuance of the memorial in these words Then Samuel took a stone c. A practice that God himself had directed to continue the memorial of his great Acts and was practiced by Jacob and Josh 4. 5 6. here by Samuel which he named Eben-ezer the Stone of Gen. 28. 18. Help 31. 15. 35. 14. But because though stones be very durable and lasting Monuments yet time that is edax rerum may consume them or otherwise they may be removed therefore God was pleased to fix a memorial of his gracious Acts in time it self that so the renewing of that might perpetuate the Memorial of them To this end he had set apart fixt days as the Passover and the days of Purim The Trophies and Momuments of Stone or Brass though the materials may be and continue yet the Cause Author and Reason of their erecting may be utterly worn out As the Pyramids in Egypt and Stonehinge in Wiltshire no certainty why or by whom placed But when it 's fixt on days in time itself nothing can wear it out till time be swallowed in eternity There are three great National Deliverances mentioned in Scripture each of which had its memorial-day appointed 1. The Passover by Gods command Exod. 12. 2. Purim by Esther and Mordecai Esth 9. 3. Dedication of the Temple which Christ himself observed All these set apart as monuments of thankfulness for Israels Deliverance from Pharaoh's Bondage Hamans Plot and Babylons Captivity And should we parallel Englands old and late Deliverances with theirs we should find that they come short in nothing but are in some Circumstances more eminent and miraculous And therefore the Institution of the fifth of November for an high and holy day is a most justifiable Act and the observation of it a most necessary Duty on all true Englishmen good Subjects and sincere Protestants wherein we call to remembrance confer of and declare to others and stir up our own hearts to a thankful admiration of Gods wonderful works in our deliverance Let us say as Samuel Hitherto hath God helped us and with David O how great is thy goodness how terrible are thy works and consider with our selves what manner Ps 31. 15. 66. 3. of persons we ought to be in all holy and godly Conversation And with the Psalmist What shall we render And 2 Pet. 3. 11. what is more fitting Then since this is the Deliverance that God Ps 116. hath wrought let us do opus Dei in die suo Rejoyce and