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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33293	A sermon preached to a country auditory upon the eleventh of November being the day appointed for a solemn Thanksgiving for a late victory at sea, and His Majesty's safe return out of Flanders / by Samuel Clerke ...	Clark, Samuel, 1626-1701.	1693 (1693)	Wing C4497; ESTC R39372	17,355	33

danger he was in danger so great that we can attribute it to nothing else but God's Care and Protection that he hath outliv'd it How was His Majesty wrapt over and over in the Snares of Death yet hath he broken the Snares and is escaped It is plain to all unbiass'd and considering men that never did a Nation enjoy more by a King than ours have done by this we have Never were People more happy than we might be under him if we please and were not the fault ●ur own Never was it more remarkably true that the Powers that are over us are set over us by God than in our Case His Majesty's coming in and Establishment here be●●g a Miracle in the sight of all the World And I wish it ●ould not be said as truly too that never was a Prince expos● to more dangers and troubles than he has been Should we recollect the past Passages of his Life and soberly make remarks upon the same I do not well know whether we should more admire his Fate and wonder to see so many dangers and adversities should encounter to spend their spight against one man or that Providence and Care of Almighty God that hath still brought him through These Providences and Cares have been freshly instanced very lately in a Deliverance from a Conspiracy abroad hatched by a sort of men that nothing can oblige no kindnesses no endearments no not Religion it self the tranquill enjoyment of the true Protestant Religion Oh the barbarous intendments of the worst of Men Abhorrent in any but above any in our Clime Religious Plots Protestant Treasons oh Hellish Contradictions But can they deny what is obvious to all The King's hazards in Battel wherein not one but often he hath expos'd himself to the utmost dangers thereby greatly encouraging his friends and striking a dread and terrour into his enemies who never yet had the courage to withstand him Not to tell you of His Majesty's danger at the Boyne where a Cannon Bullet brusht upon his Shoulder it was no less than a Miracle that it did but brush him importing Heavens Care of him and that he was dear to God in his Preservation But perchance some may think this too foreign at least too antique and old I shall therefore produce a fresher Instance and that within the compass of this Days Thanksgiving being in Flanders from whence our Royal Sovereign not long since return'd an Instance no less miraculous tha● the former when another Cannon Bullet seeming to do him Homage kiss'd the place where he just before sat but yet came not there till he himself had quitted it which was not above a Minute An astonishing Deliverance The late Naval Victory can that be oppugn'd deny'd by any and was not the Hand of God in it It is as clear as the Sun in its Noon-Day Lustre that the Wind fought against the Enemy as the Stars once against Sisera The Wind hindred the French approaching us and gave us an opportunity of coming up to them which was no sooner done but God blessed His Majesty's Forces with that Success which usually attends his Royal Person than whom never any more signally delivered It is no new thing to hear of our Royal David and his troubles his reiterated troubles and dangers nor blessed be God for it to hear of his Deliverances also his repeated Deliverances The one runs parallel with the other litterally making that of our Psalmist good Psalm 34.19 Many are the afflictions of the Righteous but the Lord delivereth them out of all The truth is the Life of our King William the Third hath been a continual Scene of Providence and Danger even from the Cradle an Instance hardly to be seconded of God's great and special Care not rarely attending the Persons of those Princes to whom Religion and his Honour is dear 〈◊〉 I am perswaded they be to this our Sovereign A Prince 〈◊〉 Pious as Valiant and as forward to Praise God his Saviour as he is ready to deliver him which brings me to my 2d Proposition That those that are delivered should praise God and be thankful to him 1. Common Morality doth inform every common capacity of this common Principle in Divinity We must be thankful unto them who have been bountiful unto us Whereupon Alexander who exceeded all in Bounty and Caesar who exceeded all in Patience yet it was observed that the ●●e did never give to and the other never forgive an ungrateful person Yea the very Heathen in their moral Favours feigned Ixion because he had been unthankful to Jupiter who saved his Life to be tortured and tormented on a Wheel crying τὸν ἐυεργέτην ἀγαυαῖς ἀμοιβαῖς ἐποιχομένους τίμεσθαι Oh remember to be grateful to your Benefactors Si ingratum dixeris omnia dixeris saith the Learned Seneca but a Pagan Him that thou callest ungrateful thou callest all to nought And Socrates another Learned Heathen did see and say ἀκαριστίαν ἀδικίαν εῖ̔ναι that Vnthankfulness is a gross act of Injustice nay Injustice against God saith holy David as depriving him of that quit-rent due to him the great Lord of the Universe so Psalm 50.15 Call upon me in the day of trouble I will hear you and thou shalt praise me 2. Nature doth teach us this Lesson of Grace for naturally every effect must be brought back to his cause Now God is the cause of all things and persons and the preserver of them too therefore whatsoever we have and whatsoever we are must be ascribed to God Hence is that challenge of St. August Confess 4.4 Quis Laudes tuas enumeret unus quas in se uno expertus est What Man alive is able to praise God for his Goodness which he alone hath received in his own Person certainly we should be all Bankrupts if we were called upon for this one Debt Since now the very Heathens press this duty warmly and since there is a generous gratitude in Nature what else means that of Israel's sweet Singer Psalm 19.1 The heavens declare the Glory of God and the Firmament sheweth his handy-work How much more does gratitude become God's Children Honour is due there is none but will grant it to the Creator from the creature and who so tender of this his honour as his Children and Servants Now what course take they for it How do they give it him Who so offereth me Praise and thanksgiving saith God he honoureth me Psalm 50.23 The Property of God is benefacere and the property of Man is benedicere God doth bless Man with his benefits and Man doth bless God for them I need not tell you that the Heathen after they had escaped shipwrack hung up their Votivas Tabulas to Neptune and after Victory besides Supplications they did put Garlands upon the Images of their Gods and left the chief spoils taken in War in the Temple of Mars I need not tell you that the Jews by the Command ment of God reserved a golden pot of that