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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66968	A sermon being an incouragement for Protestants or a happy prospect of glorious success: with exhortations to be valiant against our enemies, in opposing the bloody principle of papists, and errors of popery, &c. Occasionally on the Protestants victory over the French and Irish papists before London-Derry, in raising that desperate siege, a glorious prospect of the Protestants happiness, &c. By Mr. Walker minister, and governor of the city.	Walker, George, of Londonderry.	1689 (1689)	Wing W345; ESTC R219334	7,242	13

groaned under no● may we spare to come nea●er home and find innumerable insta●ces of God's ra●sing up Gideons to save these K 〈…〉 ●●t only from B●●b●●o●● N●t●o●● who 〈◊〉 ●arly 〈◊〉 invaded them but from a Papal Tyranny from Plots and Conspiracies that have laboured to make their glory set in ●lood and Ruine Henry the Eight was raised up to scatter the Midianites and Amalekites of Rome whose Idol●tries and Superstitions had inf●cted our Israel and whose Pride and Luxury had laid waste their pleasant places and destroyed the good things of the Land This I say is the Sword of the Lord and of Gideon for God made this Prince an Instrument in his hand This was the Lord's doings and it is marvelous in our Eyes and in the next place he raised up a good Josia in the person of Edward the Sixth and under him gave us the Purity and Light of the Gospel in its primitive Lustre brighter than the Morning Star and though after the death of this good Prince he witheld his Sword and suffered us to be crushed under the merciless hands of our enemies yet the Bloody Reign of of Q. Mary once over wherein our Adversaries displayed themselves in their true Colours feasting Flames with Martyrs precious Blood at such a Riotous profuseness as no Barbarous Nation had equalled he heard the Groans of his suffering people and sent us a deliverance The Sword of the L●rd and ●f Gideon was again on our side as appeard in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth who was valiant for the Truth and in spite of all the Conspiracies to raise a Rebellion or bring her to an untimely end by Poyson Daggers and many pernicious Devices she stood the Gideon or Deborah of our Land and though Spain fill'd the Seas with floating Castles to destroy this flourishing Kingdom yet the Almighty by a small number manifestly bared his Arm to save us and ruine those that were too confident in the Arm of Flesh not only destroying that huge Arm●d● but routing such Forces as the Spaniards sent into Ireland to assist the Bloody Irish Papists in Rebellion against their lawful Soveraign comitting such Cruelties as are too tedious here to mention and although in the frustration of their Plo●s and Devices they might well have perceived the Immediat hand of Heaven protecting this great and prosperous Queen yet so far were they infatuated or transported with inseperable Malice and Revenge that though their Attempts cost many of them their lives yet no sooner was the wise Protestant Prince King James the first advanced to the Throne but they went to exalt him in a blast to the Skies had not their Powder-Plot been discovered by the Divine Hand of Providence who blasted it all which well considered may make us confess with the Royal Prophet viz. We have thought of thy loving kindness O God in the midst of thy Temple according to thy Name O God so ●s thy praise unto the ends of the earth thy right hand is full of righteousness Let Mount Sion rejoyce let the Daughter of Juda be glad because of thy Judgment Psal 49. verse 9. 10. 11. And now not without Tears of Compassion we cannot but reflect on the Popish Cruelty in the poor Kingdom of Ireland in the Reign of King Charles the first Anno 1641. when without any provocation Armed with Hellish ●age and the natural Cruelty of a Papist they by inhumane Torments Massacred no less than 200000 English Protestants of all Ages and Sex insomuch that the Dead Bodies not being suffered by the Priests to be buried Created a Contagion and in some measure took revenge on the Murtherers and what can we think but at this day a Papist is a Papist still where even the Principle of Religion instills a kind of Fiercenes● and B●rbarity into their Nature Nay if we reflect what in a few Moneths they have done what better can be expected if we consider the Spoil Plunder Ravagements and Desolations the French and Irish in Arms have made regarding neither Oaths Promises nor nearness of Relation with a desire utterly to Root the English out of the Kingdom with a further desig● of carrying on their Mischievous Enterprizes against the Pr●testant Religion In general it is time for Protestants to becom● Valiant for the Truth and bold as Lyons not only for the●● Religion but temporal Interest the preservation of thei● Wives and Children from Murthers Rapes and Deflowrings and all manner of Violence and Wickedness to stand as Bulwarks against the Rapid Innundation of Antichristian Tyranny Let us consider that the Fowls of the Air and the Beasts of the Forrest stand in the defence of their own lives and the lives of their young Ones with such Weapons as Nature has afforded them And shall not men in such a case pluck up their Spirits and redouble their Courage since the Almighty has of late been so favourable in giving us even by Miracle a Protestant King and Queen to sit upon the Throne and so great a Prospect of a through deliverance we are here Members of the Church Militant Let us not be ashamed or afraid of our profession when maintaining our Christian Warefare in a good Conscience and a just Cause we make our way to the Church which is Triumphant where God shall wipe away all Tears from our Eyes And there shall be no more Death neither sorrow nor crying neither shall there be any more pain for the former things pass away Revel 21 4. Though never so many Storms and Tempests threaten yet a good Christian ought not to be dismayed though in a time even when danger does beset them yet it is required they should humble themselves before their Maker and Rely on him who is able to save to the utmost all that trust in him For indeed Sin is that which provokes him to with-hold his mercy and bring calamities on Nations Kingdoms it was always well with the seed of Jacob when they clave fast to the Rock of their Salvation but when they grew Regardless he gave them up to the oppressing Nations who grieved his chosen Heritage for as 't is said Psal 18. ver 25 26 27. viz. With the Merciful thou wilt shew thy self Merciful and with an upright man thou wilt shew thy self upright with the pure thou wilt shew thy self pure with the froward thou wilt shew thy self froward For thou wilt save the afflicted people but wilt bring down high looks Niniveh humbling her selt in Sackcloath and Ashes before the Lord was saved from impendent Wrath when stubborn Sodom and Impenitent Gom●rah sunk in Sulpherous fire let us turn then to the Lord with our whole hearts and sing praise unto our deliverer that our Enemies and all those that seek to hurt us may fall before us 'T is a good Conscience and an assurance in Gods mercy's that makes men valiant Abraham on this score pursued the Kings ●nd rescued his Brother Lot c. out of their hands David in