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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66990	The substance of 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. By Mr. Walker minister, and governor of the city.	Walker, George, of Londonderry.	1689 (1689)	Wing W348; ESTC R219337	7,232	14

the Sword of the Lord wanting to give them success over their Enem●es and to redeem their bleeding Country from the distraction and desolation it groaned under nor may we spare to come nearer home and find innumerable instances of God's raising up Gideons to save these Kingdoms not only from Barbarous Nations who in early times have invaded them but from a Papal Tyranny from Plots and Conspiracys that have laboured to make their glory set in blood and ruine Henry the Eight was raised up to scatter the Midian●tes and Amalakites of Rome whose Idolatries and Superstitions had infected our Israel and whose Pride and Luxury had laid waste her pleasant places and destroyed the good things of the Land This I say was the Sword of the Lord and of Gideon for God made this Pr●nce 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 Go●pel in i●s primitive lustre brighter than the Morning-Sta● and though a●ter the death of this good Prince he 〈◊〉 his Sword and suffered us to be crushed under the 〈◊〉 hands of our enemies yet the Bloody Reign of O 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 Barb●rous Nation had equalled he heard the Groans of his suffering people and sent us a deliverance The Sword of the Lord and of Gideon was again on our side as appeared in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth who was valliant for the truth and in spite of all the Conspiracies to raise a Rebellion or bring her to an untimely end by Poison Daggers and many pernicious Devices she stood the Gideon or Deborah of our Land and though Spain fill'd the Seas with fleating Castles to destroy this flourishing Kingdom yet the Almighty by a small number manifestly bared his Arm to save us and raine those that were too confident in the Arm of Flesh not only destroying that huge Armado but routing such Forces as the Spaniards sent into Ireland to assist the Bloody Irish Papists in Rebellion against their lawful Soveraign committing such Cruelties as are too tedious here to mention and although in the frustration of their Plots and Devices they might well have perceived the immediate 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 Protest●nt 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 Div●ne Hand of Providence who blasted it all which well considered may make us confess with the Royal Prophe● viz. We have thought of thy loving kindness O God in the midst of thy Temple according to thy Name O God so is thy praise vnto the ends of the earth thy right hand is full of righteousness Let Mount Sion rejoyce let the Daughter of Jud● be glad because of thy judgment Psal. 49. verse 9 10 11. And now without tears of compassion we cannot 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 Rage and the natu●●l 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 Contageon 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 Fierceness and Barbarity into their Nature Nay if we reflect what in a few Months 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 the English out of the Kingdom with a further design of carrying on their Mischevious Enterprizes against the Protestant Religion In general it is time for Protestants to become Valiant for the Truth and bold as Lyons not only for their Religion but temporal intrest the preservation of their Wives and Children from Murthers Rapes and Deflowrings and all manner of Violence and Wickedness to stand as Bulwarks against the Rapid Inundation of Antichristan Tyrany 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 Mil●itant Let us not be ashamed or afraid of our profession when maintaining our Christian W●●f●re 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 p●in for the former things pass away Rev. 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 themselve 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 and Kingdoms it was always well with the seed of Jacob when they cleave 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 will bring down high looks Niniveh humbling her self in Sackcloath and Ashes before the Lord was saved from impendent Wrath when Stubborn Sodom and Impenitent Gomorrah 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 consceience and an assurance in gods mercy's that