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Eucharistia, or, A grateful acknowledgement of God's goodness in preserving our most gracious King William and for the success of his arms this last summer : deliver'd in a sermon to a country-auditory on the 22d of September 1695, being the day appointed by authority for a public thanksgiving / by William Corbin.
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Corbin, William.
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Wing C6278; ESTC R27918
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for the Children of Men and especially for such wonderful Blessings as we commemorate this Day viz. The Preservation of our Gracious and Illustrious KING and for the Advantages which God hath given him against His and Our Enemies in this Summer's Expedition And well may the Safety of such a PRINCE deserve and require a Day of Congratulation and Thanksgiving I need not now give you a Narrative of his Miraculous Preservation forasmuch as it hath been so often repeated in your ears Such were the Guards of his Person that hitherto blessed be His and our God his Enemies Attempts against him have been unsuccessful And besides the subsidiary Guards of Men he had an inward Guard I doubt not viz. the Integrity of his Mind and Conscience which though it do not always secure a Man against the Rage and Violence of Men yet it arms a Man with Courage and Resolution to stand against and sustain all Besides which he had a spiritual Guard too viz. the devout Prayers of his Faithful and Loyal Subjects which always attended his Preservation Yea he had also a higher and more noble Guard which still attended his Safety viz. the Protection of the Watchful and Powerful Angels those ministring Spirits and the watchful Providence of his great Maker and Creator those divine Guards which have fenced him in on every side as with a Wall of Fire which at once preserved his Person and destroyed many of his Enemies But my purpose is not at this time to bring you back to the View of his Perils but to stir up your Hearts to a thankful Acknowledgment of and hearty Thanks and Praise to God for his wonderful Preservation and Success who is justly stiled The Defender of the Faith He hath as the Instrument of God been hitherto the Preserver of his Temple among us ever since the great Disposer of all things hath committed the Charge thereof to his Care from Idols and Superstition and God hath hitherto blessed be his Majesty for ever preserved him from all his Enemies and we may conclude that that Providence that hath hitherto preserved him in such an extraordinary manner hath designed him for some farther Service to the Christian World which is more than ordinary For because he loved Israel for ever saith the Spirit of God by the Prophet 1. Kings 10.9 therefore made he him KING to do Judgment and Justice It was God that sate a Crown upon his Head and hath hitherto by a Miracle preserved it and him together contrary to the Designs and in spight of all the raging Malice of France and Hell For by me saith the Spirit of God by the Wise-man Prov. 8.15 Kings reign and Princes decree Justice God hath hitherto delivered him from all the secret Attempts and open Violences of his Enemies and in him we are all delivered that we might rejoyce in his Safety as sometimes the Romans did in the Recovery of Germanicus when they ran with Lamps and Sacrifices to the Capitol and there sung with Shouts and Acclamations Salva Roma salva Patria salus Germanicus the City is safe and the Country is safe and All is safe in the Safety of Germanicus And the same Acclamations of Praise well become Our Mouths this Day when we seriously consider the manifold Blessings we enjoy in the Safety of and under the Auspicious Reign of our Noble and Illustrious KING WILLIAM For such a KING of Men under whose Government we enjoy all that our Hearts can wish or desire as the present Circumstances of Affairs stand save only that of his Royal Presence among us let us adore and magnifie the great God of Kings And as we ought in private to sing every day so may we with the whole Nation sing with upright Hearts and engaged Affections in publick this Day Salva Britannia salva Ecclesia Anglicana salvus Gulielmus the Kingdom is safe the Church is safe all our Estates are safe and we are all safe and happy in the Preservation of and under the thrice Auspicious Reign of our Illustrious KING WILLIAM And I would to God that as we have great Cause of Emulation so we would be diligent and faithful in the Imitation of the Praises and Thanks of Israel Bless we then the great King of Kings for his Preservation who as God's Instrument preserveth our Temple as the Israelites did for their King who built the Temple 2 Chron. 5.12 whilst the Levites and the Singers sound with Harps and Cymbals the Praises of the Lord our God and say as it is in the Text Praise the Lord for he is good for his mercy endureth for ever towards our Israel Let us then my Brethren with prepared Hearts and religious Affection magnifie the glorious Name of God as we pretend to do this Day and if it be possible let us by some unusual Strains of united Thanks pierce the very Skies and give an Eccho to those Celestial Quires which are above who perpetually sing forth the Praises and Glory and Honour of the Great and Immortal God who sitteth upon the Throne for evermore In one Word May the God of Heaven still preserve the Person of our Dear and Dread SOVERAIGN and convert or confound all his Enemies May the Crown long long flourish upon his Head and may he reign gloriously over all that hate him and in the Affections of all his Subjects And may the Keepers of God's Temple and the Defenders of the true Ancient and Apostolick Faith among us live and flourish and let every true-hearted English-man say with one Voice Amen Amen Yea let Amen the faithful and true Witness in Heaven say Amen to it And as for our Selves Let us all dearly beloved heartily and sincerely repent of our former Sins and resolve every one of us in particular to be better men and better Christians and to serve God with pure Hearts and Consciences and demean our selves always in a Vertuous and Religious Conversation And then we need not fear but God will still preserve our KING and Us from all His and Our Enemies and give us a compleat and entire Victory over them to a glorious Perfection and establish us upon the lasting Foundations of Peace and Happiness that we may still have more and more Occasion to praise magnifie and adore the God of Heaven our great and mighty Deliverer and after the Example of the Holy Prophet call in all the Creatures of God to celebrate his Praises and say with one Voice Praise the Lord for he is good and his mercy endureth for ever towards our Israel FINIS
thinking Person and that God hath in his infinite Wisdom and Goodness raised up such an Instrument for our Preservation and Defence and the Conservation of all these singular and great Privileges So that all our Fears and Jealousies in our Selves and all the cruel Designs and Machinations of our Enemies have hitherto come to nothing and I hope will come to nothing in respect of our Disadvantage for ever All which we obtain and enjoy by the wise Conduct and valiant Deportment of our Illustrious and Gracious King WILLIAM for whom we praise and thank the God of Heaven who hath raised up such a noble Instrument upon Earth thus to defend and secure us and preserve all these Advantages to us and who hath already in a great measure been instrumental to correct the Pride and bring down the high Conceits of all our Enemies that dare own themselves publickly to be so who would long ere this time have debauch'd our Religion with an Idolatrous Superstition sequestred our Civil Properties and made our Lives a Prey to their Ambition and Cruelty if God had not prevented them And that this was their Design was conspicuous to all the World if their Power could have prevailed for we of these Kingdoms could not expect to fare better under the Power of France than their own Native Subjects which is notoriously known to all the World We therefore praise and thank God who is the Rock of our Salvation who hath raised up for us so noble and glorious an Instrument and by him hath hitherto prevented their Designs and preserved him to this Day against all their Contrivance treacherously and secretly to assassinate his Royal Person more than once since they could not prevail against him by their open Attempts But God hath hitherto prevented their Designs against him and we hope will bring him back in Safety now also to sit upon his Throne and long long govern these Kingdoms notwithstanding whatsoever Malice whatsoever Treason whatsoever the Cruelty of France and Hell can contrive and that in spight of all his Enemies he may long be a publick Blessing to these Kingdoms and all the Reformed Churches in the World may rejoyce in him and thank and praise God together with us for raising up so noble an Instrument for their and our Safety and Deliverance who is in the second Place being so noble a Benefactor a fit Object of our Thanks and Praise who hath so often hazarded his Life and as it were lightly esteemed the Glory Ease and Pleasure with which an Imperial Crown is generally attended and all for the Safety of our Lives to preserve our Properties and to secure us against all the unjust Invasions and proud Insultations of our avowed Enemies for which he well deserves our Thanks and Praise And yet there are some malevolent and wicked Spirits still among us the more 's the pity who are so ungrateful that they will not only not own but despise and undervalue him for all this But I hope the Number of such ungrateful People is but small and that they will now see their Interest and be ashamed of their Folly and joyn together with us in thanking and praising our most Gracious and DREAD SOVERAIGN for what he hath done for us and for what we enjoy by his means and return him our hearty Affections and deport our selves toward him and his Government with all Loyalty and Obedience every day and together put up our most devout Prayers to the God of Heaven this Day that his farther Success in all his Enterprizes may be proportionable to the Goodness of his Cause and then we may confidently expect that our Enemies may be rooted out from among us and not able to appear abroad against us and our selves and all that is dear to us be secured against all the Attempts of France and Hell A Foretaste of which we celebrate in our Praises and Thanksgiving this Day for the singular Preservation of our KING and the noble Victory obtained by him in this his Expedition which is but an Earnest of what God farther designs us by his Conduct if we are not wanting to our selves And this we may conclude not from any Goodness or Excellency that is in us for God knoweth we are a disobedient and wicked People but for the Wickedness of our Enemies and those manifold Blasphemies with which they have blasphemed God and for those many Affronts which they have put upon his Majesty who is a jealous God and will not let such impudent and daring Offenders go unpunished and therefore we may expect that God will appear and vindicate his Honour against so bold and daring Enemies this he hath begun to do already for which we come hither to thank and praise him this Day And I would to God that the Hearts of all the Inhabitants of this Kingdom really meant what they express with their Tongues or ought to express upon this Occasion that we may not offer to God the Sacrifice of Fools And that we may all of us shew forth the Praises of God throughout the whole course of our Conversations by our religious and pious Lives as we do this Day by the Sound of our Lips for this God expecteth from us and gives us great Encouragement so to do 1 Sam. 12.14 For if ye will fear the Lord saith the Prophet and serve him and not rebel against the Commandment of the Lord then ye shall continue and also the King that reigneth over you Thus then I have briefly hinted to you the Duty viz. Thanks and Praise with the Object thereof which is principally God and secondarily our Benefactors I have also given you some brief Hints concerning the Subject of our Thanks and Praises viz. all the Good we enjoy and particularly this Day for the Preservation of our Gracious and Dread Soveraign in so many and great Dangers to which he hath been so often exposed in this his Expedition and for the Success of his Arms both by Land and Sea For which if we knew how to frame it let us sing unto the Lord a new Song according to the Prophet's Injunction because he hath done marvellous things Psal 98.1 and let us according to the President in the Text sing together in course that is now we are called together by Publick Authority for this Exercise and praise and thank God because he is good and his mercy endureth for ever towards our Israel For repeated Favours and new Victories call for repeated Praises and Thanksgiving and will put ingenious and grateful Spirits upon inventing new Songs to praise God withal let us therefore praise him for his excellent Greatness and praise him for his excellent Works and let the high Praises of God be in our mouths all this Day especially But alas what will our Praises signifie to him we only hereby demonstrate that we are not stupidly insensible of the great and wonderful Blessings and Favours of God and this is our Duty