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A47177	A sermon preached at the meeting of Protestant dissenters called Quakers in Turners-Hall, London, on the 16th of the second month, 1696 : being the publick day of thanksgiving for the deliverance of the King and Kingdom : to which is added a testimony ... to King William the III from the aforesaid people ... / by George Keith.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.	1696 (1696)	Wing K208; ESTC R28960	18,109	32

true Knowledge of God and his Son Jesus Christ which is Life Eternal The Psalmist concludes the Psalm I have been mentioning with these words Great deliverance giveth he to his King and sheweth mercy to his annointed to David and to his seed for evermore David as a Type of Christ stiles himself Gods King none are to be called Gods Kings equally and in all respects as David was thus he brings in God speaking in Psalm 2. 6. of Christ Yet have I set my King upon my holy hill of Zion Ask of me and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession Great deliverance hath he given to his King David was called Gods King in a peculiar sense as a Type of Christ I know no King in the VVorld that in all respects may equal himself with David God sent the Prophet Samuel to anoint him King when he was keeping Sheep he was the least and lowest of all his Brethren but he was ruddy and withal of a beautiful countenance and goodly to look to Samuel Anointed him in the midst of his Brethren and the spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward and afterward the People chose him to be King It is my Belief and Perswasion that there have been and may be Kings in the World that may be said to be God's Kings God hath raised up some for some singular and eminent Work so God raised up Cyrus and stiled him his Anointed and his Shepherd I have raised him up in righteousness saith the Lord and I will direct all his ways he shall build my city and he shall let go my captives not for price not reward saith the Lord of hosts Whatsoever King or Prince God hath raised up it should be our earnest Desire and Prayer That the work of the Lord may Prosper in their Hands And let me tell you this Day here is matter for high Praises and Thanksgiving that God hath graciously and wonderfully Saved and Delivered the King from the Hands of bloody Men that designed his Destruction and the Ruin of these Nations We have abundant cause to be Thankful not only for his Personal Deliverance and Preservation but also to Pray that God would be pleased to make him an eminent Instrument in his Hand to serve and glorifie God in his Generation and promote the Christian Faith and the common Interest of all sincere Protestants against the Roman Papacy and barbarous Tyranny and Slavery I pray God the sense of this great Mercy and Deliverance may dwell upon all our Spirits It is not only a Deliverance as I hinted before of the King 's own Person but of us our Wives and little Ones our Cities Towns and Families If this Design had prospered and answered the expectation of our Enemies what Ruin and Confusion would it have brought upon these Nations What could we have expected in this Great and Populous City but Desolation and Ruin throughout the whole Island I speak in sincerity I feel joy to arise in my Heart and such a sense of this Mercy as doth excite me to Praise and Thanksgiving and to magnifie the Name of the Lord that hath done great Things for us if therebe any that flatteringly and hypocritically Praise God for this National Mercy they have their reward Let us all therefore Sincerely Cordially and in good ear-nest express our Thankfulness to God for that great Salvation he hath wrought for the King and these Kingdoms It is a signal Mercy and Universal Blessing Let us all excite and provoke one another to be truly Thankful to God not only with our Lips but with our Lives not only verbally but really in a Christian Life and Conversation without which our keeping a Day of Thanksgiving will not be acceptable to the Lord. For thus saith the Lord Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God A TESTIMONY OF OUR Faithful Obedience and Subjection TO King WILLIAM the III. And His GOVERNMENT AS We do sincerely believe and profess that Magistracy and Government in the World is an Ordinance of God and that it is the Duty of all Men to be subject to those in Authority whom God hath placed over them so most especially that it is the Duty of all Christians to be eminently exemplary to all others in giving and demonstrating all due subjection to the Government and Authority under which they live not only for Wrath but for Conscience sake and that they ought to pray for them and give thanks to God for the Blessings and Benefits received by them and their Government and for this cause Tribute is due unto them to support and maintain them in the necessary discharge thereof And in behalf of our selves and other Christian People who are of one Faith and Perswasion with us as true and sincere Christians and Protestants sincerely concerned in the common Interest of all true Protestants for the preservation of the true Christian Protestant Doctrin and Faith generally received and professed by all sincere Protestants against the great and manifold pernicious Errors of the Roman Papacy and for the true Christian Liberty that God in his great Mercy hath in general brought into these Three Nations as well as to other Protestant Countries against the Usurpation of the Papal Hierarchy By this our present Testimony we do sincerely and solemnly declare that we hold it to be our Christian Duty to give all due and faithful Subjection to King WILLIAM the present KING of England Scotland and Ireland c. with all Love Humility and due Honour and Respect and chearful ready and peaceable Obedience to Him as Supream acknowledging Him to be Rightful and Lawful KING of these Realms and to all under Him in Authority in their several Places and Stations giving thanks with our hearts to God for the many Blessings and Benefits we enjoy under His Reign and Government And we give Him Cordial Thanks for the Liberty and free Exercise of our Consciences which He hath Granted and is Establish'd by Law in Worshiping God according to our Faith and Perswasion And we utterly deny and disown the Authority of all Foreign Power to have any Jurisdiction over these Realms As also we give thanks to God for the late great Deliverance and Preservation that God hath given Him in Delivering Him and Preserving Him from the wicked Attempts and Designs of such as did intend to Assassinate Him in whose great Deliverance and Preservation the whole Body of all his Loving Subjects in all His Dominions have met with great Deliverance and Preservation to themselves and their Families of which singular Blessing of God to Him and in Him to all these Three Nations and all other His Dominions we desire that all may be deeply sensible and by Divine Grace and Assistance may be helped to be thankful unto God for the same not only by confession of the Mouth but by the good Works of a Christian Life and Conversation And we sincerely pray that God Almighty may still preserve and defend Him from all future Attempts and Designs of wicked Men prolong His Life and Reign make Him a great and eminent Instrument to promote True Christian Piety and the True Protestant Doctrin and Cause against the Papal Faction and Hierarchy Bless His Government more and more to Him and all his Faithful and Loving Subjects Establish His Throne in Righteousness during His Life-time in this World and in the World to come give him the Crown of Righteousness and of Eternal Life Given forth from our Meeting at Turners-Hall in London in behalf of our selves and other Christian People of the same Faith and Perswasion with us commonly called Quakers though differing from many that go under that Name in diverse weighty Things relating to Christian Faith and Doctrin The 26th of the Second Month called April 1696. FINIS Psal 18. 46. Psal 135. 15 16. Eph. 2. 1 4. Rom. 5. 14. Psal 18. 2. Psal 147. 1. Psal 33. 1. Isa 55. 7. Isa 1. 16 17. Psal 119. 156. Gen. 6. 7. Gen. 7. 1. Gen. 8. 20. Psal 106. 9 10. Exod. 15. 1. Psal 126. Psal 137. 1 2. Rev. 15. 2. 3. Rev. 13. 4 8. Rev. 12. 1 2 3 4 15 16. Rev. 19 1 2 4. Rev. 5. 8 9. Psal 50. 14 15. Psal 50. 23. Mat. 5. 16. John 4. 24. Psal 116. 8. Psal 104. 33 34 35. Psal 105. Psal 149 5 6. 1 John 2. 14. Heb. 12. 4. Psal 18 17 19. Psal 18. 23. Rom. 7. 18. Psal 119. 109. Luke 17. 20. Matth. 25. 13. Mat. 3. 3. John 7. 37. 38. Gen. 26. 18. 1 Cor. 10. 3. 4. Acts 15. 5 6 7 8. Eph. 2. 7. Psal 18. 43. 44. Psal 18. 50. 1 Sam. 16. 12. Isa 44. 28. Isa 45. 13. Psal 50. 23.