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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