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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29162	A sermon preached at St. Catherine Cree-Church, upon Sunday the 1st of March 1695/6 upon occasion of the late horrid plot / by Nicholas Brady ...	Brady, Nicholas, 1659-1726.	1696 (1696)	Wing B4180; ESTC R19559	10,459	37

chosen People If they rebelled against the words of God and contemned the Councel of the the most high then he brought down their Heart with labour they fell down and there was none to help But when they cried unto the Lord in their trouble he delivered them out of their distresses he sent his word and healed them and they were saved from their destruction The truth of this Doctrine is undeniably made out by the remarkable deliverance pointed at in my Text. The Israelites were pursued by the whole strength of Egypt they could not turn on either side for the Mountains that environed them their progress was stopped by the Red-Sea before them and their retreat cut off by the Egyptians behind them The poor Fugitives thus miserably hemmed in were a naked and defenceless multitude their very number which yet was all they had to trust to was not their smallest inconvenience being chiefly composed of Women and of Children whose Tears and Lamentations softened those Hearts into tenderness and compassion which should have been steel'd with Courage and Resolution What should they do being thus surrounded with horrour and destruction We are told in the 10th verse of this same Chapter that when they lift up their eyes and beheld Pharaoh marching after them they cryed out unto the Lord And we find the consequence to be that the Lord heard them and turn'd that attempt which was designed for their destruction into a signal Instance of his Favour towards them and the utter ruin of their insulting Adversaries And since in this particular our case resembles that of the Israelites namely that the cause of the Malice of our Adversaries is only that we will not becomes slaves to the Egyptians and that we will not bow down before the Idols of Egypt but are resolved to Offer Sacrifice unto the Lord our God were our condition as helpless as we find theirs to have been and God be praised it is most happily different we are as justly intituled to a Miraculous Deliverance But we need not go abroad for Instances of this Nature our own experience will abundantly supply considerable Examples of the Divine Protection How wonderfully has God appeared in our behalf not only in compleating that advantageous change in the Government of these Nations by which our Religion and our Liberties were secured but also by watching over it in a peculiar manner and defeating all designs which were devised for its Destruction For not to look backwards to former deliverances which are much too numerous to be insisted upon at present how wonderful a Mercy have we lately experienced if an attempt be made to surprize us unprovided as in the Invasion at this time designed the Winds and the Weather conspire to keep back our Enemies till their intentions are discovered and their contrivances laid open If secret Practices are levelled against the Government and Plots are carried on for the imbroiling us again as in the Horrid Treason so freshly discovered the Providence of God interposes for us visibly and brings to light the closest Machinations Thus by the wonderful goodness of Almighty God no Weapon no Design form'd against us has prospered but our Souls have escaped like a bird out of the snare of the fowler the net is broken and we are delivered Give me leave to stop here a little and to take an imperfect Prospect of that most valuable Blessing which has so lately been conferred upon us And we cannot any way more justly make an Estimate of it than by considering the Miseries to which we must have been exposed had we not been rescued from them by so eminent a Providence What Confusions what Distractions must we have lain under if by a Barbarous and Bloody Assassination the Confederate Armies had lost their General and Neighbouring Allies their Chief Magistrate these Nations their LAWFUL and RIGHTFUL KING And that at a conjuncture the most likelist of any when the embasement and scarcity of our current Coin had spread a general uneasiness throughout the Kingdom and when all these perplexities were about to be encreased by the additional Calamity of a Forreign Invasion The Scene of Affairs must have been so dismal that it requires some of that Courage which I have been recommending to you to take a view of those extremities tho we have happily escaped them But as this Design was a Master-piece of Villany and timed with all the Artifice of cunning Malice so has it pleased God by his gracious Disappointment of it to raise much Good out of that Evil and to Establish the Government by those very means by which its Enemies contrived to overturn it For as it must needs confirm the Layalty of the well-affected by shewing them the great importance of His Safety who is both their King and their Benefactour so I hope it will open the Eyes of some deluded People by shewin them the weakness and the badness of that Cause which makes use of such vile methods to sustain and support it self How chearfully then upon a due Contemplation of such remakable Providences as I have just now been treating of may we Exhort one another not to fear since so often heretofore and so signally of late we have seen the Salvation of the Lord. I would to God a due consideration of those several particulars wherein God has appeared to espouse the cause we stand for would prevail with those who are Enemies to our Peace no longer to combate the workings of Omnipotency but to take the advice which God formerly gave to the House of Judah Ye shall not go up to Fight against your Brethren for this thing is from me Especially that such among them as are Englishmen and Protestants would cease to act so unsuitably to both those Characters by betraying at once their Liberty and Religion in desperately abetting the attempts of those who would give us nothing else but Slavery for the One and Popery for the Other And this I wish chiefly for their own sakes since I am not apprehensive that they are so considerable as to bring Danger but Scandal upon their Country and Profession If therefore we are not so mad as to play booty against our selves if we will not Fight the Battles of our Enemies by unqualifying our selves for the Divine Protection we shall assuredly find that God who is a present help in trouble will never leave us nor forsake us Then may we lay hold upon all God's attributes and engage them to Fight in our behalf The Bowels of his infinite Mercy will yearn over us his impartial Justice when thus appeased will cease to be our Accuser and become our Advocate his eternal Truth will stand bound to make good his gracious Promises his unbounded Wisdom will find out the method for our deliverance and his almighty Power will execute and go through with it Fear ye not therefore stand still and see the Salvation of the Lord firmly rely upon him for his Protection and cast your care upon him for he careth for you not that you must so far depend upon him as to neglect the means which he has put into your hands we stand not in need of a Miracle for our Preservation and therefore we must not expect one for it Let us chearfully and with confidence use our own endeavours and God will not fail to do his part too in giving a blessing to our undertakings his former favours are so many earnests of future indulgences unless we make our selves unworthy of them either by our ingratitude or our distrust Let us courageously and undauntedly prepare our selves to confront whatever dangers may oppose us in the maintenance of a cause so good and justifiable Let us Arm our selves with Innocence and Fortify our selves with Faith and we need not fear what man can do unto us Thus being resolved to discharge our duty let us leave the event of things to God and his good Providence that the Glory of our Deliverance may be his alone in whom we live and move and have our Being I shall close up all with Joab's exhortation to the Armies of Israel Be of good Courage and let us play the men for our people and for the Cities of our God and the Lord do that which seemeth him good Now to God the Father the Son and Holy Ghost be ascribed all Honour Power Might Majesty and Dominion henceforth and for evermore Amen FINIS Sermons Preached by the Reverend Mr. Brady and Printed for R. Parker A Sermon Preached at Helmingham in Suffolk June 30th 1694. at the Funeral of Lieutenant General Talmach Published at the request of the Friends of the Deceased A Sermon Preached at White-hall March 3. 169● upon occasion of her late Majesties Death before the Right Honourable the Countess of Darby and the rest of the Mourning Ladies Published at the request of that Honourable Audience A Sermon Preach'd at the Parish-Church of St. Martin's Ludgate Sept. 12th 1695. before the Incorporated Society of Apothecaries of London Published at the request of the Society