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A63881	A sermon preach'd before the King in the Cathedral Church of Winchester upon Sunday, Septemb. 9, 1683 being the day of publick thanksgiving for the deliverance of His Sacred Majesties person and government from the late treasonable conspiracy / by F. Turner ...	Turner, Francis, 1638?-1700.; Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.	1683 (1683)	Wing T3282; ESTC R1798	19,019	38

much as Confessors in the Cause of Christ But we that have been saved from the Massacre we that have received a great and new Mercy our selves in this last wonderful Deliverance of the King from the hands of his Enemies have we not reason to sing a new Song unto God to sing praises unto him And I make no doubt but many of those his Enemies will now change their note and let them sing our new Song and let it come from the ground of the Heart as the Psalmist speaks Give thanks O Israel to God the Lord in the Congregation from the ground of the heart let them joyn with us here in the Offices of the Church to bless Almighty God for this Day and for this happy Discovery Upon these terms they are welcome not only to our Communion but to that of the Angels in Heaven for there is joy in the presence of the Angels of God over one Sinner that Repenteth then much more joy over many Repenting Sinners But then I must press them vehemently to bring forth fruits worthy of Repentance What Love what Duty do they owe to God and the King out of pure gratitude for being afforded as great a deliverance as ours a deliverance from themselves from the Plague of their own hearts If they sorrow after a godly sort as the Corinthians did for having sided with that Incestuous Person they will run through all the Apostles scale of Repentance What carefulness will it work in them what clearing of themselves what indignation yea what fear yea what vehement desire yea what zeal yea what revenge If any Catiline hereafter shall dare to come into the Senate they will presently rise from his Side as Caesar and Crassus did though they both had abetted him formerly he will see himself deserted and ready to be detected by those that once encouraged him Thus they may easily recover the false steps they have made by the Services they may do and all this is little enough for their own and the Publick Security For I must needs observe to you that the King in my Text after he had offer'd Thanks to God for delivering him from the peril of the Sword did not yet think himself so mighty safe but that he had need to Pray in the very next words Save me and deliver me from the hands of strange Children and what sort of men were those his open Enemies No they were the strange Children that dissembled with him For there are many that kiss the hand which they would cut off and we know by what Name he was call'd who Kist his Lord and Master even then when he led up the Band of men to seize him it was the Traitor Judas yet did not Christ reject his Address but gave him the title of Friend But our Blessed Saviour himself has given out the surest Test for prerended Converts and he gave it to St. Peter upon foresight that he would deny his Master when thou art Converted strengthen thy Brethren such Infant Converts as those whose tender and weak Loyalty is now in danger of being over-laid and stifled by the pressing importunity of the Party They whose own Eyes are open'd should endeavour to reduce those whom their ill Example has been the cause of misleading But especially they that have been guilty of Spiriting others away for so it may well be called They ought to have dreadful apprehensions of the Curse upon those that lead the Blind out of the way unless they take care and pains to bring them home to their Duty And now is the time now that such hidden works of darkness have been brought to light that they must be blind indeed who will not see them now that such prodigies of Villany have been discovered that he is the greatest prodigy of all that disbelieves or denies them Now that also so great a number tho' I will not say the third Part of the Stars are smillen down as they were in St. John's Vision yet now that so many who shin'd heretofore in their proper Orbs are fallen Now the Apostle will be allow'd to be in the Right that Evil Communications corrupt good manners and tho' it is now to be hop'd that noble minds will consort with none hereafter as their Friends but with those of their own temper but tho' not presently as Friends until they have reason to believe their Friendship on both sides is founded upon Virtue yet as Physicians I must tell them from our Blessed Saviour the whole need not the Physician but those that are sick then certainly those that are poyson'd have not only need but right to have an Antidote given ' em by the same hand that hurt ' em And what a noble change or rather what a glorious Transfiguration would be wrought upon these men that were lately such instruments of Mischief would they now turn Saviours in their kind such as the Prophet gives God thanks for thou gavest them Saviours who saved them out of the hands of their Enemies Nehem. ix 27. And this I have said to those deluded men who I hope are coming to themselves But for the Atheists who make up one main strength of the Party against us I will not lose my time in exhorting them to be Loyal but rather employ it in imploring for them this only Charity of which they are capable that they may be severely punish'd and treated according to their merit Let not such wretched men be bolder in Blaspheming God and the King than we are in Asserting and Maintaining our Duty to them both To what a height of this Virtue was David come when he was able to say like one who had no longer any human thoughts about him the Zeal of thy House hath eaten me up as a mighty flame devours whatever stand in its way and it follows the Rebukes of them that rebuked thee are fallen upon me Again the same Royal Confessor for thy sake says he have I suffered reproof shame hath covered my face i. e. says S. Austin upon that Psalm I was contented to be thought a shameless person because I would not be asham'd of my Religion Thou hast need of this Confidence says he to encounter some Peoples impudence When they upbraid thee for being a worshipper of one that was hanged upon a Tree if thou dost blush for shame thou art Guilty says he of a grievous Sin Quid fronti times quam signo crucis armasti prorsus esto frontosus i. e. Remember that thou wert arm'd in thy forehead with the sign of the Cross so long ago it was used therefore be not weak-foreheaded says he in the Cause of God As Heroick an example of such a pious magnanimity as this in David was that in King Lewis of France I mean him whom they stile the Saint and well they may stile him so upon this account that having made an Edict against Atheistical or prophane talking with this Penalty annex'd that the Guilty Person should