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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51229	A sermon preach'd before the King at St. James's, April 16, 1696 being a day of publick thanksgiving for the discovery of a horrid design to assassinate His Majesty's person, and for the deliverance of the Nation from a French invasion / by ... John, Lord Bishop of Norwich.	Moore, John, 1646-1714.	1696 (1696)	Wing M2554; ESTC R321	17,039	38

killed the King the Nobility and the Representatives of the People And is there not reason to believe that the same Evil Spirit which pusht on the Romanists in the days of our Fathers to such horrid impiety did govern these wretched Men in the Present Plot which in some respect does exceed that former Treason For at the same time that the Life of the King was to be taken away by Wicked Traytors at home there was an Army in readiness to have made a Descent upon us from abroad sufficient not only to destroy the Lords and the Commons who represent the People but the People themselves and there is great cause to think they would have made the Sword drunk with Blood before they had put it up It is most unaccountable how any Protestant should have been concern'd in it and yet it cannot be denied that some there were of that Religion and Church which abhorreth such Doctrines they were of that Church but had departed from it before they did engage in these Horrible Designs I say it is unaccountable since in the time of the late King they wish restored their Religion the Laws the Rights and the Liberties of the Nation were in a manner all subverted and the King on whose Power all their hopes of restoring him are built is one that caused all his own Protestant Subjects who would not forsake their Religion to be imprisoned banisht or put to death by which Severities he hath rooted them out of their Native Soil and left no appearance of them in their own Countrey Is it to be thought he would treat Strangers more tenderly than he has done his own People or that he would tolerate the Exercise of the Reformed Religion in this Kingdom after he had conquered it who has extirpated it in his own where his Subjects had a right by Law to enjoy it and were not guilty of the least undutiful Behaviour to provoke him to violate their Rights And here I should have thought it necessary to do an Act of Justice to our Religion in renouncing and disavowing the late Proceedings of those Clergy-men who absolved two Persons that were condemned for Treason and at their death shewed no tokens of Repentance for that Detestable Crime as being contrary to the Doctrine and Practice of the Church of England and scandalous to all good Christians in her Communion had it not been done already as far as can be in the present Circumstances by the Bishops of the Church and I doubt not with the hearty Concurrence of the rest of the Clergy While such Pernicious Opinions as these find favour in the World and there are men bad enough to practise them we have great need to fly unto God for Protection We cannot reflect upon the inhumane Slaughter intended both of our King and of our People without horror and detestation we cannot think of our Wonderful Deliverance without hearts full of Joy Praise and Thanksgiving ready to be offer'd to God our Gracious Deliverer Great is the Lord and marvellous Worthy to be praised there is no end of his greatness Whoso is wise and will observe these things even they shall understand the loving-kindness of the Lord. Men shall fear and declare the works of the Lord for they shall wisely consider of his doings Indeed a little consideration and thought will convince us that all Deliverances whether private or publick whether of single Persons or of whole Nations are due to God All men are sensible that they cannot preserve themselves they find no power within them either that was the cause of their being or that can certainly secure their Estates their Credit or Friends or prolong even their own Lives Men seemingly to themselves and others in sound health are in a day or two's time carried off by a Malignant Disease Death surprizing them when they had set it at a great distance and scarce allow'd it any room in their thoughts So Thefts and Fires and other Accidents sweep away their Estates against which the nicest Care and strictest Guards are no absolute Security Greater Uncertainties do attend War and Peace Publick Councils and the State of Kingdoms Counsels through want of knowledge of many things may be wrong taken or the Wisest by Treachery may be discovered or defeated small circumstances of things change the fate of Battels things which were not observed or so much as thought of when they began and they that assured themselves to return Conquerors from the Field have been carried away Prisoners Such as pretend to be our Friends may be plotting against us and our truest Friends may not have skill and strength to deliver us or be out of the way when we stand in most need of their help And as we discover no sufficiency in our selves or Friends on Earth to save us from trouble and danger so have we no ground or warranty to address our selves to the Souls in Heaven of Saints departed since we have no assurance they know how or what we do nor that they could help us if they had knowledge of our Affairs Much less can we apprehend how they should hear the Prayers of some Millions of Persons dispersed thro' all Countries put up at the same time which is in effect to allow them Omniscience and Omnipresence two of the Properties of the Divine Nature It is therefore intolerable Presumption in the Writers of the Church of Rome to suppose such Powers and Authorities to be lodged in the Virgin Mary and St. Ann her Mother and other Saints which are peculiar to God himself They must have very false Notions of God and of his Creatures who imagine either that he can transfer or that a Creature is capable of receiving those Attributes which are in their own nature incommunicable and which without a Contradiction cannot be separated from a Being infinitely perfect There is therefore nothing we can firmly rely on either for the safety of our Persons or the private Comforts of this Life or the Publick Good of our Country but God himself Upon him it is we must call in time of trouble and he will deliver us The Heathens had such a just sense of humane Frailty that they did attribute all the great Turns in their Condition to something above their own power To the Will of God they ascribed the good success of their Affairs and hoped by his Aid to be delivered from Calamities That the happiness of his planting was the more durable That when he will punish there is no escaping for the Strong That his displeasure might be appeased by their humbly addressing themselves to him And tho sometimes they talk of the influence Fortune has over humane Affairs yet they acknowledg it to be subject to the pleasure of God Wherefore in their Prayers they style God their Father that is the Author of their Life Health and Goods They dedicated Honses to Religious Uses and had several