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A66382 A sermon preach'd before the Lord-Mayor and court of Aldermen in the church of St. Mary le Bow, on Thursday the 26th of November, being the day of the publick thanksgiving William Wake ... Wake, William, 1657-1737. 1691 (1691) Wing W269; ESTC R4903 26,626 40

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at this Time have For indeed when did God ever more eminently shew himself to be the Saviour of Kings than in those frequent and signal Deliverances which he has afforded to our own Royal Soveraign from the Hurtful Sword If 1 st We consider his Personal Deliverances I may venture to affirm That never did any Prince more generously expose himself for any People than his Majesty in these late Years has done for Us nor I think ever did any more narrowly escape with Safety out of them For not to say any thing of the Common Hazards of War tho' perhaps no Prince either undertook more Expeditions or carried them on with greater Diligence or appeard in them with more Courage or Ended them with better Success or less consider'd His own Safety in comparison of the publick Good than our Royal Master has done since the time of Him of whom our Text speaks I can scarce yet without Astonishment remember How near the Fatal Blow came to him which had not the watchful Providence of God for sure nothing else could have done it prevented must for Ever have quench'd the Light of our Israel and have at once put a final period both to his Life and in that to all our Hopes But that God who raised him up to assert his Cause and to vindicate the Liberty not of this Country only but of all Europe from the Rage and Power of its Common Enemy and Oppressor had yet more Victories for him to obtain And therefore he heard our Prayers and cover'd his Head in that Day of Battle and sent him back to us with so much the Greater Joy by how much the nearer we were to have been utterly deprived of Him But that which ought yet more to be consider'd by Us and to raise up our Souls to a still greater heighth of Thanksgiving for this Deliverance is that as his Danger was Imminent so was it of such a Nature too that nothing but the same God who preserved David heretofore from the Hurtful Sword could have delivered our King from the Stroak of it Here was no room for Counsel or Advice No Opportunity for any Humane Means to have interposed for his Preservation Neither the Courage of his Bravest nor the Conduct of his Wisest Servants could have stood him in any Stead No it was that God who did Deliver Him that alone was capable of doing of it And therefore not unto Us O Lord but unto thy Name be the Glory of it And these are such Circumstances as would at any time have engaged us to a lively Sense of so great a Deliverance But at such a time as that was in which God was pleased thus wonderfully to preserve him to restore him again to us this is what gives a singular Addition to the Blessing of it For a Nation to be deprived of a Good Prince a King endued with all those Royal Vertues which even the Enemies of our Great Soveraign cannot deny to be most Conspicuous in Him must certainly at any time have been a very great Calamity and what would have call'd for the Lamentations of all that truly valued either the Honour or Welfare of their Country But to have been deprived of such a Prince in a time of Trouble and Difficulty when nothing but his Conduct his Courage and Reputation could possibly have prevented Us from an utter Ruin and Confusion I want words to express how Fatal the Consequence must have been of it And yet this or rather if possible somewhat beyond all this was our Case when God sent us this great Deliverance Our Enemies defied us from Abroad They threatned us even there where we thought our selves the most Secure against Them Where we were wont till now to give Laws and strike Terrour into all other Nations besides And had they obtain'd this farther Advantage against us What could have hindred but that our very Name and Nation our Liberties and Religion must for ever have been buried in Reproach and Desolation Nor was the Insolence of Those within any less They began already to devour us again in their Hopes and expected only when the Happy Minute should come that would again have put them in a Condition to have accomplish'd their Wicked Designs against us Thus did all things seem manifestly to threaten us with Rain and Confusion Nothing now remain'd but the Dread of our absent Prince and whom tho' at the Greatest Distance they cannot but tremble at to rescue us from these Dangers And we may truly say it was the Reputation of his Name and the Apprehension of his Conduct that then kept us in Peace and Quiet when We justly fear'd that all was running into War and Tumults And had the Providence of God then fais'd him had not the Almighty in a most wonderful manner preserved Him and given him a more than Ordinary Success in his Undertakings We should now have been perhaps One of the most Miserable to be sure one of the most Slavish and Contemptible Nations in the World I should much exceed the Bounds of such a Discourse as this should I go on particularly to recount to you what mighty Deliverances God has again vouchsafed to Him since that of which I have been hitherto speaking To what Dangers he has been exposed in an Element that of All Others has ever been the most Contrary to Him What new Hazards he has again encountred in the Field And all this for our sakes to promote our Welfare and if it be possible secure it to all Succeding Generations Blessed be God! Who has again brought Him back to Us in Health and Safety and Crown'd him yet once more with Honour and Victory That has turn'd those Dangers we before lay under into some Hopes that I do not say into a fair Prospect of Peace and Security That has restor'd our Country its King Our Church its Defender and all of us Our publick Welfare and Security And who if We be not our selves wanting to his Desires shall by the Blessing of the same God not only save us from Ruin but repair our Credit and revive that Spirit amongst us which enabled our Ancestors so Gloriously to Triumph over their Enemies heretofore And shew that it is not in vain We either bear the Arms of France or pretend a Right and Title to it That Our Nation is still the same it ever was and has only wanted a Prince to lead it on And having now at last met with such a One who can tell but we may yet see that Proud Monarch at last shewn no longer to be Invincible But that a King of England supported by the Favour of God the Justice of his Cause and the ●●●●age and Affections of his People is still able to give a Check to his Carier And deliver Europe from the Insolence of a Power which it had never fear'd had not the Pacifick Temper of our late Princes and even the Help of our Arms unhappily raised it