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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56793	The Protestant King protected, the popish kings detected and defeated in a sermon preach'd at St. James Clarkenwell, April 16, 1696, being the day of publick thanksgiving for the deliverance of His Majesty, K. William III from assassination, and his kingdoms from invasion by the French / by Deuel Pead ...	Pead, Deuel, d. 1727.	1696 (1696)	Wing P963; ESTC R17663	21,808	38

Protestant Religion shall flourish as it doth now And in this Imagination some Book-men are ensnared they dream of nothing less than Prebends Deanries and Bishopricks but they will find if that day should ever come that they have Men abroad for these Places Had they read the Chronicles of our Nation they would have found 300 Italians at one time in Benefices in this Kingdom besides many from other Countries But poor deceived Souls what dream they of Preferment Let them hear what the Duke of Medina chief General in the Spanish Invasion said viz. That his Sword whene'er he had Success must make no Distinction between Protestant and Papist Clergy or Laity But peradventure these Men have a sheet Anchor by which they hope to ride safely in the midst of those raging Tempests should they come that is they will turn Papists I am so far from disputing it that I believe it provided they are not so already But this Anchor will be too weak to ride out the Storm for they will be told of the great danger of a Relapse and for fear of such a sad thing it is the best Charity to dispatch them while they are in so good a mind Now who but Asses as I said would draw in this Plow in such vain hopes 3. The Third sort of Enemies to our King are the Kings of the Earth and these are said to stand up against him Kings of the Earth viz. Lewis and James and these may be called Kings of the Earth very properly in that they are Men of this World they mind nothing farther than Vanity and Ambition and from them we may be satisfy'd that the Devil is an horrid lyar for he had the Impudence to tell our Saviour That the Kingdoms of the Earth were at his disposal which had it been more than sham and boast he would certainly long ere this have conferr'd these Kingdoms upon those Princes because none have fallen down so basely and worshipp'd him so zealously as they have done What Cities and Towns have they in their fury made Burnt-Offerings of and what Rivers of Blood have they prodigally sacrificed to the Devils of Idolatry Pride Vain-glory and Lust These Kings have set themselves against the Lord and against his Anointed Did not Lewis stand up against our King when he sent a grand Villain call'd Granvil into his Camp to stab him and when one could not do it in the Camp the other stood up as well as his Heart would let him and procured a Kennel of Hell-hounds to attempt it in his Winter Quarters How did this become a Warlike Prince as some will call him he wanted the true Courage to stand up against him in the Field but drew up like an Heroe as far as Pen and Ink would carry him These Kings make nobile par fratrum a pair of special Brethren in Iniquity how indefatigably have they labour'd to compass the Death of our King All true Protestants may truly say of them in the words of Jacob Gen. 49.5 Instruments of Cruelty are in their Habitations O my Soul come not into their secret unto their Assembly mine honour be not thou united Let none that have a Soul or but a spark of true Honour associate with them let no Christian favour them in Heart or defend their ungodly Practices with their Tongues The Fourth sort of Enemies to our David according to the Text were Rulers chief and leading Men and those took Counsel and laid their Heads together Among the Jews we read of two sorts of Rulers the one Rulers of the Synagogues in particular Cities the other of the People and those were the Sanhedrim which consisted of the High-Priest Elders Scribes and Pharisees Persons of different Opinions Orders Degrees and Functions and thus the Plot the Discovery whereof we this day most thankfully Commemorate was carried on by great Personages and who knows if the great High-Priest falsely called his Holiness had not his Cue in it For few of his Church dare undertake a considerable Villany without the encouragement of his Blessing Swords Daggers and Pistols when design'd against Protestant Princes never yet wanted the Benediction of that holy Father and therefore it is very probable he did now as he used to do upon like occasions Gregory the VIIth was of Counsel and did hire a Ruffian to murder Henry the IVth and engaged in a multitude of Treasonable Practices against Fredrick the I●d King John was murdered by a Monk but not without the privity of Christ's Vicar Henry the VIth was poyson'd by one Bernard a Friar but it was by instigation of Clement the Vth. and it was done in the Sacrament Well may Princes be in danger of Assaults in their Winter Quarters when they are not safe at God's Altar Time wou'd fail to tell what they have done to Protestant Kings and Queens for if they did such things to Emperours and Kings of their own Church to be sure they accounted nothing bad enough for those of ours witness this last horrid Plot. I will briesly shew you how these Rulers of the Romish Faith are degenerated from the old Heathen Romans King Pyrrhus was at War with Rome and his Physician convey'd a Letter to Caius Fabricius the Roman General wherein he offered to destroy his Master if Fabricius pleased but in Fabricius was found such a noble and generous Mind that he sent the treasonable Letter back to King Pyrrhus Now what would the two Kings we are speaking of have given for such an offer Tell me then what good the Romish Religion hath done or is possible to do towards a Reformation of the World when it is plain it hath so monstrously corrupted it Now to particularize how many or who of those Rulers that thus conspir'd against our King are among us is more than I can undertake we must leave it to time However I can acquaint you with some of their Consultations which when you have heard you will see farther cause to bless God for this great Deliverance 1. These Rulers Roman and Protestant French Irish and English consulted the aspersing the glorious Name of our King Envying the Happiness they saw likely to accrew to this Nation under a Wise and Valiant Protestant Prince they consulted to prevent and spoil all by instilling into the Ears of the giddy People false Reports of their Sovereign they set Men of cunning Wits to write compose and publish Scurrilous Libels and Seditious Pamphlets and these like Birds of Prey flew up and down the Land to devour the King's Honour and Goodness in these they were not slack to throw Dirt enough hoping if some only stuck it might do their Work Thus they charged him with prolonging the War barely to raise more Trophies to the Memory of his own Prowess Again they consulted how to lay it to his Majesty's charge that we were taxed to be begger'd and the Dutch favour'd to the encrease of their Wealth and Riches It is true the Dutch are in