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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

ways and your doings and I will cause you to dwell in this place See how God takes to himself the Ordering of State-affairs as the first Mover and Manager of all second Causes then I will cause you to dwell in the Land that I gave to your Fathers But the greater number of that People would not take God's word and he dealt with them accordingly But how was the patient and the peaceful temper of mind signally rewarded in the Preservation of Jeremiah and the Remnant his little Party how was submission and obedience to their Chief tho he were dead and gone nobly requited to Jeremiahs beloved Rechabites in that very time of the Siege because they kept to those Constitutions which they had received from their Ancestor they had a gracious and a glorious promise from God Jonadab the Son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever Under what part of Heaven soever they have liv'd I believe God that this Religious Family was preserved when the whole Nation was almost extinguish'd to last the outmost date of this most true Promise And if any faith may be given to a Jewish Author who Travail'd over the greatest part of the habitable World to visit the dispersed of his own Nation Benj. Tudel he assures us in his Itinerary that whatever becomes of his Country-men the Sons of Abraham yet the Posterity of Rechab do still subsist that they enjoy a fair Territory that they have built a strong City which they were not for bidden to do for their necessary defence and are very formidable Neighbours to other petty States among the Arabs at this day Just so it fell out again at the second destruction of Jerusalem when the Romans took it Gallus began the Siege but rais'd it again without any reason imaginable except this account may be given of it that he was over-rul'd from above to open a passage for the Christians who in those days follow'd nothing but Peace and Holiness to fly to the Mountains so that when Titus came a few months after to renew the Siege there was not one Christian left in Jerusalem Euseb l. 3. c. 5. We must needs believe the most Auihentick Writers of that Story that the Christians all escap'd to Pella a City beyond Jordan while the seditious Jews were not only cut off by the Romans but were all the while killing and slaying and damning one another Take but one instance more of God's extraordinary Care of those that will but give credence to his Word and keep themselves within any tolerable compass of doing their duty but it shall be an instance reaching from the beginning to the last fatal End of the Jewish Government for during all that time Almighty God was pleas'd to work more than an Anniversary Miracle for their sakes when the Tribes of Israel went up to their great Solemnities thrice in the Year leaving their whole Country naked and in a manner exposed to a Forein Invasion God visibly and gloriously perform'd what he had engaged to do for their Security for he struck their Neighbour-Nations and Powerful Cities that were at Enmity with them with Panic Fears and the Terror of the Lord was upon them that they drust make no Inroads on the Holy Land however abandon'd for the Time by most of its own Inhabitants According to that assurance given 'em in that wonderful place of Scripture Exodus xxxiv 24. For I will cast out the Nations before thee and inlarge thy borders neither shall any man desire thy Land when thou goest up to appear before the Lord thy God thrice in the Year But if such and so extraordinary has been the Providence of God in the preservation of the obedient People much more remarkable has the Divine Protection been over the Sacred Persons of Kings and Princes I have not time to expatiate on so noble a Theam I will come presently home to the wonderful Instance now before us and to the peculiar business of this Day How was our Native Country this fruitful Soil like to have been stain'd with a most barbarous Assassination of our Sovereign Lord the King and his Royal Brother had not their Lives been precious in the sight of God! There had an Acre of Ground been made an Aceldama a Field of Blood and consider pray you that have in your minds the situation of the place where this most horrible Treason should have been acted was there ever a place more cunningly found out for the Execution of so damnable a Design an Inclosure an errand Pound in the midst of it a House as convenient for the reception of all the Conspirators as the Master of that House was proper to make One at the head of that execrable Crew Set then before your Eyes those lamentable Images but most necessary to make us sensible of our great deliverance a number of murderous Phanaticks in whose sight Blood was as nothing and Royal Blood no more to them than the meanest nay the more meritorious Sacrifice suppose those Armed Traitors rushing out of their lurking-place while our Fearless Princes had been talking of indifferent things or while they had been reposing themselves in their Journey pent up in a Coach disabled even from drawing their Swords or Dying Nobly and for a few of their Guards what could they have done Alass the Blow would have been given before they could have apprehended their Master to be in danger This was a perfect Powder-Plot in the most literal sence the deed had been done before the noise had been heard the greatest Courage upon Earth had been useless there in an instant the Furies had gain'd their hellish point had not Heaven been watchful over us If ever you hear Gods Providence call'd in question by our bold Atheists choak them with the fire at New-Market which hastning the King away spoil'd the whole Train that was laid and by the loss of a few Houses prevented three great Kingdoms from perishing together in one Flame For can you believe or imagin that all would have ended in a Massacre of the Royal Family No doubt you not the Massacre would have been carryed on as far as they could against all the Royal Party What else could they intend what other thing could they wish what other cause of acting so detestable a Treason for to take off a most merciful King and his next Successor who next to him has shewed himself of a most reconcileable Temper to do all this with a purpose of calling in the next of Kin to the Crown who was bound in honour and conscience to take vengeance upon them or with a purpose of setting up some other single Person that had no Right this is a degree of madness which none of these shrewd Phanaticks have to plead in their own excuse Bring forth the Blind that have Eyes and the deaf that have Ears as Isaiah speaks If any man will not see a thing so clear as this or if

Noble men that rais'd him And presently after that we shall find that their Underwoods i. e. the Common People were destroyed in the flame of their own blowing up For the next account we receive is that God sent an Evil Spirit between Abimelech and the men of Sichem He sent i. e. he suffer'd the Devil as his Instrument of Vengeance to go and he gave him power over them And now they grow as weary of their Pageant as once they were fond of it they hold their Close Meetings against him 't is said they met in the House of their God to Eat and Drink and to Curse Abimelech this was to turn their Church into a True Conventicle where they carryed on the work of the day in their two laudable Exercises whereof one was inveighing against the Government though it was of their own setting up and the other was indulging their sensual Appetites under the Cloak of Religion Then we are told the men of Sichem dealt Treacherously with Abimelech as those that have once been fellow-Traitors to their Lawful Governours do seldome long continue faithful to one another What Tumults there follow'd What Insurrections How the Fields were dyed with gore and how much Blood ran down the Streets of their City you may read in that noble Story which finishes at last in the most ignominious Death of that mighty Man who took not God for his strength he perishes by the hand of a Woman To make it the more remarkable he that had murder'd seventy of his Brethren upon one stone has his own Brains dash'd out by another stone and to shew that the hand of God was in all this we are told expresly And all the Evil of the Men of Sichem did God render upon their own heads and upon them came the Curse of Jotham But because this distrusting of God and instead of doing that which David presses so passionately O tarry thou the Lords leisure being ready to say with that impious Noble-man that was at last trodden to Death by the People Why tarry we for the Lord any longer Because this fatal Impatience seems to be now one of our National Sins I shall urge against the sad effects of it some such Examples as shall be National and Virtually a Multitude of Examples Zedekiah the King of Judah having absolutely submitted to the great King of Babylon 't is said he Rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar who had made him swear by God Therefore by the way the resisting a Lawful Prince to whom an Oath of Obedience has once been taken tho' he be a Heathen Prince as Nebuchadnezzar was is no better than a downright Perjury and a wicked Rebellion So Jeremiah the poor despis'd Prophet of God implies it to be throughout his Prophecy But what if these men were perjur'd Rebels yet this was always their Note concerning themselves The Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord are these i. e. they were the Godly they were the Saints just as the True Protestant the True Protestant is now the Common Cry of those who think that Title a good Apology and a sufficient Plea to legitimate Perjury and Rebellion nay more he is sure to be called a Factor for Babylon as Jeremiah was call'd that dares but call it Perjury and Rebellion But by whatever Names they are pleas'd to call us I must tell them by the way since in Opposition to their Rebellion we have held our Lives so long at the mercy of their Perjury and yet they have found to their Cost that we have stood our ground still in the Church of England they that have try'd us at this rate have given a sufficient proof that we are ready to lay down our Lives for the Church of England We can say no more than this and we ought to say no less But to return from this short occasional digression to the Story of that Rebellion I was relating What came of it That easie misguided Prince Zedekiah was utterly lost his very Eyes were not left him but only so long as to see his Sons put to the Sword the Temple that was their Glory and which they turn'd into their Vain Glory was burnt by Nebuzaradun the Assyrian General the main Body of the People was carryed away Captive into that same Babylon that Heathenish Countrey which they so justly abhorr'd Again the same turbulent and restless People being after many Ages in some degree re-establisht by the Valour of the Maccabees had made an intire and necessary surrender of themselves to the Romans as to their Lords and Masters Fo fear of giving Umbrage to the Romans of any other Pretender to the Crown but Caesar their carsed Politician Caiaphas was for putting our Blessed Lord to death those two words Venient Romani the Romans will come and take away both our Place and Nation were effectual incentives to stir up the People to Cry Crucify him Crucify him As now to Cry loud enough Popery will come in and swallow us up serves all the turns of any great Incendiary to break through all Human and Divine Laws But how were those Pharisees and Sadduces those Hypocrites and Atheists destroyed by themselves their shedding innocent blood and it was the Blood of God brought upon them a deluge of blood at last their open Rebellion against the Romans their lawful Governours at that time caused their whole Nation to be pluck'd up by the very roots and to make the Judgment more apparent when Titus the Roman came and burnt their Temple again so many Ages after its first Destruction that second Desolation came upon them says Josephus their great Historian Josp de Bell. Jud. l. 7. c. 9. in the same Month on the same day of the Month that the former fell upon and when by the same division of Priests and Levites the same Divine Service was reading in course viz. that Psalm which was written in Admiration of Gods vindictive Justice O God to whom Vengeance belongeth thou God to whom Vengeance belongeth shew thy self 3. After such instances as these I shall need no more and in hopes I have gain'd this second Point that such as will needs take the sword against their lawfull Prince shall perish with the sword I make hast to my Third and Last Part That there is a peculiar hand of providence over Kings and Princes to deliver them from the hurtful Sword so also over all their Loyall Subjects and Good People that will but trust God and walk in his Holy ways Now then let us look back on the other side and see but how well they fard in those same great Conjunctures and Revolutions who took the Prophets Advice to cease from man i. e. to trust in God Upon how easie terms was the whole Nation offered by God to be preserv'd He does as it were renew his old promise to fight for them while they should hold their peace if they would but reform their Lives thus saith the Lord amend our