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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93841	King David's case apply'd to King James and King William in a sermon preach'd at Christ-Church, Dublin, on the fifth of November, 1691 / by John Stearne ...	Stearne, John, 1660-1745.	1691 (1691)	Wing S5358; ESTC R42759	10,294	16

nearness of our danger and all the Plotting of our Enemies T is God's time and Prerogative to save in the greatest extremity of Danger to save Isaac from the very Altar Daniel from the Den of Lions and the three Children from the burning fiery Furnace Such a Deliverance looks like the Deliverance of a God such a seasonable Salvation does most magnifie his Power his Wisdom and his Mercy So far was the Merciless Project for an utter Extirpation of the Protestant Religion carry'd on with all imaginable Secrecy that for all the frustrated Attempts in Q. Elizabeth's Reign towards a Resetlement of Rome's Supremacy in England Her overjoy'd Agents promis'd themselves now an ample Recompense and Satisfaction in their effecting this Master-Piece of Villany that might Supersede the Labour of any other Treasonable Contrivances But tho Rome had brought the Mighty Work unto the Birth She wanted Strength to bring forth How vain is the Devil 's and the Jesuit's Consult how unsuccessfully do they Club for the Ruin of a Kingdom when Heaven is pleas'd to Thwart their Destructive Designs They may confidently say as in the forementioned Letter to the Lord Mount-eagle Men shall receive a Terrible Blow and yet shall not see who hurt them They may pray for the Success of any Bloody Design against all they Damn for Hereticks as the Gun-Powder Traytors did Prosper O Lord their Pains that labour in this Cause day and night Let Heresie vanish like Smoke and let the Memory of it perish with a Crack all this while that God unto whom nothing is secret to whom the darkness and light are both alike beholds all their Revengfull Labours sees ev'ry Step they silently advance in their Designs and laughs at their Folly He hears their Uncharitable Prayers but it is to disappoint them for the Salvation of his Anointed and the Happiness of his People Many Devices are in their Hearts but the Counsel of the Lord and that alone shall stand even when the Wicked fall by their own Coxtrivances as the Gun-Powder Traytors did Some of them among whom was Catesby the Subtile Inventer of the Plot being Disabled by the Providential Blowing up of Gun-Powder it self which they were preparing for the Destruction of others as if this had been purposely design'd to make them more sensible of their lately intended Mischief Some being actually kill'd in their hasty Flight upon the Unexpected Discovery of their Bloody Purpose particularly by One Shot both Catesby and Percy from whose Dwelling the Powder was brought undiscover'd into the Cellar under the Parliament House And others being apprehended experienc'd how Benesicial the Plot won'd be as their Confessors told them in the Consequences of it as Beneficial as being fairly Hang'd for Treason Thus was The Lord known by the Judgment which he Executed By trapping thus the Wicked in the works of their own Hands And since God did so opportunely deliver our Fore-Fathers at the very Mid-night before that Morning in which they were appointed for the Slaughter by so Great Surprizing and Wonderful a Mercy all the Sons of After Generations shou'd be Confirm'd in a Comfortable Hope of God's Favour towards them when their Enemies seem to be in the greatest probability of compassing their Destruction For God is the same yssterday to day and for ever his Hand is not shorten'd that he cannot save Now as well as in Former Ages Godly Kings and States professing his Holy and Eternal Truth In Extream Distress therefore let the Resolution of every one of us be like that of Eliphaz in the book of Job I will seck unto God and unto God will I commit my Cause unto God who doth great things and unsearchable marvelous things without number who disappointeth the Devices of the Crafty so that their hands cannot perform their Emerprise he taketh the wise in their own craftiness and the counsel of the froward is carry'd headlong but he saveth the poor from the Sword and from the hand of the Mighty God does often give such a Deliverance to his People as is joyn'd with the Consusion of their Enemies The same Sea open'd a Way for the Israelites and a Grave for the Egyptians So that the Plots of the Wicked are vain not only because they are commonly frustrated in their Hopes of ruining by them Religious Kings and States but also because they prove in the end most destrnctive of their own Temporal as well as Eternal Happiness Thus tho' the Gun-Powder Traytors said in effect among themselves Come and let us root them out that they may be no more a People that the very Name of Protestant may be no more in Remembrance yet they imagined such a Mischievous Device as they were not able to perform they digged a Pit and sunk into the midst of it themselves Their Intended Mischief against the Lord 's Anointed like Arrows shot against Heaven return'd upon their own Heads and their Wickedness fell upon their own Pates So perished those Discontented Gentlemen and so let all their Enemies perish O Lord but let them that love thee be joyful and glad in thee and let all such as delight in thy Salvation say alway the Lord be praised That this Duty of Thanksgiving may be more cheerfully perform'd let Us now our Proposition rais'd from the two first Verses of our Text being dispatch'd take into Our Consideration the Third Verse containing the Royal Psalmist's Exhortation inferr'd from his foregoing Address to God and Man and Apply it to the Case of all such as are disaffected to the present Government Stand in awe and sin not Commune with your own Heart upon your Bed and be still When we are withdrawn from the Distracting Noise and Hurry of the world and the Stillness of Night favour 's our Recollected Thoughts we are well dispos'd for a Solemn Meditation on the most weighty Matters for a serions Reflection on our own ways on our Duty to God and the King At such a Season therefore do's the Psalmist advise his Enemies who had long in vain oppos'd his Government to reason with themselves about the wickedness of their Undutiful Carriage towards him and to have an awful Regard to the Omnipresent Omniscient and Almighty God as a special means to keep them from sinning against his Anointed for Plots carry'd on against Godly Kings God interprets as Acted against his Divine Majesty whose Vicegerents they are in this lower World Such is King David's Confidence in the Justice of his Cause that he seems willing to referr the whole matter unto their own Consciences wou'd they but lay aside all Passion Pride Revenge ' or Private Interest and give themselves time to judge calmly of things according to Reason Equity he does not in the least doubt but that upon such a deliberate Communing with themselves about the Folly of their Proceedings they wou'd soon be still or desist from all Traiterous Designs and Seditious Practices Here then let us a little while reason together