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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59279	A sermon preached upon the fast-day, June the 18th, 1690 by a presbyter of the Church of England, that swore in the sincerity of his heart, with a full satisfied conscience, to King William and Queen Mary.	Presbyter of the Church of England.	1690 (1690)	Wing S2643; ESTC R19775	12,201	33

all other our Offences whereby we have dishonoured thee not duly honoured our Soveraigns King William and Queen Mary troubled the Peace of the State hindred the Success of our Land and Naval Forces wronged our Brethren or abused our selves so shall we have hope in thy Mercy incline us to be hearty in worshipping thee to be careful that our Lives be henceforth reform'd as well as our Profession so though our Enemies rage yet they shall imagine but a vain thing so though they set themselves together against us yet shall they not prevail but we shall be saved both we and our King I cannot but add a word upon occasion of the Happy Success of our Forces in Ireland under the Conduct of our Lawful King William whose Subjects we are by the justest and wisest Act that ever the Representatives of English-men made Blessed be the Lord God of Heaven who hath heard the Prayers of all the truly Loyal and Honest Men in the Kingdom who hath given them their Hearts desire and hath not denied them the request of their Lips in covering their valiant and forward King's Head in the Day of Battel in protecting his Life in which their Safety was bound up which Life was in eminent danger and very near being took away as if to shew us how unworthy we are of him and to affect us with a true sense of the many Deliverances which Almighty God the God of Hosts by his Warlike Hand worketh for us in scattering the Troops of that unhappy man's profligate Adherents who fights now only for a Power to destroy us in blasting the pernicious Hopes and cursed Prayers of unreasonable unconstant unquiet discontented Men who might have every thing proper to make them easie could they but be so without the Power to Lord it over the Faith of their Brethren in frustrating a sedulously-labour'd Bloody Foreign Invasion by secret vile Practises brought about from the most barbarous Tyrant that ever own'd the Name of Christian May these ineffable Mercies of the Divine Providence which so carefully and tenderly watcheth over the Kingdom of England as also over other Reformed Churches and Injur'd States be ever marvellous in our Eyes so marvellous as to cause us when we cannot comprehend them to endeavour to express a quick lively becoming and pious sense of them in all Humble Obedience to the Commands of our God in Scripture in all Loyalty to our King according to the Laws of the Kingdom in due compliance to those Laws according to every Capacity wherein they concern us by which Laws the best of Laws I believe may He the best of Kings undoubtedly long Reign over us and let all the People who fear God Honour King William and say Amen Postscript THE Scandalous neglect of the due Observance of the late enjoyn'd Monthly Fast prompted a Person of Honour and good Affection to our Ancient English Government as it is now happily settled under King William and Queen Mary to recommend to the Author of this Sermon the Penning and Preaching a Discourse suitable to the Solemnity In the late Reign 't was not an Angry Monarch could restrain the Clergy from thankfully Commemorating as it well became them the Fifth of November's Deliverance But a late enjoyn'd Fast to beg Pardon of our sins that they might not hinder the happy course of King William's Victories by which our Laws and Lives have been rescued from Violence and are from Violence defended has been not only not Observ'd but also in some places with contemptuous frowardness a great deal worse used than shall be mentioned unless the Proof be required by such as did it without shame and would without shame deny it To the Printing this honest tho' mean and plain Discourse the Author was obstinately averse alledging some excuses which were allow'd even by them that loved him too much and importuned him dangerously yet at last he chose unask'd to Print being over-ruled by an Accident which tho' he does not publish he is willing to declare to any Person that may perchance discover his Name and accuse him as a pragmatical medling Fellow beyond what his particular Station in the World might be reasonably construed to warrant He thinks it reasonable that every Writer be oblig'd to set his Name to what he Prints that so the Publick may have satisfaction if injur'd but he uses a liberty commonly taken both because the Book-seller promises to get the Trifle Licensed and also for that as he does not seek to be commended of which indeed there 's no danger so neither is he fond of hard censure which yet he does not much suspect from the Friends of the present Settlement and in point of deserving has no need to fear from the Jacobite-People who are certainly the worst of Christians and of Philosophers the most absurd of Philosophers the most absurd for they have now this long time debauch'd their Reason by giving Credit to false News concerning the late King 's Northern Forces Foreign Aids and Irish numbers by believing the French King's Irresistibility Heaven defend them from taking up Infallibility which the Popes may chance to Iay down if the Succession goes on in one or two good Choices more I call them the worst of Christians the Formidable French Fleet now in our Seas evinces it When we have weather'd the Storm which a Providential Wind in greatest part diverted and of which blessed be God there is now no great danger it is to be hoped that the unnatural raisers of it will recover their Senses and outwardly at least abhor their unsuccessful Villany or else be forc'd to be so far Loyal as inability to do great mischief amounts to If any man should seem to wonder at this piece of Zeal from a Clergy-man against the faults of some of his Brethren he bids this Reply be made He has been often in the Company of Men of Quality great Learning and fair Estates amongst whom he has often heard the Clergy censur'd for an unhappy unquiet Order who have been in very great part in all times Authors of the Troubles and Calamities of the Nation he thereupon resolv'd if ever it fell in his way to offer one word on behalf of the Settlement conducive as far as he is able to the Security of the same which he is glad that some Eminent Clergy-men with better Abilities do honestly frequently endeavour and he wishes that more would do so were it but for this reason That the Lord's peculiar Inheritance as they call themselves may no longer stink in the nostrils of the People FINIS Some Books Printed for John Lawrence at the Angel in the Poultrey London INstitutio Grammaticae ad Juventutis captum summo studio artificio concinnata In qua artis Ratio genuina Notio accuratè disquiritur atque enucleatim enodatur Per A. M. M. A. In Octavo The Map of Man's Misery Or The Poor Man's Pocket-Book Being a Perpetual Almanack of Spiritual Meditations or Compleat Directory for one endless Week Containing many useful Instructions and Prayers plainly shewing every Christian so to walk that he may please God Twelves Man's whole Duty and God's wonderful intreaty of him thereunto Set forth from 2 Cor. 5.20 By Daniel Burgesse Minister of the Word of Reconcillation Twelves Advice to Parents and Children Being the sum of several Sermons by the same Author In Twelves