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A56707	A sermon preached before the Lords spiritual and temporal, in the Abby-church at Westminster, on the 5th of November, 1696 being the anniversary thanksgiving, for the happy deliverance from the gunpowder treason : and also, for the happy arrival of His Present Majesty on this day, for the deliverance of our church and nation / by ... Symon Lord Bishop of Ely.	Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707.	1696 (1696)	Wing P855; ESTC R22926	17,117	35

other God's great and merciful Deliverance of his Anointed and of us all shall remain in never-dying Records And the same God grant that it may be Engraven in Marble-Tables of Thankfulness in our Hearts IV. But we must not express our Gratitude meerly in rendring Praise and Thanksgiving unto the Author of our Deliverances but in the faithful Improvement of them also to his Glory by the sincere Love and Practice of that Holy Religion which hath been so often in such a marvellous manner preserved and still is continued to us A Religion which teaches us to Worship God most purely and to believe all things that he hath revealed unto us to Honour and Obey the King also most conscientiously next to God for it acknowledges no Superiour to him in these his Realms and Dominions nor will let us believe that any body can dispense with the Duty we owe him A Religion which abhors private Conspiracies and Rebellion as much as it doth Heresies and Schisms Which leads us in the way of the truly Catholick Church of Christ which doth not allow us to do any Evil for the obtaining the greatest Good In short a Religion which is wholly Built upon the undoubted Word of God and not upon the uncertain Traditions of Men. Unto this therefore let us adhear with a stedfast Affection and unshaken Fidelity Let us preserve this most carefully which hath been wonderfully preserved by God And there is no way to preserve it like a sincere Practice of that Piety which it teacheth us In which let us endeavour to grow more and more and be quickned to it by these Two Motives First That the Work of Reformation it self was at first Effected by an extraordinary Providence of God through mean and weak Instruments when many greater Persons who wisht for a Reformation thought it impossible to be brought about Secondly That it hath been here among us in as extraordinary a manner preserved by the same Almighty Providence whereby it was wrought So our Fore-fathers have testified unto us who saw this day which God himself made Memorable by the marvellous Deliverance which he vouchsafed to them And so we our selves are able to testifie who have again seen his Salvation upon this very day which he hath made anew to be a day of Praise to him and Blessing to us Let us be afraid of Provoking so gracious and bountiful a Benefactor by obstinate Disobedience to his holy Laws which he hath bound upon us by such endearing Obligations Let us cheerfully do his Will who hath done for us according to our Hearts desire This was the End for which God vouchsafed such wonderful Deliverances unto Israel as are Recorded in the CV Psalm That they might observe his Statutes and keep his Laws So that Psalm concludes and the very same no doubt God expects from us who ought to charge ourselves with these Two things First To preserve the Memory of what God hath done for us For he hath so done his marvellous Works that they might be had in remembrance as the Psalmist speaks CXI Psal 4. And Secondly To consider that then we remember them as we ought when we remember his Commandments to do them Then we may have a good hope that the LORD who hath been mindful of us will still bless us he will bless the House of Israel he will bless the House of Aaron He will bless them that fear the LORD both small and great CXV Psal 12. 13. For the Mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them them that fear him and his Righteousness unto Childrens Children To such as keep his Covenant and to those that remember his Commandments to do them CIII 17 18. Which the God of all Grace give us Hearts sincerely to Resolve and Study for the sake of Christ Jesus To whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost be Glory and Majesty Dominion and Power both now and ever Amen FINIS Books Written by SYMON PATRICK D. D. now Lord Bishop of ELY and Printed for Richard Chiswell THE Parable of the Pilgrim written to a Friend The 6 Edition 4to 1681. Mensa Mystica Or a Discourse concerning the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper In which the Ends of its Institution are so manifested our Addresses to it so directed our Behaviour there and afterward so composed that we may not lose the Profits which are to be received by it With Prayers and Thanksgivings inserted To which is annexed Aqua Genitalis A Discourse concerning Baptism In which is inserted a Discourse to persuade to a confirmation of the Baptismal Vow 8vo Jewish Hypocrisie A Caveat to the present Generation Wherein is shewn both the false and the true way to a Nations or Persons compleat Happiness from the sickness and recovery of the Jewish State To which is added a discourse upon Micah 6. 8. belonging to the same matter 8vo Divine Arithmatick A Sermon at the Funeral of Mr. Samuel Jacomb Minister of St. Mary-Woolneth-Church in Lombard-street London With an Account of his Life 8vo A Sermon preached at the Funeral of Mr. Tho. Grigg Rector of St. Andrew-Vndershaft London 4to An Exposition of the Ten Commandments 8vo Heart's Ease Or a Remedy against all Troubles With a Consolatory Discourse particularly directed to those who have lost their Friends and Relations To which is added Two Papers printed in the time of the late Plague The sixth Edition corrected 12mo 1695. The Pillar and Ground of Truth A Treatise shewing that the Roman Church falsly claims to be That Church and the Pillar of That Truth mentioned by St. Paul in 1 Tim. 3. 15. 4to An Examination of Bellarmin's Second Note of the Church viz. A NTIQVITY 4to An Examination of the the Texts which Papists cite out of the Bible to prove the Supremacy of St. Peter and of the Pope over the whole Church In Two Parts 4to A private Prayer to be used in difficult times A Thanksgiving for our late wonderful Deliverance A Prayer for Charity Peace and Unity chiefly to be used in Lent A Sermon preached upon St. Peter's Day printed with Enlargements 4to A Sermon preached in St. James's Chappel before the Prince of Orange Jan. 20. 1688. on Isaiah 11. 6. A Second Part of the Sermon before the Prince of Orange on the same Text. Preached in Covent-Garden A Sermon preached before the Queen in March 1688 9. on Colos 3. 15. A Sermon against Murmuring preached at Covent-Garden in Lent 16 on 1 Cor. 10. 10. A Sermon against Censuring preached at Covent-Garden in Advent 1688. on 1 Cor. 4. 10. Fast-Sermon before the King and Queen Apr. 16. 1690. on Prov. 14. 34. A Thanksgiving-Sermon before the Lords Nov. 26. 1691. for reducing of Ireland and the King 's safe Return On Deut. 4. 9. A Fast-Sermon before the Queen Apr. 8. 1692. On Numb 10. 9. Sermon before the Lord Mayor at St. Brides Church on Easter-Munday 1696. on 2 Tim. 2. 8. A Commentary on the First Book of Moses called Geneses 4to 1695. A Commentary on the Second Book of Moses called Exodus 4to 1697. A Sermon before the Lords Nov. 5. 1696. on Dan 4. 35.

whereby they should highly serve God and his Catholick Church Which so hardned their Hearts that he who was first apprehended was not so much as abasht nor expressed the least sign of Trouble but only for this that he had not done the Execution When the rest also came to Suffer for this Treason they did not repent of it nor beg Pardon unless upon this Condition that the Pope and the Church should declare it a Sin Which I do not find they have done to this Day Now how could Men of such Principles and Resolution relent or think of going back when they certainly believed they were set on Work by God and were warranted by his Will and infallibly guided by his chief Minister to bring the greatest Glory to God and to advance his Religion These and the like Advantages made the Discovery of this Conspiracy so unlikely that they were fully assured in their own Minds of the Success II. And yet now behold how this Work of Darkness was brought to Light even by themselves for it could no other ways be Discovered And that it should be discovered by them is little short of a Miracle For you have heard how they were bound by a solemn Oath not to give the least Intimation of it Directly or Indirectly by Word or by Circumstance And yet so it was that one of them who was willing to work such a Publick Mischief had a desire to secure a private Friend from the Danger And this against his own Intention against his Resolution against his Oath as well as against his Interest Nay and against the Judgment of their Oracle F. Garnet the Jesuite who had setled this Point in a deliberate Answer to this Question proposed to him Whether the Innocent that is those of their Religion might be Destroyed with the Guilty that is with those of ours when the Good that would come thereby would abundantly compensate their Loss Unto which he gave this Resolution That they might Nay That it would be a thing of great Merit if thereby some great Benefit would be procured to the Catholiques Notwithstanding all which contrary Obligations one of them opened a little Crevice whereby there was a way made to look into this Work of Hellish Darkness This most certainly was the extraordinary Hand of God and ought to be so acknowledged by us It was not extraordinary indeed that one of them should Admonish an honourable Friend of a Danger unless it were in this that there should be so much good Nature left in the Breast of a Man who had consented to the Ruine of his Country But without question this was Extraordinary that a Man under such sacred Ties of the strictest Secrecy should give the smallest Notice of a Danger and that he should express his Mind in such Terms as gave Apprehensions of some unusual hidden and unseen Danger and Lastly That the mind of the King should be awakned to apprehend a Danger by some Blast of Gunpowder These things ought to be ascribed to that most watchful Providence of God whereof I have been discoursing which sometimes in an extraordinary manner disappoints the Devices of the Crafty so that their Hands cannot perform their Enterprize To this alone the King and the whole Kingdom ascribe it in that Act of Parliament which is appointed to be read in all parish-Parish-Churches this Day wherein they acknowledge God was pleased by inspiring the King 's most Excellent Majesty with a Divine Spirit to interpret some dark Phrases of a Letter above and beyond all ordinary Construction miraculonsly to discover this hidden Treason not many Hours before the appointed time for the Execution They call it Miraculous in a large Sense because it was Extraordinary Wonderful and Amazing as miraculous Events are And therefore those Protestants who would intitle a great Statesman to the Discovery have justly been thought to have a Spice of Atheism in their Breasts as a great Man observed who lived in those Days They would have nothing saith he imputed to God whose Hand was so visible in this Discovery that it could not be denied but by ascribing it to an Oracle of Ingelligence in those times who they say without any other Authority for it but their own knew of this Conspiracy long before and let it go on because he could catch them when he pleased But as this is for private Men to give the lye to the whole Kingdom King and all so it is to rob God of the Glory of his marvellous Works and therein to be worse then Heathens who ascribed such strange Events to some unknown God or to the Goddess Fortune rather than think there was nothing but humane Contrivance in them Far be it for any of us to entertain such a Thought which can spring from nothing but an unwillingness to believe that Doctrine of Providence which Nebuchadnezzar himself here Proclaims to all the World when he saith He doth according to his Will in the Army of Heaven and among the Inhabitants of the Earth c. Nor is the Providence of God less apparent in that other great Mercy for which this Day is become Memorable as might be shown in all the foregoing Particulars But let it suffice to remember you in general that when the Design of Destroying our Religion and Liberties had been laid with great Secrecy and carried on with such Subtilty for many Years that our Foot was in the Snare before we perceived that it was laid for us when the Nation had been so deluded by fair Promises and by their own Credulity that the Danger wherein we were did not appear till we knew not how to avoid it When our Romish Adversaries had gotten such an absolute Power over us that it imboldned them to break through all Restraints of Law and every other Obligation Then when we were in these Straits God was pleased to raise up the Spirit of our present Soveraign to enterprize our Deliverance and with the hazard of his own Person to endeavour our Preservation And as nothing could Discourage him in this Undertaking but though he was driven back by a Tempest at his first setting out he calmly persued his Resolution trusting in that Almighty Providence unto which he had committed himself So he found all things in the Issue succeed much beyond all Expectation God turned the Hearts of the whole Realm to favour his Design so far as to wish Prosperity to him in his Voyage hither And he turned the Winds also to be so favourable that if they had been absolutely at his own Disposal he could not have commanded them to be more obsequious to him then he found them For when he was brought to our Coast by a strong Gale in a very speedy Course and had over-shot his Port the Wind changed immediately and brought him back to his desired Haven These are but a few of those wonderful things that concurred to his safe Landing here on this Day eight Year without any Opposition And