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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

A SERMON Preach'd before the KING In the Cathedral Church of WINCHESTER Vpon Sunday Septemb. 9. 1683. BEING THE Day of Publick Thanksgiving FOR THE DELIVERANCE OF His Sacred Majesties Person and Government From rhe Late Treasonable CONSPIRACY BY F. TVRNER D. D. Dean of Windsor Published by his Majesties special Command LONDON Printed for Benj. Tooke at the Ship in S. Paul's Church-yard 1683. A SERMON ON PSAL. cxliv. 9 10. I will sing a new Song unto thee O God and sing Praises unto thee upon a ten-stringed Lute Thou hast given Victory unto Kings and hast deliver'd David thy Servant from the peril of the Sword IF ever any might presume to take up the words of David in another Psalm where he says in behalf of himself and of God's own People Like as we have heard so have we seen in the City of our God i. e. in the Church God upholdeth the same for ever We may be allow'd to take them up at this time and to speak them in our own behalf If ever those words of his might be apply'd by way of comparing the Great Deliverances which Almighty God has afforded to Kings and Kingdoms in Ages past with Mercies no less wonderful in the present Age Then I may justly apply those words with reference to the words of my Text I take it out of a Psalm appointed in part of our Office for this Solemn Thanksgiving and there 's none but at first hearing my Text read may see it as it were fulfilled once more in our own Story and gloriously accomplisht on this Good Day for we hear in my Text of a Victory given by God to a King and now we see a King who having stood as it were in a Battel not for a single day onely but for several months his Enemies are so disappointed and defeated now that we may truly say God has given him a Noble Victory We hear of a King in my Text Deliver'd from the peril of the Sword for 't is plain this Psalm was written by David after he was Establisht upon his Throne since he speaks to God in the second verse my Deliverer my Shield and he in whom I trust who subdueth my People that is under me But we cannot tell whether this Psalm were written before or after his Encounters with Absolom the Son of his own Bowels that sought his Life or with Sheba that manag'd a Rising in the City against him till the Loyal Party of the City prevail'd and the Traitor lost his Head therefore I make no reflection upon those passages for t is more than I can prove that David himself reflected upon them here But there 's no question he had an Eye to all the Terrible Hazards he had run before he was Crown'd when Saul and his bloudy house were hunting him like a Partridge upon the Mountains So that not his own House which should be a Man's Castle and his Sanctuary not his own Bed which was made to be quiet in not those very places whither he fled for Refuge were free from the peril of the Sword This then we hear from the Text compar'd with the Story of that King and to keep far enough off not only from cold and frivolous Parallels but also from odious Comparisons I shall only say we see a King preserved from the same Implacable Enemy that has pursu'd him above these Forty Years but a much more formidable Enemy since he conceal'd his Enmity than when he declar'd himself openly even by setting a Price upon the Most Sacred Head But David in all these Reflexions either upon his Dangers or his Deliverances looks up to Heaven he acknowledges that the Race is not to the Swift nor the Battel to the Strong and tho' it be added by Solomon that Time and Chance happen to all things his meaning was that many things look indeed like Chance tho guided by a Hand of Providence to most unseen which yet was most visible to King David in the whole Course of his Fortunes therefore he gives the Honor to God alone He thanks him not only for his own prosperous Successes but in behalf of all the Crowned Heads in the World it is he that giveth Victory unto Kings to the same Great God of Heaven he ascribes their Preservation from so many Horrid Conspiracies as while there is a Devil in Hell and so many of his Agents upon Earth will never cease to be carryed on and when they are taken off it is He the King of Kings that delivers his Servant David or by parity of reason any other Sovereign Prince that may be styl'd his Servant from the hurtful Sword Lastly to compleat the Solemnity and Honorary Part of his Thanksgivings upon these Accounts he resolves to celebrate his Victory and his Deliverance with such Musick as is proper to be used in the Worship of God and together with Church-Musick to Introduce its best Sister and Heavenly Twin i. e. Divine Poetry wherein he will endeavour at Higher and Nobler Strains than ordinary I will sing a new Song unto thee O God I will sing Praises unto thee upon a ten-stringed Lute Now I cannot deny but many of the modern Expositors are careful in their Descants on my Text to instruct us that the religious Use of Instrumental Musick was purely Mosaical and Typical that it was adapted to the grosser and duller Constitution of the Jewish Votaries but by no means to be taken for our Pattern nor imitated under the Gospel But if all this were Typical I would gladly learn what a Ten-stringed Lute was a Type of I would fain know too whether the Piety of those Reformers be so much more Refin'd and Exalted than was that of David that they refuse and despise such low Dispensations as these which he made good use of I would willingly understand why they are not as well pleased with good Instrumental Musick in some few Churches as they are with ill Vocal Musick in many Churches In short if I find it in use with other Nations as old as Homer's time with Nations who never received the Law and with the Jews before they received the Law upon Mount Sinai for Miriam the Sister of Aaron and the Virgins that bore her Company to celebrate their Deliverance out of Egypt played with their Timbrels and danc'd to the Song of Moses I must conclude it a piece of Natural Religion to which the common Light of Reason directs all Civilized Nations especially upon any general Jubile and Publick Thanksgiving and if ever any Prince and People had reason to sing Te Deum to raise their Affections with Voices and Strings and Instruments of Wind fit for their Songs of Deliverance as David calls them we have reason to do it on This Day Tho this being no common Day I must be more particular than to spend all my time upon any Common-place yet I have warrant enough to draw from the special Case of David towards some general Observations for

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