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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67269	A sermon preached at Great St. Marie's church in Cambridge before the Right Honourable the Lord Chief-Justice Holt, at the assizes held there, August 1, 1693 / by Tho. Walker ...	Walker, Thomas, 1658 or 9-1716.	1693 (1693)	Wing W416; ESTC R4995	18,815	38

Man I am speaking of looks upon himself in Conscience obliged as much as in him fairly lies to endeavour to repress the Exorbitant Growth of Arbitrary Power to stem the Tide of Tyranny Superstition and Idolatry when it begins to overflow the Land and its Furious Waves attempt to undermine and bear down the True establish'd Religion he Professes which is dearer to him than his Life or any Temporal Concern For he thinks there is no just Reason to expect that God should work Miracles to preserve a Church and Nation from Ruin and Destruction when other Means may be Lawfully us'd toward the Resetling them upon their old Foundations according to their Ancient and Legal Constitution without their being concern'd in Rebellion And here I have a Fair Occasion offer'd me of drawing a Parallel between two Printes who are at open Hostility with one another and of showing the Justice of the Cause in which One of them is Engaged against the Unjust Invasions and Violent Usurpations of the Other Whose Severe not to say Inhuman Usage of his own Faithfull and Loyal Subjects many of whom had obliged him in the Highest Degree and never disobliged him except when they could not comply with his Unlawful Commands may teach us how he would deal with those of another Nation if they once should be so Unhappy as to Groan under his Heavy Yoke How would they then wish and sigh for that Deliverer which too many now so lightly Esteem If Solemn Oaths and Edicts could not bind him from Banishing his own Native Subjects from their Habitations to seek their Bread in Forreign Countreys because they neither could nor would be Papists how can we who of late have been the Greatest Thorn in his Side by endeavouring to stop the Progress of his Arms and curb his Growing Power who no doubt have exasperated him against us in a more than Ordinary Manner by Burning and Sinking some of his Capital Ships can we I say whom he looks upon as the most Formidable Opposers of his Designs expect Better and more Favourable Dealings from him than they have met with Can we think we have obliged him as much as his own Protestant Subjects have done who set the Crown upon his Head And all the World sees how he has Requited them for it It seems to me to proceed either from want of due Consideration o● a right Understanding of Affairs to think that a Monarch so much devoted to his own Interest should be at this Vast Expence of Money and Loss of Men barely upon the account of only Reaping the Naked Glory of Restoring an Unfortunate Deserting and Deserted Prince without having any farther Design According to my shallow Judgement in these Matters I am apt to think he had rather be a Conquerour of a Kingdom himself than Restore another to it Can we imagine he should be touch'd with such a feeling Sense of Honour or Conscience as to impoverish his Subjects and weaken his Forces for the Sake of Re-enthroning one Prince when he shows no Concern or Tenderness of either in Dispossessing others being of his own Religion too of their Lawfull and Hereditary Dominions Why should not the Duke of Savoy the Elector Palatine the Emperour or King of Spain be as Dear to him as some Body else And yet I am inclin'd to believe if he had his Will against the foremention'd Princes he would leave the Glory of Restoring them to their Dominions to some other Potentate So that I must beg to be excus'd if I cannot submit to the Judgement of those Men who have so good an Opinion of him as to think he only Designs to do Justice out of Pure Generosity by Restoring the late King And therefore I hope without being Guilty of misapplying my Text or abusing Scripture I may truly say that our Gracious and Righteous King William is more Excellent than This his Neighbouring Prince It cannot but be Evident to a Man of an unbiass'd Judgement that our King seeks to Promote the Publick Good not only of these Kingdoms but of all Europe If he could have been so Base as to have Betray'd the Liberty of his Country or so Tame as only to have fat still whilst the French had overrun and subdu'd it he might have made what Terms he pleas'd for himself and have enjoy'd more Ease and Quiet than he now does But the Safety and Welfare of his Country of which he has been an Hereditary Defender the Liberty of all Europe and the Preservation of the Protestant Religion were Dearer to him than his own Private Interest and Repese otherwise he would never have undertook so Hazardous an Attempt as was that of his coming hither to Secure and Settle the Right of his Princess to the Crown by making his Appeal to a Free Parliament and to put our disjoynted Government into Frame and Order again without any imaginable Probability that He should come to fill an Empty Throne His Actions since his being Possess'd of these Kingdoms sufficiently manifest it to all the World that 't was neither Pride nor Ambition nor love of Ease and Empire that prompted him to undertake our Deliverance and Accept the Crown For since that has he not expos'd his Life to Danger as much or more than ever he had done before Has he not undergone the Greatest Fatigues imaginable in Watchings and Tedious Marches and liv'd in a continual hurry of Business ever since Men who only Design their own Profit and Advantage give over Trading when they have acquir'd a Plentifull Estate that they may Enjoy themselves in Ease and Pleasure and Quiet They then Retire from the Noisy Clutter of the City and Exchange and take some satisfaction in thinking how others scramble for that of which they have now with Care and Industry got enough but the Acquisition of Three Kingdoms does only Inspirit and Invigorate our King for Greater Undertakings that by the help of God he might be the Deliverer of other Nations as well as of these Kingdoms For it is plain he does not so much Delight to wear a Crown as to Deserve it Whilst others spend their flying and Precious Hours amidst all the Softning Divertisements and Entertainments of a Splendid Court He chuses to tread the Rugged but more Noble Paths which lead to True Glory and Immortal Honour in shunning no Opportunity of setting a Gallant Army a Brave Example of Heroick Courage and Undaunted Magnanimity of Prudent Conduct and Inimitable Valour by too much Exposing his Sacred Person to the Common Danger upon all Occasions And notwithstanding He has never declin'd to Engage the Enemy upon Apparent Disadvantage and Unequal Number yet the Watchfull Providence of God has Protected and Defended Him in a more than Ordinary Manner When so many Instruments of Death have flown so Thick about Him that some of them have gently wounded Him yet none of them have had Power to touch his Life for which extraordinary Mercy Gods holy Name be