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A56793	The Protestant King protected, the popish kings detected and defeated in a sermon preach'd at St. James Clarkenwell, April 16, 1696, being the day of publick thanksgiving for the deliverance of His Majesty, K. William III from assassination, and his kingdoms from invasion by the French / by Deuel Pead ...	Pead, Deuel, d. 1727.	1696 (1696)	Wing P963; ESTC R17663	21,808	38

The Protestant King PROTECTED THE Popish KINGS Detected and Defeated IN A SERMON PREACH'D At St. James Clarkenwell April 16. 1696. being the Day of Publick Thanksgiving for the Deliverance of His Majesty K. William III. from Assassination and His Kingdoms from Invasion by the FRENCH By DEUEL PEAD Chaplain to His Grace JOHN Duke of NEW-CASTLE LONDON Printed for T. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside MDCXCVI THE Protestant KING protected c. Psal II. 1 2 3 4 5 6. 1. Why do the Heathen rage and the People imagine a vain thing 2. The Kings of the Earth set themselves and the Rulers take Counsel together against the Lord and his Anointed saying 3. Let us break their Bands asunder and cast their Cords from us 4. He that sitteth in Heaven shall laugh the Lord shall have them in Derision 5. Then shall he speak unto them in his Wrath and vex them in his sore Displeasure 6. Yet have I set my King upon my holy Hill of Sion THis is a Day of Thanksgiving a Time of rejoicing not that Babylon is utterly fallen but because two Kings and their People who have committed Fornication with her are confounded in their black and bloody Designs When I first turn'd my Eyes to this Psalm and consider'd it as apply'd to our Saviour I did conceive the Tragedy committed upon him might guide me in describing that of this time but I soon found though in some Circumstances there was a resemblance as that the High Priest Scribes Pharisees and Rulers of the People laid and cherished the Design and that Loyalty and Allegiance to Caesar were pretended to give it the greater Countenance and also they were so far alike that the Devil had a part in it perswading one Disciple to betray another to deny and the rest to abandon him Yet there were other Particulars that did vastly differ as that the Jews aimed at a single Person the Plotters of this Day at multitudes of People young and old The Jews carried theirs on by a Form of Law they had their Sanhedrim C●●ap●●● and Pilate on their side but these Men design d to perpetrate their Villainy by Fire Sword Blood and Cruelty Again the Jews declare that what they did was from a Principle of Fear Joh. 11.48 for fear the Romans should come and take away their Place and Nation their Religion and Country they were forced as they thought to conspire against Jesus But now the bloody Treason at this time was therefore invented and hatch'd that Men of Romish Principles might have had the opportunity of destroying our King our Religion our Laws our Liberties our Lives our Wives Children and Country by introducing Popery and Slavery Disappointed therefore of my first Expectation I consider'd the Words with relation to David and his Affairs and so though I found many things paralel yet not all The Plot against him was very wicked but this of our Time exceeds it However seeing I cannot be so exact as I desir'd I must be content to go so far as I may The Words read acquaint us with a desperate Contrivance against the Crown and Dignity the Life and Person of King David and also they give us an Account of a seasonable and glorious Deliverance In the Plot we are to consider of Four Particulars I. The Persons contriving and carrying it on First The Heathen Secondly The People Thirdly Kings Fourthly Rulers II. The distinct Parts of every one of these First The Heathen raged Secondly The People imagined Thirdly The Kings stood up Fourthly The Rulers took Counsel III. The Persons against whom they plot The Lord and David his Anointed King IV. The End and Design of this Plot. Let us break their Bands asunder and cast their Cords from us In the Deliverance we must consider 1. The Success of the Plot. All that these imagined was vain 2. The Person working this Deliverance He that sitteth in Heaven 3. The Means by which it was wrought First He laughed at the Conspirators and had them in Derision Secondly He spake unto them in his Wrath. Thirdly He vexed them in his sore Displeasure Fourthly He established his Anointed Yet have I c. 4. The Time then when Matters as they thought were ripe and beyond disappointment 1. We begin with the Persons and their Actions And first the Heathen raged The Philistines Moabites and Edomites were in a great Heat against David understanding so religious and Warlike a Prince a Prince that had an undoubted Title having married Saul's Daughter was come to the Crown they now despaired of ever driving Israel out of Canaan and therefore they ●●ged tumultuabantur turmatim congregabantur they murmured and gathered together in a grievous Rage and Tumult against him they raged bitterly against David and Israel's Success and Prosperity 2. The second sort of Enemies are called the People and their part in this Plot was they imagined a vain thing The People i. e. David's own Subjects who should have both known and behaved themselves better yet these being poisoned by the Heathen imagined vain false foolish and wicked things against their King vain things such as they had no occasion for nor could expect any benefit by I will instance in one of these vain Imaginations 2 Sam. 2.8 Abner with a perverse Tumult set up Ishbosheth Saul's younger Son who had no more Right to the Crown of Israel than the pretended Prince of Wales hath to ours God having excluded him by electing David and this was foolish in that the Person design'd by them for the Throne was too weak and unable for Government and also because it was apparently contradictory to the Order of the King of Kings For when Men have done all they can it is God that putteth down one and setteth up another it is but labour in vain for the Wit and Power of the World to attempt the deposing a King against God's Consent and as fruitless it is to endeavour the restoring one he doth not favour 3. The next sort of Enemies were Persons of greater Eminency and Power and therefore might hope to speed better These were Kings of the Earth as the Kings of the Moabites the Kings of Syria and Edom and with them join'd the Lords of the Philistins and their part was to stand up against David to raise an Army and invade his Country Reges adstiterunt Standing up denotes utmost endeavour of an adverse Party standing in the way as the Angel did against Balaam with a drawn Sword These Kings saw they could not prevent David's Accession to the Crown and therefore now they muster up their Forces if possible to take it from his Head but their standing up was every whit as vain as the Heathens rage or the Peoples imagining For read Psal 60 8. In a short time Moab became David's Wash-pot and over Edom he cast his Shoe that is he reduc'd them to what they deserv'd namely a State of Subjection and Slavery 4. The next Enemies

some considerations gainers but were they not how should they subsist and admit their gains were greater yet I believe few to have them would consent that our Country should be the Seat of the War But however if any become disaffected upon those Clamours they would be wiser if they did a little bethink themselves whether they had by this time a Penny their own had it not been for this present Government I will yet offer one thing farther to unsting this Slander when your Enemies consulted to set you in a rage upon this Article did they ever tell you a word how greatly the King had engag'd his Paternal Inheritance for our sakes and the defence of these his Kingdoms 2. These Rulers took Counsel how they might persuade evil-minded Men to clip and debase and adulterate the Coyn of the Nation they well knew the dreadful Consequences that would ensue thereupon and therefore doubted not but that if one among the many viz. a stop to Trade should take effect that alone were sufficient to embroyl the Nation and give them a fair opportunity for the Invasion Assassination and Massacre You read this plainly in that that precise time was chosen and pitcht upon 3. They took Counsel together how to weaken the Walls of the Nation I mean destroy and dispirit the Seamen Were not they very unkindly dealt with in respect of their Meat and Drink And did not many thereupon dye like rotten Sheep and are there not sufficient numbers whose ulcerated Bodies can yet manifest the truth of this cruel Counsel and yet which was another instance of their consulting this barbarous dealing with the Seamen was so cunningly carried that it was said to be a just consequence of the Revolution and that it would never be otherwise till the Abdicated King was restor'd Did not others again consult either to conceal or else bring off the Actors of this horrid Villany no doubt those Rulers told their Agents as the Scribes and Pharisees told the Watch That if any thing came to the Ear of the Government we wilt persuade that and secure you I dare be bold to say had that ma●ter been more exactly scann'd we had never heard of this Invasion but at this the Villains took Heart and when they sound their Abettors so powerfull they resolv'd to stick at nothing for no wonder if in this Age we see Impunity produce Impudence Again Those Rulers consulted and it was to cheat and defraud such as they had not the advantage to kill and this they got by so consulting they forc'd many poor Sea-men to enter the Enemies Service meerly for subsistence nay the Matter has been so carried that they whom they feared to kill themselves they found a way to kill by the hands of others for it was no more than dealing roughly with such French Sea men as they took and they well knew that in a little time this would be repay'd to the English with Interest This very Consultation cost some hundred Lives 4. Having consulted thus far and brought these things to pass a little Counsel was sufficient to put the Nation in a Ferment sober Men were amaz'd ordinary well-minded People were sorely terrify'd and when they beheld this these Traytors posted some to France with an Embassy to Court and draw on the destruction of their King and Country others were employ'd to buy Arms and to wheedle what unthoughtfull and wanting Persons they could into the Service and if we are not mis-inform'd two especially of the Assassines were ready to dispute it with Sword in hand who should carry that acceptable Sacrifice of our King's Heart to the Tyrants in France They had before consulted to circumvent and carry him alive thither but some wiser than the rest and better understanding the Tempers of their Masters approv'd not of that design because they knew as much as those Tyrants coveted King William's Heart yet if the living Body must come with it they would never be able to ' behold it but with as great Consternation as Balthazar did the Hand-writing on the Wall i e. not only with terror of Mind but with a panick fear upon their Bodies But one thing I must confess in this Design was remarkable to wit that one of those hasty Zealots was a Player peradventure a person accustomed to act Tragedies But however it might be question'd if his bold daring Heart would not have fail'd him in acting this to the Life however surely this is a fair warning that persons may not be so encouraged to act and represent lest they may come to it in earnest at the last 5. One Point more on which they consulted was by various Arts and Pretences to draw in crafty Men of sundry Opinions This was great Policy and to great Ends no doubt for having taken those Foxes they serv'd them as Sampson did his they ty'd them together cunningly with Firebrands to set the fairest Fields in Christendom in a blaze 6. Tho' they had thus laid their Plot as deep as Hell and no doubt had his assistance who delighteth so much in the Children of Disobedience that he worketh in their Hearts as in a Shop yet they had some Intervals of doubting some Rays of Light did sometimes force themselves into the Minds of these dark Workers As what if he that sitteth above in Heaven would not be perswaded by all their Prayers and Processions so much as to a neutrality Or else what if some of their own should grow faint and seriously recollecting the fatal Consequences of this intended Assassination and Massacre should relent and confess That such thoughts arose in their Minds is likely yet were their Hearts so hardned that they were not sufficient to lead them to Repentance but only set their Wits upon the tenters to provide Expedients against such extremities and accordingly they by consulting found out this If unhappily their Plot should be discover'd and any therein concern'd should be apprehended and brought to execution such must be instructed to sweeten their Death with the thoughts of the honour and greatness of the Undertaking and for their Souls they had made an ample provision for if they dy'd in the Roman Communion they had Jesuits of that Church and if they would rather chuse to make profession of dying Protestants of the Church of England they had also Jesuitical Men of that Church to Absolve them And this no doubt hurried on the design But as serviceable as this project may have been to their bloody Cause yet is it the Wonder of the World and would be the indelible Scandal of our Church were it not sure that All are not Israel which are of Israel In the last days we were foretold by our Saviour that grievous Wolves should appear in Sheeps-cloathing and such those unhappy Gentlemen that lately suffer'd met with who instead of drawing them out of the Jaws of the Lion it is much to be fear'd thrust them farther in For had not these supposed