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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46900	Three sermons preached the first in Richmond Church, August 17. 1690. on the most happy accession of Their Majesties, King William and Queen Mary to the Crown. The second in Mortlake Chuch in Surrey March 3. 1694. on the death of our late most gracious soveraign lady the Queen, of blessed memory. The third in Mortlake Church, April 16. 1696. being the day of Thanksgiving unto Almighty God, for discovering and disappointing the horrid and barbarous conspiracy to assassinate His most gracious Majesty's royal person: and for delivering this kingdom from an invasion, intended by the French. By Christopher Johnson, M.A. and school-master of Richmond in Surrey. Printed to prevent mistakes concerning the author.	Johnson, Christopher, b. 1657 or 8.	1696 (1696)	Wing J770BA; ESTC R216574	43,561	66

they would not The words of the Wise Man Prov. 19.21 There are many Devices in a Man's Heart nevertheless the Counsel of the Lord that shall stand And so long as that stands his Church shall stand firm And if at any time she groans by reason of the Fury and Oppressions of her Adversaries he will hear her Cry and help her She shall stand still and see the Salvation of the Lord which he will shew unto her She shall be assured that he will deliver her in Six Troubles yea in Seven and then shall she rest satisfied that although many are the Troubles of the Righteous yet the Lord delivereth them out of them all when she hath seen so much of the Goodness of the Lord in the Land of the Living But if at any time her Sins which to be sure are frequently the sad and woful Cause of her Sorrows for they merit Punishments do give her Adversaries both time and power to insult over her and her Faith and Hope begin to fail so that she becomes dubious and mistrusts the veracity of that Promise made in particular to Joshua but by the Author to the Hebrews applied unto all the Faithful as a general and standing Rule of Trust and Confidence in God's Mercy and Protection which is this I will never leave thee nor forsake thee Heb. 13.5 In such Affliction and Anxiety of Mind let her amend and not despair of God's Love and Mercy And if at the first appearance of help and notice of God's especial Presence with her after many Evils of Punishment from the Enemy she should despond like Gideon when almost in Despair an Angel appear'd unto him with this Sign in his Mouth from the Lord of the Israelites Deliverance from the Oppression of Midian the Lord is with thee who with a sort of diffidence of the Divine Message return'd this Answer to the Angel's Errand as it were with Sorrow in his Heart Oh my Lord if the Lord be with us why then is all this befallen us And where be all his Miracles which our Fathers told us of saying Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt But now the Lord bath forsaken us and delivered us into the Hands of the Midianites Judg. 6.13 We shall endeavour presently to give Comfort and some Satisfaction Should the Church and People of God in Times of Affliction answer after the same manner If the Lord be with us why doth the Enemy rejoice and the Adversary triumph over us If it be an Infallible Aphorism that his Church shall stand always firm against the Opposition and Fury of all her Enemies how is it that from the beginning of the World unto this Day Persecution hath been a large share of her Portion Her Tears have been often poured into the Cup of trembling to add the greater Bitterness unto every drop she hath been forced to drink and the Bread of Sorrow hath been her daily Food Her Children have been stoned sawn asunder tempted slain with the Sword and a Thousand sorts of Deaths and Tortures have been inflicted upon them so that no Sorrow was ever like unto her Sorrow At one time Righteous Abel was Murder'd by his own Impious Brother Cain here the Bloody Tragedy began and successively was acted on with various Troubles and Torments unto the People of God even to the Days of holy Elijah who also then found himself grievously persecuted by wicked Jezebel and that so sharply that he preferred Death before Life when he requested for himself that he might Die and said It is enough now O Lord take away my Life 1 King 19.4 And twice in the same Chapter we find him sadly complaining of those who had deserted the true Worship of God for that which was false and idolatrous and did persecute those who would not depart with them from serving the Living and True God as these words of that holy Man do infer The Children of Israel have forsaken thy Covenant thrown down thine Altars and slain thy Prophets with the Sword and I even I only am left and they seek my Life to take it away So sharp and general it seems was the Persecution that Elijah thought that all the Prophets and Faithful People of God were quite swept away thereby for he had some time since fled for his own Life and as the words seem to intimate when he came again no true Israelite was to be seen or did not dare to shew his Face and venture to stand before the heat and fury of Jezebel's inveterate Malice and Hatred to the Professors of True Religion But yet God be thanked for the Comfort of good Elijah Wickedness had not sate so long in the place of Judgment and Righteousness to Triumph so far as to bring the Church in those Days to so low an Ebb as to have the Tears of but one true Member only to run down for her and by the Destruction of whose Life she should have been quite cut off For in the 18th Verse of the aforecited Chapter we find the Lord comforting Elijah thus with a goodly number of truly Religious Persons still remaining Yet saith he I have left me Seven Thousand in Israel all the Knees which have not bowed unto Baal and every Mouth which hath not kissed him But now further may we find the Church clad in Sackcloth with Dust and Ashes upon her Head mourning in her Travail and bringing forth Children with great Lamentation weeping and wailing for that reckoning from the Days of Elijah forward her Afflictions were from time to time renewed Once a whole Seventy Years Captivity in a strange Land besides many Wars and Troubles from the Enemy before and after that unto the time that Messiah the Prince the Glory and Head of the Church came when also He was cut off not for himself but for the Transgression of his People This was most Amazing and full of Wo the cutting off of Members was not enough but the Head must suffer as much too This caused the Sun that great Luminary to put on mourning Apparel of the deepest Dye a black and thick Darkness It forced the Earth into a Convulsion to shake and tremble and the Temple to rend its Vail in twain Then did Nature suffer a Dissolution for a time and needs must the whole Creation groan and be in pain when Christ himself cried out with a loud and lamentable Voice and suffer'd the deepest pangs of Body and Soul This was the Child of God and Heir of all things that poured out his Soul unto Death whom the great Red Dragon mentioned in the Revelations of St. John thought wholly to devour but yet did he revive on the Third Day and was afterwards caught up unto God I mean he ascended into Heaven where he Reigns King and Head of the Church in Triumph over all his Enemies And now the great Red Dragon that Old Serpent called the Devil and Satan being cast out into the Earth as he made an Attempt against