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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40097	A sermon preached before the House of Lords in the Abby-Church at Westminster, upon Thursday the sixteenth of April, 1696 being a day of publick thanksgiving to Almighty God for the most happy discovery and disappointment of a horrid design to assasinate His sacred Majesty, and for our deliverance from a French invasion / by Edward Lord Bishop of Gloucester.	Fowler, Edward, 1632-1714.	1696 (1696)	Wing F1724; ESTC R887	16,520	42

Division among Protestants at that time and we had then nothing so formidable an Enemy to our Neighbour as we have now As to the Tragedy now to be Acted there was late notice from Abroad of great French Preparations but no great Apprehension from them of a Design to invade us till the Assassinating Part was brought to light And the Circumstances of the discovery hereof are such as speak it the Lord 's doing And indeed without the knowledge of those Circumstances which may hereafter be more fully publish'd whosoever believes a Providence superintending the Affairs of the World will think it highly reasonable to impute this Discovery to a Secret Impulse from Him who hath the hearts of all Men in His Hand as the Wise Man saith of the hearts of Kings and turneth them as the Rivers of Water And to what can we ascribe so certainly the bringing to light such a hidden Work of darkness as this was and which was so very shrewdly laid as to His Special Providence from whom there is no darkness nor shadow of death to use Elibu's words where the Workers of Iniquity may hide themselves Since nothing is more worthy of Infinite Goodness than to take the most special Care of those to whom is committed the Care of Whole Nations and who are the Greatest Instruments of Good to Manking as all good Kings are And never did the Welfare of any People in the World more necessarily under God depend upon the Life of their King than does Ours at this time as our Enemies well know upon the Preservation of his Life who not as our Conquerour but for having been the Glorious Instrument of our Deliverance now Reigns over us And who that is a hearty Assertor of the Divine Providence can find in his heart to impute an Event of so Mighty a consequence as this is to God's bare Permission since he knows that the most insignificant and trivial matters can't come to pass without it And as to the Invasion what a PROVIDENCE was it that the Wind should so constantly blow for I think near a Quarter of a Year together and in the Winter too from such Points of the Compass as that the Squadron design'd for the Mediterranean could not stir Which if it had gone within that time our Island had been left naked of all Defence I am sure we concluded this stay of those Ships a very Unhappy Providence and that it boded extremely ill to us whereas it prov'd to be the Happiest we could have wish'd for Little did we imagine that now God had sent us another Protestant Wind. To nothing better than most Stupid Infidelity can the not seeing God's immediate Hand in this be attributed by us But God be thanked no Body would he never so fain can now be so stupid or perverse as to have the least doubt ' of even the basest and most barbarous part of this Conspiracy as many as at first would have had it a Sham it being confessed under their hands by two of those three Papists who have Suffer'd for it and not denied by the third tho' they could not have Wanted Absolution had they Protested most solemnly in their Old Form That they knew no more of it than the Child unborn But all they Attempted was the Clearing their King from having any hand in it And how did they this They only affirm'd that they saw not nor knew of any Commission from him for it And this they might truly affirm in the strict sence of the word Know if they had never seen it tho' it had been never so well Attested to them But those little understand what a Papist is who can think the Conscience of any of them so strait laced as to scruple so small an Equivocation as this to serve so highly meritorious a purpose as the wiping off such a horrible Scandal from a King so Bigotted to the Church of Rome as to part with three Kingdoms for her sake But 't is a Jest which no Sensible Man can forbear smiling at that there should be a Commission for an Invasion but none for that on which their Hopes of Success did so much depend 2. In the second place since the Hand of God is so Apparent in this Deliverance let us not only Acknowledg it which as hath been said is the least Honour we can do Him for it but let us most Gratefully Acknowledg it And let us express our Gratitude by Praising our Great and most Merciful Deliverer with all our hearts and Glorisying His Name for evermore in the full sence which hath been given of these Phrases Let us express it by crying out with the same holy Man O Magnifie the Lord with me and let us Exalt His Name together By adapting the Doxology of the Mother of our Lord hereto My Soul doth Magnifie the Lord and my Spirit doth Rejoyce in God my Saviour And above all by more fearing to offend Him and more delighting to please Him for the time to come this being the great End and Design of Deliverances particularly as hath been shew'd And God Almighty having told us the same thing Psal. 50. 15. I will deliver thee and thou shalt Glorifie Me. And I need not repeat it that the Reforming of our Lives is absolutely necessary to our Glorifying of God Certainly a very little Ingenuity will constrein us to these Expressions of Thankfulness if we well consider First What our Deliverance is Secondly What little Reason we had now of any time to expect such a Deliverance 1. If we well consider what our Deliverance is and therefore seriously Reflect upon what we are deliver'd from we shall be presently satisfied that no People under Heaven ever had a Greater Had our Enemies Accomplish'd their Horrid Design upon the Royal Person of our Sovereign How would our Faces have gathered Blackness With what Fearfulness and Trembling should we have been seiz'd upon the dreadful Out-cry The King is Murther'd The King is Murther'd And how would our Hearts have failed us for fear and for looking after the things that were coming upon us And what Horrour and Astonishment would have filled all Places upon the Rushing in of so many Thousands of Bloody French joyn'd with an Army of Unnatural English Then would our Streets have Rung with as doleful Moan as that of the Prophet Jeremy upon the Babylonians invading his Country My Bowels My Bowels I am pained at the very heart my heart maketh a noise in me I cannot hold my peace because thou hast heard O my Soul the Sound of the Trumpet the Alarm of War Destruction upon Destruction is Cryed And like that of Isaiah in the name of Jerusalem upon the Assyrian Invasion Look away from me I will weep bitterly because of the Spoiling of the Daughter of my People For it is a day of trouble and of treading down and of perplexity by the Lord of Hosts And what frightful Spectacles should we have been forced to behold while