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A sermon preached on the thanksgiving day the 27 day of October, 1692 at Crosby Square by Samuel Slater.
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Slater, Samuel, d. 1704.
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instead of setting up Mischief by a Law hath by Law as we to our Ease and Comfort see given them Protection and Encouragement opening unto them by a gracious Hand a wide Door though there be many Adversaries to whom it is an Eye-sore The good Lord grant that none might be able to shut it and that all might be made so wise as not to abuse it It is great a very great Mercy to a Protestant People to have a Protestant King and Queen set over them and this is the Mercy which our God hath now extended to this sinful unworthy and provoking Nation And oh that it may be continued to us and blessed for ever blessed be his holy Name that it hath been continued to us so long and upon that account let us heartily rejoyce in their Salvation Fourthly The Salvation of the Prince is to be looked upon by the People as matter of great Joy when it hath been a Salvation from great and eminent Dangers The greater the Dangers have been the greater is the Deliverance and the greater the Deliverance is the greater should the Rejoycing be So far as our Ability reacheth there ought to be some Proportion between the Receipt and the Return We shall be too low when we rise up to our highest it is a shame for them to content themselves with doing little things for God for whom God hath been pleased to do great things David took special notice of this as to himself in the 18 Psal. 50. Great deliverance giveth he to his king and sheweth mercy to his anointed I doubt not but we may say Our King is God's King God hath set his King upon the Throne in these Nations he was raised up and sent to us by God he was called and spirited by God he was advanced over us as by the general Choice and Consent of the People so by a special and mighty Hand of God It was the Lord's doing and well may it be marvellous in our eyes 118 Psal. And great deliverance hath God given to his king Let the King remember and with all Humility own what followeth That God sheweth mercy to his Anointed Though he hath deserved great things of us yet nothing of God he hath deserved a Crown of us but not a a Crum of God of us he hath highly merited but not of God 16 Psal. O Lord said the King my goodness extendeth not to thee His Deliverance was a great Mercy and we may well call it a great Mercy because it was a great Deliverance Great it was in itself and great I hope it will be in its Effects May Proud and Cruel Lewis feel it so It was a multiplied Deliverance a repeated Salvation not only from one single Danger but from several there was a Complication of them some of them are known and are there not more unknown It is like the Devils name Legion may very fitly be given them for they are many Something we are made acquainted with by the Royal Proclamation A Preservation of their Majesties Government notwithstanding the Designs and Attempts of their open and secret Enemies Though their Government hath been so just that it pleaseth good Men and so mild that it might attract and reconcile bad Men yet still they have their Enemies There are those that rather than they will not be Enemies to our King and Queen will fall out with Reason and be Enemies to themselves and their own Interest and we may be sure they are not without their Design because they are wicked nor without their Attempts because they are restless And there are too many of both sorts for certain more than are good Abundance of open Enemies the God of Heaven fight against them abundance of secret Enemies the Lord discover them and either change their Hearts or blast and confound them both Great Deliverance the King had from many and great Dangers of War in his late Expedition beyond the Seas when Swords were drawn against him Bullets flew thick about him and he was the principal Mark they levelled and aimed at besides there was the Defeat of an horrid and barbarous Conspiracy for the cutting off his Sacred Person and putting a Period to his precious Life by Assassination Hell and Rome and France have been busie at work and God knoweth how many more of the Divel's Imps concurr'd and joyn'd with them But his and our God hath had an eye upon him for good delivering him from bloudy and violent Men and giving him the Shield of his Salvation his right Hand hath holden him up This one thing being well and throughly consider'd will do much to the inlarging of our Hearts in Praises And oh that they may be so this day and longer too Fifthly The Prince's Salvation well may yea and ought to be by the People looked upon as great matter of their Rejoycing when much exceeding much depends upon his Life Who is there that can tell or conceive what never enough to be lamented Changes and Alterations would have attended his Miscarriage What a dismal Catastrophe would there have been upon his Dissolution How many pale Faces aking Hearts in these three Nations What Floods of Tears wringing of Hands and trembling of Limbs would have followed not only here but in all places where the Everlasting Gospel is in Estimation And on the other side what Te Deams and Triumphs in France what Insultings Healthings and Huzza's among the Atheists Papists prophane Debauchees and vilest of Men among us Had our implacable Enemies prevailed against him they would not have question'd the working their Will upon us Had he not returned in Safety and with Honour to us we might have bid a sad Farewel to our Religion Peace Prosperity all that we can call good and wished for Death rather than Life seeking Ease and Rest in the silent and lonely Grave which we could not possibly have enjoyed above Ground His Fall would have shaken all the Protestant Princes and States in the World and made so great a Gap and wide a Breach among ourselves as that an Inundation of Evils would suddenly have broken in upon us and we been deluged with all sorts of Miseries which it is in the Power of prevailing and enraged Enemies to bring upon the People of their Wrath. That was a notable Expression of David 75 Psal. 30. The earth and all the inhabitants of it are dissolved His meaning is they were so in the time of Saul who was wicked himself remiss in his Government and suffered the Reins to lie loose and Men to take the Bit in their Mouths and run into what Villanies they pleased all was turned into Disorder and Dissoluteness From the Throne of GOD and the the LAMB 22 Revel there proceeds a pure River clear as Chrystal but from the Throne of Saul there came a Stream as black as Hell which poysoned the Country There was no Care taken of Religion nor of the due Administration of Justice and so both Place