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A67238	A sermon preach'd in the Collegiate-Church of Ripon, on Sunday the 22d of September, 1695 being the day appointed for a publick thanksgiving for the reduction of the town and castle of Namur ... / by Christopher Wyvill ...	Wyvill, Christopher, 1651?-1711.	1695 (1695)	Wing W3788; ESTC R34105	13,390	27

2. That it is not only lawful but necessary for those who are able and whose occasions and manner of Life will permit them may perhaps it may be their duty too actually to assist the King in this just War with their own Persons and to endeavour by their Prowess and Courage to lay his Enemies prostrate at his Feet For it is not imaginable that any King whatsoever can withstand the insults of his Enemies or protect his Subjects without their assistance and presence with him 3. That we should pay a just deference and an honourable respect to the memory of those worthy Persons whom the hand of the Enemy hath unfortunately slain in this War particularly in the Reduction of that City and Castle for which we now give thanks that we should speak well of them and thank God for them for that they spent their Blood in the defence of their Country lost their Lives in a just Cause and dyed upon the Bed of Honour 4. Lastly that we should thankfully acknowledge our selves obliged as to all those in general who actually fight for us so particularly to the King himself who hath exposed his own Person to all the Fatigues and hazards of the War who like David himself doth fight the Lords Battles whose vigour in action is more quick than the Lightning of his own Cannon whose Magnanimity and Conduct whose Prudence and undaunted Courage have gain'd him Immortal Renown in the Annals of Fame and made him to become a terrour to his Enemies To Him especially who hath hazarded his Royal Person and Life in the Defence and for the Honour of our Church and Nation we should pay our thankful acknowledgment in a dutiful return of Honour and Faithfulness towards him which if we should fail to do we might justly be reproached for our ingratitude like as were the Children of Israel who shewed no kindness to the house of Jerubbabel namely Gideon according to all the goodness which he had shewed unto Israel His very Presence in the Camp animates our Forces with new Life and Vigour and therefore when he is pleased to be at the head of our Armies unless by our Sins and Rebellion against God unless by our ingratitude to him and the King we provoke God to disappoint our hopes and blast our Undertakings we need not doubt but that through God's Blessing we shall do Valiantly and tread them under that rise up against us To his Matchless Valour and wise Conduct next to the Mercy and Goodness of God we owe our Preservation from the direful effects of our Enemies Rage and Malice And therefore returns of Gratitude are due first to God as the Author of all our Successes and then to him as the glorious Instrument whereby he works them III. And thus I come in the third place to consider the Success we have had in this War particularly this last Summers Expedition which gives occasion to this Days Thanksgiving We cannot indeed as yet truly say that we have totally vanquished and overcome our Enemies but I hope I may say truly in the words of my Text that through God's Blessing we are waxed stronger and stronger and they wax weaker and weaker For what places have they gain'd of us this or the last Years Campaign as they have formerly done at the beginning of others Nay have they not lost much ground this Summer and is there not a plain stop put to the Enemies Career Have we not by the bravery and resolution of our Forces and our Allies Retaken that strong that most Important City and Castle which our Enemies two Years ago did take and could no otherwise take from us than by Fraud and Treachery Have we not retaken them in the face and under the sight of a numerous Army of the adverse Party who came to be the inglorious Lookers on of the loss they sustain'd thereby Where is that Bravading-Navy that once or twice appeared upon our Coasts and threatned us with an Invasion 'T is plain that they sculk and shelter and hide themselves in their lurking-holes out of which they dare not they cannot with safety look forth But as for our Navy hath not part of it Victoriously danced on the British Ocean stopping upon the Avenues of the Enemies Ports and Havens and with considerable Success attacking the chiefest of their Sea-Coast-Towns and doth not part of it ride triumphantly at this Day in the Mediterranean putting thereby a check to all their Pride and Glory God at present seems to have put his Hook as he once threatned to do to Sennacherib into the Nostrils of the great Leviathan that for so long a time hath taken his pastime in the deep He hath given a terrible Rebuke to the aspiring Fortune and Fury of the Enemy by the Success of ours and our Confederate Forces both by Sea and Land So that now we may hope be will in a little time begin to hearken to a Peace nay that he will be brought to such a condition as to be forced to seek and desire it to which he hath hitherto been as deaf as the Adder that stoppeth her Ears For the Lord hath now pulled down the high looks of the Proud and levell'd the haughty Stomach he hath clipt his Wings in his towring-flight and brought him nearer to the ground he hath put the Heathen in fear and made them to know themselves to be but men But that which Crowns our Success and is the glory of our Triumphs and the chief cause of this Days-Thanksgiving is that it hath pleased God to preserve our King from the many dangers to which his Royal Person was expos'd during the late Siege and in all his publick Expeditions for our Safety and for the deliverance of our Suffering Brethren that he hath kept him under the shadow of his Wings from falling into the hands of his Enemies that he hath covered his Head in the Day of Battle and been a Wall of Defence to him on every side What a deplorable and fatal blow would it have been not only to this Nation but to the most considerable part of Europe if He the Head of the Confederate Allies had by any means been cut off If He the Prop and Stay of the Protestant Religion had any ways suffer'd by the hands of those that hate him How would they have rejoiced to have been made Masters of His Life whose Death would be their greatest advantage how would they have triumph'd in His ruine which only could have given Life to their dying Cause But now how will they be astonished and amazed how will they shake and tremble when they shall see him once more besieging some of their strongest Towns or at the Head of a Gallant Army in the open Field Him whose very name is enough to strike them into a Panick Fear when they shall see him once more arm'd not so much with his own Forces as with the strength and right hand of the Almighty Blessed