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King David's case apply'd to King James and King William in a sermon preach'd at Christ-Church, Dublin, on the fifth of November, 1691 / by John Stearne ...
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Stearne, John, 1660-1745.
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King William the Third into England For tho' his Landing was design'd on the Fourth of this Month Providence deferr'd it 'till the Fifth as if the Birth of so great a Prince of the Antient and most Illustrious House of Nassaw and his Marriage with so great a Princess as our now Most Gracious Queen had already suficiently signaliz'd one Day to after Ages or as if it wou'd make us more mindful of God's mercies to us on the Fifth of November by delivering us twice from Popery on the same day in the Years 1605. and 1688. A Year as wonderful for God's bringing safely King William's Navy to the salvation of England as the Year 1588 was for God's destroying the King of Spain's Armada which as if it had been really Invincible proudly threatned England with a most dreadful Invasion So that three days especially in this Month of November deserve a more particular Remark in our Reform'd Kingdoms The Fourth on which in the Year 1650 God with an hopeful Prince of Orange blesled not only the United Provinces for such a Blessing was too great for one particular State but the whole Protestaut world and on which also in the year 1677 God bless'd the same Prince of Orange with a Royal Consort The Seventeenth on which the Light of the Gospel after the black Night of Queen Mary's Reign began to shine forth in the Glorious Rising of Queen Elizabeth And the Fifth on which a most Horrid Work of Darkness was design'd for the final Extinction of the same Blessed Light but was at the very Midnight immediately foregoing most happily discover'd by the wonderful Providence and Mercy of God to her Successor as well in the defence of the truly Catholick and Apostolick Faith as in the English Throne K. James the First The History of this Damnable Plot and this unexpected Disappointment to the bloody Hopes of Rome will ensily come under this one Proposition which according to my Promise I now raise from the two first Verses of my Text. Tho' Godly Kings wonderfully set apart by God do answer Gods expectation in making his true Religion their principal Care yet the Sons of Men do often vainly endeavour to appose their Persons and to disturb their Government What can be more evident to all the world than the Truth of this Assertion in the many Contrivances Designs against K. James both before and after his coming to the Crown of England Shou'd I particularly acquaint you with all the illegal base Methods which the Enemies of that Crowned Head took to hinder his succeeding in the Throne of England my discourse wou'd soon swell beyond the ordinary limits of a Sermon Therefore considering especially that most of this Honourable Auditory are no strangers to the transactions of our own Kingdomes I shall be content to take notice but of one Historical Passage in relation to K. James which may be sufficient to demonstrate how vainly the Sons of Men contriv'd endeavour'd to turn his Glory into Shame This day will tell you that I mean the Gun-Powder-Treason A Wickedness so detestable to all that have not cast of Humanity and so great in it selfe that it neither needs nor will easily allow of any Aggravation But the more Universal and Cruel It was in the Intention of our Enemies the more gratefully shou'd we acknowledge the merciful Providence of Almighty God in delivering from it as on this day K. James with the three Estates of the Realm of England assembled in Parliament to the Glory of his Name and the Preservation of the Protestant Religion in these Kingdoms When many secret Plots had been laid in vain and many open Attempts had prov'd unsuccessful when neither the thundering Curses of Four Holy Fathers Paul the IV. Pius the V. Gregory XIII and Sixtus the V. nor the great Condescention of Pope Pius the IV. cou'd prevail when neither the Spanish Armada nor the Italian Arts could speed against the Providence of Heaven which carefully preserved the Learned and Religious Queen Elizabeth to the forty fifth Year of her Reign and the sixty ninth of her Age Pope Clement the VIII wisely foreseeing the vanity of striving against a Monarch that was so much the delight and care of Heaven thought it the most politick way to provide timely against any other Heretick's succeeding in the Throne of England And the more effectually to compass this Design of His Holiness two Breves were speedily dispatch'd into England strictly enjoyning both the Clergy and Laity not to suffer any but a sworn Papist to take Possession of the Crown after Q. Elizabeth's death or which was the same not to let K. James be King of England From this Command of the Pope the Gun-Powder-Treason or the Plot of blowing up the Parliament house according to Camden and other good Historians took its Rise for these Breves had so powerfully wrought upon Catesby the Contriver that altho' his Holiness's Design had been long negotiated in vain he could never be quiet nor content to be damn'd alone but having by the ready Assistance of the Devil luckily hit upon this compendious method of destruction by Gun-Powder and thinking the Plot of some of his party against the King's particular life but a pittifull under taking and not any considerable service to the Catholick Cause he brought several by degrees into his own Conspiracy A design which as we learn from the Consession of Guido Faux the person that boldly undertook to lay the lighted Match unto the Trains of Gun-Powder Catesby judg'd most proper because it was sittest that Justice and Punishment shou'd be executed in that Place where their Religion had been in their opinion unjustly suppress'd by Penal Laws But were the Jesuits unconcern'd in a Plot for Murdering an Heretical King and People No certainly it had fix'd an eternal Blot upon their Character had they been idle when their great Master the Devil who was a Murderer from the Beginning was close at Work These siery Spirits therefore besides other Encouragement and Assistance assur'd the Laity of a plenary Absolution soon remov'd the Scruple of their tender Consciences about destroying the Righteous with the Wicked Catholicks and Hereticks together and more strictly oblig'd them All to perform their Oath of Secrecy and Perseverance in the great Undertaking by their own addred Sacrament All this being done and all the necessary Materials not for building but for blowing up the Parliament House being at length convey'd into a convenient hired Cellar the joyful Day drew near but the Letter sent unto a Noble Lord from one of the Conspirators to diswade him from appearing in the Parliament house on the fifth of November and upon a deliberate repeated Review of which the Gun-Powder Plot was happily discover'd was mistaken in telling him that God and Man concur'd at this time to punish the Iniquity of the Times The Sons of Men indeed were ready but God with a watchful Eye of Mercy and Compassion saw the