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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

might with strength of Reason on her side say The Glory is departed from Israel because the Ark of God was taken which when present with them was Salvation to them if Sin did not bar out the Blessing and 't was Death and great Destruction to their grand Enemies when amongst them tho' in Captivity plaguing and slaying them in a very large measure Furthermore so glorious was the Ark and holy that altho' the Bethshemites rejoiced at the sight thereof upon its arrival out of the Philistine's Country into their own and offered Burnt-Offerings and sacrificed Sacrifices unto the Lord the same Day yet because they presumed to pry and look into it he smote of the People Fifty Thousand Threescore and Ten Men to their great Lamentation with Astonishment saying Who is able to stand before this holy Lord God 1 Sam. 6. But on the other hand we find it procured a Blessing to Obed-Edom and all he had when Three Months in his House 2 Sam. 6. from whence David brought it into the City of David with gladness and great solemnity his own Royal Person Dancing before the Lord with all his might with Sacrifices and Offerings shouting and the sound of the Trampet Very glorious also was the Ark in a farther prospect than yet we have mention'd or either perhaps Old Eli and Phinehas's Wife or any of the Israelites did perceive or think of when 't was captivated that is in its mighty Symbols and Prefigurations its Noble Type and Representation of Christ and his Church in the Evangelical Oeconomy its glorious Figures thereof as to it self and all that belong'd to it or was preserv'd and contain'd in it of which we have not time now to speak So that Glory it was to Israel in their then present honourable Thoughts and Conceptions of it according to what they did know and far greater Glory in what they did not understand or conceive Sad then that the Heathen their Enemies should both overcome them in Battel and take it Captive their great Hope be suddenly gone with Terrour and Amazement It was enough for a deep and general Mourning in all Israel enough to make all Disconsolate and some to bid Adieu to all Comforts here to take leave of the World and like Old Eli and his Daughter-in-law yield up the Ghost And now to return from one sad Scene to another from Israel's Loss to our own Their Sins had provoked God to afflict them with a terrible stroke And so have ours caused him in his Displeasure to take from us that great undeserved Blessing which in his Mercy he gave unto us in the Royal Person of his Anointed that Wise and Incomparable Princess for whom the Mourners do now go about the Streets our Late Gracious Soveraign Lady the Queen whose Princely and Sublime Virtues were so numerous and of such a large size and substance by the growth and perfection she gave them through her Most Excellent and Sacred Majesty's daily Increase in all Goodness that we may easier form a Galaxy or Bright Circle of them in our Noblest and Loftiest Conceptions or fix them in the Orbs of our Minds as whole Constellations of Stars of the first Magnitude than speak clearly and fully of all those shining Graces which in her Living were visible to the Eye of the World but now are hid from our Eyes But let the Memory of her Majesty and those her Rich Ornaments be kept Sacred to Posterity that the Generations to come may bless the Age she lived in and withal reprove the wilful Blindness and blackest Ingratitude of those who did not observe her Virtues nor Honour and Esteem her Royal Person with that Duty and Veneration as became Men who by her Enjoy'd the Blessings of Heaven above and of the Earth beneath Spiritual good things and Temporal She who was the Glory of her Age and Sex of our Church and these Nations to her own Greatness and all her Royalties giving Lustre to the Throne by her most Eminent Virtues in great Wisdom and Prudence Crown'd all her self So that I may make Application upon her great Fame 1 King 10. as the Queen of Sheba did to Solomon Happy were her Men happy were those her Servants which did stand continually before her Majesty hearing her Wisdom her good and gracious Words and observing her Piety and Religious Ways a lively Pattern and Example to all about her and who of both Sexes and all Qualities in Sorrow and Bitterness of Heart have caused a Voice to be heard like that of Rachel in Rama Lamentation and Weeping and great Mourning Weeping for her Most Excellent Majesty and would not be comforted because she is not she is not in the Land of the Living And because the Glory is thereby departed from them And from us all of her Majesty's Realms and Dominions and many more parts of the World is The Glory departed So that we in great multitudes Domestick and Foreign may join with the Royal Palace and take up a wailing for us all that our Eyes may run down with Tears and our Eye-lids gush out with Waters But while we mourn let us not forget to make Honourable mention of her Majesty yet further and tho' we cannot paint out to the Life those many Graces which did constantly attend her or rather were implanted in her yet let us Celebrate her Obsequies and Revere her Ashes those Sacred Remains by so just a Commemoration of her Excellent Endowments as the Confusion of Grief and Wo in our Minds will permit Now Virtue in general seem'd innate or connatural to her Majesty by that firmness of Root it had gain'd in her Royal Breast and therefore those many Species thereof which Philosophers for some Thousands of Years have Disputed and Reasoned about and Divines have much preached and written of were Eminently conspicuous and demonstrative in her When she was but a Child they appear'd like Aurora before the Sun as an happy Omen of what her Riper Years would produce She was then a bright Morning-star and like good King Josiah began when she was young to seek after God Dedicated her self unto him and never desisted to the Day of her Death Not forsaking God when she felt the Thorns of her Crowns and the multitude of Business throng'd her or the Baits and Allurements of Recreations might tempt her aside And as she was stedfast and unmoveable always abounding in the Work of the Lord so she required her People and Servants to wait upon God with a Vigilant Care her Self over all who ought to repair unto the Chappel-Royal to attend on him in his Worship imitating Faithful Abraham Gen. 18.19 in commanding her Houshold after her to keep the way of the Lord retrieving thereby the long lost Honour of the Court by Converting the Reigning Sins thereof through her Great Example and Pious Authority into Religious Services Sitting therein a Queen to do the Will of the Lord and not of Men. And in all respects

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

on the good and sendeth Rain on the just and on the unjust After such Charity 't is impossible for us to doubt of her Faith and Hope but we may rest assured that both were very great And in short that she might finish her Course with Joy she left not the great Work of Repentance to the last Call but with the Wise Virgins had her Lamp ready trimmed with Oyl in it when the Bridegroom came requiring her to come away So did she watch that when her Lord came expecting immediate Attendance she was not found Sleeping nor Trifling or wasting away her precious time but in the Exercise of all those Christian Graces which with her humble Submission and Resignation to God's Will through Christ translated her from the Corruptible Crowns here below to an Eternal and Glorious Diadem above when being Faithful to her Death God gave her a Crown of Life O to her most Happy and Glorious Second Coronation in the highest Heavens while we Mortals here below lament our Loss which is her Gain Thus have I Coasted upon the Sea-shore of those Graces and Virtues which did shine on Earth in God's Anointed and the Nursing-Mother of our Church And to launch out farther into the unfathomable Ocean of them would require more time with a stronger and larger Vessel than my poor Talent can equip and send out into so vast a Deep An Ocean of them I mention because her Brook became a River and her River became a Sea a main Sea Ecclus 24.31 encompassing that whole Globe of Goodness which was inherent in Her Majesty while she acted in that great Sphere of Glory and Honour here to save our Church and these Nations and the sinking Parts of Europe out of the Hands of their Potent and Common Enemy which was purely Her Majesty's Design and is the Intent of the Mighty NASSAU our Most Gracious King And so to prevent a Rushing Destruction at Hand and be the Deliverers of many Nations and People from Ruin by the Power put into their Hands through God's Merciful Providence when the Nobles and Patriots of this Nation made their Requests to Their Majesties and the Peoples Cries and humble Prayers and Solicitations by their Representatives wrought upon them to fill the Empty Throne therefore This did not I hope infrinnge or trespass against the Fifth Commandment when the People of the Land took them and made them KING and QUEEN their Crowns were even forced upon their Heads for the Salvation of our Church and an Universal Deliverance from the approaching Thraldom of a Foreign but yet too Near and too Potent an Enemy I Challenge the World then to find out any Blemish or Spot in that Bright and most Clear Luminary which now the Curtain being drawn by the interposition of the great Vail and Canopy of the Heavens between her and us suffers an Eclipse in respect of our selves but not of her who enjoys a far more exceeding and eternal weight of Glory And yet Her Just Title here was Glorious too MARY the Second by the Grace of God QUEEN of Great Britain France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. But she added thereto the Choicest Ornaments and most precious Rubies in her Crowns the Transcendent Virtues of her most Comely and Graceful Person with great Majesty outwardly and all Mercy within So that as our Loss is more than we can express so are her due Praises beyond all the Flowers of Rhetorick and Art of Elocution To Enumerate whose Virtues as the Honourable House of Commons said were to aggravate our Sorrow Address to the King Dec. 31.1694 Wherefore a mighty Glory is departed from us from the Christian World from all true Protestants chiefly whose great Hope and Joy and Comfort she was And France it self tho' different in Religion from us is not free from that Cloud of Darkness whether sensible of it or no that covers us by the Decease of Her Most Excellent Majesty That such an Unparallel'd Good Princess had so Just a Title to that Crown from Her Royal Ancestors For not to insist upon all that we might we will only mention that our Valiant King Edward the Third but for the unjust Salique Law was Heir to France after the Death of Philip the Fair * Philip Duke De Valois the other See Sir R. Baker's Chron. Life of Edw. 3. being then according to some Histories the nearer in Blood of the Two Competitors but drawing his Pedigree by a Female Our Victorious King Henry the Fifth was Proclaim'd in France as well as in England to be the only Regent of that Realm and Heir Apparent to that Crown Whose Son the Devout King Henry the Sixth was not only Proclaim'd but with all usual Ceremonies Crown'd in Paris King of France And now consider we what profound Veneration and Love had this our Great Princess gain'd in the Minds and Affections of those beyond the Sea What Universal Affliction is in those Countries she lived in What huge Expressions of Sorrow for her Death do they give Blessed be they of the Lord for the great Honour and Kindness they bare to her when she was in a strange Country But O the unexcuseable Ingratitude of those who did not the like to Her Majesty in the Land of her Nativity When in other Parts of the World she so drew the Eyes and Hearts of all People after her that she was Beloved to Admiration and was their great Desire But now she is taken from us as well as from them Of whom the World was not worthy she being too Good and Virtuous for this Wicked and Adulterous Generation And so like another Astraea she is fled to Heaven for a Resting-place And what Vows would we make What Prayers would we offer up to Enjoy her again What Returns of Praises and Thanksgivings would we present to God in imitation of David and all Israel when they brought home the Ark But alas she is gone and shall not return to us Which sad Affliction is enough to damp and weigh down the greatest Spirits and to strike us all Dumb that we open not our Mouths only by the way of Mourning and Humiliation because it is God's doing who in the Flower of her Days as well as of our Hopes sent forth his Decree to call her hence To reverse which if it had been the Blessed Will of the Lord what Prayers what Sighs and Tears were poured forth and Means used that the Distemper might not prevail over her nor the King of Terrors Conquer by to us such a bitter Destiny cutting so early the Thread of so Precious a Life so universally desired long to remain But Oh! the Hand of the Lord hath been very heavy upon us for our Sins and to the utmost period of her Race here she hath suddenly and unexpectedly run So that with Job we may now say Our Harp is turned to Mourning Job 30.31 and our Organ into the Voice of them that weep

But the Comfort of all is The Lord liveth who seeth what we cannot so much as think of and saves us when we are ignorant of our Danger and of our Help and Salvation ready at the same time the one to devour and the other to rescue and protect us Wherefore again and again we will with great Joy say The Lord liveth Or Let the Lord live if any will have it Translated so in way of Triumph also As the Hebrews were wont to express their Joy and good Wishes for their Kings Let the King live which we turning into an Anglicism or form of Speech agreeable to our own Idiom and Language do express by saying God save the King and so we have Translated it in several parts of Scripture as that God save King Solomon at his Inauguration when he was Anointed King Which both in the Hebraism and our Mode or Way of speaking implies Zeal and a joyful Acclamation of Triumph and Delight for the King and also a Prayer for his Life in which last sence it is improper to Translate this part of the Text Let the Lord live but not so in the former for with an holy Zeal and Joy and Triumph Delight and Pleasure for his Gracious Goodness it may without any Solecism be said Let the Lord live as well as Let God arise Psal 68.1 that is Let the Lord appear and manifest himself to the World that He is the only Living God the Almighty and Merciful Johovah in saving his own People by putting his Hook into the Noses and his Bridle into the Lips of their Enemies and thus checking their malignant Rage and Fury But to return as we have most fitly render'd it The Lord liveth we may farther take this weighty Clause to have been directed by holy David's Eye against a set of Ungodly and Atheistical Men against such as was the Patron of all Fools the Fool that said in his Heart Psal 14.1 there is no God a Fool 's saying indeed for who but a Fool would ever have said so And therefore they thought it impossible their Devices should prove Abortive for if there had been no God by his Omniscience and Providence to disclose their Secret Cabals and the Arrows of Death prepared by them to let fly against the Lord 's Anointed the stroke would have been unavoidable and fatal for it is not in Man to discover the Secrets of the Hearts of other Men It is a peculiar Prerogative of the Great Searcher of Hearts to do it who knows the Thoughts thereof long before their Conception What a miserable Condition then had holy David been involved in amidst all his Enemies Plotting and Devising his Ruin if there had been no God He must then have fallen into their Pit Well then might he Joy in the God of his Salvation and Congratulate his own Safety with these words expressing his Assurance of Omnipotency on his side against his Enemies to their Confusion The Lord liveth baffling all hereby who in his Days denied the Omnipotent Being or lived and acted as if there were none And the words have the same force against the Atheists and Wicked Men of our Times who deny the Existence of a Deity or else surely never have him in their Thoughts but Plot on and imagine Vain Things in their ungodly Counsels until they fall into the Pit which they make for the Lord 's Anointed and for the Destruction of his People But further this Clause seems also to be levell'd against a second sort of Fools who it 's true might have such a Grain of true Faith as to make a Confession of the Godhead but received false Articles into their Creed in respect of his Providence and Government as that having his Throne so high in the Heavens he would not humble himself to behold the things done on the Earth and so never took any Care of Sublunary Affairs neither of setting up or pulling down of right nor wrong of oppression or injustice or any sore evil under the San So that wicked Men might live in Robbery Spoil and Oppression committing Outrage and Violence and brave it along saying Who is Lord over us And spurning at Omniscience say Tush How should God perceive it Is there Knowledge in the Most High And how shall we think better Principles have governed or influenced those amongst us who so lately meditated upon Regicide Rebellion Invasion and a Total Subversion of these Three Kingdoms besides all the Evil Consequences that would necessarily like a mighty Deluge have flowed in upon many other Nations and People For their Barbarous Practices seem to be the Interpreters of their Minds so that if any will deny the Hypothesis that they were such the sequel drawn from their Bitter Designs infers a Conclusion proving as much against them in deed and reality let them plead for their Thoughts and their Faith or Belief as they please at most their Arguments can be of no force on their side any otherwise than those of Rank Practical Atheists are against them we call speculative And certainly they are the worst of Men who profess to believe well and practice most ill and such justly incur the Divine Abhorrence are frequently forsaken of God being Vessels of his Wrath and left alone to themselves working out their own Destruction That burden of the Lord in the 23d Chapter of the Prophet Jeremiah v. 33. being their Portion I will even forsake you saith the Lord with that direful Catastrophe as an Appendix to the Curse subjoin'd in the end of the Chapter And I will bring an Everlasting Reproach upon you and a perpetual shame which shall not be forgotten This was to be the Fate of some Prophets and Priests with the People who were untoward and dissatisfied with God's Ways in those Days And let them who find themselves alike grieved in our Age make Application hereof to themselves whilst we who are sensible of God's great and undeserved Blessings to us in our Most Gracious King and this Deliverance and are thankful for them will sing Hallelujahs unto His Infinite Holiness and with Glory and Triumph express the gladness of our Souls in saying every one of us with the Royal Psalmist The Lord liveth and blessed be my Rock and exalted be the God of the Rock of my Salvation Which introduces the Second Proposition comprehending King David's grateful Return to God of Benediction and Praise or Exaltation for his Marvellous and Powerful Deliverances of him from the Mischiess formed against him Emphatically expressed in these words and blessed be my Rock and exalted be the God of the Rock of my Salvation Agreeable to the Dutiful and Pious Custom of God's Church in all Ages of blessing and praising Him for His particular Providence in great Deliverances besides the Acts of His Universal Goodness is this Hymn of holy David And of the whole Composure these words last recited have a sound which seems the most Harmonious because they rebound with so