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A45352	A sermon preach'd in the cathedral and metropolitical church of St. Peter in York on Friday the fifth of November, 1697 being the anniversary-day of thanksgiving for that great deliverance from the gunpowder-treason, and also the day of His Majesty's happy landing in England : with a postscript and two letters, which clearly discover the Roman designs against the English church and nation / by George Halley ...	Halley, George, 1655 or 6-1708.	1698 (1698)	Wing H456; ESTC R40936	15,514	33

A SERMON Preach'd in the Cathedral and Metropolitical CHURCH OF St. Peter in York On Friday the Fifth of November 1697. Being the ANNIVERSARY-DAY of THANKSGIVING for that Great Deliverance from the Gunpowder-Treason And also the Day of His Majesty's Happy Landing in England With a POSTSCRIPT and Two LETTERS which clearly discover the Roman Designs against the English Church and Nation By GEORGE HALLEY A. M. and Prebendary of Ripon London Printed for and Sold by Tho. Baxter Bookseller in Peter-Gate York 1698. TO THE Most Reverend Father in GOD JOHN By Divine Providence Lord Archbishop of York His GRACE Primate of England and Metropolitan MY LORD WHEN I first compos'd this Discourse I had not the least Thought of sending it abroad into the World But partly thro' the Importunity of such as gave it a patient and favourable Audience and partly thro' the Reflections of some who without cause are Enemies to our Great and Triumphant Prince and partly thro' the Incredulity of others touching a Principal and Necessary Branch of true Repentance Restitution as also thro' the Hopes of its proving in some measure a happy Instrument to bring back into the Fold such Sheep as are gone astray I have adventured its Publication And now My Lord this humbly begs the Honour of Your Grace's Patronage and implores the Favour not to interpret the prefixing of Your Great Name to so mean and defective a Piece as great Boldness and Presumption but to accept it as a Specimen of Gratitude and Sincere Affection for all Your Kindnesses unworthily conferr'd upon me I am My Lord incapable of making Your Grace any other Return than this Publick Acknowledgement of them with Fervent Prayer to the Great Shepherd and Bishop of Souls to protect You and Yours and to continue so Great a Blessing as Your Grace is amongst us I am sure all the Flock committed to Your Pastoral Care have the Highest Obligations to render unto Almighty God and His most Excellent Majesty their hearty Thanks as well as gratefully to commemorate the late most Pious and Incomparable Queen for sending so burning a Light so bright and shining a Luminary amongst them In what an Ocean of Peace and Tranquility doth the Great Ship Your Large Diocess now Swim of which God and the King have constituted You the Supreme Commander You not only Direct and Govern but You pull at the Ropes and Sails with as much Vigour as any Common Mariner that Sails therein So Great is Your Lordship's Talent so Indefatigable is Your Industry in Preaching that Your Grace might justly with the late Lord Archbishop of Armagh make this the Motto of Your Archiepiscopal Seal Woe is unto me if I Preach not the Gospel That a Prelate so singularly Eminent for Great Parts and Abilities for Piety and Vertue Care and Diligence Meekness and Humility for Love and Charity may long Preside over and Adorn the Church of God is the Affectionate Desire and Ardent Prayer of My LORD Your Grace's most obliged Dutiful and Grateful Servant GEORGE HALLEY 2 COR. I. 10. Who delivered us from so great a Death and doth deliver in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us THE Conjunction of Mercies which the Almighty so eminently and peculiarly wrought on this Day for our Church and Nation makes this Day an High Day a very great and glorious Festival A Day which upon a double Account ought to be had in everlasting Remembrance Not only for the Providential Discovery of the Snares of Death laid this Day for our Ancestors but for the late happy and astonishing Deliverance of us their Posterity from the imminent Danger of Popery and Arbitrary Power The impure Streams of Idolatry and Superstition had gone even over our Souls the proud and insulting Waves the Romanists had triumph'd over us for they began to rage horribly and swell they gnash'd upon us with their Teeth when their small Stock of Arguments was spent and by this time of Day we should have found their Teeth Spears and Arrows and their Tongue a sharp Sword the Romanists I say had triumph'd over us had not God sent us on this blessed Day a Deliverer to rescue us from Popish Tyranny when we were so near sinking under it Great Reason therefore have we to say with St. Paul God deliver'd us from so great a Death and doth deliver in whom we trust that he will yet also deliver us In which Words consider we I. The great Death from which the Holy Apostle was delivered by God II. I will endeavour to shew you that God in this as well as in the Apostolical Age doth still deliver from Death III. What Method we must of absolute Necessity take to indear the Lord our God to oblige him still to protect and deliver us from Death Who deliver'd us from so great a Death and doth deliver in whom we trust that he will yet also deliver us But first In the first Place consider we the great Death from which the Holy Apostle was delivered by God By Death may be understood Troubles and Afflictions extream or uttermost Dangers Troubles and Afflictions in a Superlative in the highest Degree He was press'd out of Measure above Strength insomuch that he had almost black and desponding Thoughts he despair'd even of Life If he had not found more than ordinary Assistances of the good Spirit of God he had certainly sunk under them This is the doleful Account which he himself gives us at the Eighth Verse with the place too where those Troubles came upon him namely Asia What the Troubles were which he met with in Asia we are informed by St. Luke in the 19th of the Acts and the 23d Verse where we read of a Riot or unlawful Assembly a great Stir raised by one Demetrius a Silver-smith and the Workmen of like Occupation about the Doctrine of the Gospel because St. Paul had preach'd against the Images which they made and worshipp'd as confounded be all they that worship carved Images and that delight in vain Gods worship him all ye Gods because he had persuaded much People that they be no Gods which are made with Hands they came upon him in a furious and tumultuary Manner Further In the first Epistle to the Corinthians 15.32 we read if after the manner of men I have fought with Beasts at Ephesus what advantageth it me if the dead rise not Some interpret those Words of his Conflict with the same Demetrius and the Silver-Smiths who were like Beasts in their Conditions and Manners Others are of Opinion that he really was exposed in the Theatre to furious Beasts tho' peradventure he was only so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Purpose of Men the Magistrates had sentenced and condemned him to that Death but Divine Providence interpos'd and rescued him from the Execution of the Sentence Thus probably these Words of my Text relate to his Sufferings at Ephesus when God delivered him from so great a Death Further In the

most refined Policy that can outvy the Strength of Heaven This the Hellish Projecters of the Gun-Powder-Treason found to be infallibly true the Arch-Plotter Garnet a perfect Achitophel a Man that could give and hide his Counsel as deep as Hell with whom his Friends would embark in any design tho' never so black and dangerous yet how far infatuated was this cunning Politician Alas he consider'd not that some of the Conspirators who were willing to work a publick Mischief for his Pleasure might also have a Desire to secure their private Friends from Danger by giving them some general or ambiguous Admonition And indeed that one of them should hint in a Letter to his honourable Friend the instant Danger was not extraordinary save only in this that so much Tenderness of Heart so much good Nature could be left in his Breast who had consented to his Country's Ruine It is really prodigiously strange that such a Man should put on the Bowels of Compassion for a private Friend as had design'd his Country's perpetual Desolation Where was then this Piety Where was then this Religious Affection Alas all Nature all Humanity all Respect of Laws both Divine and Humane were then quite abandoned there was then no Conscience made to extirpate the whole Nation and all for a pretended Zeal to the Catholick Religion Can this be the Christian Religion No the essential Mark the proper Character of the Christian Religion is Love and Charity This is a Religion which hath all of the Dove and nothing of the Vulture in it which is Wisdom from above which is first pure and then peaceable it is a charitable Religion and none can justly pretend to it whose Doctrines are Earthly Sensual and Devilish who breathe nothing but Curses and Slaughters who hold it lawful to destroy all such as differ from them in Matters of Faith to extirpate by Fire and Sword all such as worship God after the Way which they call Heresie and such are the bloody Principles of the Roman Religion Principles diametrically opposite to the Doctrine and Practice of the Author of the Christian Religion the ever Blessed Jesus He came into the World to save and not to destroy the Lives of Men But alas the Papists are for sending Men out of the World in a fiery Chariot for illuminating our Understandings with Fire and Faggot The Marian Persecution is a Demonstration of their Cruelty and the same dismal Tragedy would have been acted over again had not God sent us a Deliverer who deliver'd us from so great a Death Thus I say there was then no Conscience made to extirpate a whole Nation and all for a pretended Zeal to the Catholick Religion a horribly mistaken blind Zeal a Zeal not at all according to Knowledge Alas They know not what manner of Spirit they are of But God deliver'd the King the Queen the tender Princes the Nobles the whole Kingdom from their design'd Destruction God deliver'd them from so great a Death Death How exorbitant was that Death in its Nature How transcendently wicked in its Design How barbarous and unnatural Such a prodigious Cruelty as is beyond the Example of former Ages as is not to be parallell'd in all the voluminous Records of time from the Beginning of the World The Plot was deeply laid it was hatch'd and contriv'd in the dark they kept it secret every Man in the Deep of his Heart and not without Ceremonies of Religion Ay they swore by the Blessed Trinity and by the Holy Sacrament never to disclose it directly nor indirectly by Word or Circumstance But by the good Providence of God it was proclaim'd upon the House-tops A most wonderful Proclamation and never enough to be reflected upon with Praise and Thanksgiving such a Discovery as Bellarmin himself confesses to have been miraculous Had it taken effect as it was just ripe for Execution my Blood chills I tremble to think of the dismal Consequences of it We had then been depriv'd of King Queen Princes and all the Nobility It would have been a most miserable Desolation How would this poor Church and Nation have laid a bleeding Peace and Happiness would presently have taken the Wing and flown from this British Isle there would then have been nothing but intestine War Bloodshed and the greatest Confusion Never did the Ear of Man hear of such a Conspiracy before The highest Treason that could ever be imagin'd by any who either made or writ of Laws was Crimen laesae Majestatis the violating the Majesty of the Prince But the Gunpowder-Treason wants a Name sufficient to express it it tended not only to the Hurt but to the Death of the King and not to the Death of the King only but of his whole Kingdom to the Destruction of the beautiful Frame the Dissolation of the Noble Fabrick of this Ancient Famous and Flourishing Monarchy even the Deletion of our whole Name and Nation No Mantle of Holiness can cover such a Treason no Pretence of Religion can excuse it God and Heaven condemn it all Souls of a truly Christian Temper and Disposition must detest and abhor it Six and Thirty Barrels of Powder with Bars of Iron Stones and Wood upon them What a great Breach what a fiery Tempest what a Motion and Commotion of Earth and Air would there have been But God deliver'd our Ancestors from so great a Death But Secondly God doth still deliver from Death Ay God hath lately deliver'd us their Posterity from Death and Destruction It is not many Years ago since we had a sad and melancholy Prospect of Affairs it is not long since a thick and black Cloud hung over our Heads which in all probability would have broke and pour'd down upon us a Deluge of Waters if it had not been timely dispell'd by the comfortable Appearance of a Bright and Glorious Star in our Hemisphere by the happy Arrival of King William upon this Day I need not acquaint you how our Popish Enemies attempted to destroy both our Laws and Religion It was an excellent Reply which an ancient and eminent Serjeant at Law gave the King when he complemented him upon his Arrival His Majesty told him he had out-liv'd most of his Profession and he truly answer'd that if his Majesty had not come over he should have out-liv'd the Law it self We flatter'd our selves indeed with a Belief that it was impossible to have the Popish Religion ever introduced here because a thing so absolutely against the English Constitution that let the Principles of the Prince be what they would the Administration of the Laws must of necessity run in the same Channel he found them in But we soon saw how the Course of the River was forc'd and the Stream turn'd so as to run over our Soul we were quickly made sensible of our gross Mistake and Delusion we presently understood that there is no Government too hard for a Jesuit to cut in sunder no Constitution so strong as to wrestle