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A36452	A sermon preached before the honourable House of Commons at St. Margarets Westminster, November 5, 1680 / by Henry Dove ...	Dove, Henry, 1640-1695.	1680 (1680)	Wing D2048; ESTC R1352	13,195	34

detest the sins for which others have been so notably punish'd But there is something more yet to be done as the proper work of the day and that is III. A duty resulting from all these considerations and chiefly incumbent on good men and that as the other is three-fold 1. Rejoycing in the Lord. 2. Trusting in him 3. Glory and triumph The righteous shall c. 1. The righteous shall be glad in the Lord. A duty no less easie than pleasant and that which we all seem to covet and desire most that which we eagerly pursue as the best of this worlds satisfactions joy and rejoycing There is no such gladness of heart as that which a good man enjoys in the contemplation of Gods goodness And sure we need no invitations to what we are all so naturally inclin'd God himself requires it the deliverance of the Day and the discoveries of a later date call for it Rejoyce in the Lord O ye righteous and again I say rejoyce for the voice of praise is comely and it becometh well the just to be thankful And seeing God requires a sign and some outward testimony of your joy and thanks let me bespeak your Charity to the Poor in those emphatical words of Nehemiah 8. 10. Go your way eat the fat and drink the sweet and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared for this day is holy unto our Lord neither be you sorry for the joy of the Lord is your strength God who frankly bestows his blessings loves a chearful return of what he gives and since our goodness extends not unto him but to the Saints that are in the earth he has left the Poor among us as his standing Receivers by his own Patent The poor ye shall have always with you says our Saviour and whensoever ye will ye may do them good Mark 14. 7. Do it therefore at this time above all and make them partakers of your fulness and joyfulness for then we glorifie his name when we joy in his salvation and are glad to do good to others as God hath done unto us when the voice of rejoycing is heard in the Tabernacles of the righteous and the tokens of our joy are sent to the poor and needy And that our joy may be perfect let us temper it with Faith and add the next degree of our Duty 2. The righteous shall trust in him And good reason indeed to trust in him of whose favour and loving kindness we have had so large experience well may we rely on that power which is so able to protect us well may we depend on that providence which so remarkably takes care of us And herein lies the difference of the effects that such works of God have upon the righteous and the wicked that the one are struck with horror from the apprehensions of his power and providence and confounded with the sense of their own guilt whilst good men glory in the demonstrations of Gods power and make all his Dispensations an argument of a more chearful dependance on him 'T is this that supports the spirits of good men under all the troubles and distractions of the world and keeps 'em from despondence with fear of future evils and apprehensions of mischief and disturbances when they call to mind the deliverances of past times and Gods manifold appearances in the cause of his Church and People And what if a cloud appear or the storms arise if we build our confidence on the rock of ages we have a shelter against the Tempests a strong consolation and a good hope as an anchor of our souls both sure and stedfast And what if the same danger threaten us and the storms arise from the same quarter we have still the same God to flee unto who hath manifested his care of our Church by a continued series of Miracles and Mercies Though the unquiet spirits of the world and the powers of darkness combine against us yet if we hold us fast by God he will never leave us nor forsake us if we adhere constantly unto him his Faithfulness and Truth will be our Shield and Buckler and while we are under the defence of the Almighty we shall not be greatly moved This was David's confidence whose deliverances always equal'd his dangers and from his own experience he encourageth others to depend upon God Psalm 62. 6 7. He only is my rock and my salvation he is my defence I shall not be moved In God is my salvation and my glory the rock of my strength and my refuge is in God And then immediately it follows ver 8. Trust in him at all times O ye people pour out your heart before him God is a refuge for us Selah The times and seasons to come are in the hand of God alone and we know not what a day much less what a year may bring forth though we cannot but know what our sins have deserv'd if God should enter into judgment with us yet even this is matter of great rejoycing that we are still assembled to give him thanks in the great Congregation and to praise him among the Heads of the people And this too is an encouragement to rely on the same infinite Power and Goodness for the continuance of our safety That the next year shall be as this and much more abundant That God will settle and root us faster by shaking us a little That he will perfect his own work by a full detection and final defeat of all our implacable enemies And in this humble confidence and assurance of his favour we triumph and glory Which is the last branch of our Duty 3. All the upright in heart shall glory They shall glory in his strength and triumph in his favour But that 's not all they shall glory in the confusion of the wicked and rejoyce in the continual disappointment of such treacherous designs And they that do not rejoyce and glory in such Discoveries and Deliverances are none of the upright in heart for they defraud God of his due and deny him the honour of his own work and they give us reason to suspect that they wish the Treason had been acted They that refuse to give thanks for the Deliverance want only an opportunity to contrive the like mischief and put the Design in execution But let us I beseech you as men upright in heart with all our Souls yea with heart and voice offer up our Thanksgivings to the God of our mercies and confess his Name and glory in his Strength and triumph in his Goodness As we are sensible to whom we owe our safety let us keep the Feast with joyful and thankful hearts making it like the Feast of the Passover a day to be much observed throughout all our Generations let us all as friends to Sion the Church we wish well to give thanks to the preserver of our Sion as Subjects of a Kingdom whose peace and prosperity we pray for let us bless the God of our Israel the mighty defender of our Nation We have heard with our ears and our Fathers have declared unto us the noble works which God did in their days and in the time before them How he did deliver our Nation from the Tyranny of the Pope the Usurpations of his Sea the Treasons of his Emissaries and from the Idolatry Superstition and Cruelty of his Religion I call it His for Popery is no more like Christs Religion than a Wolf is like a Lamb. How soon he extinguish'd the fire of the Marian Persecution and in the years next ensuing gave us Beauty for Ashes even ten for one How he put to flight the Forces of the Aliens and display'd his wonders in the deep in 88 and how he delivered both our Church and State as on this Day And as we have heard so have we seen how miraculously he dispell'd that dismal Cloud which covered us by bowing the hearts of all-the People as the heart of one man to bring back the King to his own Throne How he made Him among the Princes of the earth the First-born as it were from the dead How his Hand hath held him fast in the midst of manifold dangers and by Gods protection of Him we also are protected in the quiet enjoyment of our Lives Liberties Fortunes and Laws and in the free and open Profession of Christs true Religion Oh! let us walk worthy of these reiterated Deliverances and live as becometh a Reformed and a Redeemed People Let not our Heats and Divisions on one hand nor our Looseness and Prophaneness on the other give occasion to the Enemy to triumph over us lest they say in their hearts There there so would we have it lest we ruine our selves in a more effectual manner than all the Papal Conspirators in Europe can devise But let us manifest our thankfulness to God by living piously and peaceably in the stedfast Profession of his holy Gospel and in hearty Loyalty and Fidelity to our King whose strength and security next under Providence does principally depend on the Hearts and Affections of his Subjects on the Counsels and Assistance of his Parliament So shall we best secure our selves consulting at once our Duty and our Interest so with St. Paul may we hope in God who hath delivered us from so great a death and doth deliver in whom we trust that he will evermore deliver us 2 Cor. 1. 10. From all Sedition privy Conspiracy and Rebellion from all false Doctrine Heresie and Schism from all Popish Principles and Practises good Lord deliver us through Jesus Christ our Saviour and mighty Deliverer To whom with thee and thy Holy Spirit three Persons and one Eternal God be ascribed of us and thy whole Church all Power and Glory Thanksgiving and Praise now and evermore Amen FINIS

be heard from heaven the earth trembled and was still Psal 76. 8. Thou even thou art to be feared and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry ver 7. And as the apprehensions of his Power and Majesty strike dread and terror into men so the wonders of his Providence especially the eminent deliverances of his people and the confusion of their enemies must needs beget an awful reverence of that Omnipotence which alone doth wonders and bringeth mighty things to pass And all men that see such things shall fear i. e. shall tremble before his Power and Providence who by such events makes it manifest that he interposes his Wisdom in the most secret counsels of men and over-rules all their malicious contrivances to the ends of his own Counsel and the designs of his Goodness As Joseph said to his Brethren Gen. 50. 20. As for you ye thought evil against me but God meant it unto good to bring to pass as it is this day to save much people alive And all men shall fear i. e. shall be afraid to conspire against them whose cause God himself so miraculously owns and abets and shall be convinc'd that the care of the righteous is with the most high that with his right hand he covers them and with his arm he protects ' em And all men shall fear i. e. shall be afraid to do any more so wickedly and shall depart from the tents of such ungodly murmurers left they be consumed in their sins And all men shall fear i. e. shall fear God and the King too whose Minister he is in whose name and behalf he acts and into whose heart God was pleased to put the first discovery of this days happy deliverance and to make him the instrument of his Peoples Preservation that they might know him to be Gods visible Deputy upon earth and might fear before him according to the wise-mans advice My son fear God and the King and meddle not with them that are given to change All men shall fear but fear alone will not profit us for the Devils tremble before the power they hate and wicked men may dread Gods vengeance where they are unwilling to see his hand and therefore here follows another effect which such signal actions have upon men 2. They shall declare the work of the Lord. And this is an effect as general and large as the other though upon different accounts for even they who are unwilling to own it shall be forc'd to acknowledge it and they for whose sake it is done shall rejoyce to publish it When God rescued his people from Babylon the Psalmist observes that even the Heathen took notice of their wonderful deliverance Psal 126. 2. Then said they among the heathen the Lord hath done great things for them And if Strangers that have only heard of ours shall talk of Gods providence over us surely we that reap the benefits of his goodness should sing forth the honour of his name and make his praise to be glorious If it was wonderful in their eyes we were the unworthiest persons in the world if it should not be so in ours too And truly they deserve not to share in so great a blessing who neglect to declare this work of the Lord who refuse to pay him the honour due unto his name for the frequent deliverances vouchsafed to our Land and Nation 'T is no less than brutish stupidity that makes men regardless of these wonders of Providence which he that rightly considers will find reason enough most solemnly to admire and adore which is the third effect 3. They shall wisely consider of his doings That is they shall better understand the method of Gods proceedings and the reasons of his dealings in the world for these things make it plain that God takes care of the affairs of his people and that the enemies of his Church enemies I say in their minds though the Church be still in their mouths while they continue their wicked works with all their crafty devices with all their spite and malice and the gates of Hell to help them shall not be able to prevail against her And these sudden defeats and remarkable disappointments of such treasonable designs are evidence sufficient that they are hateful to God who is the governour of the world and is concern'd for his own Vicegerents That vengeance belongs to him and he will surely repay it for such sins Whoso is wise says David Psal 107. 43. will observe these things and they shall understand the loving kindness of the Lord And 't is the wise-mans observation in the like case Prov. 24. 22. having told us of those that are given to change that their calamity shall rise suddenly and who knoweth the ruine of them both He immediately subjoyns These things also belong unto the wise ver 27. that is these things are matter of weighty consideration and thereby we may learn by experience that God for the better government of the world thinks it fit to make Rebels and Traytors the most memorable examples of Vengeance and Judgment Search the Scriptures and turn over the Annals of all Ages you shall scarce meet in story with a seditious Innovator or a Rebel who has not ruin'd himself Destruction treads close upon their heels and punishment will assuredly come from God for they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation says St. Paul Rom. 13. 2. They shall utterly perish in their own corruption says St. Peter 2 Pet. 2. 12. Their judgment lingereth not and their damnation slumbereth not ver 3. Not one of the mutinous generation among the Israelites came into the Land of Promise because they rebelled against Moses and Aaron and in them against God And that all the earth may stand in awe of him and the Governours he hath appointed God opened the bowels of the earth and she swallowed up Corah and covered the congregation of Abiram They went down alive into the gulf with their wives and their sons and their little children Numb 16. 27. And that we might perceive it to be Gods own immediate work we find Moses putting it upon this issue ver 29. If these men die the common death of all men then the Lord hath not sent me then let me have no authority among you But if the Lord make a new thing or create a new creature as the phrase imports such a thing as ye never saw nor was ever heard of before If the earth open her mouth and they go down quick into the pit what then why Then shall ye understand that these men have provoked the Lord ver 30. then shall ye know that 't is his doing Beware of the way of Corah lest ye perish in the gain-saying of Corah God hates the dispositions which are the cause of Rebellion and will never let the practices go unpunished If therefore we tremble at the vengeance let us dread the crimes and so wisely consider of Gods doings as to