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A70130	Mercies memorial set out in a sermon preached in Paul's church, Novemb. 17, 1644, in memoriall of the great deliverance which England had from antichristian bondage by Queen Elizabeths attaining the crowne/ by William Gouge ...	Gouge, William, 1578-1653.	1645 (1645)	Wing G1392; ESTC R11437	23,054	31

again to blesse the Lord he rendereth this reason thereof Who forgiveth all thine iniquities who healeth all thy diseases who redeemeth thy life from destruction c. Psal. 103.1 2 3 4. 6. This bindeth a man more firmely to all duty and good obedience Upon consideration of this the Psalmist acknowledging that God had delivered his soule from death his eyes from teares and his feet from falling maketh this inference I will walke before the Lord in the land of the living Psal. 116.8 9. 7. This is an especiall ground of future confidence as is evident in Davids answer to Saul which was this The Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the Lion and out of the paw of the Beare He will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine 1 Sam. 17.37 To like purpose Saint Paul being delivered out of the mouth of the Lion that is Lion-like Nero thus addeth And the Lord shall deliver me from every evill worke c. 2 Tim. 4.17 18. I. Surely they who after deliverance forget the misery wherein they were manifest a very ungratefull and ungracious disposition against God moving him as much as in them lyeth to repent of the good he hath done for them as it repented him that he set up Saul to be King 1. Sam. 15.11 They doe allso take away much from the sweetnesse and the comfort of that deliverance which they might have in their owne soules For remembrance of a bitter affliction past doth much sweeten a quiet and peaceable estate Yea further they deprive themselves of an especiall ground of confidence which they might have if againe they fall into any trouble as hath bin prooved before II. Let us therefore be more wise and among other things that we often meditate on call to mind such distresses as formerly we have bin in and from which thorough Gods providence we have bin delivered whether they be such as the whole Christian Church have groaned under or particular Churches either of our owne or other nations yea and such allso as we our selves have bin in or our children families friends or others neere and deare unto us For private deliverances particular Dyaries before mentioned are needfull and oft reading them will be very usefull For publike deliverances it will be time well spent to reade such Ecclesiasticall Histories as set forth the cruell persecutions of the primitive Christians under heathenish Emperours from the Apostles time till Constantine the great And the more inhumane persecutions under which the professours of the true faith endured much from the beginning of Antichrists raigne till these our dayes I would in these our dayes they were ended The latter Beast of Rome was farre more cruell then the former Among other fierce and fiery persecutions let them especially be remembred which have bin executed in this our Land against those who maintained the same faith which we now doe and for the same resisted unto blood Their sufferings and our freedome from the same are never to be forgotten We have an excellent helpe for informing our selves in all the sufferings of the Church from the death of Christ till the raigne of the forementioned blessed Queene The helpe that I meane is that large volume which we call the booke of Martyrs entituled Acts and Monuments of matters most speciall and memorable happening in the Church with an universall History of the same All the dayes of Queene Elizabeth was this Monument of Martyrs in high account All Churches by authority were injoyned to have it so as all that would might reade it There was scarce a Family of note that had it not It was usuali to spend the long Winter evenings in reading it By the constancy of Martyre therein set out people were much encouraged to stand to that faith which was sealed by their blood For further amplification of this Use I suppose it now meet to come to that which was before put off to this place namely to shew distinctly the distresses wherein the children of Israel were under the Egyptian bondage and therewith to paralell the distresses wherein this English Nation was under the forementioned antichristian bondage before the raigne of the foresaid blessed Queene Elizabeth that so the seventeenth of November the day of our deliv●rance may be accounted as memorable a day to us as the fourteenth day of Abib the day of Israels deliverance was to the Israelites and as the fourteenth and fifteenth day of Adar was to the Iewes in Esthers time that we may see what just cause we have in relation to the seventeenth of November to say Remember this day in which ye came out from Egypt That which I have in this case to observe shall be reduced to six heads 1. That base esteeme which the Egyptians had of the Israelites accounting them no better then Servants and Slaves dealing with them answerably For they put them to servile tasks which was to make bricks for their great workes as treasure Cities Pithon and Ramases and they placed over them taske-masters Exod. 1.11 They fed them allso with the basest meat as fish Cucumbers Melons Leeks Onions and Garlick Numb. 11.5 A farre baser esteeme have Papists of Protestants accounting them Hereticks Schismaticks despisers of Saints Sacrilegious men of no learning nor parts Yea to their common people they set them forth to be ougly and monstrous shapes of men such as would eat and devour up their owne Mothers to make the common sort of people the more to detest them 2. That envy and malice which the Egyptians did bare against the Israelites For they had a jealous and suspitious conceit that the Israelites might be more in number and mightier in power then they and that they might joyne with their enemies This made them envy at Gods blessing in causing the Israelites to multiply Exod. 1.9 10. Is not the envy and malice of Papists against Protestants farre greater doe they not fret and fume rage and rave at the increase of Protestants and is not Gods blessing on our Ministery an eye-sore unto them because so many children professors of the true Protestant faith are begotten thereby The many means plotted contrived by them to hinder or diminish this increase gives sufficient evidence of that their envy against us 3. That hard usage wherewith the Egyptians handled the Israelites For they did not only put them to servile works but allso afflicted them with their burdens They exacted of them more then well they could accomplish and yet afforded them not meanes to performe the same Exod. 5.7 8. More harshly delt Papists imposing such variety of unwarrantable duties and burthensome Ordinances on people as with the peace of their conscience they could not observe and yet afforded them not the light of Gods word to direct them nor other meanes to help them but by rigour would enforce the same upon them 4. That savage cruelty which they exercised

meat in due season Psal. 145.15 His Saints reap that crop which he giveth in due season Gal. 6.9 To every thing there is a season Eccl. 3.1 Now Gods unsearchable wisdome is much manifested in a due ordering of the things which he doth as in wisedome he made all things Psal. 104.24 so most wisely doth he dispose the same By a due observing of the very day and point of time we may clearly discerne that wisdome of God yea the blessing it selfe will thereby appeare to be the greater in the kind thereof and more usefull unto us I. This gives information of a maine reason of mens slacknesse and backwardnesse in rendring due praises to God for the many and great workes which he doth They observe not the time of effecting the same We heard before how the spirit of a man was affected at the first working of a wonderfull worke This puts life and spirit into a man and makes him more fervent and zealous in praising God for it When the Israelites saw their enemies dead upon the sea-shore they feared the Lord and beleeved him Exod. 14.30 31. and as it is recorded in the next Chapter they sang praise to him But if that first season be let slip the heart is like to wax hard and the worke it selfe to slip out of memory We may find this by wofull experience too truly to be verified in our selves II. It will be our wisedome to take the first opportunitie that we can to quicken up our spirits to thankfulnesse unto God for his great workes Our Proverbe saith Strike the iron while it is hot Thus may it be fashioned and moulded according to our minde The first opportunity is the very day whereon the worke is wrought so was this day that is here mentioned in my Text Remember this day And that this quickning of the spirit may not only be for once the memoriall thereof is some way or other to be celebrated so oft as that day returnes yeare after yeare For this end the Diaries which many use to have wherein they register speciall mercies and blessings on the day wherein they were wrought are commendable III. This doth justifie that prudent care which many States have of preserving the Anniversary memory of extraordinary deliverances on the very day yeare after yeare whereon they were obtained The warrant which Gods Word giveth of celebrating one speciall day in the yeare for the continuing of a memoriall of a great blessing without question moved the great Councell of this Land by Statute to enact and set apart the fifth of November for a publike thanksgiving to Almighty God for the happy deliverance of the King and Parliament from the most traiterous and bloudy Massacre by Gun-powder There was not many yeares since a commendable custome begun by a merchant in this Citie of celebrating the foure birth dayes of our foure Reformers and Preservers of the true Protestant Religion here in England The solemnization of those dayes was performed in duties of Piety as Prayer Praises and Preaching Gods Words Celebration of set dayes wherein men of note and name were borne or advanced to high place have been very ancient I passe by that which the Scripture noteth of celebrating Pharaohs birth-day Gen. 40.20 and Herods birth-day Matth. 14.6 That which the Prophet Hos. 7.5 upbraideth to the Israelites may be more pertinent to our purpose It is this In the day of our King the Princes have made him sick with bottles of wine By mentioning the Kings day he aggravates their sinne as if he had thus said In that day wherein God bestowed a King upon you for which your hearts should have been enlarged and your mouthes opened to blesse God you gave your selves to all manner of excessive riot Whether this were the Kings birth-day or Coronation-day it makes no great matter to the point in hand It is sufficient that there was a set day solemnized for a speciall blessing This may suffice to have spoken of that point The exemplification of the day intended in my Text the day wherein they came out from Egypt leads me to the third Instruction which is this The distresse from which we are delivered is to be considered even after the deliverance For they were come out of Egypt before this charge was given My Text expressely affirmeth as much in this phrase wherein ye came out from Egypt This was the end why they were enjoyned to eate bitter herbes at the Passeover to put them in mind of their bitter bondage in Egypt after they were delivered from it That confession which the Israelites were injoyned to m●ke when they should come into their l●nd of rest tended to this purpose it was this A Syrian ready to perish was my father and he went downe into Egypt and sojourned there with a few c. Deut. 26.5 so that which the Apostle thus presseth upon the converted Gentiles Remember that ye were in time passed Gentiles c. Eph. 2.11 12. 1. Remembrance of former miseries specially when we are delivered out of the same brings to our mind the presence of God then with us the eye of his divine Providence on us in that our misery together with that respect which he had to our cryes and prayers according to that which he himselfe saith Exod. 3.7 I have seen I have seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt and have heard their cry c. 2. The greater the distresse was the greater will the power of God appeare to be in delivering us by calling to mind that distresse as is acknowledged Deut. 6.21 by them who said We were Pharaohs bond-men in Egypt but the Lord brought us out with a mighty hand 3. This doth much amplifie the pity and compassion of God towards us Ezekiel doth for this end lay forth the misery wherein the Jewes at first were by an elegant Parable taken from a child Ezek 16.2 c. In the day that thou wast borne thy navell was not cut neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee thou wast not salted at all nor swaedled at all None eye pitied thee to doe any of these unto thee c. Then the Lord to amplifie his compassion thus proceedeth When I passed by thee and saw thee polluted in thine own bloud I said unto thee Live c. 4. It uniteth our heart the closer and faster unto God and stirs us up to love him the more as the Psalmist who said I will love thee O Lord my strength c. The sorrowes of hell compassed me about the snares of death prevented me In my distresse I called upon the Lord and cryed unto my God he heard my voyce c. Psal. 18.1 8. Nothing unites the heart of one to another more then the remembrance of kindnesse in distresse 5. This inlargeth a mans spirit to more and greater thankfulnesse Where David cals upon his soule again and