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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56272	A sermon preached in Christ-Church before His Excellency the Lord Deputy and the Parliament, on the fifth day of November, 1695 being the anniversary thanksgiving for the happy deliverance of K. James Ist, and the three estates of the realm of England from the most trayterous intended massacre by gun-powder : and also for the happy arrival of His present Majesty K. William on that day, for the deliverance of our church and nation / by Tobias, Lord Bishop of Dromore.	Pullen, Tobias, 1648-1713.	1695 (1695)	Wing P4195; ESTC R38013	11,068	20

so that they do not barely perceive the things that are Represented to 'em by their senses but also can narrowly prey and strictly search into the Reasons of their productions and I may justly say there is as great a distinction between the natural Man and the spiritually minded Christian in reference to some signal events in humane Life and remarkable instances of Divine Providence For the most earless inconsiderate Sinner cannot but be amaz'd at some sudden unexpected changes in a Kingdom and may take such notice of 'em as to make 'em the subject of his Discourse and the entertainment of his idle hours but if he goes no further than a slight and superficial consideration of 'em if he do's not strictly enquire and diligently search into the secret springs of these extraordinary motions he not only frustrates the good and wise designs of Divine providence in those wonderful Revolutions but does also affront his own rational Faculties he debates the Dignity of his Nature and sinks himself into the low and ignoble rank of the Beasts that perish Whereas on the contrary the Faithful Servants of Almighty God do not only plainl perceive and carefully Remark but do also Religiously admire highly extol and humbly adore his infinite Wisdom Power and Goodness in these surprizing and miraculous Events A Remarkable instance of both these different Tempers we have Recorded in the 92 Psalm where the Prophet having declar'd at the 4 Verse that the Lord had made him glad through his work and that he would Triumph in the works of his Hand and in an extacy broke out at the 5 Verse in these words O Lord how great are thy Works Thy thoughts are very deep he assures us in the next Verse that a brutish Man knows not neither does a fool understand this And elsewhere the Psalmist gives it as the Character of wicked Men that they regard not in their minds the Works of God! nor the operation of his Hands tho they be never so Signal in their own Nature and never so rare and unusual in their Event and of this sort was that wonderful Deliverance which we solemnly Commemorate on this Day which brings me to the Fifth Particular That the Gracious Deliverance that God was pleas'd to Vouchsafe these Nations as on this Day has very illustrious Marks of an extraordinary Providence imprest on it Of these I might mention many but I shall insist only on Two the First of which is the critical timing and seasonableness of this Gracious Deliverance which was wrought for us in the Gate of Death and the very minute almost of our design'd Destruction And indeed 't is the usual method of Divine Providence intirely to Baffle the designs of the Wicked when they are in the heighth of all their hopes and suddenly to throw 'em down from the top and pinacle of their Towring expectations God might very easily if he pleas'd defeat the bloody purposes of ungodly Men in the First conception of 'em in their minds and stifle 'em in the First instant of their motions but he looks upon it as more agreeable to the Excellent designs of his infinite Wisdom and Goodness and to the manifestation of his Almighty Power to permit their Fancies to be impregnated with the Vain hope of a happy success in their ungodly project 〈…〉 suddenly and surprizingly makes the issue of their wicked Hearts abortive and when the Children of iniquity are just come to the Birth he does not permit 'em to have strength to bring forth and grants his People a wonderful Deliverance 〈…〉 are 〈◊〉 falling down the Precipice of utter Ruine and Destruction Thus in the Passage of the Israelites over the River Jordan we read that as soon as the Priests that bare the Ark were come to Jordan and their Feet were dipt in the brim of the Water and they might according to the measure of Humane reason have expected at the next step to be Swallowed up in the deep the Text says that the Waters fail'd and were cut off and that River which just before had overflow'd his Banks did then forsake his Channel and the People passed over on dry Ground We see in this Instance that the time which God Appointed for the Passage of his People over Jordan was at that time of the Year when his Flood was at the heighth and we also see that the Waters were not cut off till the Feet of the Priests were wet in the brim of the River and then and not tell then it was that the Text tells us that the Waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon a heap And the Priests that bare the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan as we may read in the third Chapter of Joshua at the two last Verses And of the like nature was the Deliverance wrought for us as on this Day for while our Enemies had made the Cellers under the Parliament House a Tophet according to the Description of it in the thirteenth Chapter of Isaiah at the last Verse Tho' it was prepared for the King and the three Estates of the Realm tho' the Pile thereof was Fire and much Wood yet the latter part of the Character of Tophet was wanting for the breath of the Lord was so far unlike a stream of Brimstone to enkindle it that like a stream of many Waters it prevented the breaking out of the unconquerable Flame In the 18th Chapter of the Wisdom of Solomon we have a most Excellent Idea given us of Gods surprizing Vengeance on the Enemies of his Church in the sudden and unexpected destruction of the first born among the Aegyptians in these most remarkable Words While all things were in quiet silence and that night was in the midst of her swift course thine Almighty Word lept down from Heaven out of thy Royal Throne as a fierce Man of War into the midst of a Land of Destruction and brought thy unfeign'd Commandment as a sharp sword and standing up fill'd all things with Death and touched the Heaven but it stood upon the Earth These words may with a little alteration very clearly describe to us the surprizing Wonders of this days Deliverance for while the mischievous and fatal Plots of our Enemies were in quiet silence and in full security of Success and while their mighty Works of hellish Darkness were not only in the midst of their swift Course but just brought to the point of Execution then it was that Gods Almighty Word leapt down from Heaven out of his Royal Throne to save his People as he did formerly to destroy his Enemies and brought Gods express Command as a sharp Word to cut off the implacable Foes of the publick Peace and the Protestant Religion It touched the Heaven and stood upon the Earth it had its Commission from above very clearly to discover and effectually to prevent that unparallel'd Massacre here below which