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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45350	A sermon preached in the cathedral and metropolitical church of St. Peter of York, on Thursday the fourteenth of February, 1688/9 being the day appointed by the lords spiritual and temporal, assembled at Westminster, for a publick thanksgiving to Almighty God, for having made His Highness the Prince of Orange, the glorious instrument of the great deliverance of this kingdom from popery and arbitrary power / by George Halley ...	Halley, George, 1655 or 6-1708.	1689 (1689)	Wing H454; ESTC R6579	12,462	36

to be Hatched GOD Crushed this Hellish Project by a timely Discovery and Delivered the Nation from the Hand of the Enemy It was in Eighty eight too that we as well as our Fore-Fathers were redeemed and delivered from the hand of the enemy from Popery and Arbitrary Power Great were the hopes that the Papists had of introducing and setling their Religion A Prince of their own Religion upon the Throne A Zealous and an Industrious Prince too for propagating the Principles of his Religion This gave them a Charming Prospect of Success this made them leave no Stone unturned this made them Jehu like drive on with all imaginable Fury and Violence this Emboldned them to put that galling and fretting Yoke upon our Necks which neither we nor our fore-fathers were able to bear Unhappy and Unfortunate Prince How is the Mighty faln I am Distressed for him Who can reflect upon his misfortunes without pity and perturbation of Mind How would his Throne a' been Establish'd in Righteousness had but the wicked been taken away from before him Had but his base Flatterers and false Prophets been removed from his Court and Councils the Hearts of his People would never a' been Alienated from him Never Prince came to the Crown with more unanimous and cheerful Acclamations he was look'd upon as a Prince of no less Heroical Vertues than Noble Extraction He then declared that the Laws of England were sufficient to make him as Great a Monarch as his Heart could wish and therefore promised his Endeavours to Preserve the Government both in Church State as by Law Established In all Probability he might have been the Greatest the most Triumphant Monarch that ever sway'd the English Scepter had not his Passion of Glory yielded to his Bigottry and Zeal for his Religion had he not put the Reins of Government into the Hands of a Fiery Jesuit who Phaeton like presently set the Nation on a flame put him upon such Illegal Practices as prov'd destructive of the Nation 's Happiness and Tranquillity and plunged him into the most calamitous and deplorable Circumstances We have now seen by woeful Experience what the Prophetick Parliaments at Westminster and Oxford in the Year 80. Prognosticated We are now I hope highly sensible that they were compos'd of Persons of greater Understanding and Integrity than the World at that time was pleas'd to represent them 't is now plain that the clear prospect they had of the Kingdoms Interest conducted all their Consultations it now appears that the Bill of Exclusion was carried on thro' a true Zeal for the Nations Safety Happiness for the Protection and Security of the Peoples Liberty and Property and for the Preservation of what ought to be dearer to us than our Lives the Protestant Religion But their weighty reasons could make no Impression their Designs were all blasted and we may attribute it to the good and secret Hand of Providence that they were so for probably if they had taken effect the Nation would have been involv'd in Blood and Confusion because of its unbelief That ever Popery could have produc'd Arbitrary Power that ever Popery could have destroyed the Protestant Religion and unhing'd the Government For though in History we have Recorded many pregnant Instances many ample Testimonies of Popish Perfidiousness and Impiety yet no Instance no Testimony so convincing and impressive as Experience Popery was never so generally understood as it is at this day we now see the truth and certainty of this Maxim. That it is impossible for the Protestant Religion to flourish under or the present Constitution of the English Government to be preserved by any Person whom Rome hath stamped her Proselyte Alas What signify all the plausible pretences all the fair promises and assurances where Popery hath got the ascendant What security can there be to the Protestant Religion and Liberty where there is a subjection to the Pope Where Jesuitical Counsels influence and command Alas There is no Faith to be kept with Hereticks This is the Decree of the Roman Councils this is the standing Rule this is the unalterable resolution of the Roman Church this is the Doctrine which she hath constantly practis'd and the sad effects of it such have sensibly felt as have justly oppos'd her usurped Sovereignty and Dominion witness the Parisian Massacre a villainy that had its Authority and Approbation from Rome never did that polluted City rejoice so much in Memory of Christ's Birth or St. Peter's as at the joyful news of that more than Herodian Butchery how did she sound the praises of the bloody Actors and Contrivers of that shameful Tragedy Not to expatiate upon the Irish-Massacre Witness too the late Persecution in France and Piedmont O Barbarous and more than Scythian or Thracian Cruelty Those our poor Brethren had Edicts Promises and Oaths sealed with the Holy Sacrament but alas as soon as ever an opportunity presented it self they found that Popery can absolve from the strictest Oaths can tear in pieces the most Religious Seal and cancel the strongest Obligation We have Instances enough at home which plainly shew that Popish Engagements and Promises are lighter than the very Breach that utters them Did not Queen Mary promise the Norfolk and Suffolk Inhabitants and call'd her God to Witness too That she would content her self with the Private exercise of her own Devotion and Preserve the then Protestant Government uninjur'd and yet as soon as ever her Sovereign Power was securely Establish'd the Masque then fell off Fire and Faggot then Illuminated the Peoples understanding nay those very men who rais'd her to the Throne felt the most signal marks of her vengeance they made Claim indeed of her former Promises but were thought insolent and accounted as criminals for so doing they found that no Merits or Service could secure any from the Cruelties of that Religion for her Princely gratitude for their Crowning her with a Diadem Crown'd them with Martyrdom We our selves too had promises of the like Nature and thought we deserved them but alas they proved as Quick-sands not the least glimpse of Safety to be repos'd in them not the least hopes to be built upon them Had we not Assurances and yet at the same time the greatest Invasion of Rights and Privileges Instead of Governing according to Law such a Dispensing Power set a foot as laid all the Laws asleep as would presently have laid in Ashes too the beautiful Fabrick of our excellent Religion and incomparable Government Promises it is the nature of the Popish Religion first to deceive and then destroy it is a Religion that Transubstantiates the very Nature of him who embraces it it is a Religion that acts in disguise and masquerade changes frequently its colours and puts out a false Flag to conceal the Pyrate no! it is better to trust in the Lord than to put any confidence in man it is better to trust in the Lord th●n to put any confidence in