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A59279	A sermon preached upon the fast-day, June the 18th, 1690 by a presbyter of the Church of England, that swore in the sincerity of his heart, with a full satisfied conscience, to King William and Queen Mary.	Presbyter of the Church of England.	1690 (1690)	Wing S2643; ESTC R19775	12,201	33

all other our Offences whereby we have dishonoured thee not duly honoured our Soveraigns King William and Queen Mary troubled the Peace of the State hindred the Success of our Land and Naval Forces wronged our Brethren or abused our selves so shall we have hope in thy Mercy incline us to be hearty in worshipping thee to be careful that our Lives be henceforth reform'd as well as our Profession so though our Enemies rage yet they shall imagine but a vain thing so though they set themselves together against us yet shall they not prevail but we shall be saved both we and our King I cannot but add a word upon occasion of the Happy Success of our Forces in Ireland under the Conduct of our Lawful King William whose Subjects we are by the justest and wisest Act that ever the Representatives of English-men made Blessed be the Lord God of Heaven who hath heard the Prayers of all the truly Loyal and Honest Men in the Kingdom who hath given them their Hearts desire and hath not denied them the request of their Lips in covering their valiant and forward King's Head in the Day of Battel in protecting his Life in which their Safety was bound up which Life was in eminent danger and very near being took away as if to shew us how unworthy we are of him and to affect us with a true sense of the many Deliverances which Almighty God the God of Hosts by his Warlike Hand worketh for us in scattering the Troops of that unhappy man's profligate Adherents who fights now only for a Power to destroy us in blasting the pernicious Hopes and cursed Prayers of unreasonable unconstant unquiet discontented Men who might have every thing proper to make them easie could they but be so without the Power to Lord it over the Faith of their Brethren in frustrating a sedulously-labour'd Bloody Foreign Invasion by secret vile Practises brought about from the most barbarous Tyrant that ever own'd the Name of Christian May these ineffable Mercies of the Divine Providence which so carefully and tenderly watcheth over the Kingdom of England as also over other Reformed Churches and Injur'd States be ever marvellous in our Eyes so marvellous as to cause us when we cannot comprehend them to endeavour to express a quick lively becoming and pious sense of them in all Humble Obedience to the Commands of our God in Scripture in all Loyalty to our King according to the Laws of the Kingdom in due compliance to those Laws according to every Capacity wherein they concern us by which Laws the best of Laws I believe may He the best of Kings undoubtedly long Reign over us and let all the People who fear God Honour King William and say Amen Postscript THE Scandalous neglect of the due Observance of the late enjoyn'd Monthly Fast prompted a Person of Honour and good Affection to our Ancient English Government as it is now happily settled under King William and Queen Mary to recommend to the Author of this Sermon the Penning and Preaching a Discourse suitable to the Solemnity In the late Reign 't was not an Angry Monarch could restrain the Clergy from thankfully Commemorating as it well became them the Fifth of November's Deliverance But a late enjoyn'd Fast to beg Pardon of our sins that they might not hinder the happy course of King William's Victories by which our Laws and Lives have been rescued from Violence and are from Violence defended has been not only not Observ'd but also in some places with contemptuous frowardness a great deal worse used than shall be mentioned unless the Proof be required by such as did it without shame and would without shame deny it To the Printing this honest tho' mean and plain Discourse the Author was obstinately averse alledging some excuses which were allow'd even by them that loved him too much and importuned him dangerously yet at last he chose unask'd to Print being over-ruled by an Accident which tho' he does not publish he is willing to declare to any Person that may perchance discover his Name and accuse him as a pragmatical medling Fellow beyond what his particular Station in the World might be reasonably construed to warrant He thinks it reasonable that every Writer be oblig'd to set his Name to what he Prints that so the Publick may have satisfaction if injur'd but he uses a liberty commonly taken both because the Book-seller promises to get the Trifle Licensed and also for that as he does not seek to be commended of which indeed there 's no danger so neither is he fond of hard censure which yet he does not much suspect from the Friends of the present Settlement and in point of deserving has no need to fear from the Jacobite-People who are certainly the worst of Christians and of Philosophers the most absurd of Philosophers the most absurd for they have now this long time debauch'd their Reason by giving Credit to false News concerning the late King 's Northern Forces Foreign Aids and Irish numbers by believing the French King's Irresistibility Heaven defend them from taking up Infallibility which the Popes may chance to Iay down if the Succession goes on in one or two good Choices more I call them the worst of Christians the Formidable French Fleet now in our Seas evinces it When we have weather'd the Storm which a Providential Wind in greatest part diverted and of which blessed be God there is now no great danger it is to be hoped that the unnatural raisers of it will recover their Senses and outwardly at least abhor their unsuccessful Villany or else be forc'd to be so far Loyal as inability to do great mischief amounts to If any man should seem to wonder at this piece of Zeal from a Clergy-man against the faults of some of his Brethren he bids this Reply be made He has been often in the Company of Men of Quality great Learning and fair Estates amongst whom he has often heard the Clergy censur'd for an unhappy unquiet Order who have been in very great part in all times Authors of the Troubles and Calamities of the Nation he thereupon resolv'd if ever it fell in his way to offer one word on behalf of the Settlement conducive as far as he is able to the Security of the same which he is glad that some Eminent Clergy-men with better Abilities do honestly frequently endeavour and he wishes that more would do so were it but for this reason That the Lord's peculiar Inheritance as they call themselves may no longer stink in the nostrils of the People FINIS Some Books Printed for John Lawrence at the Angel in the Poultrey London INstitutio Grammaticae ad Juventutis captum summo studio artificio concinnata In qua artis Ratio genuina Notio accuratè disquiritur atque enucleatim enodatur Per A. M. M. A. In Octavo The Map of Man's Misery Or The Poor Man's Pocket-Book Being a Perpetual Almanack of Spiritual Meditations or Compleat Directory for one endless Week Containing many useful Instructions and Prayers plainly shewing every Christian so to walk that he may please God Twelves Man's whole Duty and God's wonderful intreaty of him thereunto Set forth from 2 Cor. 5.20 By Daniel Burgesse Minister of the Word of Reconcillation Twelves Advice to Parents and Children Being the sum of several Sermons by the same Author In Twelves

truly God of his free Mercy sent it which prevented the Happy Expedition no farther than what serv'd to make the Violaters of our Laws and Liberties more imprudent and secure And when afterwards a favourable brisk Gale had carried the Fleet beyond their Port a contrary Wind was presently commissioned for a few hours as if for no other end but safely to land our Preservers In the time of Saul God was with David and strengthed his Arm so that his Sword made Prodigious Slaughter among the Philistines But in conducting the Prince to the Throne whereon he is now righteously seated Providence scattered the Enemy like Chaff before the Wind and gave him a Victory which pleased him better than all he had won with the Sword viz. a Victory without Blood Thus far God was if I may so speak miraculously alone in the Advancement of the Prince toward the height of earthly Honour and when the Eyes of the Oppressed Nation were fully open he left it to them to Chuse their King in the room of their unhappy misled Abdicator and they were not disobedient to his Providence To speak the truth of this whole matter briefly it is manifest from what we read in Scripture concerning David and what our Eyes have seen and our Ears have heard relating to the Prince of Orange that both the one and the other of them were by the wonderful Providence of God called forth from their Private ways of Living in order to be made Kings and the free Choice of their several People made them so I come now to speak of the Second thing which I propounded from the Text as most fit to be reflected on that is the desperate Wickedness of the Enemies of the King their Contrivances to Dethrone and their palliating their black Designs with fair Words And here first I 'le mention what Evidence we have of the Fact and then touch some Circumstances which aggravate the Enormity of it The Royal Psalmist gives us sometimes with mournful Eloquence being in the day of his Distress sometimes with joyful Accents being happily escap'd from Danger large and passionate Accounts of the bold Attempts and treacherous Contrivances of his Enemies They mark'd his steps thinking evil against him i. e. they narrowly observ'd his conduct of Affairs seeking occasion to complain of his Male-administration They wrested his word and cast iniquity upon him when no fault could be found they put false colours upon things and reproached him They cursed him they belied him their teeth became spears and their tongue a sharp sword i. e. they cursed him with so bitter Imprecations they belied him with such abominable false Suggestions that the plain signification of inartificial Words cannot express it and Metaphorical Language perhaps not sufficiently help us to guess at They derided him derided him for his very trust in the Lord they consulted they only consulted i. e. they made it their chief aim with Hand and Heart they endeavoured to cast him from the Throne though God had exalted him and the People had submitted unto him and they that did this were many and were strong too many and too strong for him but that He that hath God his helper need not be afraid though ten thousands of the strongest of the sons of men set themselves against him though they palliate their Designs while they are in contrivance with fair words and as often as they are disappointed forswear their unsuccessful Villany Thus much and more to the same purpose is to be read in the Book of Psalms The Historical part of the Old Testament has not very many instances nor perhaps fully answering every Circumstance of so severe an Indictment but I suppose that was because the Historical part is but a compendious Extract out of Voluminous Records in the Archives of the Jews and yet in the Royal Chronicle we have an Account of Absalom's Rebellion of his insinuating Arts to steal the Affections of the People his engaging if I may use a Prolepsis the Jewish Matchiavil to his Rebellion but Matchiavil learned of Ahithophel I therefore discharge my Allusion Ahithophel is Name enough to brand a subtil Rebel We read farther how Shimei let loose a railing Tongue and lifted up violent Hands against the distressed King And also how Sheba the Son of Bichri had likely to have shook the Throne more fatally than Absalom Thus you have an Account of the matter of Fact charg'd against David's Enemies their Fact admits aggravation from several Topicks Is this the Man whom God rais'd up for the Uprightness of his Heart when he rejected Saul for disobedience Is this the Man whose surprizing Valour fell'd a tall Monument of Pride down to the ground before whom the whole Army of Israel trembled Is this the Man whose Success and Triumphs became the theme of every gladsom honest Heart when they thought upon the Dangers which they dreaded and the Deliverance which they did not expect Is this the Man whom the People chose after Experience of his Merit to Administer the Government which they so much admir'd that they preferred it before the Theocracy it self it might perhaps have been better for them to have remained under God's Prophets a while longer but when they would not be satisfied without a King they could not have made a better Choice than David yet even against David David thus useful to his Country David thus beloved of his God the Flatterers of an Ambitious Son and the unseasonable Abettors of Saul's House arose and palliated as they could their vile purposes with fair words Having thus spoke to the Second Head I 'le proceed as I have begun and joyn the Parallel With equal wickedness as the rebellious Jews against David unreasonable unruly men have consulted to cast down from his excellency that 's the word in our Translation from his Throne our Just and Lawful King King William whence otherwise were necessary Impositions complain'd of and the repayment of a Debt exclaim'd against the Loan of which preserv'd our whole Whence otherwise was his Royal Name called into uncharitable Parties when he came to save the Nation Whence else proceeded the many Forgeries of their Success who were ever better at Forging than Fighting Whence else flow'd remembrances to his Health who forsook when he could not destroy us by Men who had not a good word for him in the day of his Power Whence else have disputing Tongues with the worst part of Ecclesiastical Skill raised a Dust to hide the fair and full appearance of a plain and necessary Duty Is this the Man whom glorious Providence in a wonderful manner brought from a Private Retirement to vindicate Oppressed States and Soveraignties In a word Is this the Man whom the most Honourable and the most Wealthy the most Honest and the most Brave the most Learned and the most Pious invited hither or approved the Invitation to save from Devastation and from Fire our Land our Laws our Liberties our