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The dissenters jubilee as it was sounded in the audience of a solemn assembly at the publick meeting-place in Spittle-Fields near London, on Tuesday May 17, 1687, being a day of Thanksgiving to praise the Lord for his vvonderful appearance and over-ruling providence, in the present dispensation of liberty of conscience / by Charles Nicholets ...
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Published with Allowance The Dissenters JUBILEE As it was Sounded in the Audience of A SOLEMN ASSEMBLY AT The Publick Meeting-Place in Spittle-Fields near London on Tuesday May 17. 1687. BEING A Day of Thanks-giving to praise the Lord for his VVonderful Appearance and Over-ruling Providence in the Present Dispensation of Liberty of Conscience By Charles Nicholets Preacher of the Gospel and Pastor of a Congregation there Judg. 10.16 And his Soul was Grieved for the Misery of sIrael Psalm 12.5 For the Oppression of the Poor for the Sighing of the Needy now will I arise saith the Lord I will set him in safety from him that Puffeth at him LONDON Printed by G. Larkin without Bishopsgate and are to be Sold by most Book-Sellers 1687. To the most August And Justly-Renowned-Monarch James the Second By the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland c. Dread Soveraign AMongst the Numerous Returns of Gratitude that flow from great Bodies of Your People in all Parts of Your Dominions for Your Majesties Gracious and most Healing Declaration for Liberty of Conscience Vouchsafe to admit this mean Discourse to be humbly Dedicated to Your Immortal Name For which if any censure me as highly presumptuous I must with Submission alledge that it was Your Gracious Clemency that not only Encouraged but in a manner Enforced me thereunto For since Your Majesty has been the Glorious Instrument in the Hand of God of Delivering us from those Shackles upon Conscience and the many Insupportable Rigors whereunto the Penal Laws and their severe Prosecution had long expos'd us I could not think we should fully discharge our Duty to the Almighty in that respect without some particular Expression of Thankfulness to Your Majesty his Vicegerent And withal to Evidence the Sincerity of our Hearts I was not unwilling to declare publickly what Doctrine and Sentiments we Endeavour to Impress upon our Hearers on this happy Occasion For however Dissenters may have been Misrepresented It has always been my Principle unfeignedly to Obey that Precept of our Blessed Saviour To give unto God and unto Caesar each their due Thus as I Preach'd the following Sermon to demonstrate that I fear God and desire to improve all his Providences to the great Ends of Christianity so I offer these poor Papers as a standing Testimony that I sincerely Honour the King. In which Application I forget not your Majesties Grandeur nor my own Groveling Condition Yet I cannot induce my self to apprehend a Frown from that Face which has spread such Irradiating Smiles throughout more than three Kingdoms or that Your Majesty can be Angry tho the meanest of your Subjects thank you for those Favours they can never be enough sensible of He that would not a Beggar should bow to him must with-hold his Hands from giving Alms. Had Your Majesty restrain'd your Goodness Your Throne had been too Dreadful for the Approach of such a Shrub as I. But now that You have dilated Your Clemency in so extraordinary a manner to every Corner of Your Territories whilst the Lofty Hills are Ecchoing Your Just Praises You cannot for the Harmony 's sake be offended that the Humble Valleys bear a part in the joyful Chore. 'T is Great Sir on these Considerations that I humbly beg leave by this Dedication to Express my own Thankful Acknowledgments together with those of that Little Flock whereunto I am more peculiarly â—elated for the Invaluable Happiness we enjoy through Your Majesties Benignity Now that that Great GOD who enclin'd Your Royal Heart to this Blessed Work may be a Glorious Canopy of Protection over You and bless You with the Dew of Heaven and Fatness of the Earth And that as He has given You to the Joy of Great Britain a Crown here He may fit You by His Grace for a Better an Immarcessible Crown hereafter Is and shall always be the dayly and most Fervent Prayer of Your Majesties most Dutiful most Obedient and most Thankful Subject CHARLES NICHOLETS THE Dissenters Iubilee PSAL. CXXVI 3. The LORD hath done great things for us whereof we are glad WHat our blessed Lord said to his Hearers concerning another Text relating to Himself I may say to you with respect to the first Verse of this Psalm When the Lord turned again the Captivity of Sion we were like them that dreamed This day is this Scripture fulfilled in your ears God has strangely wonderfully unexpectedly turned back our Captivity and we verily are even as those that dream Our hearts like the Babe in Elizabeths Womb leaping for joy and skipping like the young Vnicorns on Lebanon or dancing like David before the Ark in the sence of this amazing and stupendious Providence Now is the time that our Mouths are filled with Laughter and our Tongues with Singing for those that wish not well to us are forced to say among themselves The Lord hath done great things for them And if they say so much more reason have we to answer with the Church here by way of Concession The Lord indeed hath done great things for us whereof we are Gald The words are very plain and without much help of Logick or Grammar we may easily see through them as containing an Historical account of GOD's Acting in way of Mercy and his Peoples Rejoycing in way of Gratitude and exultation of Spirit My work is with respect to the occasion of our Meeting here this day to show you how obvious the one is and how congruous the other would be There can be no such stranger in our Israel as to be unacquainted with what great things the Lord hath done for us Oh! that there were never a Son or Daughter in our Zion backward in their Humble thankful and joyfull acknowledgment of it crying out from the very bottom of their Hearts Whereof we are glad Gaudia quae multo parta dolore placent Method obliges me to speak in order unto Four Things which lie before us in the Text. 1. The Agent or Person acting and that is the Eternal God The Lord hath done 2. The Object for whom he acts for us 3. The Predicate with its Amplification concerning his acting He hath done great things 4. The Influential Operation that this has upon all that fear the Lord Whereof we are Glad I begin with the first of these 1. The Lord Jehovah the Great and Powerful God the Creator of the ends of the Earth who can and does all things in Heaven above and on earth below according to the good pleasure of his own will That God who by his all-commanding Power brought Light out of Darkness extracted Order out of Confusion and dasht back the Waters from the naked Land. That God who made Almonds flourish upon Aarons sapless Rod That God who supplied his People with Water out of the hard Rock In a word that God who is glorious in Holiness Fearful in Praises and one that worketh Wonders in and among the Children of Men he it is that