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A32794	Eben-ezer, a thankful memorial of God's mercy in preserving England from the gunpowder-treason, 1605 being a sermon on 1 Sam. 7:12, prepared for Novemb. 5th to be preacht at the cathedral, but preacht for the most part of it at the parish-church of Temple, in the city of Bristol, on the 6th of Novem. being the Lord's day / by John Chetwynd ...	Chetwynd, John, 1623-1692.	1682 (1682)	Wing C3796; ESTC R19751	30,602	46

prosperous would have been seconded by a it one bred Rebelion of which Sir Walter Raleigh saith That it only d●need a Morice on our English Seas And as another 〈…〉 not one bullet into the shore lost many thousand m●n and near 20● ships whereas we lost but one in all Vessel and not an hundred men 2. All secret machinations treacherous Contrivances by poyson pistol dagger powder by Campion a French Lopez a Jew Creighton a Scot some vile Bygotted Gentleman and many others Thus that most excellent Princess notwithstanding all opposition by force and fraud that was made against her maintained Gods Ark not only twenty years as at Kirjath-jearim but twice twenty and five years and died in peace and serenity of mind in her bed in a good old age even the age of man in Moses's time seventy years and doth well deserve notwithstanding all the barkings of lying Papists and the belchings of impure Mouths against her that part of her Epitaph She is she was what can there more be said In earth the first in Heaven the second Maid Which Ark so setled her Successor King James of blessed Memory the most learned and most peaceful Monarch of Great Britain and Ireland maintained continued and established which exceedinly provoked the malice of the Popish Philistines against him Hence they contrived Watson and Clark Cobham and Raleigh's Conspiracy against him in 1603. and that failing this most Hellish Powder-Treason no doubt devised by the Devil but acted by his Instuments Piercy Katesby Digby and others who intended to blow up the King Queen Prince and the great States and Commons of the Land then met in the Upper-House of Parliament and then to lay that horrid fact to the Puritans Sham Plots you see are none of their new devices and so to have taken up thence a pretence by the help of Foreigners whom they had tampered with to root out Protestants and their Religion and establish Popery which no question is and will be their perpetual design and endeavour But blessed be God for ever blessed be his Holy Name God intervened and overruled and O let him do so still and turned Esth 9. 1. it into the contrary God made that day which had they had their wits should have been for Villany and cruelty the most unfortunate day such as Nov. 5. eye hath not seen nor ear heard of unto us most joyful and most glorious when by Gods infinite Goodness and his then most excellent Majesties most fortunate Interpretation of a passage of one of their own Letters which passage was The Danger will be over as soon as the Letter was burnt which was as a learned Prelate speaks more casual than rational not by Grammatical Learning but by divine Revelation and Inspiration and by his Bp. Andrews faithful Councils diligent and discreet Inquisition and search discovered and prevented though those Monsters of men and the Vassals of the Pope had taken the Sacrament of secrecy and the time was near for the execution of it Thus was our great danger by our gracious God prevented and their own deserved ruine by themselves procured The remembrance whereof we ought in all solemn manner to celebrate every fifth of November as we do and long may we and our posterity do it And as we are directed in a Prayer and Thanksgiving in the Office appointed for that day joyfully to bless God and earnestly to intreat him to root out that Babylonish and Antichristian Sect whose Religion is Rebellion whose Faith is Faction whose practice is murdering of souls and bodies from whose Treachery Cruelty Rage Malice good Lord deliver us Amen Text. Then Samuel took a stone c. saying hitherto hath the Lord helped us Having in the former dispatched the first thing proposed viz. What was in the Text supposed their danger and the Cause of it and their enemies I now come to the second thing viz. What is expressed Time will not allow particular insisting on those many things which the Text in its parts would present us with I shall sum up all in these two things 1. Gods helping them 2. Their sense of and thankfulness for that help 1 Gods helping them which though last in words yet being first in nature I shall first speak to and as I proceed compare Gods helping them with his helping us Now what their deliverance was the Text shews us After the Ark was taken by the Philistines at the news whereof and of his two Sons death old Eli died and Ickabod was born ● the glory was departed and they for twenty years were in an afflicted and therefore lamenting Condition v. 1. being fallen into the sin of Idolatry v. 3. Under the bondage of the Philistines who disarmed them left not a Smith c. Samuel having been always a Prophet and Instructor of them never ceasing to pray for them Cap. 12. 1. He having reproved them for exhorted and prevailed with them to put away Baalim and Ashteroth their He-Gods and She-Gods and to serve the Lord now as a Judge in which Office he seems now to be inaugurated he summons them to Mizpeh in order to their further Reformation to fast and pray and confess their sins which the Philistines hearing of they gathered themselves together with an hostile intention No new thing for Satan to imploy his Instuments in the obstructing of good actions At the hearing of whose gathering together the Israelites were afraid being unarmed and unprepared to encounter with them v. 7 and therefore despairing of their own apply themselves to Samuel to pray for Gods help that he would save them v. 8. They were sensible of their own sinfulness being Idolaters and knew that God would not hear sinners They were assured of Samuels Holiness and Innocency and therefore of Gods favour towards him Hence they desired him to pray for them when they were apprehensive of their own unfitness and indisposition to pray for themselves where by the way observe Though graceless sinners in their prosperity scorn and abuse Gods faithful Ministers yet have they then a Conviction in their own Consciences of their Innocency and in time of their distress will seek to such to pray for them as Pharaoh to Moses the people to Samuel they sent not to their fellow-Idolate's nor Pharaoh to the Magicians then Moses then Samuel must be desired to pray for them Thus it is and will be with intelligent though graceless people in reference to scandalous and careless Ministers who do delightfully associate them in their sinful and unwarrantable practices of drin●ing swearing dicing c. even those persons who seem to applaud flatter and admire them yet in their sober moods have so much conviction that in their thoughts they condemn them as the blemishes of their Function and in the 'r extremiti●s little regard their Prayers for them then an Innocent Moses though many times rejected then an holy and blameless Samuel shall be sought to then pray for us then

be glad in it O let us joyfully thankfully and affectionately remember the Mercy of this deliverance vouchsased to us in our Forefathers reflect upon the greatness of our Danger and Gods wonderful goodness in our escape from it Our Case was that of the Church Men rose up against had Ps 124. swallowed us quick and their mischievous device like proud and overflowing waters against which there can be no defence had gone over our soul so that had not Gods mercy intervened we had been a prey to their teeth but blessed be God our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the Fowler The Net was broken and we were delivered and all by the help of the Name of the Lord who made Heaven and Earth In which case of theirs as in ours were joyned Cruelty Malice Violence Policy Subtlety and an irresistable Force such as is the overpowring of Fire and Water that burns and destroys without Remedy And herein see and consider the greatness of Gods Mercy in this Deliverance It was a great State-Mercy but a greater Soul-Mercy for hereby the glorious Gospel of lesus Christ is continued to us O say not of this as Let of Zear It is a little one Gen. 19. 20. Let this Mercy then be writ in the Records of our hearts as well as Statutes that as what Mordecai had done was read by Ahasuerus so this may be by us not only that we may know it and minde it but that we may as Ahasuerus did for Mirdecai and say What hath been done for God What shall we do for him Let us therefore I beseech you answer God's expectation because of this and all other his former and latter Deliverances for therefore are we put in minde of them And know we that if we do not we may expect that God will expostulate with us as he did with Israel 8. I brought you out from Egypt and brought you forth out of Judg. 10. 8 9 10. the house of bondage 9. And I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of all that oppressed you and drave them out from before you and gave you to ●●●d 10. And I said unto you 〈◊〉 the Lord your God sear not the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell but you have not obeyed my voice Yea we justly may fear that he will answer us in our Intreaties and Dangers when we cry unto him as he did them 11. Did not I deliver you from the Egyptians and from the Amorties from the children of A●●●● and from the Philistins Judg. 10. 11 12 13 14. 12. The Sidonians also and the Amalekites and the Meabites did oppress you and you cried unto me and I delivered you out of their hands 13. Yet you have forsaken me and served other gods wherefore I will deliver you no more 14. Go and cry unto the Gods which ye have chosen let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation Change we the names and the things agree Let us then answer God's expectation since God by this great Deliverance hath continued his Gospel and O Lord continue it to us and our Posterities O let us 1. Prize it As that which exalts a Nation lifts it up as it did Capernaum unto Heaven He hath shewn his word unto Jacob his statutes and his judgments unto Israel He hath not done Psal 147. 19 20. so with any Nation and as for his judgments they have not knewn them 2. Improve it Otherwise it will prove a Judgment to us yea the Judgment This is the condemnation that light is come into the world and men love darkness The neglect of the Gospel Joh. 3. 19. casts down to Hell and makes our escape impossible Mat. 13 50. 3. Walk worthy of it answerable unto it and to God's expectation Heb. 2 3. from us because of it Let your conversation be as becometh the Gospel Walk worthy of the Vocation wherewith we Phil. 1. 27. Ephes 4. 1. are called And thereby adorn the Doctrine of God our Saviour in Tit. 2. 10. all things To these ends Joshua minds Israel of what God had done for them and amongst other things How Balak Son of Zippor Josh 24. 9. 10. King of Moab arose and warred against them and called Balaam the Son of Beor to curse them But he would not hearken unto Balaam but he blessed them still and delivered them out of Balak's hand And after many other signal Mercies shewed to them he concludes with God's expectation from them Now therefore 14. fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in truth and put away the gods which your Fathers served on the other side the flood and in Egypt and serve ye the Lord. And as it was then so it is still God's expectation from us upon our Deliverancs is That we should serve hem without fear Luke 1. 74. 75. in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life Not that we might exclaim against the foulness of the Fact or inveigh against the Monsters that were the Actors of it or bless our selves for so fair an Escape or keep a day in the Memorial of it much less were we liberate that we should become Libertines To sit down to Eat and to Drink Healths after new and unseeming Modes and to rise up to Play But that we might serve God in Holiness and Righteousness all the days of our life Serve we ought though we should not be delivered as the holy Martyrs did The three Princes in Daniel and Job resolved he would though God should kill him How much Job 11. 15. more ought we when we are delivered and that aforehand by way of prevention to render unto God Evangelical and acceptable Service and Sacrifice of Thankfulness and Love Serve Him we must then in Holiness and Righteousness and that not only in the sight of men but before him and that not for a spirt or fit but all the days of our Life Let not our Holiness be as the Pharisees in our Fringes and Phylacteries in outward expressions in hearing the Lectures of the Law no matter how we live Let not our Holiness be like the Sadducees live indifferently well but believe neither Spirit nor look for any Resurrection Not like Agrippa's who was half perswaded Not in Holiness only not in Righteousness only but in both and that for ever And as for our present deportment Let us rejoice in the day which the Lord hath made When God calls to fasting it is a sin to feast and when to rejoycing it 's a sin to mourn Isa 20. 13. Had this Plot taken effect to the desire and expectation of the Neh 8. 9 10. Projectors there would have been a Jubile in Askalon Shall we not then rejoyce and be glad outwardly in body inwardly in Spirit let our joy be such as may be seen and perceived by face voice