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A46900	Three sermons preached the first in Richmond Church, August 17. 1690. on the most happy accession of Their Majesties, King William and Queen Mary to the Crown. The second in Mortlake Chuch in Surrey March 3. 1694. on the death of our late most gracious soveraign lady the Queen, of blessed memory. The third in Mortlake Church, April 16. 1696. being the day of Thanksgiving unto Almighty God, for discovering and disappointing the horrid and barbarous conspiracy to assassinate His most gracious Majesty's royal person: and for delivering this kingdom from an invasion, intended by the French. By Christopher Johnson, M.A. and school-master of Richmond in Surrey. Printed to prevent mistakes concerning the author.	Johnson, Christopher, b. 1657 or 8.	1696 (1696)	Wing J770BA; ESTC R216574	43,561	66

Pleasure O therefore great is the Deliverance beyond the Comprehensions of our Understandings And praised be the Lord who hath not given us over for a prey unto their Teeth for our Soul is escaped as a Bird out of the Snare of the Fowler the Snare is broken and we are delivered For which may all that are or would have been sensible of the Black Device if it had taken its Dismal Effect Bless and Exalt God's holy Name May all the good People of this Nation Obey their Sovereign Lord the KING's Commands in such manner as may be acceptable to God And as His Majesty doth so may they acknowledge the singular Mercy and Goodness of God See His Majesty's Most Gracious Speech to Both Houses of Parliament Feb. 24. 1695. May all His Subjects Piously and Joyfully keep this Day and ponder the Occasion of it in their Hearts with a Perpetual Thanksgiving to the utmost extent of their Lives for so great a Salvation May it make such deep and lasting Impressions in their Souls Yea let them tell it to their Childrens Children that the Generations to come may Bless God for it And may no Rank or Quality Sex Order or Degree think themselves exempted from their Duty on this Day which the KING with the Advice of his Nobles hath thought fit to apply to so Solemn and Sacred a Use But praise the Lord ye House of our Israel praise the Lord ye House of Aaron praise the Lord ye House of Levi ye Clergy of this Land Ye that fear the Lord praise the Lord and confess he is Gracious and his Mercy endureth for ever Kings of the Earth and all People Princes and all Judges of the World Young Men and Maidens Old Men and Children praise the Name of the Lord for his Name only is Excellent and his Praise above Heaven and Earth He shall exalt the Horn of his People all his Saints shall praise him And now pray we unto God to open Mens Eyes that they may see and know those things that belong unto their Peace that they may not be Credulous of Dreams and Fancies nor give heed unto Fables As if that Monarch who has Troubled Christendom a long time has Cruelly Persecuted and Tormented Protestants and has laid waste Defenced Cities into Ruinous heaps as if he would shew all Clemency and Kindness to us as if he would make every one Happy and Great with large Donatives of Riches and Honour Fields and Vineyards and all the Delights of the Sons of Men which to think is very incongruous to Reason and dissonant to the Sentiments of common Prudence unless he and all his Admirers and Favourites loved the People of this Nation better than they do and except we would abandon our Religion which may we never so much as think of doing nor fear his Menaces or any high and lofty Looks But keep we stedfast to our God and our Faith to our Duty and Allegiance unto our Sovereign Lord the KING's Majesty to our Laws our Liberties and our Country and to one another in Love and Unity And may god shower down His Blessings upon us and make His great Salvation for which we now offer unto Him the Sacrifice of Thanksgiving a Pledge of more His abundant Favours to His Anointed and His Subjects And let us always therefore have somewhat of a Divine and Holy Song or Eulogy in our Mouths Plenteously may we be furnished in the Song of Moses and the Children of Israel of Deborah and Barak and in that great Magazine of Praises and Benedictions the Book of Psalms together with many other places of the Sacred Canon of Scripture Let us often think of God's Mercies to us and make Melody in our Hearts unto Him with such Excellent and Proper Lessons as may be taken out of those Breathings of the Holy Ghost Let Lute and Harp awake and let us awake right early with the high Praises of God in our Mouth Let this be the Badge of our Honour and Gratitude Praise ye the Lord. Let us bind it as Signs upon our Hands and Frontlets between our Eyes together with the Te Deum the Benedictus the Magnificat and like Joyous and Devout Trophies of God's Salvation Evermore with the Choir of Saints and Angels above Chanting forth the Trishagion Holy Holy Holy Lord God of Sabaoth Heaven and Earth are full of the Majesty of thy Glory Glory be to thee O Lord Most High Finally As we praise God this Day for His Admired Mercy so let us Beg His Continuance of it to us and pray heartily that the now ensuing Campaign may be Victorious both against F●ance and the Ottoman Empire and that an Honourable and Lasting Peace to England and Her Allies and Friends may succeed thereupon and that God will be pleased to Bless with Length of Days and Riches and Honour in His Throne here and to Crown afterwards with a far more exceeding and Eternal Weight of Glory in the highest Heavens His Anointed Servant our Dread Sovereign Lord and Lawful and Rightful KING WILLIAM Amen FINIS

her Virtues shaking the Foundation of those Vices which had Triumph'd too much threat'ned their total and in part at least wrought their Destruction This made her truly Great added much to her High and Illustrious Birth and to her Person on the Throne And in all respects her Qualifications enforced and drew a lively pattern from her for all to profit by according to their several States and Conditions As a Queen and a Ruler let Kings and all Princes follow her with the highest Emulation if with her they will take God's Directions amongst King David's last words into their Books of Politicks how to Govern which Divine Lesson was her Majesty's grand and principal Point in the whole Compass of her Government how to steer by and which way to move The Needle pointing always in her Thoughts to these and the like holy Instructions He that ruleth over Men must be just ruling in the fear of God and he shall be as the light of the Morning when the Sun riseth even a Morning without Clouds as the tender Grass springing out of the Earth by clear shining after Rain 2 Sam. 23.3 4. Which Sacred Aphorism herein seems to have been the Golden Rule and Line she measured her Royal Thoughts Words and Actions by all her Reign the holy Balance in which she first weighted every proceeding through the whole Series of her great Affairs And so she answered likewise this Divine Simile as in Water Face answereth to Face truly and exactly Let it be said then of our most Devout and Religious Queen that like holy David she was after God's own Heart With Hezekiah and other Pions Kings She did that which was right in the sight of the Lord. And like good King Josiah she declined neither to the right Hand nor to the left Mercy and Justice resided in the Throne with her the former render'd her very Compassionate but yet her Prudence and Magnanimity were such as shewed her how she should not bear the Sword in vain she being the Ordinance and Minister of God And as she was in high Authority so was she above all idle and vulgar Censures or what was little and mean Consider her Majesty as a Wife Our Great Monarch whom she hath left behind and whom God in his Mercy long preserve to us will witness yea his great Grief of Heart doth Attest how she answer'd God's intent in the Creation of Woman that she should be (a) Gen. 2.18 an help meet for Man And according to the Apostolical Canons with a meek and quiet Spirit she gave reverence and yielded Subjection to her Royal Husband who with mutual Returns of Endearment according to like Holy Rules loved and honoured her as the weaker Vessel and his Glory also For the Man is the Image and Glory of God but the Woman is the Glory of the Man 1 Cor. 11.7 She well deserved the praise of the Virtuous Woman in the last Chapter of the Proverbs Ver. 11 12. For the Heart of her Husband did safely trust in her and she did do him good and not evil all the Days of her Life Her Candle did not go out by Night Ver. 18. for she was always mindful of her Duty and great Affairs She looked well to her Houshould and did not eat the Bread of Idleness Ver. 27. for by her own Labours she gave a New-birth to Work and Industry Her Children her good and dutiful Subjects I mean for she was a most Dear Tender and Compassionate Mother to us all did arise up and call her blessed her Husband also and he praised her Ver. 28. Both whose mutual Affections and Returns of Love and Kindness united their Two Royal Persons into One. Think upon her Majesty only as a Woman but of an uncommon Excellency of Spirit and largeness of Heart of such a Capacious Soul and Radiancy of Mind which is very seldom found and all tending more to Ambition of Goodness than Desire of Greatness for Majesty it self could not tempt her to Pride in any thing All which looked as happy presages of bringing much Benefit to Mankind But according to our purpose to descend from the Throne let us view her as if in a far lower Station amongst her Sex and say no more but she was a Woman We shall find her Exemplary Virtues justly Claim an high precedency amongst the whole Feminine Race For shew us such another when we call to witness her Majesty's profound Piety and Devotion her admired Meekness and Humility her Sweet Temper her Courteous Behaviour and Affability yet preserving Majesty as a Queen and her Moderation which was known unto all Men with that Serenity and Evenness of Mind also that not Passion but Reason moved and sway'd her that not easily lifted up nor soon cast down Heroick and Free yet Serious and Grave Chearful but without Levity She opened her Mouth with Wisdom and in her Tongue was the Law of Kindness Pro. 31.26 so Obliging and Discreet that she gain'd much upon the Affections even of her Enemies and at least often silenced the Tongues of unreasonable Men if she could not correct and alter their Judgments But to Crown all her Majesty's Excellencies she was a holy and good Christian Zealous always in that one thing needful Her unspotted and unblameable Life and Conversation shined before Men whilst she adorn'd the Gospel of Christ with her Divine Graces amongst which we must again inroll her Piety her unaffected Piety and Devotion and all the aforemention'd Virtues that belong to the Christian Chain with an unwearied Constancy in all her Duties At the Head of all placing her servent Charity that notable Badge of Christianity by which she forgave many Affronts and return'd none but with an high sort of Divine Clemency did do good for evil that her Light might shine not for vain Ostentation far from it was she but for God's Glory and an imitable Example to all others and that by an entire Resignation of her Will to Christ's Law which himself exemplified in pardoning and praying for his bitterest Enemies Mat. 5.48 she might be perfect as her Father which is in Heaven is perfect Add we here her Boundless Charity in giving and distributing to those in Want Alas how many indigent and decay'd Persons whom her Royal Bounty and Pity Relieved may bemoan themselves For her Charity was so unlimited that few if any but her self knew its utmost extent or could give it a place wide enough in the vast Sphere of Imagination that the compass of any Persons Thought could comprehend it So Largely and Secretly but Prudently withal did she stretch out her Hands to the Poor yea she reached forth her Hands to the Needy In general shewing the Celestial Extraction of her Blessed Soul when her Love and Charity was Universal like that of her Heavenly Father which our Blessed Saviour hath set forth for our Imitation Mat. 5.45 Who maketh his Sun to rise on the evil and

Crowning with Glorious Success His Present Most Excellent and Sacred Majesty our Most Gracious Sovereign and Rightful Lord KING WILLIAM For whom all Praise Adoration and Thanksgivings which the Finite and Weak Understandings and Faculties of Mortal Men can give unto an Infinite Being an Immortal and Omnipotent God are a Tribute due unto Him But though God be always Merciful there are Sons of Belial who will be most Wicked will Murmur and Repine and even Despise and Cross the Divine Goodness and will not have Him to Reign over us whom God hath appointed to be our King and hath made next to Himself our Mighty Deliverer Against whom nevertheless that there should be Men Living under the Benign Influences of His Merciful and Happy Government who Conspire with Gall and Bitterness of Spirit not only to Dethrone Him but Insidiously and Basely in a most Barbarous and Inhuman manner to take away His Sacred Life by the Assassination and Murder of His Royal Person notwithstanding all his Clemency and thereby to make way for a Foreign and Arbitrary Power to rush in upon these Nations of Great Britain and Ireland to the Destruction of our Religion Laws and Liberties It would seem incredible to Men of Reason and Ingenuity be to them more than a Paradox but that it is no longer in the dark being now clearly discovered and the Good God be Blessed and Praised therefore the Mischief most providentially prevented Wherefore Sing we every one with holy David in the front of this Divine Canticle Ver. 2 3. or Psalm The Lord is my Rock and my Fortress and my Deliverer The God of my Rock in Him will I trust He is my Shield and the Horn of my Salvation my high Tower and my Refuge my Saviour Thou savest thine Anointed and Us from Violence And again join we with the Royal Psalmist in a joyful Hope and Confidence in God in Acclamations of Benedictions and Praises unto Him evermore rejoicing and saying The Lord liveth and blessed be my Rock and exalted be the God of the Rock of my Salvation Which words are part of holy David's Song of Deliverance this Chapter and the 18th Psalm being of one and the same substance but run with a little variation of reading in some parts wherein that great Saint then but Militant did Celebrate the Solemnities of an holy Triumph and Praise to the God of his Salvation who had preserved his Person from the great Dangers that had threatned him from the violent Hands of Saul and other his Inveterate Enemies who had by various Snares and Stratagems sought his Life for thus we find the Preface or Inscription to this Thanksgiving Hymn of the sweet Psalmist of Israel And David spake unto the Lord the words of this Song in the Day that the Lord had delivered him out of the Hand of all his Enemies and out of the Hand of Saul And with such a lofty strain of Melody and delightful Harmony has he run through this his Noble Anthem as must needs Charm his chief Musician both in setting and playing the Tune proper to it And also with a Ravishing Delight raise and exhilarate the Spirits of the whole Choir those concern'd therein either with Vocal or Instrumental Musick those that sang or those that play'd on the Organ Harp or Cymbal c. chearing and refreshing even the Hearts and Souls of all then present And most grateful are his Acknowledgments of God's Gracious Benefits unto him flowing from many of his Holy and Essential Attributes from his Free and Immense Goodness and Mercy his Incomprehensible Wisdom Infinite Justice and Power and that great Providence which attended him through so many various Scenes of Troubles in the most difficult Stages of his Life Very expressive also is he of the Sense he had of the Dangers he escaped Such like as those out of which God Blessed be his Holy Name for it lately deliver'd our Most Gracious King even the Waves and Snares of Death the Floods of ungodly Men their deep and subtil Plots and Conspiracies their violent Stratagems and Devices as unavoidable as Floods and Inundations of Water are till God puts a stop to them by his Omnipotent Command Hitherto shalt thou come and no further When after such a wondrous and special manner he is pleased to be present as holy David hath set him forth with the highest flights of Divine Rhetorick using many exalted Metaphors to express the same as of the Earth trembling and shaking as also the Foundations of Heaven it self being put into the like terrible Commotions with such Thunders and Lightnings Storms and Tempests of his Wrath as aforetime had really destroy'd the Enemies of his People And then after many Blessed Eulogies and Seraphical Raptures of Holy and Eloquent Dictates from that Spirit which taught him how to pray unto as well as to praise his Mighty Deliverer he closes the whole Encomium with glorying in the God of his Salvation and yet further Returns of Blessing and Thanksgiving to him part whereof the Text doth especially denote unto us The Lord liveth and blessed be my Rock and exalted be the God of the Rock of my Salvation For the Interpretation and Explanation of which and for our present Edification on this Day of a General Thanksgiving throughout this Nation for His Majesty's Blessed Deliverance and our Happiness thereby I shall observe these Two following Particulars First Holy David's Joyful and Triumphant Acknowledgment of God and his Providence in the former words The Lord liveth Secondly His grateful Return to God of Benediction and Praise or Exaltation for his Wondrous and Powerful Deliverances of him from the Mischiefs formed against him Emphatically expressed in the following parts of the Text and blessed be my Rock and exalted be the God of the Rock of my Salvation First The Lord liveth is a Recognition of God and His Providence even with an Extasie of Joy The Royal Saint being Transported thereby into Triumphant Acclamations in consideration of God's Potent Deliverances and Manifold Benefits through abundance of various and critical Circumstances of his Race under the Sun frequently rescuing him out of the very Jaws of Destruction as they were ready to tear him in pieces as from Saul's Javelin at one time his and other wicked Mens Instigations their Combining Plots and Snates and Conspiracies to snatch away his Life at other times For all which he might with great Reason pronounce The Lord liveth As for Deliverances from great and apparent Dangers especially from the intended Mischief of Bitter Enemies it is very proper for Men to express their grateful Sentiments in these or words of like consonance and import There is a God a God that Ruleth all a God that helpeth in time of need yea and when we are Poor and Naked Blind and Lame that without him we should be remediless being our selves neither able to see the approaching Destruction nor to ward off the Blow if we have time to see it