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A sermon preached in the parish church of Newbury, Berks, on the 26th of July, 1685 being the day of Thanksgiving for His Majesty's late victory over the rebels / by John Hinton.
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Hinton, John, d. 1720.
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would have had it or that Absalom harkened to more Dilatory Counsels and slower Methods of Sedition than his were however that he died before this Horrid and Trayterous Conspiracy came to an Head and having before he Died set his House in Order being buried too in the Sepulchre of his Father near to the very place where our Rebellion began I could tell you of others delivered up to Slaughter or to Justice to Prison or to Death and of a general Dispersion of all the rest contemptible pieces of Mortality that are gone that are vanished like a Shadow and there place can no where be found I could tell you in the next place of the Suddenness as well as the Entireness of their Defeat how that their Calamity has risen as suddenly and as unexpectedly to themselves as their Rebellion did to us that they are speedily fallen themselves into the Pit they designed for others and were not so swift to shed Blood but they have brought upon themselves as swift Destruction I could tell you yet farther and I ought That the Providence of God has appeared likewise very wonderfully and signally on our King's side and That Heaven has manifestly fought for us too as it did for David and Judah in old time that we have vanquished a numerous Army with the loss of a Few so very few that perhaps no modern Story can parallel the Disproportion that if an hundred have not chased a Thousand nor two put two Thousand to Flight yet that for ought we hear with the loss of not many more than two Hundred we have routed more than twice two Thousand I could tell you of many other Instances of the Divine Mercy toward us that might make us with David sing for joy * Ps 86.10 Thou O Lord art great and dost wondrous things thou art God alone * Ps 77.14 Thou hast declared thy power among the People Thou hast mightily delivered thy People even the sons of Jacob and Joseph But the time would fail me and now I fear your Patience too should I insist upon these things or other things of this Nature and what I have hinted to you already is so well known to the Nation and to all of you here present that having drawn one Line to your Hands you may save me the Labour in drawing out the Parallel your selves Only I shall pray that you and I may continue the Parallel to the end in our Thanksgiving for the Defeat which is indeed the Last but should be the Chief Part of our Task What therefore remains my Brethren but that with Ahimaaz in my Text we also Bless the Lord our God who has delivered up the Men that lift up their Hands against our Lord the King and after the * Ps 124.6 Example of David give him our just Praises that he has not given us over as a Prey unto their Teeth Our King has himself given us his Royal Example He has given us his Royal Command for so doing You have lately heard by This Proclamation that upon due considerations hereof he does with all Humility admire and adore the late Mercy and Goodness of God in giving Victory to his Arms and Delivering him and his Kingdoms from the Miseries and Calamities that might and that constantly do ensue an Intestine and Unnatural Rebellion And that considering such Signal and Publick Mercies are an invitation from Heaven to render the most Publick and Chearful Expressions of Thankfulness to the Divine Goodness that we who equally share in the Blessings and Joys of this Deliverance may be United in the Devotions which are offered for it 't is his Will that the just Tribute of Praise and Thanksgiving to his and our Great Soveraign the King of Heaven and Earth be return'd by himself and us for the late Mercy Let then our Joy let our Praise be as Publick be as Universal as the Occasion Let us with David let us with our King ascriâ—e the Honour of the Victory to God let us offer Thanks and Praise unto God who has given us the Victory Let us give unto the Lord my Friends let us give unto the Lord Glory and Honour let us give unto the Lord the Glory due unto his Name Oh! Praise the Lord with me and let us Magnify his Name together High and Low Rich and Poor Young Men and Maidens Old Men and Children let us all Praise the Name of the Lord for his Name only is Excellent and his Praise above Heaven and Earth Oh! sing Praises sing Praises unto our God sing Praises unto our King sing Praises for God is the King of all the Earth sing ye Praises with Vnderstanding Let us Praise him with our whole Hearts let us Praise him among much People let as shew forth his Praise not only with our Lips but in our Lives by giving up our selves to his Service and by serving him without Fear Let the Righteous be glad and rejoyce before God Let them also be merry and joyful Rejoyce in the Lord ye Righteous yea and again I say rejoyce Shout unto God with the Voice of Triumph shout for joy all ye that are upright in Heart that he has not made our Foes to Triumph over us nor delivered us into the Hands of the Wicked whose very Mercies are Cruel This is the Day that the Lord has made let us rejoyce and be glad in it and be glad with exceeding Joy But let us not shew our Joy by our Excesses Nor let Gladness transport us beyond the Bounds of Sobriety and Discretion For true Joy as Seneca tells us is a * Sen. Epist 23.59 Severe a Serious and a Sober thing and can no where be found but in a temperate a just and a good Man Whoever rejoyces to Intemperance rejoyces to Madness rejoyces to his Sorrow he must one day be sorry for his very Joy And surely all such Rejoycing is Evil. This is not Rejoycing in God For 't is as Impossible as Absurd while we Rejoyce in his Mercy to Provoke his Wrath. * Eccl. 7.14 In this day of Prosperity therefore let us be Joyful but let our Joy be Religious let our Joy be Serious or to use the Expression of King David let us * Psal 2.11 rejoyce with Reverence Let us so rejoyce for past that we do not render our selves unworthy of future Mercies And if our Joy proceed from Gratitude let it appear by our Obedience by our Obedience to God by our Obedience to the King by performing the vows that we promised with our Lips and spake with our Mouths when we were in Trouble God of his Infinite Mercy hath delivered us from the Rebels and let not us rebel our selves against the God of our Deliverance nor against the King whom God has delivered But let us be thankful to God for his Goodness to our Sovereign let us be thankful to our Sovereign for his Goodness to us And let us Express our Thankfulness to the one and to the other by Honouring and by Fearing Both that he who has already delivered us may continue to deliver us from our Enemies and from the Hands of all that hate us till he settle us at length in the Holy Land the Land of Rest and Peace where no Absaloms no Achitophels nor any of their Associates dwell where even Conspiracies are Impossible and Rebellion has no place FINIS