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A54465 A sermon preached on the 16th day of April 1696 in the parish church of St. Michael in New-Malton, being the thanksgiving day appointed for the discovery and disappointment of the horrible and barbarous conspiracy &c. / by William Perse. Perse, William, 1640 or 41-1707. 1696 (1696) Wing P1656; ESTC R25780 18,110 33

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A SERMON PREACHED On the 16th Day of April 1696. In the Parish Church of St. Michael in New-Malton BEING THE Thanksgiving Day Appointed for the Discovery and Disappointment of the Horrible and Barbarous Conspiracy c. By William Perse M. A. Minister of Malton and formerly Fellow of King's College in Cambridge LONDON Printed for E. Whitlock near Stationer's-Hall 1696. To the Honourable The Lady PALMS Madam YOVR favourable Acceptance of that small Free-will Offering that I paid to the Memory of the Best of Women our late most Gracious Queen incourages me to hope that your wonted Goodness which I have long experienc'd will vouchsafe to receive this mean Eucharistical Oblation for the Deliverance of our Dread Sovereign the Best of Princes from the Barbarous and Inhumane Conspiracy that was laid against His Sacred Person and Government with the same Candor which you did the Former Especially since in Obedience to your Honour's Commands which I shall ever to the utmost of my Power with all readiness observe it is made thus Publick And I am the rather induced to suffer it to pass through more hands than it was at first designed for because the Chief Subject it treats of being the Peculiar and extraordinary Providence which watches over Good and Righteous Kings for the Security and Protection of themselves and Government against the most Secret Contrivances that can be form'd against them may I hope convince every one of the Folly and Vanity as well as Sinfulness and Danger of all such attempts that are made against either And that this Particular instance of the Wonderful Discovery of the late Bloudy and Treacherous Design that was so deeply laid against the Life of our Gracious Prince joyned to that series of Signal Providences which hath all along attended his Royal Person for his Preservation from all those Perils to which he hath been so frequently exposed may at length cause that Obstinate Party which hath hitherto so unreasonably stood out to comply with and to own that Authority which GOD hath so visibly and so signally appeared for and by which their own Liberties and Religion have continued safe to them and us That our Church the Best and Purest of all other and our State may long Flourish under the Happy and Prosperous Reign of our Wise Valiant Merciful and Religious Leader whom God's own Right-hand hath placed over us and made so strong for himself And that your Honourable Family which hath so Zealously espoused the Interests of both may always enjoy the Blessings that accrue to this Nation thereby and the Everlasting Happiness of the Kingdom that is above afterwards is the earnest Prayer of Madam Your Honour 's Most Faithful and Obedient Servant William Perse A SERMON Preach'd on the 16th of April 1696. being the Thanksgiving-Day Ecclesiastes Chap. 10. Ver. 20. Curse not the King no not in thy Thought and Curse not the Rich no not in thy Bed-Chamber for a Bird of the Air shall carry the voice and that which hath wings shall tell the matter THere is a general Providence that to any observing Eye is visible over the face of the whole Creation whereby all things are kept and preserved in their own Order and Way of subsisting by the same Divine Power which at first formed and brought them into Being and according to the several Degrees of Perfection of those divers Species which God Created for when he saw every thing that he had made behold it was very good hath he proportioned the manner and the measure of their preservation Though nothing no not of the most minute consequence can pass without his Knowledge and which is not under his Eye yet Creatures of the lowest rank and size cannot pretend to claim so great a share of his Protection for their continuance in that station wherein Nature hath placed them as those which are of a more eminent and useful Quality in the World And as Infects which are of an equivocal Generation some of which are but of a days duration come into the World by Shoals so they tumble out of it again by heaps Thus the Locusts God's great Army as they are called in the Prophet Joel which covered the face of Egypt as they were brought in on a suddain by an East Wind so after they had consumed all the Forage in the Land and done the Work which God had appointed them a mighty West Wind cast them back again as suddainly into the Red Sea and destroyed them But as the scale of the Creature rises and becomes more serviceable to that great End for which he Created all things viz. Man's Happiness and his own Glory so hath he ordered all means to concur suitably for their conducing in their proper ways towards the promoting of that Design to which every thing in its respective capacity is and must be subservient And this our Blessed Saviour plainly intimates to his Disciples in his Discourse concerning Providence wherein he tells them that God preserves the Grass which is to day in the Field and to morrow in the Oven and that he ordereth Food for the Ravens that have neither Store-house nor Barn and that not one Sparrow is forgotten before him inferring from thence by an Argument drawn a fortiori from the stronger side that they ought in their greatest Exigencies and Extremities to depend upon God's Care of them and his Love towards them seeing if he does not neglect his Creatures of the lowest Degree but sustains them in a way suitable to their own Nature it must needs follow that he will take a more particular Care of those whom he hath made after his own Image and for whose sake chiefly all his other Works in this lower World were Created and appropriated to their use and service and that he will let them lack nothing that may tend not only to the continuance of their Being but their Well-being also And as I have drawn this Scheme of Providence from its lowest Basis till we come to the highest Spire and top of this sublunary World all whose parts mutually depend upon one another and which are all conserv'd by the same All powerful Hand from which they receiv'd their Original so the Beauty and Harmony of this wonderful and stupendous Frame will more eminently and conspicuously appear and the infinite Wisdom of the Almighty Architect be the more visible when we consider that even in the dispensation of his great Care and Providence over Man himself the Noblest and finisht Masterpiece of his Six Days Works that even here as to Persons of the same kind he puts a great difference between them in order to their particular security and preservation according as they are by his Divine appointment to be more or less concern'd in the administration of that Government which he hath constituted for the establishing these things in that Order wherein he first placed them and without which they would run into Anarchy and Confusion and therefore althô for