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A46651	A sermon preached before the honourable House of Commons, at St. Margaret Westminster, on Thursday, the 26th of November, 1691, being a day of publick thanks-giving by William Jane ...	Jane, William, 1645-1707.	1691 (1691)	Wing J457; ESTC R19797	16,580	36

has a Rod of Iron in his hand Luke 19.27 wherewith he can dash them in pieces like a potters Vessel and will one day say openly in the hearing of all the world those mine enemies that would not that I should reign over them bring hither and slay them before me For he is the Prince of all the Kings of the earth the King of Kings and Lord of Lords He is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Tim. 6.15 The blessed and only Potentate the only Source and Fountain of all just power and Dominion and 't is by vertue of his authority that all the great ones of the world administer any of their own The Crowns and Scepters of the world are in his hand and whenever he imparts any power or royalty to his Creatures he still reserves to himself a free liberty to resume it to Uncrown Dethrone and Depose them at his pleasure Dan. 5.20 When Nebuchadnezzars heart was lifted up and his mind hardned in pride he was deposed from his Kingly Throne and they took his Glory from him He suffered a seven years banishment from the society of men that s●●t last he might be convinced of this great truth which so highly concerns all that are in authority to take notice of that the most high ruleth in the kingdom of men and he giveth it to whomsoever he will Dan. 4.25 That his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom and that all Dominion● shall serve and obey him But not to insist either upon the proof or illustration of so plain and obvious a point in the acknowledgment whereof we are here assembled to praise God this day I shall recommend only this one inference which naturally results from it that since God is the universal Monarch of the whole world and conducts and governs all our affairs according to the good pleasure of his will we should hence be instructed to own and acknowledge the power care and goodness of God in all our blessings advantages and enjoyments and to make suitable returns to him of praises and thanksgivings for all the merciful vouchsafements of his providence For surely if God be the sole governour of the world then all the gracious events and occurrences therein are solely to be ascribed to him Peace and safety victory and success doe not depend upon the strength and number of our armyes the wisdom of our Counsellors the conduct of our Commanders the power and friendship of our Confederates For it is all one with God to save by many or by few he can make the wisdome of an Achitophel become foolishness can strike a terror into the hearts of our valiant men he can make our Allies and Confederates become like the staff of Egypt whereon if a man lean Esa 36.6 it will goe into his hand and pierce it But our whole strength is in the name of the Lord and 't is his arm alone that brings salvation Pro. 21.31 The horse is prepared for the day of battel but safety is of the Lord. So likewise in the State 't is not the wise man Jer. 9.24 nor the mighty but Judgment and Kindness comes from God He rules and governs in all our debates and consultations It 's he that manages the events of war and gives his people the blessing of peace It is he that raises up one nation against another and again when he sees it expedient Ps 46.9 maketh wars to cease in all the world breaketh the bow and cutteth the spear in sunder and burneth the chariots in the fire Esai 37.29 He can put a hook in the nose and a bridle in the lips of a proud and insolent enemy and can turn him back by the way which he came When the great mountain becomes a plain before Zorobabel Zack 4.6 't is not by might nor by power but by my spirit says the Lord of hosts This therefore should effectually teach us not to boast of the arm of flesh to sacrifice to our net Hab. 1.16 or burn incense to our drag or say with the Assyrian Isai 10.13 By the might of my hands I have done this and by my wisdome for I am prudent But rather on the contrary as to have recourse to God alone for relief in all our straits dangers and perplexities so to return the due tribute of our gratitude for all the pledges of his love and favour for all his mercies and deliverances Ps 13.6 I will sing unto the Lord saith David because he hath dealt bountifully with me Ps 63.7 Because thou hast been my helper therefore under the shadow of thy wings will I rejoyce This is the duty which the Lord calls for this day and which we are here assembled by publick authority to put in practise to praise and magnify his name for our peace at home our successes abroad and rescuing a neighbour Kingdome from the miseries of a war and the danger of being enslaved by a forreign power And how highly are we all concerned that our thanksgiving be hearty zealous and universal not meerly a matter of course and formality but accompanied with a real influence and impression upon our hearts Which is the only means to sanctify and consecrate our past successes and present enjoyments and to procure his blessing upon our future enterprizes and undertakings II. And so I pass to the 2d. thing proposed viz. the stability of Gods government of the world the world also shall be c. All humane governments however artificially contrived are not only liable to assaults and violence from without but contain in them the inward causes of decay and dissolution Those four mighty Monarchies had their times and their turns their fall and period as well as a rise and a beginning And the most durable Kingdoms that histories make mention of after they have enlarged their conquests over their neighbour nations have at last been either ruin'd by their own strength or else become a prey and spoil to another stronger than themselves For he encreaseth the nations and destroyeth them he enlargeth the nations and straitneth them again Job 12.23 But Gods government is sure and stable his Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom and his dominion endureth from generation to generation This Kingdom shall never be destroy'd but shall break in pieces and consume all other Kingdoms and it self shall stand for ever Dan. 2.44 and Ps 10.16 He will be King for ever and ever even when all heathen Kings are perishe● from off the earth The main support of all government is wisdom and power and the defect of either of these much more of both is a sufficient cause and reason why all human governments are so weak tottering and unstable And first their wisdom and knowledge is narrow and confined For not to mention how frequently they are biassed by misinformation prejudice and partiality the most specious undertakings have been often shattered and broke in pieces by such inconsiderable accidents as ly

heaven and earth shall sooner pass away and the fabrick of the world be dissolved Es 55.11 than any one word that goeth forth out of his mouth shall return to him void without accomplishing his pleasure and prospering in the thing whereto he sent it And now from this consideration of the stability of the Divine government we may infer this useful Corollary that the way to make human governments firm and stable too as far as they are capable is to regulate and conform them according to the mind of God Commit thy works unto the Lord saith Solomon and so thy thoughts shall be establisht Prov. 16.3 And Eliphaz the Temanite Job 22.23 If thou return unto the Almighty and make thy prayer unto him thou also shalt decree a thing and it shall be establisht and the light shall shine upon thy paths It is vain thing to imagine that secular wisdom human policies or the projects and contrivances of crafty and designing men are the way to settle and give security to a people All that they can doe is to serve a present turn and to piece up things for a little while but when they have done their utmost can never lay any sure ground work of a lasting tranquility In that great distress of Hezekiah Es 33. When Sennacherib was sending up a formidable army to Jerusalem and which was worse many of his own people were dealing underhand with the King of Assyria and ready prepared for a revolt he applyes himself to God for succour and assistance and receives full and ample directions from him what those methods were which should settle and establish him in peace and safety v. 6. Wisdom and Knowledge shall be the stability of thy times and strength of Salvation the fear of the Lord is his treasure Sennacherib had before taken many fenced Citys laid wast his strong-holds and at last overreached and cheated him of his treasures which are the necessary means of security against a forreign enemy Nevertheless the Prophet assures him that while he was careful to preserve the fear of the Lord in his heart and zealous in settling and advancing the true service and worship of God he should never want either for treasure or defence or any thing conducing to the lengthning the tranquility of his people and preserving peace and truth in his days This then is the method which God prescribes for the sure establishment of a people Es 1.16 Put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes Cease to do evil learn to do well seek Judgment relieve the oppressed Judge the fatherless plead for the widow Mal. 3.10.12 and then prove me saith the Lord if I will not pour you out a blessing Then all nations shall call you blessed for ye shall be a pleasant Land saith the Lord of hosts Whereas if injustice and oppression if wrong and robbery possess the gates if irreligion and infidelity be rife in the earth if atheism heresy and prophanness shall take root among us and overspread the land with a contemt of Virtue and Religion 't is not our Fleets and Armies our Forts and Garrisons that can secure us These are the crying sins that have heretofore threatned the return of Popery upon this Kingdom and if they are still suffered to continue and encrease 't will be a very hard matter to keep it out It was the observation of a Politician who seems to have had no great sense of Gods government of the world Machiav●l we can have no greater sign of the ruine of a people than to see the worship of God despised This as 't is true in experience so 't is founded upon this immutable and eternal reason that the great creator and governor of the world has so contrived the mutual dependencies and relations of one thing to another that peace and settlement shall be the result of piety and integrity and that its folly for a nation to flatter it self with hopes of safety and security where the foundations of it are shaken and undermin'd All expedients whatsoever without the establishment of the true Religion are but building a wall Ezek. 19.15 and daubing it with untemper'd mortar But thus saith the Lord the wall is no more neither they that daubed it It was Jeroboams politick device to preserve his Kingdom to his Posterity by dividing it from the establisht worship of God in the temple at Jerusalem 1 Kin. 13.34 But this thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam even to cut it off and to destroy it from off the face of the earth Certainly he who hath so firmly setled his own government that it cannot be moved is the fittest to direct us in the establishment of ours And this was holy Jobs inference from this doctrin c. 23.11 My foot hath held his steps his ways have I kept and not declined the reason whereof follows for he is in one mind and who can turn him and whatsoever his Soul des ireth that he doth He performeth the thing that is appointed for me and many such things are with him And so I pass to the third thing proposed viz. the Justice and Equity of this government he shall Judge the people righteously And surely no man can make any doubt of this for he is righteous in all his ways Ps 145.17.89.14 and holy in all his works And Justice and Judgment are the habitation of his throne he is as we have seen of infinite Knowledge and Wisdom to discern all the actions of men and also of infinite power to put his sentence effectually in execution And tho' the full compleat and glorious manifestation of his Justice be reserved to the great day when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed the great Judge of the world shall render to every man according to his works yet in the mean time he leaves not himself without witness but that we may know there is a God that Judgeth the earth takes frequent occasion to demonstrate the glory of his Justice to the world both in the outward recompences of vertue and the visible punishments of sin What good man is there that has not various instances to relate of Gods temporal mercies bestowed upon him in this life what gracious experiences has he often felt of the goodness of God though not in a constant Course of outward prosperity yet in support under his oppressions and deliverances from them How often has he bin ready to sink under a load of Calumny and slander when God hath of a sudden unexpectedly interposed and brought forth his righteousness as clear as the light and his just dealing as the noon-day How often hath God who hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servants by an undiscernable providence so managed and conducted their affairs as to give them a blessed Issue and Success beyond their hopes and Imaginations Lastly how often has Gods true Religion been persecuted opprest and trampled on and