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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29155	A sermon preached at St. Catharine Cree-Church, on the 26th of November, 1691 being the thanksgiving-day, for the preservation of the King, and the reduction of Ireland / by Nicholas Brady ... ; printed at the request of his parishioners.	Brady, Nicholas, 1659-1726.	1692 (1692)	Wing B4174; ESTC R40295	11,416	32

to us That he is God's King A Third Qualification as you have been informed is a Life Exemplary and Unblamable in his private Actions and Conversation And here we ought to bless God that we can now commend a Prince's Morals without the odious Imputation of Servile Flattery that we can extol in him the practice of such or such Vertues without being thought to Ridicule him thereby for the Commission of the contrary Vices That God has been graciously pleased to set one over us who is not only a good King but a good Man too and makes Greatness and Virtue no longer incompatible And O! that the Influence of good Example were as strong and prevalent as the Contagion of an ill one And that both Sexes would be as ready to take Lessons from the Throne of Modesty and Sobriety as they are generally prone to follow great Examples of Licesitiousness and Intemperance I chuse to speak less than I ought upon this Head lest I might be thought by some to say too much and shall only add that as well by this as by the two former qualifications his present Majesty may justly challenge the denomination of God's King Another Branch of the proof proposed was to be taken from the Deliverances which have been given him by which also God has approved him to be his King If ever the Providence of God watched over any single person in so eminent a manner as to make him seem to be the whole care of Heaven his present Majesty has been blessed with that advantage Not to insist upon the wonderful Deliverances he has experienced in his former years being inured to Hardships and Difficulties being bred up from a Child in the midst of Dangers and having been a Man of War from his Youth We shall find sufficient Instances of the Divine Favour and Protection since his Auspicious Entrance upon the Government of these Kingdoms How did the Weapons of his Enemies drop out of their Hands upon his first Appearance within this Nation as if a Voice from Heaven had given Command Touch not mine Anointed and do my King no barm How has he beeen surrounded with a Wall of Brass in the midst of Horror and Destruction How has the Lord covered his Head in the day of Battle and when Thousands have fallen on his side and ten Thousands on his Right Hand yet has not suffered it to come nigh him How industriously has he pursued and sought out Danger and how constantly has that avoided him and fled before him How has God rebuked in his Favour the Winds and the Seas and brought him forth safe from the horrours of the deep and set his Feet upon a Rock and ordered his goings How has he discovered and laid open to him the secret Machinations of his Treacherous Adversaries and made themselves to fall into the Trap which they had laid for him In a word How has God protected him from perils by Land and perils by Water perils from his own Country-men and perils from the Heathen as St. Paul expresses himself in his Catalogue of Distresses Well may we then conclude with the Royal Psalmist That many and grievous have been his Troubles but the Lord has delivered him out of them all and both by the qualifications required in such a Person and by the great Deliverances which he has given to him has undeniably demonstrated that he is His King But as if it were a small thing in the Eye of the Lord to rescue and relieve him out of all his Distresses and to give great deliverance unto This His King He has done yet more for him and us he has added to his Deliverance Success and Triumph witness the happy Reduction of the Neighbouring Nation So that he has not only saved his life from destruction but has crowned him also with mercy and loving-kindness as for his Enemies he has clothed them with shame but upon himself he has made his Crown to flourish Certainly the consideration of such extraordinary advantages should powerfully induce us to give praise unto God who has given such great deliverance to his King and communicated by Him such Benefits to us all And this leads me to the consideration of the Fourth and last General being the second Proposition deducible from the words of my Text namely To enquire what Returns are due from us to God for the great deliverance which he has given to his King Ingratitude is not only the basest but the most dangerous too of all Vices and draws after it a Train of Consequences no less fatal and destructive than they are shameful and dishonourable Even amongst Men themselves he forfeits all Title to future Favours that is unthankful for those which he has already received and nothing makes a Man less befriended in his necessity or more unpitied in his adversity than the black Imputation and Character of an ungrateful person But when the Case is stated between God and Man the woful effects of so degenerate a temper are vastly greater and more pernicious for then we do not only cut off our own expectations and render our selves uncapable of future mercies but we lose the advantage also of all our former Blessings and by an unhappy kind of Alchymy convert them into Curses How signally and remarkably we have lately felt the comfortable Refreshings of the Divine Goodness none can be so stupid as to be ignorant none so impudent as to deny If we look upon the Preservation and Establishment of our tottering Religion the happy Union of our selves at home and the successful progress of our Arms abroad we cannot but acknowledge that God has compassed us about with Songs of deliverance if we consider the many Dangers and Distresses from which it has pleased the good Providence of God to protect his present Majesty both as to open Violence and secret Practices so that no weapon no design formed against him has prospered and how he has been pleased to bring him back to his longing People in Health and Safety we cannot but confess that great deliverance has he given to his King And from both considerations we must necessarily infer that vast Returns of Gratitude are due upon our side which we are obliged to pay after the following manner First By Praises and Thanksgivings to Almighty God the Author and Fountain of them all So many visible appearances of the Divine Providence have intitled God to the sole Honour of our signal Deliverances that it would be a direct robbing him of his Glory to pretend to ascribe it to any other he having acted upon these occasions as he expresses himself by the Prophet Isaiah And I looked and there was none to help and I wondred that there was none to uphold then my own Arm brought Salvation Thus God arose and his and our Enemies were scattered and they that hated both him and us fled before him Therefore not unto us O Lord neither to King nor People not unto us but