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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32794	Eben-ezer, a thankful memorial of God's mercy in preserving England from the gunpowder-treason, 1605 being a sermon on 1 Sam. 7:12, prepared for Novemb. 5th to be preacht at the cathedral, but preacht for the most part of it at the parish-church of Temple, in the city of Bristol, on the 6th of Novem. being the Lord's day / by John Chetwynd ...	Chetwynd, John, 1623-1692.	1682 (1682)	Wing C3796; ESTC R19751	30,602	46

Eben-ezer A Thankful Memorial OF GOD'S MERCY In preserving ENGLAND from the GUNPOWDER-TREASON 1605. Being a SERMON on 1 Sam. 7. 12. Prepared for Novemb. 5th to be Preacht at the Cathedral but Preacht for the most part of it at the Parish-Church of Temple in the City of Bristol on the 6th of Novemb. being the Lords Day By John Chetwynd M. A. Prebend of the Cathedral and Vicar of Temple in the City of Bristol Psal 118. 24. This is the day which the Lord hath made we will rejoyce and be glad in it LONDON Printed and are to be sold by Tho. Wall Bookseller at Bristol 1682. To the VVorshipful and his ever Honoured Friend and Kinsman John Harington of Kelston Esq one of His Majesties Justices of the Peace for the County of Somerset SIR I Have made bold to direct these Papers to you as a Testimony of my respect and as being assured that you are a true Protestant of the Church of England established by Law As for such as falsly and with a contradiction so term and call themselves Roman Catholicks I expect no such Readers As for Protestants in Masquerade whose worldly designs make them sit loose to all Religions they may see what may reform them if not convince them But as for your self and such as are Protestants out of conscience you and they who are peaceable Sons of the most Apostolical Church of England may read what may confirm them in their true faith and Worship and what may comfort and support them under any fears dangers hardships that may attend them in and for their so being and doing God being still the same yesterday to day and for ever He that hath delivered doth deliver will deliver To his blessing I commend these Papers To his protection and guidance your self and second-self with all your Family And subscribe my self Bristol Novemb. 16. 1681. Your most Resepctful Kinsman and humble Servant John Chetwynd A Memorial of God's most gracious preservations of England from the Spanish Invasion and Gunpower Treason Of an unknown Author Found by me among my Father's Papers thus directed To my Posterity GOD's ancient Church Two solemn Feasts did keep On Two set days by his own word directed When Pharoah's Host was drowned in the deep And when proud Haman's Treason was detected Two works of equal grace but greater wonder The Lord hath done sor us past all mens Reason When Papist did attempt to bring us under By Spanish Armado and by Piercy's Treason I and my house these great things will remember And in remembrance sanctifie two days In Augustone * 3. the other in November † 5. Both made by God for us to give him praise Dear children charge the children after you Still to observe these Feasts as I do now Eben-ezer A Thankful Memorial of God's preserving England from the Gunpowder Treason 1605. 1 Sam. VII 12. Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpeh and Shen and called the name of it Eben-ezer saying Hitherto hath God helped us TO regulate my discourse I have made choice of this Scripture as being in many particulars parallel to the occasion of the day and suitable to this great and solemn Assembly whose outward lustre and grandeur and other circumstances and expressions of rejoycing testifie our apprehensions of this day to be as it deserves to be with us a High Day a Holy day even a day which the Lord our God hath made marvellous in our eyes a Day to be had in everlasting remembrance never-to-be Ps 118 23 24. forgotten a Day of Gods making Some days may be said to be made by Gods flat Let it be made as all creatures besides man were But other days in which notable and memorable occurrences fall out may be said to be made with Gods faciamus Let us make as man was And such was this which God by saving preserving and delivering our King Church and State made marvellous in our eyes and calls for our rejoycing in it Such was the Jewish Passover such the day of our Saviour's Exod 12. Resurrection to which this Scripture is applied and such is this day The Memorial of the mercies on which exhibited we now celebrate Foelix fausta dies lux flava quinta Novembris And may it be for ever celebrated by us and our Posterity as long as the Sun and Moon endureth For this was the Lords doing and let it still be marvellous in our eyes So it was in David's day Thus it was in ours In David's a deliverance from great dangers all by Gods might all by Gods mercy and that not in small things as yet in them God is to be seen but usque Ps 118 12 15. ad miracula and that not only marvellous in it self for so all Zech. 9. 11. Gods works are which seem small because usual but wonderful in our eyes because rare In which we cannot but say Digitus Dei est hic And such was this our day In a most eminent manner Gods day both for the exceeding greatness of our danger and Gods gracious and wonderful deliverance when the Devils and the Jesuits and their bigotted Proselytes had laid their heads together to destroy our King and Church and State our Religion Liberty Lives when the Balak of Spain and the Balaam of Rome Thus far was the Preface to my Sermon prepared for the Cathedral on the 5th but our Reverend Diocesan preaching upon my desire in my turn I thought fit to preach it at Temple on the 6th being the Lords day in the afternoon omitting the foregoing Preface had conspired together our utter destruction We read Esther 9. 20 21. that Mordecai and Esther sent Letters with all Authority to all the Jews nigh and far that they should keep the 14th and 15th of the month Adar yearly as the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies and the month which was turned from sorrow to joy and from mourning to a good day that they should make them days of feasting and joy and of sending Portions one to another and of gifts to the poor because the Plot of Haman the enemy of all the Jews which he had devised against them was b● Queen Esther's mediation to the King turn'd upon his own head and the Jews had ruled over them that hated them and Haman and his Ten sons were hanged Therefore the Jews ordained and took it upon themselves and upon their seed and upon all such as joyned to them so as it should not fail as it doth not to this day among them wherever dispersed though it be two thousand years since that they would keep these two days according to their writing and according to their apppointed time every year And that these days should be remembred and kept through every Generation every Family every Province Est 9. 27 28. and every City and that these days should not fail from among the Jews nor the memorial of them perish

and common way Ours by no information but inspiration by a Casual rather than a Grammatical interpretation of the dangers being past as soon as the Letter was burnt 3. Time The night before Haman intended to have beg'd Mordecai's life the King could not sleep calls for the Chronicles reads therein what faithful and eminent service Mordecai had done for him and enquiring and understanding that he had received no recompence he resolves to honour him Haman pronounceth how Mordecai should be honoured who was commanded to do what he proposed himself and as he thought for himself and according to the great grief of him he did perform the Kings Command and his own designed honour towards him Haman himself was by the King upon the Queens Complaint judged to be hanged which was done on the same day place gallows that he had designed for Mordecai 4. Issue Deliverance to both the net broke the Fowl escaped yea the Fowler himself taken Israel delivered Pharaoh drown'd Psal 124. Haman hang'd So was it with us and the Powder-Traytors they hoped that their designed puff and net should have divided and scattered our Noble Senators and ancient and glorious Structures and they themselves were deservedly hang'd and quarter'd and their heads and limbs set up on the tops of that house they designed to throw down So that what we read concerning the Jews may as fitly be applied unto us in the day that the enemies of the Jews of us Protestants Esth 9. 1. hoped to have power over them over us it was turned to the contrary that the Jews that our King had rule over them that hated them And oh let it still be marvellous in our eyes Let us be glad Ps 118. 24. and rejoyce in it And indeed Gods deliverances of England have been acts of Wonder Not to insist on the unexpected discovery of the present Popish Plot and let us pray for the full defeating of it the truth whereof I hope no good Subject or true consciencious Protestant dot\h any thing question being attested by such undeniable Evidences viz. his most Gracious Majesty whom God still preserve from it the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the whole House of Commons and which we have still cause to fear though several Artifices are used to smother and stifle it but let us remember that many times the less noise the more danger But to pass this as not so pertinent at present Our work is what the Psalmist was to consider the days of old and the years Psal 77 5 11 12. of ancient times to remember the works of the Lord even his wonders to meditate of all his works and to tell of all his doing Now these ancient mercies God hath made them that they Psal 111. 4. should be had in remembrance that we should declare them to our Children Moses spends the four first Chapters of Deuteronomy in recording of them and God himself made a Statute-Law to Israel which they observed for so we find them speaking I will utter dark Psal 78. 2 3 4 6. sayings of old which we have heard and known and our Fathers have told us We will not hide them from our children shewing to the Generations to come the praises of the Lord and his strength and the wonderful works that he hath done That the Generation to come might know them even the Children which should be born who should arise and declare them to their Children Now to mention no more There are two great deliverances ancient deliverances which God hath given to his Church and people in England from their inveterate and implacable enemies the Papiss From the Spanish Invasion in 88 From the Gunpowder Treason in 1605. Two such deliverances that our eyes have not seen nor our ears have heard nor could our Fathers tell us of the like One by Strand the other by Land One from a Fleet and as they call'd it an invincible Armado sent forth by the King of Spain's great and vast Charge long Preparation the Popes blessing furnished with his best and most zealous Soldiers all manner of Instruments of Cruelty Whips and Knives engraven in Spanish with words which in English are To cut the Throats of the English Hereticks The other from a Vault under ground charged with many Barrels of Gun-powder Billets and Faggots c. A Monks Invention that would had not God prevented with one blast destroyed both King and Kingdom the most sudden cruel and unmerciful instrument of Death Both of these gracious deliverances from the hands of our most implacable enemies the sworn Vassal of the Papal Throne that sought not only and they are still of the same humour our Land and Estates and Livelihoods but our Lives our Souls our Consciences even our utter Destruction to have brought us under the Tyranny of a Foreign Prince and the unutterable and unconceivable Cruelty of the Papal Usurpation and Inquisition Not from roaring Enemies but such as were Vipers that sting to Death without any hissing at all Such was this deliverance the thankful memorial whereof we now celebrate From Hamans Plot to some From Babylons power and dominion to the rest To those who would not comply with them and embrace their superstitious idolatrous Principles and Practises to them from Death To those that were Protestants in Masquerade or Atheistical indifferent to all Religions notwithstanding fancy to the contrary that deliverance was from servitude slavery and bondage Englishmens Land and Goods let the Owners be what they will will be always judged by Jesuited Foreiners heretical when they are victorious over us which God forbid Have we then not great reason that are and have been the redeemed of the Lord whom he hath delivered from the Egyptian darkness of Popery from the worse than Babylonish Cruelty and barbarous oppression of Popish enemies from the Devilish Treachery and Conspiracy of others by the Discovery of the late Plot Have we not great reason I say to sing aloud with the Psalmist and say We will praise the Lord with our whole heart in the Assembly of Psal 111. 1. the upright and in the Congregation The works of the Lord are great sought out of all them that have 2. pleasure therein His work is honourable and glorious and his righteousness endureth 3. for ever He hath made his wonderful works to be remembred the Lord is 4. gracious and full of Compassion He hath sent Redemption unto his people c. 9. In furtherance of this common piety and to refresh our Memories and quicken our Devotion I have made choice of the Scripture first read as pertinent to the occasion Text Then Samuel took a stone and set it between Mizpeh and Shen and called the name of it Eben-Ezer saying hitherto hath God helped us In which we have considerable 1. Something supposed 2. Something exprest 1. Supposed 1. Their danger from their enemies who were the Philistines 2. The cause of it Their

countenance habit and gesture bind the sacrifice with cords unto the horns of the Altar Let our hearts Psal 118. 27. be glad and our Glory our tongue rejoyce Bless the Lord Psal 16. 9. in the Congregation Let the Singers go before and the Players Psal 68. 25. 26. on the Instruments follow after Let us say with the Psalmist My lips shall greatly rejoyce when I sing unto thee and my soul which thou hast redeemed My Tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long for they are confounded they are brought unto shame that seek my hurt But let us be sure that our joy and rejoycing may be in the Lord such as God may be pleased with Not in the day of our Kings deliverance make our selves or others sick with bottles of Wine not sit down to eat and Hos 7. 5. drink healths and rise up to play for with such mirth God is Exod. 32. 6. not well pleased but doth threaten to spread the dung of such 1 Cor. 10. 5. feasts upon their faces and curse their Blessings Mal. 2. 3. Now that our rejoycing may please God we must begin with Halelujah and end with Hosannah David gives us a pattern Open to me the gates of Righteousness Psal 118. 19. 25. I will go into them and I will praise the Lord. Save now O Lord I beseech thee I beseech thee send now prosperity Thus should we be joyful in Gods house of prayer but still Isal 56. 7. remember to rejoyce in trembling because we know not what a Psal 2. 11. day may bring forth Prov. 27. 1. Joyn we then praise and prayer thanksgiving for the mercies we have received and prayers for the mercies we still stand in need of All the Psalms are reducible to two words Halelujah and Hosanna not to be severed Neither of these if alone will prosper nor are acceptable when not united O then let us now do both praise God for our former and latter Deliverances from the many attempts of our Popish Adversaries the Spanish Invasion Gunpowder Treason many preservations of Queen Elizabeth of blessed memory and our own deliverance from their truly real Plot and intended Mischief which God preserve us from Pray unto him for the continuance of his gracions providence over us and protection of us For suppose that all were dead that sought our lives Say they are but is the Devil dead too If he be not it steds not much if they were His Powder Mill will still be going he will be as busie as ever in turning over all his devices in turning himself into as many shapes as Proteus and all to turn us to mischief And therefore we have and shall have always cause to follow our Halelujah's with our Hosanna's pray as well as praise in reference to our Popish Adversaries That God would abate their pride asswage their malice and confound their devices That the Life of our most Gracious King may be preserved the Protestant Religion our Lives and Liberties secured from all the devilish attempts of our implacable enemies the Jesuits and their Proselytes Oh let all that are now in the House of the Lord especially those amongst us that are of the House of the Lord earnestly and affectionately pray for our most Gracious King as in duty we are bound because God commands it and out of respect to 1 Tim. 2. 2. our own tranquility that is wrapt up in his safety that God would continue forth his goodness towards him and bless him with length of days with strength of health with the encrease of all Honour and happiness with Terror in the eyes of his Enemies with Grace in the eyes of his Subjects with whatsoever David or Solomon or any other King that was happy was blessed with a long continuance of the Peace and Glory of his Kingdoms on earth and with the eternal Kingdom of Glory and Peace in the highest Heaven To which God bring us all for his infinite mercy through Jesus our blessed Saviour Amen Amen FINIS