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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93860	Reflections upon the occurrences of the last year from 5 Nov. 1688 to 5 Nov. 1689. Wherein, the happy progress of the late Revolution, and the unhappy progress of affairs since, are considered; the original of the latter discovered, and the proper means for remedy proposed and recommended.	Stephens, Edward, d. 1706.	1689 (1689)	Wing S5437A; ESTC R188769	30,811	50

REFLECTIONS UPON THE OCCURRENCES OF THE LAST YEAR From 5 Nov. 1688. to 5 Nov. 1689. WHEREIN The Happy Progress of the late Revolution and Vnhappy Progress of Affairs since are Considered The Original of the latter discovered and the proper Means for Remedy Proposed and Recommended PROV XXVII 5 6. Open Rebuke is better than secret Love Faithful are the Wounds of a Friend but the Kisses of an Enemy are deceitful London Printed in the Year 1689. Advertisement THese Papers though in Print were not Printed for vulgar View but for the use of such as are principally concerned in them and therefore in number proportionable to that intention They contain a search into a dangerous Sore which cannot faithfully be performed without some smart to the Patient And in such case they who are wise will not rage and storm at the Hand which toucheth them but consider that it is but what is necessary to prevent greater Mischief in time Perhaps the Operation might have been performed more tenderly by others but more faithfully it could not have been done by any If any blame it as a Work of too much Officiousness for one thus to obtrude himself before he be sent for it must be remembred that he had some concern in as well as for the Safety of the Patient And were it not so yet the good Samaritan for his good Office in supplying the neglect of the Priest and the Levite was not censured but approved by the Great Physitian our Lord and Saviour If after all any one will be troublesom he is hereby admonished to be wise and consider first how he will clear himself before the supream Judge who will certainly take Cognizance of the Cause and give Righteous Judgment upon each For for his Service it was done and to him the Success is intirely committed The Reader is desired to strike out IN some Copies page 1. line 4. from two notable c. to Deliverances were l. 8. and instead thereof to insert after the word November l. 12. And in this that they were Deliverances from Conspiracies of the same inveterate Enemies though at so great a distance of time and of quite different Form and Contrivance the first secret under-ground and in the dark the other bare-fac'd above-board and visible to the VVorld And to read p. 9. l. 31. had not then p. 11. l. 33. among them p. 17. l. 26. Predecessors of the last race in p. 18. l. 24. Nati p. 21. l. 21. by any p. 32. l. 2. systematical Other mere literal Faults being left to his own Observation REFLECTIONS UPON THE OCCURRENCES OF THE LAST YEAR WE are now by the course of Time and Providence of God brought to an Vnited Solemn Anniversary Commemoration of two great Deliverances of this Nation from two notable Conspiracies of our inveterate Enemies the one secret and under ground in the dark the other bare-faced above-board and visible to the World And the Deliverances were one of our Ancestors but in them of our selves about one Age that is 84 years since the other of our own selves commencing in the Princes Arrival but one year since But both concurring in the same happy and memorable Day of the Fifth of November Almighty God of his Infinite Goodness and Wisdom was pleased not only to renew his Mercies to us to do it when considering the corrupt and vicious State of the Nation we had great reason rather to fear some severe Judgment to do it in such a Manner as might make his Divine Power and Efficacy in it the more apparent but to do it with such Circumstances of Time as might mind us also of his former Mercies of his long continued Favour and the constancy of his Providence over us the more to endear his Goodness to us and to oblige us the more effectually to himself The Year that of Eighty Eight to mind us of the famous Eighty Eight one Hundred Years before in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth when the Wind and the Sea by his Divine Direction fought for us against a supposed Invincible Armado And the Day of the PRINCE's Landing determined by the remarkable Motion of the Wind under the same Divine Direction to the very day of the Fifth of November to mind us of the Deliverance in the Reign of King James the First upon the same day from one of the most Barbarous and Hellish Conspiracies that the World hath known And certainly they must be very dull and stupid Souls who by such Admonitions as these are not provoked to Consider with Admiration and raised Affections the observable Course of the Divine Providence in preserving this Nation from such various and continual Machinations of the Antichristian Faction not only during the long Reign of four and forty Years of that Queen but for this full 130 Years from her Accession to the Crown unto this late Revolution As these Circumstances of the Time invite us to look backward upon the former course of Divine Providence in the Occurrences of this Nation so there is another Circumstance in our late Deliverance which doth no less excite our Consideration and oblige us to look forward upon what hath since occurred in the space of this one Year last past And that is the eminent and wonderful Manner of the Revolution The Deliverance it self was so full fraught with Mercies and Favours from Heaven that every Circumstance had some special obliging Favour in it and this of the manner more than one It was no small favour that it was effected with so much Ease to us and with the Effusion of so little Blood especially considering the general Corruption of the manners of all sorts of People among us which not only deserved but seemed to need and require a Purgation But the Merciful God it seems was pleased first to try whether there was so much Ingenuity left among us as to be wrought upon by his more gentle method of so surprising a Mercy and eminent Deliverance which if it be not will certainly aggravate the sin of the Nation and in all probability increase and hasten some remarkable Judgment upon it But that which I principally intend here is that it was carried on with a high Hand like that of the Children of Israel in so powerful and eminent a manner a certain Dread and Terror going before as makes the Providence of God visible his Power known and gives a great Indication of his special Presence by his Invisible Ministers in it This is such a special Favour and produeeth such special Obligations upon us as must needs highly aggravate the Crime of any unsuitable Return as not only Notorious Ingratitude for an extraordinary Benefit but a kind of contempt or slighting of so great a Benefactor to his Face Behold I send my Angel before thee to keep thee in the way and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared Saith God to Moses and then subjoyns this Caution Beware of him and obey his Voice provoke