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A30428	A sermon preached before the House of Commons, on the 31st of January, 1688 being the thanksgiving-day for the deliverance of this kingdom from popery and arbitrary power, by His Highness the Prince of Orange's means / by Gilbert Burnet ...	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1689 (1689)	Wing B5885; ESTC R22904	17,313	44

but an interval of a moments breathing to try whether we are fit for a total deliverance or indeed capable of it or not but that this being abused and lost by us we must next fall under more dismal Calamities even than those that we lately feared and that we shall be a hissing and a reproach to all the Earth I shall not now enlarge upon those things that every private person ought to do for diverting so terrible a desolation but shall only Name those things that all good Men expect from your Councils The first is To secure us for ever as far as humane Wisdom and the force of Law can do it from ever falling under the just apprehensions of the return of Idolatry any more amongst us and the making the best provisions possible against those dangers that lay on us so lately 2. To beat down that Irreligious and Atheistical humour that has gained so much ground among us and that impudently scoffs at all that is sacred in Religion you cannot indeed make Men become truly Religious but you can make them be both afraid and ashamed of professing themselves Atheists 3. You can in a great measure remove that scandal that falls on all Religion and on ours in particular which is occasioned by the diversity not so much of Opinions for God be thanked there is not much of that as of Rites and matters indifferent that so we may be brought to glorifie the Lord our God with one Heart and with one Mouth 4. You can make provisions for the support of so great a part of our Clergy who being destitute of the necessary means of subsistence are neither qualified for those Sacred imployments nor any way able to render themselves more capable for maintaining even the decencies of Divine Worship much less for the discharge of so high a Trust as is the care of Souls 5. You can concur in giving the last finishings to our Reformation Many of the Old corruptions doe yet remain among us in practise and the Administration of the Ecclesiastical authority is liable to great Objections I will not run out into farther particulars for it will be easie to find them and if you once set about it you will soon see what work there is before you 6. And in the last place you ought to put such Marks of acknowledgment for this great Deliverance both with relation to that God who has wrought it and to the happy Instrument by whom he has wrought it that there may be a frequent return of the full discharges of our gratitude Now our Fifth of November is to be enriched by a second Service since God has enobled it so far as to be the beginning of that which we may justly hope shall be our compleat Deliverance from all Plots and Conspiracies and that this second Blessing which has fallen on that Day shall darken if not quite wear out the former Let our Souls and all that is within us rejoyce in that God who has saved us from the Lyons Mouth and has heard us from the Horns of the Vnicorn Let us in the Words in which the Psalm begins Bless the Lord who is our Strength our Fortress and our Deliverer what are we that he has thus thought on us and sent his hand from above and delivered us from the hand of strange Children whose Mouth speaketh Vanity and whose Right Hand is a Right Hand of falsehood Let us for all this Sing a New Song to God even sing praises to him who has hitherto Delivered One that we hope shall be to us a David from the hurtful Sword. Let us meditate a little on this great Salvation that he has wrought for us and let us carry it on to those Glorious ends of settling our Religion and delivering our Nation not only from all Oppression and Injustice at present but from the danger of falling under it for the future And then let us Celebrate with the highest acknowledgments and the justest and gratefullest Returns possible Him through whose means we enjoy our quiet and you the liberty of this free and August Assembly Neither the Vastness nor the dangers of the undertaking could shake a mind that is above fear and yet beyond the restless Ambition that pushes on an unquiet Spirit He has saved the Nation but leaves it now the entire liberty of securing it self and you know best how this is so to be performed that there be no breaking in nor going out nor complaining in our Streets for happy is the People that is in such a Case yea and happy is the People whose God is the Lord. FINIS Books Lately Printed for RIC. CHISWELL Dr. BVRNETS History of the Reformation of the Church of England in II. Vol. fol Vindication of the Ordinations of the Church of England 4o. History of the Rights of Princes in disposing of Ecclesiastical Benefices and Church lands 12º Life of William Bedell Bishop of Kilmore in Ireland together with the Letters betwixt Him and Wadswork about Religion A Collection of Seventeen Tracts and Sermons written betwixt the years 1675 and 1688 to which is added Two Tracts by another Hand Viz. The History of the Powder Treason and an Impartial Consideration of the Five Jesuites dying Speeches who were Executed for the Popish Plot 1679. Reflexions on the Relation of the English Reformation put out by Ch. Walker of Oxon. Animadversions on the Reflexions upon Dr. Burnets Travels 12o. Reflexions on a Paper intitled his Majesties Reasons for withdrawing himself from Rochester Enquiry into the present State of Affairs and in particular whether we owe Allegiance to the King in these Circumstances And whether we are bound to Treat with Him and call Him back or no A Sermon before the Prince of Orange 23d Decemb. 1688. Dr. Iohn Lightfoots Works in II. Vol. Fol. together with his Life Disquisitiones Critica de variis per diversa loca Tempora Bibliorum editionibus 4º Eight Tracts against Popery lately Written by William Wake M. A. Preparation for Death in a Letter sent to a young Gentlewoman in it dangerous Distemper of which she died Dr. William Caves Lives of the Ancient Fathers in the IV. first Centuries in II. Vol. A Dissertation concerning the Government of the Ancient Church by Bishops Metropolitans and Patriarchs Dr. William Burtons several Discourses of Purity Charity Repentance and other Practical Subjects in a Vol. Oct. Reflexions upon the Books of the Holy Scripture to establish the Truth of the Christian Religion in Two Parts Oct. Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Historia Literaria a Christo nato usque ad Saeculum XIV Facili Methodo digesta Qua de Vita illorum ac Rebus gestis de Secta Dogmatibus Elogio Stylo de Scriptis genuinis dubiis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 deperditis Fragmentis deque variis Operum Editionibus perspicue agitur Accedunt Scriptores Gentiles Christiane Religionis Oppugnatores cujusuis Saeculi Breviarium Inserantur suis locis Veterum aliquod Opuscula Fragmenta tum Graeca tum Latina hactenus inedita Praemissa denique Prolegomena quibus plurima ad Antiquitatis Ecclesiasticae studium spectantia traduntur Opus Indicibus necessariis instructum Autore GVILIELMO CAVE SS Theol Profes Canonico Windesoriensi Accedit ab Alia Manu Appendix ab ineunte Saeculo XIV ad Annum usque MDXVII Fol. 1689. FINIS Isa. 5. 7. Eccles. 4. 1 2.