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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56272	A sermon preached in Christ-Church before His Excellency the Lord Deputy and the Parliament, on the fifth day of November, 1695 being the anniversary thanksgiving for the happy deliverance of K. James Ist, and the three estates of the realm of England from the most trayterous intended massacre by gun-powder : and also for the happy arrival of His present Majesty K. William on that day, for the deliverance of our church and nation / by Tobias, Lord Bishop of Dromore.	Pullen, Tobias, 1648-1713.	1695 (1695)	Wing P4195; ESTC R38013	11,068	20

A SERMON PREACHED In CHRIST-CHURCH BEFORE His Excellency the Lord Deputy And the Parliament On the Fifth day of November 1695. BEING The Anniversary Thanksgiving For the Happy Deliverance of K. James 1st and the Three Estates of the Realm of England from the most Trayterous Intended Massacre by Gun-Powder And also for the happy Arrival of his Present Majesty K. WILLIAM on that Day for the deliverance of our Church and Nation By TOBIAS Lord Bishop of Dromore DUBLIN Printed for William Norman in Dames-street 1695. Thursday the 7th of November 1695 By the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament Assembled ORDERED On motion that the Earl of Inchiquin and the Lord Viscount Blessinton to give the Thanks of this House to the Lord Bishop of Dromore for his Sermon Preached before this House at Christ Chuch on Tuesday last being the Anniversary of the Fifth of November and desire his Lordship would please to cause his Sermon to be Printed Gerard Bor. Cler. Parliamentor A SERMON PREACHED In Christ-Church c. Psalm 118. Verse 24. This is the day which the Lord hath made we will rejoyce and be glad in it 'T IS a question propounded by the wise Son of Sirach in the 33 d Chap. of Ecclesiasticus at the 7th verse Why does one day excel another when as the light of every day in the year is of the Sun and he wisely resolves it in these following words by the knowledge of the Lord they were distinguisht and he alter'd seasons and feasts some of them has he made high days and some of them has he made ordinary days some of them has he blessed and exalted and some of them has he sanctified and set near himself For as all the works of God are full of wonder and every one of 'em deserves to be awfully regarded and religiously admir'd so there are some of 'em of a more eminent and exalted nature and of a more rare and unusual occurrence and these remarkable works being plac't by God himself in a higher and more elevated station than ordinary may therefore justly challenge from us men a more solemn honour and a more frequent commemoration of them And as the extraordinary manifestation of God's presence to Moses in the Bush did make the place whereon he stood to be holy ground so the extraordinary marks of God's grace and favour to the Prophet David at some particular times and seasons did make those days whereon these mighty works were wrought to be deservedly esteem'd and devoutly observ'd as holy days and 't was some signal demonstration of God's almighty power and goodness in the miraculous preservation of David's Person and Kingdom and the utter destruction of his inveterate Enemies that mov'd him so carefully to remind his people of this remarkable deliverance and so earnestly to exhort 'em to a publick and solemn Thanksgiving for so great a mercy as is evident by the words of my Text This is the day which the Lord hath made we will rejoyce and be glad in it There are two things in the Text that plainly offer themselves to our consideration First that there was some particular day which was made remarkable by God's extraordinary Providence in delivering King David and his people from some imminent danger Secondly that as a token of their thankfulness for so signal a mercy they were resolv'd to solemnize that remarkable day as a day of publick and religious joy In reference to the first of these I shall insist on these following Propositions First that as God's mercy is over all his works so his providence does more especially concern it self in the preservation of States and Kingdoms Secondly that Almighty God does more remarkably employ his power and goodness in the protection of religious States and Kingdoms professing his holy and eternal Truth Thirdly that there are some particular events that plainly discover the special hand of God in the management of ' em Fourthly that it is the indispensible duty of the people of God both carefully to remark and religiously to celebrate the miraculous dispensations of Divine Providence in the preservation of his Church And Fifthly that the gracious deliverance that God was pleas'd to vouchsafe these Nations as on this day has very illustrious marks of an extraordinary Providence imprest upon it First I say as God's Mercy is over all his works so his Providence does more especially concern it self in the preservation of States and Kingdoms Among the innumerable benefits that the planting of the Christian Religion has oblig'd the world withal the clear discovery of an universal Providence more especially exprest in the guidance and management of human affairs may reasonably be accounted a very considerable and extraordinary blessing for by the promulgation of the Gospel we are all infallibly assur'd that God's Providence is extended not only to things that are most distant and conceal'd from human view but also to the most minute and seemingly contemptible objects and occurrences Thus our Saviour speaks to his Disciples Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing yet not one of them does fall to th' ground without your Father and again he tells his disciples in the following words that the very hairs of their heads were all numbred So that as nothing is so little as to escape God's Knowledge so nothing is so despicable as to be disdain'd by his Providence For whatsoever he was pleas'd to Create by his power will certainly be taken care of by his goodness Yet since there are different degrees of excellency in the Creatures we may reasonably conclude that according to the various measures of their respective perfections the power and mercy of Almighty God will be more or less concern'd in their protection and defence Now since man is the glory of the visible World and all things we here behold are particularly design'd for his benefit and accommodation we may assure our selves that we are the principal objects of God's watchful eye and that his care in the preservation of our persons and the promoting of our welfare will express it self in a more illustrous manner than in consulting the safety and advantage of our fellow-creatures here below And since the publick interest of States and Kingdoms is of a far greater and momentous a concern than that of private persons it has been generally observ'd in all preceding ages from the foundation of the World that Divine Providence has been often very eminently visible in preventing the dissolution of States and Empires and accordingly we read in the Prophet Daniel in the 10th Chapter of his Prophecy that God has been pleas'd to appoint particular Tuteler Angels over several Countreys to manage publick affairs and to promote the common good of their respective charges by invisible ways and methods inconceivable by humane understanding For in the 13th verse of that 10th Chapter the Angel that converst with Daniel tells him that the Prince of the Kingdom of Persia withstood him one and twenty