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England's call to thankfulness for her great deliverance from popery and arbitrary power by the glorious conduct of the Prince of Orange (now King of England) in the year 1688 in a sermon preach'd in the parish-church of Almer in Dorsetshire on February the 14th, 1688/9 / by John Olliffe ...
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A Thanksgiving-Sermon FOR Deliverance of this Kingdom FROM Popery and Arbitrary Power The Publisher to the Reader THIS Sermon had been published sooner had not the Carrier â—ept it several Weeks in his Hands before he delivered it yet I hope the pious Reader will not think it comes too late for publick Vse when he considers the Occasion and the Matter of it and how excellently well it is managed by the Reverend Author So great and amazing are the Providences of God towards us in England in delivering us from Popery and Arbitrary Power by the glorious Conduct of the Prince of Orange now our Gratious King that discourses of this Nature which so well represent the Glories of this Deliverance should never be esteemed unseasonable and 't is hop'd the Wisdom of the Nation will make the Duty of Thankfulness anniversary on this account that so the present and future Generations may praise the Lord for his Goodness and for his wonderful Works to us the Children of Men in this Island I heartily wish our present Murmurers commonly called Grumbletonians would but seriously consider how conspicuously the Wisdom Power and Goodness of God appear in the late Revolutions I think then they would be convinced if they do not wilfully shut their Eyes against the Beams of Divine Majesty how great their Sin is in provoking the great God at the Red-Sea even at the Red-Sea of our Deliverance by hankering after the Onions and Garlick of Egypt I pray God open all our Eyes that we may know in this our Day the things that belong to our Peace before they be hid from us Amen ENGLAND's CALL TO THANKFULNESS FOR Her Great DELIVERANCE FROM POPERY and ARBITRARY POWER By the Glorious Conduct of the Prince of Orange now King of England in the Year 1688. In a Sermon preach'd in the Parish-Church of Almer in Dorsetshire on February the 14th 1688 / 9 By JOHN OLLIFFE RECTOR there LONDON printed for Ionathan Robinson at the Golden Lion in St. Paul's Church-Yard MDCLXXXIX PSALM cxxvi ver 3. The Lord hath done great things for us whereof we are glad THE Design of our assembling together at this time is to render Thanks to Almighty God for the late great Deliverance which he has wrought for us from the subtile and dangerous Attempts of our Popish Enemies to subvert our Government and Religion and to implore his farther Blessing and Assistance that that may be perfected which is so happily begun And surely if we have been awake to take notice of things if we have had our Eyes open to see and observe the several Transactions of Providence which have been in our Behalf in this respect we cannot but think this a very reasonable Service And you will easily perceive the Words which I have read to you out of the Psalmist to be a fit Subject of my Discourse upon this occasion This Psalm was composed as appeareth by the subject matter of it at the return of the Jewish People from Babylon after their long and hard Bondage there which was a Mercy of so great and strange a Nature that it filled them with Admiration and Astonishment to consider of it that they could scarce believe their own Eyes and Ears in what they heard and saw but were so surprized with it that they thought it to be but a Dream or Delusion of their own Fancies ver 1. When the Lord turned again the Captivity Sion we were like them that dream And the Heathen were as much amazed and startled at it as they ver 2. For then said they among the Heathens The Lord hath done great things for them It was the wonder of all that an Heathen Emperour of his own free motion should set at Liberty a captive People and send them to their own Land a People despised and scorned of all when it had been esteemed the Policy of all the former Kings to destroy and ruin that singular sort of Common-wealth that was separate from all People that had been the great Eye-sore of all the Nations about And this mighty Prince doth not only freely discharge them and send them back into their own Country but assists them in the building of their Temple and setting up the Worship of the true God of Israel whose Ordinances were different from all People well might they therefore be amazed and wonder at so strange a Revolution and turn of things And here in this verse now they ascribe and attribute all to God they own it to be his Work though Cyrus was the Instrument and that it was a great Work indeed which rightly called for Joy and Thankfulness The Lord hath done great things for us whereof we are glad And that which the Jews here say in their Thanksgiving and Praise I think we of this Nation have cause likewise to say at this time viz. That the Lord hath done great things for us and that there is justly due to him a Tribute of delightful Praise now as there was from them then Let us consider therefore I. The great Things that God hath done for us And II. The Praise that is due to him for the same I. Let us consider the great Things that God hath done for us which will appear to be great indeed if we consider them even nakedly in themselves and much more if they are considered in their Circumstances First The Things which God hath done for us are very great in themselves For it is no less than the saving of our English Government from apparent Ruin the recovering of our Rights from Arbitrary Invasions the securing of our Liberties and Properties and above all the preserving our Religion which was in manifest Hazard of being undermined and destroyed and the preventing the Massacres and Bloodshed which probably must have attended the same It is agreed on all hands that the English Government was in the way to ruin the force of Laws even in themselves as Laws was enervated and many mortal Blows were given to the Legislative Power it self in its very Fundamentals and the Rights of Men imbodied in Corporations and the particular Liberties of Persons were no longer secure to any when once they stood in Competition with Popish Designs But this inslaving of our Bodies and depriving us of our outward Rights was the least of those Miseries that were growing upon us and which we were already in part groaning under That which is worse is the Inslaving of our Souls and Consciences by a mighty Power which goeth to check-mate it with Almighty God himself This was coming on us amain like an overflowing Deluge invading the Land. For those that think most moderately of the Administration of things before must allow that all that Liberty that was promised or given was no farther intended than as it was hoped it might be an Introduction to a more Arbitrary Invasion of our Laws and a means of Establishment and Increase of the Romish Religion among us And it is well known what the
as a Thief if they did not watch so that they should not know â—n what Hour he would come upon them This is partly true of us now he hath come on us indeed like a Thief as to the Suddenness of it but it hath not been to kill and destroy but in one Hour as it were is all this Salvation unexpectedly wrought Surely we have seen strange things to day And now considering his wonderful Grace and Kindness to us together with our former Sins and Ingratitude 't is high time for â—s to awake to Repentance and to give up our selves to him in an Holy intire Obedience We must repent then of our past Wickedness and set up a present Reformation that our Mercies may be lasting to us and may be intailed upon the Generations to come We had need all of us mourn every Family apart the Family of the House of David and the Family of the House of Nathan and the Family of the House of Levi and the Family of Shimei And it doth not at all an become the Solemnity of this Day when we are returning Thanks for Mercies yet bitterly to bewail our Sins which inhance the Greatness of God's Mercy to us and might have justly made us to have expected other things And O that God would be pleased to pour out a Spirit of Prayer and Supplication upon all Flesh among us for that End But we must not only reflect with Sorrow upon times past our chief Work is yet to come And that is that we labour for a thorow and National Reformation which though we that are in private Capacities cannot do much to yet we should labour to do what we can that as we have contributed to the national Guilt by our Omissions and evil Practices and Examples so now we may by the same ways promote a National Repentance And what we cannot do our selves let us help by our devout and earnest Prayers at the Throne of Grace that Holiness beginning at the Throne may flow down through all the Channels of Office and Magistracy to the meanest Person of the Land. Let not Holiness suffer for the Miscarriages of some of its Professours But let Piety come into Reputation again and let it be an Honour to Men to be as good as may be which would soon be if all in high place would publickly own and defend it We have good Laws already that all agree in for the suppressing of all Irreligion and Immorality There is no party can have the Face to desire and beg a Toleration here Let these be put into Execution and let Vice be outfac'd that hath been so bold and impudent among us so long If Men will rant and damn and swear and be drunk let them do it in Corners but let them not dare to appear abroad to infect others by their pestilent Breath If Men will dare to affront God and commit Villanies and Excess let them be stigmatized and let a Mark be set upon them that they may become the Observation and Scorn of all if they forfeit Pity by their Irreclaimableness If Men will not become truly religious yet however they ought to be kept from abusing Religion There is no civiliz'd Nation but hath always thought Religion and Vertue its greatest Honour and Interest Atheists themselves will allow that 't is convenient for the publick Good. And therefore those that decry and discourage it or give Countenance to Irreligion and Sin ought to be accounted the very Pests of Mankind and are really the worst of Traitors and Enemies that any State can have And the greatest Kindness therefore that we can show to our Native Country is by becoming truly religious and good This is the way to engage God on our side to prevent the Miscarrying of that Deliverance at last that hath had so blessed a Beginning and to obtain a Blessing upon the publick Counsels and Endeavours and doth in its own Nature tend to promote the Honour the Quiet and the Happiness of the Land. If Parents would be religious in educating their Children and would but take as much Pains to instruct and nurture them up in the Knowledg of God as they do teach them any Arts and Sciences If rich Men and Gentlemen would be religious and there by influence their poor Neighbours to like and practise the same If publick Officers would be religious and restrain Sin as they might by their Example and Authority If they that teach others to be religious would be truly religious themselves and become Examples of it to the Flock then we should soon have as it were new Heavens and a new Earth and if we would but thus do our Duty to God and our Neighbour we may be sure he will not fail to pour down his Blessings upon us Let us therefore all consider our ways and as now we rejoice and are glad at the great and strange things that God hath done for us let us see that we make a grateful Return to God of a suitable Obedience let Religion be our Study in all its parts let us keep his Sabbaths and observe his Ordinances let us read and study his Word to this end that we may be better and let our Delight be in the Law of the Lord let us tremble at his Name and do his Will let us fly from Sin and mortify our Lusts let us particularly see that we remember the new Commandment of our blessed Saviour that we love one another and that we live together as Brethren Let us consider that Religion doth not consist in Meat and Drink but in Righteousness and Peace and Joy in the Holy Ghost And let this our Sion be filled with Judgment and Righteousness And Oh that Wisdom and Knowledg may be the Stability of our times and Strength of our Salvation and that the Fear of the Lord may be our Treasure Then the Work of Righteousness shall be Peace and the Effect of Righteousness Quietness and Assurance for ever then Violence shall no more be heard in our Land nor Wasting and Destruction in all our Borders but we shall call our Walls Salvation and our Gates Praise And the Lord shall be unto us an everlasting Light and our God our Glory The Sun shall no more go down neither shall the Moon withdraw her self For the Lord shall be our everlasting Light and the Days of our Mourning shall be ended FINIS Books lately Printed and Sold by Jonathan Robinson at the Golden Lion in St. Pauls Church-yard relating to the great Revolutions and Affairs in England 1688 1689. AN Account of the Reasons of the Nobility and Gentry's Invitation of the Prince of Orange into England Being a Memorial from the English Protestants concerning their Grievances with a large Account of the Birth of the Prince of Wales presented to their Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Orange A Collection of Political and Historical Papers relating to the Present Juncture of Affairs in England in eleven Parts which will be Continued from Time to Time according as Matter occurs A Brief History of the Succession of the Crown of England c. Collected out of the Records and the most Authentick Historians written for the Satisfaction of the Nation Wonderful Predictions of Nostredamus Grebner David Pareus and Autonius Torquatus wherein the Grandeur of their Present Majesties the Happiness of England and Downfall of France and Rome are plainly Delineated With a large Preface shewing That the Crown of England has not been obscurely foretold to their Majesties William the 3d and Queen Mary late Prince and Princess of Orange and that the People of this Ancient Monarchy have duly contributed thereunto in the present Assembly of Lords and Commons notwithstanding the Objections of Men of different Extremes Julian's Arts to Undermine and Extirpate Christianity c. By Samuel Johnson The Impression of which Book was made in the Year 1683 and has ever since â—â—in buried under the Ruins of all those English Rights which it endeavoured to defend but by the Auspicious and Happy Arrival of the Prince of Orange both They and It have obtained a Resurrection The Mystery of Iniquity working in the Dividing of Protestants in order to the subverting of Religion and our Laws for almost the space of thirty Years last past plainly laid open With some Advices to Protestants of all Perswasions in the present Juncture of our Affairs To which is added A Specimen of a Bill for uniting of Protestants Liberty of Conscience now highly necessary for England humbly represented to this present Parliament A Friendly Debate between Dr. Kingsman a dissatisfied Clergy-man and Gratianus Trimmer a Neighbour Minister concerning the late thanksgiving-Thanksgiving-Day the Prince's Descent into England the Nobility and Gentries joining with him the Acts of the Honourable Convention the Nature of our English Government â—â—e Secret League with France the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy c. With some Considerations on Bishop Sanderson and Dr. Falkner about Monarchy â—â—thâ— c. Written for the Satisfaction of some of the Clergy and others that 〈…〉 under Scruples By a Minister of the Church of England 〈…〉 reproved in a Sermon on 1 Cor. 10.10 By Mr. Hopkins