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A30430	A sermon preached before the House of Peers in the Abbey of Westminster, on the 5th of November, 1689, being Gun-Powder Treason-Day, as likewise the day of His Majesties landing in England by the Right Reverend Father in God Gilbert Lord Bishop of Sarum.	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1689 (1689)	Wing B5889; ESTC R4055	13,400	39

Die Mercurii 6. Novembris 1689. ORdered by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament Assembled That the Thanks of this House be given to the Lord Bishop of Salisbury for his Sermon Preached yesterday before this House And his Lordship is hereby desired to Print and Publish the same Jo. Browne Cleric Parliament A SERMON Preached before the House of Peers IN THE ABBEY of WESTMINSTER On the 5th of November 1689. BEING GUN-POWDER TREASON-DAY As Likewise The Day of his Majesties Landing IN ENGLAND By the Right Reverend Father in God GILBERT Lord Bishop of SARVM LONDON Printed for Ric. Chiswel at the Rose and Crown in St. Pauls Church-yard MDCLXXXIX THE BISHOP OF SALISBURY'S Sermon before the Lords November 5th 1689. A SERMON Preached before the HOUSE of PEERS IN THE ABBEY of WESTMINSTER On the Fifth of November 1689. Micah VI. Verse 5. O my People remember now what Balak King of Moab consulted and what Balaam the Son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal that ye may know the Righteousness of the Lord. THERE is somewhat in Ease and Prosperity that does so weaken the Minds of Men who are apt enough even without that softning to forget all the Good they receive and both the Author of it and the Instruments made use of by him in it that it is necessary to call upon them often to reflect on what is past and that not only on these visible Blessings of God to them that fall under the observation of all the World but on the secret methods as well as the hidden designs of Providence We are naturally apt to flatter our selves so much that we do easily imagine that the happy things which at any time befal us are the effects of our Wisdom or the rewards of our Vertues if a worse principle does not corrupt us and make us ascribe them either to Fate or Chance No Nation had ever such a wonderful series of Blessings that did so distinguish them from all the World round about them and gave them such signal Evidences of God's Power and greatness of his Mercy and severity of his hatred of Idolatry as well as of the Authority of their Law and Religion as the Iews had and yet never was there any Nation under Heaven that was so apt to forget all this and to revolt from God into that very Idolatry which they saw him punish so severely in others Never was there a more amasing Scene than that which they had seen in Egypt in the Red Sea and on Mount Sinai the Miracles came so thick one after another they were both so various and extraordinary and they were so often and so long repeated that to one who lays together all that they saw in a course of Forty years it appears as astonishing a part of that History as any of all the Miracles recorded in it that a People which had such a wonderful Evidence given them for their Religion should yet have been so bent to Idolatry and so apt to forget God and all that he had done for them No Nation now in the World can be in this respect so guilty as they were because none have seen such Miracles But setting aside extraordinary things it may be affirmed without any arrogant preferring our own Nation to others or any partiality for our selves in imagining that we are God's favourite People that within this last Age or if we will carry up the matter to so blessed a Period as the Reformation that ever since that time we have had as many of the distinguishing Characters of the Iewish Nation upon us both in the Blessings that we have received from God on the one hand and in our Ingratitude to him on the other as any under Heaven The wonderful conjuncture of Circumstances that concurred to give the Reformation its first footing among us The terrible but short lived shaking it had in Queen Mary's time which served only to awaken and to prepare the Nation to the long and glorious Reign of Queen Elizabeth The discovering and defeating all the Designs that were laid both against her Person and Government The signal overthrow of the boasted Invincible Armada The Uniting the Island afterwards under one Head by which we were delivered from the danger of War within our selves The many Rebellions of the Irish which gave occasion to so vast a Colony to be sent thither which rendred that Island that had been an Incumbrance on the Government before so useful to it The encrease of our Trade the many Colonies that we have sent into America The preserving us during our Civil Wars from being made a prey to our Neighbours and from Strangers getting footing among us The putting an end to Anarchy and Enthusiasm in so serene a manner in the Year 60. the long continued Peace and Happiness since that time and the preserving us from our own Follies and the restraining those Passions which had like to have been fatal to us if the precipitated haste of our Enemies had not brought us to our Senses again before it was too late But to come to the repeated Deliverances of this Auspicious Day when one Train that was laid to blow up the Nation in its Head and Representatives that was so well managed and brought so near the Critical Minute was just then discovered and prevented and now again when another that was laid to destroy both Church and State not only in their Representatives but in Person has been not indeed discovered but happily prevented and brought to nothing For our late Conspirators were not so cautious as to hide the Fuel that was prepared for our Destruction since we saw them persecute in so many other places of Europe at the same time that they talked of Toleration here among us When I say we have had such a Series of Deliverances as perhaps cannot be matched in History since that of the Israelites coming out of Egypt there is but one thing wanting to make the Parallel compleat and that is our Ingratitude The Israelites were always murmuring both against God and against the Instruments whom he had raised up for their Deliverance and after all that they had seen to render Idolatry detestable to them yet they were always apt to relapse into it But here the Parallel agrees too exactly for it is but too apparent that upon every new Instance of Gods care of us we have given also new Instances of our Rebellion and Ingratitude of our not only forgetting his Mercies but Repining at them and of our hardning our selves in our Vices and ill Nature God charged his Ancient People in the Words before my Text O my People what have I done unto thee and wherein have I weari●● thee testifie against me for I brought thee up out of the Land of Egypt and redeemed thee out of the House of Servants and I sent before thee M●ses Aaron and Miriam These Words may be applied to this Nation in some respect more literally than to the