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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93841	King David's case apply'd to King James and King William in a sermon preach'd at Christ-Church, Dublin, on the fifth of November, 1691 / by John Stearne ...	Stearne, John, 1660-1745.	1691 (1691)	Wing S5358; ESTC R42759	10,294	16

about a quiet Submission to that Mighty Monarch whose Glory too many have vainly endeavour'd to turn into Shame tho' God has wonderfully set him apart for the Preservation of his People and the True Religion in more than our own Kingdoms For the Restoration and Security of the Romish Worship many Plots against King James the First both in Scotland and in England were Contriv'd and Carry'd on but Heaven disappointed all And as the like Reason or Pretence rather engag'd the Sons of Men in the Last Reign to make use of the most Unjust Methods and most Lamentable Shifts to put King William for everby the Succession so the same God did not only enable him to Conquer all those Difficulties but has also since Confirm'd him in the Possession of the Throne by a Compleater Victory over his Enemies The Hand of God has been so visible in cutting off many of them in driving others round the Nation and in scattering some from one Kingdom to another that some of themselves have heavily curs'd their Pretended Heir to our three Kingdoms as one Great Cause of all their Miseries The Prince of Wales indeed sounds like an Immediate Heir to the Crown of England but that Adopted Child of Royal Grace might have been as properly call'd King of Salom as Prince of Wales for we know neither his Father nor Mother nor Descent neither his Beginning of Days nor since he is got into France are we like to hear of his End of Life So that to borrow the Expression of a Learned Paraphrast concerning Melthizedeck he stands in Story as a kind of Immortal Prince without any Successour Tho' this Cheat was too gross to pass with the more Discerning People yet certainly it might in time have made a good After-Game for a great part of the Nation and the longer such an Imposture had kept Possession in the Minds of Men it wou'd have been remov'd with greater Difficulty Timely therefore did the Prince of Orange too Wise to be Impos'd on by a Pack of Women Knaves and Jesuites and too Brave and Daring to be frighten'd out of his Undoubted Right by any Hunslow Campaigns Resolve upon and prepare for the Deliverance of three Kingdoms from Popery and Slavery and on this Noted Day he came He came the Great Defender of our Faith and all that is dear to us in Mortality And since Almighty God has been so Prodigiously Merciful to these Nations as to raise up such a Mighty Deliverer for us in the Day of our Distress let us when we are out of the Throng of Worldly Concerns consider with our selves how little Reason we have to be Dissatisfy'd under the Present Government or rather how highly our Careful Monarch has oblig'd us all to study to be quiet and do our own business and so make his Reign easy unto him and a Blessing unto our selves The Sun has not twice gone his Annual Round since God and King William went forth with our Army to Battle and to Victory And can we already forget what Miseries we Suffer'd and what we Fear'd Had not the All-Wise God put a timely stop to the Violent Proceedings of some Bigotted Papists who strongly influenc'd the whole Party we might easily have foreseen that our Nation in a short time wou'd have groan'd under all those Miseries which our Brethren of the Reform'd Churches abroad have suffer'd under the Unmerciful Powers of France We cannot surely but remember when men imagin'd craftily against us and Gravely laid their Heads together in a Mock-Parliament House to undo us with One Consent when they said and were as good as their word Come and let us take to our selves the Houses of God in Possession And is it a Grateful Return for a Deliverance from such Inveterate and Implacable Enemies and the Restoration of our Pure Publick Worship for any to continue still so foolish as to imitate the peevish Israelites who desir'd a Deliverance from Egypt and when they were Deliver'd as earnestly wish'd to return unto their old Slavery O ye Sons of Men How long will ye live Dissatisfy'd as if you pray'd for nothing more than to have our Holy Altars again abus'd by Superstition and Idolatry how long will ye love Vanity As if you wou'd be glad once more to see this House of God sinely Dress'd with Babies and Pictures the Entertainment and Diversion of Children Fools Men shou'd consider that as Relapses in the Natural Body are commonly more Fatal than the First Disease so shou'd we again fall under Popery our Last Estate would be worse that the First And shall any endeavour to bring upon themselves and others their Former Miseries with an Unsupportable Addition of New Calamities Let us therefore be so Truly Wise as to Commune with our own Hearts about these things and be still under the Present Dispensation of Providence Surely whatsoever may be the Opinions of any Interested Persons in our own Kingdoms Forreign Nations will Condemn us for perfect Madmen if we do not in this our day so consider the Things that belong unto our Peace as to sit still under our own Vines and Fig-Trees and cheerfully eat the Fruit of our own and of our Royal Master's Labours Since we have the greatest reason to address unto our King as St. Paul did to his most Noble Faelix Seeing that by thee we enjoy great Quietness and very Worthy Deeds are done unto this Nation by thy Providence we accept it always and in all places with all thankfulness Seeing we are oblig'd unto so Just an Acknowledgment surely we shou'd be so far from harbouring any Seditious Murmurings or Disloyal Thoughts that we shou'd rather every night before we give any Sleep unto our Eyes or Slumber to our Eye-lids upon our Bed earnestly beg a Blessing upon that Royal Person thro' whose most Generous Affection most Undaunted Courage and most Prudent Conduct we all under God do dwell in Safety all the Day and lie down in Peace at Night Shou'd any Dissatisfy'd Persons object against this that since the Papists Live and are Mighty 't is in vain for any Preachers to talk of dwelling safely I reply to such in our Saviour's words why are ye fearful O ye of little Faith Since God has at sundry time and in divers manners deliver'd their Fathers and themselves from a great Death from the Lyon and from the Bear they ought with the United Strength of Faith and Reason to conclude that if they put their Trust in him he will yet deliver them from ev'ry Uncircumcis'd Philistine And I wou'd have them consider moreover as a full Answer to all such Unreasonable Murmurings that it is not their Business to understand the Deep Intrigues of State and that it must be a very Impertinent Boldness to enquire into the Secret Reasons of them let them therefore mind what more nearly concerns them and particularly at this time the Generous Spirit Quiet Carriage of Mephibosheth under the loss of his own Estate as it is written for our Instruction in the 2. Sam. 19.30 When the King had given part of his Estate to the Treacherous Ziba saying Thou and Ziba divide the Land Mephibosheth in the Transport of his Unmanageable Joy at the General Happiness of the Nation upon King David's returning home from Battle does not only consent to what King David granted unto Ziba his Malicious Enemy but as if the Safety of a King on the Preservation of whose Royal Person the Publick Welfare did depend had been a sufficient Portion for any Loyal Affectionate Subject he thus resigns his whole Estate Yea let him let even Ziba that labour'd to take away my Life and Reputation take all seeing that my Lord the King is come again in Peace to his own House The Application of this Historical Passage being very easy I hope you will make it unto your selves for I cannot allow my self the Liberty of any further Enlargement To close all therefore Since we have now such a Godly Protestant King and such a Pious Protestant Queen upon the Throne as our Kingdoms have never enjoy'd together Since God has Signally Bless'd with many Victories shall I say or with one continu'd Conquest our Glorious General whose Immortal Actions not only the Present Generation but late Posterity after all that their Gratitude can perform must leave to be Compleatly Rewarded in a rieher world when God shall have put all Enemies under his Feet even the Last Enemy that shall be destroy'd Death it self In a word Since God has Mercifully Answer'd all our Prayers and Disappointed all our Unreasonable Fears and Jealousies let not the harsh Ungratefull Voice of Murmuring interrupt our more sweet acceptable Acclamatinons of Joy but Stand in awe and sin not against God or his Anointed Commune with your own Hearts upon your Beds and be Still FINIS