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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43061	A sermon preached upon the fifth of November, 1678 at St. Clements Danes / by Gregory Hascard.	Hascard, Gregory.	1679 (1679)	Wing H1113; ESTC R25415	13,975	39

Fifth in the Reign of King James and thence as a good Author notes as it 's natural consequence this Black Conspiracy came for seldom was the Thunder of Excommunication discharged but a Showre of Blood followed When Adrian the Fourth shall chide Frederick Barbarossa the Emperour for holdin the Stirrup wrong and tread upon his Neck adding Profaneness to his Insolency in applying the Prophecy belonging to Christ a Psalm 9 Thou shalt go upon the Lion and Adder the youg Lion and the Dragon shalt thou tread under thy feet b Fowlis Hist 252. When they shall read how Callistus the Second had William the Great Duke of Apulia as his Foot Boy how Celestime the Third put on and kick'd off again in Disdain the Emperour Henry the Sixth his Crown When the Pagan Princes shall read of King John resigning his Crown upon his knees to Pandulphus the Pope's Legate and of the Canonizing of Thomas a Becket that Insolent Sawcy and Rebellious Saint and invoking of his Blood as meritorious and the whipping his Prince and Master Henry the Second by the Monks of Canterbury and that Champian and Garnet for Rebellion and Treason should justly forfeit their Lives here in England and yet be reputed Martyrs and have Glories about their Heads at Rome that these can be the Methods to make Kings the Nursing Fathers and Queens the Nursing Mothers of the Church Will it not make them believe that Christianity spread and became Victorious not by Patience Goodness and Martyrdome but by Falshood and Invasions Murthers and Powerful Armies No Sect of Christians have made True Religion more give ground than those of the Romish Communion who engross Christianity and all the World are Hereticks and Pagans but themselves Their Adoration of Images are a Scandal and Offence unto the Jew whose Law is so rigorous and strait against them and their Doctrine of Transubstantiation is made up of so many Contradictions and Blasphemies that it made the Arabian Philosopher Averroes say Terrarum Orbem peragrando nullam Religionem Christianâ deteriorem inveni quae ipsum Deum quem tollit devorat in all my travels I have found no sort of Religion worse than the Christians which Devoures that God it pretends to adore and their many other soft and delicious Doctrines have caused the Christian World to degenerate into Atheistical and Vicious Lives and to conclude Christianity is nothing else but a Politick Maxim to reduce Fools and Madmen and credulous Subjects into awe Thus was this Church and State struck at but Christianity felt the Blow and while St. Peter's Sucessor draws his Sword pretending to defend his Saviour and propagate his Religion his Master receives the Wound and he Crucifies the Lord of Life again and puts Religion to an open shame Lastly the opportunity God took for this Deliverance Just when the Snare and these Conspirators were ready just when these proud Waves our Enemies in a violent Torrent were all coming and this horrid Monster was begotten grown and thriven in the teeming Womb and ready to be brought forch Divine Providence interposeth strangleth it in its Birch to the raine of its Parent the Deity permits the Designs of Satan and his black Confederates to blossom and to grow and through all the Intrigues and mysterious turnings of State and Policy to arrive at their full maturity then the Invincible Hand is stretched out and crops them to display his Omnipotent Arm more to make his Presence and his Wisdome more sought for and reverenc'd and to be stronger Arguments for a grateful Mind When the Trains and Methods of Tyrants and malicious Men are so well contriv'd and laid that their Passions begin to swell and their hopes are brisk and smiling and nothing but Victories and Praise Triumphs and Success do-rove with-within their Fancy an unexpected Providence stops them in their full Cariere blasts their hopeful Spring and all ends in a Dream The Tyrant waxes pale and mourns curses his Confederates perhaps that Machiavel below that he and they are not Stronger than Omnipotence and more Politick than the All-wise When wicked Designs are in the Egg they may be crush'd and prevented by the slow and dull Methods of Humane Wisdom an easie hand but when they hatch into a Serpent or Basilisk breathing out nothing but Death and Poyson and Despair and Paleness sits on every Brow this Danger calls for an Infallible Eye and Omnipotent Arm for its Deliverer Extremity and the utmost minute of Cure are the Seasons for Divine Mercy When Hezekiab's wound is become Incurable when St. Peter and his Church begin to sink when Sennacherib's Regiments encompass and shut up Ferusalem when Counsels and Armies fail and the Secular Arm doth shrink and nothing but a Wonder can prevent Despair a Provident Eye looks down from above Defeats the Enemy and Crowns the Day with Victory and Success Thus did Englands Church and State both lye like Isaak upon the pyle the Flame and Conspirators are ready for the Bloody Sacrifice but an Angel thrusts his hand through the Cloud a Bird of the Air tells the matter and a Ram is caught by his Horns in the Thicket the Conspirators are their own Ruine and now the cause of our Joy and Triumph which leads to the last part We are delivered which commands us these two Duties First A Faithful Remembrance of this Mercy of God Secondly a future Dependance upon Providence First A Faithful Remembrance of this Mercy of God This is all the return we can make for Divine Favours passionately to resent and commemorate them But alas Good deeds though the Condition is so cheap do dye like Men and are buried in the Grave of Oblivion and have seldome a Resurrection in the mind of the Receivers thinking it meanness to make an acknowledgment that they are obliged to God himself He therefore well foresaw how soon his Miracles and Wonders in Aegypt would be forgotten or attributed to Foreign Deities He therefore commanded Aaron's Rod a Numb 17.10 and b Exod. 16.33 Josh 4.7 the Pot of Manna to be laid up and Stones to be erected at the passing of Jordan to be constant and standing Monitors to the descending Generations of the Power and Bounty of God to their Forefathers and our Saviour had regard to the treacherous Memories of Mankind when he commanded the frequent Commemorations of his Death and Passion lest that grand Attchievement should slip out of the minds of men so difficult it is for Sinners and Ungrateful men to record a Favour The Pagans Adorn'd their Temples with their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Spoils of their Battels and Victories in Honour and Memory of the Assistant Deity and the Sailers having escaped a shipwrack hung up their Vestes Votivas unto Neptune to record the favour of the Sea-god We tell the long stories of our Sorrows to the Neighbourhood we proclaim our griefs like Jeremy All you that pass by is there any sorrow like