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A42063 A thanksgiving sermon for the deliverance of our King from the late intended assassination of his sacred person and of the Kingdom from the French invasion preached by Francis Gregory. Gregory, Francis, 1625?-1707. 1696 (1696) Wing G1906; ESTC R28684 8,507 28

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A Thanksgiving SERMON For the Deliverance of Our KING From the Late Intended ASSASSINATION Preached April the 16th 1696. A Thanksgiving SERMON For the Deliverance of Our KING From the Late Intended ASSASSINATION OF His Sacred Person And of the Kingdom from the French Invasion Preached by Francis Gregory D. D. Rector of Hambleden in the County of Bucks LONDON Printed for R. Sare at Grays-Inn-Gate in Holbourn 1696. Psal 18. 50. Great Deliverance giveth he to his King and sheweth Mercy to David his anointed c. GOD Almighty having rejected Saul from being King was pleas'd to choose and name David to be his Successor And in order to it was David by God's Command privately anointed whilst King Saul was yet alive And that David might be the more firmly setled upon his Throne God gave him a very great Interest in the Hearts and Affections of all his Subjects The Text tells us 1 Sam. 18. 16. All Israel and Judah loved David And the Reason why they did so is given us Vers 14. David behaved himself wisely in all his Ways and the Lord was with him God had blest him with wonderful Success in fighting their Battles he had lately crown'd him with a glorious Victory over that monstr ous Giant who had so often scorned and so proudly defied the whole Army of Israel Upon this mighty Conquest the Generality of the People were so transported with Joy that even the Women came out and met them with Instruments of Musick dancing and singing Saul hath slain his Thousands and David his ten Thousands This Acclamation ascribing a great deal more of Honour to David than to Saul himself displeased Saul to that high Degree that the Text saith Saul eyed David from that Day and forward He grew so jealous and was so very much afraid of him that lest David should dispossess him of his Royal Throne he took many Ways to destroy him But what Injury had David ever done to Saul We read that he had often and much obliged him he had successfully fought his Battles he had charmed and turned out the Devil with whom Saul was possessed he had spared Saul's Life when he was at his Mercy he only cut off the Skirt of Saul's Garment when he might as easily have cut his Throat but notwithstanding these great Obligations Saul still feared envied and pursued David but David through the kind Providence of God still escaped the Hand of Saul Now in Memory of his manifold Preservations David did pen this Psalm It s Title which runs thus tells us so To the chief Musician a Psalm of David the Servant of the Lord who spake unto the Lord the Words of this Song in the Day that the Lord delivered him from the Hand of all his Enemies and from the Hand of Saul In the grateful Remembrance of God's many signal Favours to him and particularly for his protecting Providences doth David like a Man in an Extasie of Joy begin the Psalm thus I will love thee O Lord c. And very good Reason had he so to do for in the next Verse his own Acknowledgment is this The Lord is my Rock and my Fortress and my Deliverer my God my Strength in whom I will trust my Buckler and the Horn of my Salvation and my high Tower By all which metaphorical Expressions David means only this namely that it was the Hand of God which had preserved him in all his Dangers And as he begins this Psalm with these grateful Acknowledgments so doth he end it too in the Words of my Text. Great Deliverance giveth be to his King and sheweth Mercy to David his anointed Concerning this Deliverance mentioned in the Text Four things may be considered First Its Author He gives and again He sheweth Mercy He i. e. God Secondly The Person concerned in this Deliverance and that is David which is here stiled His King and again his anointed i. e. God's King and God's Anointed Thirdly The Motive which inclined God to work this Deliverance for David and that was his own free Grace and Favour For saith the Text He gives Deliverance and again He sheweth Mercy By giving Deliverance he doth so Fourthly The Nature and Quality of this Deliverance the Text stiles it Great Deliverance First The first thing considerable in the Text is the Author of this Deliverance and that is God He gives Deliverance and by so doing He sheweth Mercy and to him doth David again and again most justly ascribe it Psal 18. 48. He delivers me from mine Enemies It is not my own Policy it is not my own Courage it is not my own Conduct it is not my own Army that delivers me 't is none but God that God whose Wisdom is infinite and whose Power is irresistible who knoweth the most secret Plots who can easily confound the most cunning Devices and break in Pieces the greatest Strength of wicked Men. Now This God was David's Friend So he tells us Psal 118. 6. The Lord is on my Side and again Vers 7. The Lord taketh Part with them that help me It is true David had some Assistances from Men Jonathan discovered to him Saul's Designs to kill him his Friend Hushai was employed to countermine the dangerous Counsel of Achitophel and he did so Joab the General of David's Army was employed to fight his Battels and with Success he did it All these did contribute something towards the Deliverances of David but notwithstanding this Jonathan Hushai Joab and all David's Assistants were but so many living Tools and Instruments in the Hand of God and acted by the Influence and Guidance of his Providence And for this Reason when David reflects upon his manifold Preservations he overlooks all second Causes and Humane Helps and attributes them all to God so he doth Psalm 62. 2. God only is my Rock and my Salvation And so in my Text He giveth Deliverance to his King And again He sheweth Mercy to David his Anointed And may not our English David say as much May not our King as justly say as even David did God only is my Rock and my Salvation For when wicked Men had entred into a Combination to murder his sacred Person when the Plot was laid and ripe for Execution when the Time and Place were appointed when such and such bloody Villains had undertook this barbarous inhumane and devilish Work I mean by Pistols or Blunderbusses to shed our Sovereign's Blood and end his Life when this cursed Crew had mutually engaged themselves by Oath to keep this Hellish Design secret pray who revealed this hidden Plot and so prevented its Execution We cannot think that this Hellish Plot was discovered by any immediate Revelation from Heaven but by one of those bloody Butchers who had been privy and consenting to it But how came such a Miscreant to reveal it 'T is possible that the Fear of his own Life should the Plot be otherwise detected and so miscarry might somewhat move him or perhaps