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A46900	Three sermons preached the first in Richmond Church, August 17. 1690. on the most happy accession of Their Majesties, King William and Queen Mary to the Crown. The second in Mortlake Chuch in Surrey March 3. 1694. on the death of our late most gracious soveraign lady the Queen, of blessed memory. The third in Mortlake Church, April 16. 1696. being the day of Thanksgiving unto Almighty God, for discovering and disappointing the horrid and barbarous conspiracy to assassinate His most gracious Majesty's royal person: and for delivering this kingdom from an invasion, intended by the French. By Christopher Johnson, M.A. and school-master of Richmond in Surrey. Printed to prevent mistakes concerning the author.	Johnson, Christopher, b. 1657 or 8.	1696 (1696)	Wing J770BA; ESTC R216574	43,561	66

Pleasure O therefore great is the Deliverance beyond the Comprehensions of our Understandings And praised be the Lord who hath not given us over for a prey unto their Teeth for our Soul is escaped as a Bird out of the Snare of the Fowler the Snare is broken and we are delivered For which may all that are or would have been sensible of the Black Device if it had taken its Dismal Effect Bless and Exalt God's holy Name May all the good People of this Nation Obey their Sovereign Lord the KING's Commands in such manner as may be acceptable to God And as His Majesty doth so may they acknowledge the singular Mercy and Goodness of God See His Majesty's Most Gracious Speech to Both Houses of Parliament Feb. 24. 1695. May all His Subjects Piously and Joyfully keep this Day and ponder the Occasion of it in their Hearts with a Perpetual Thanksgiving to the utmost extent of their Lives for so great a Salvation May it make such deep and lasting Impressions in their Souls Yea let them tell it to their Childrens Children that the Generations to come may Bless God for it And may no Rank or Quality Sex Order or Degree think themselves exempted from their Duty on this Day which the KING with the Advice of his Nobles hath thought fit to apply to so Solemn and Sacred a Use But praise the Lord ye House of our Israel praise the Lord ye House of Aaron praise the Lord ye House of Levi ye Clergy of this Land Ye that fear the Lord praise the Lord and confess he is Gracious and his Mercy endureth for ever Kings of the Earth and all People Princes and all Judges of the World Young Men and Maidens Old Men and Children praise the Name of the Lord for his Name only is Excellent and his Praise above Heaven and Earth He shall exalt the Horn of his People all his Saints shall praise him And now pray we unto God to open Mens Eyes that they may see and know those things that belong unto their Peace that they may not be Credulous of Dreams and Fancies nor give heed unto Fables As if that Monarch who has Troubled Christendom a long time has Cruelly Persecuted and Tormented Protestants and has laid waste Defenced Cities into Ruinous heaps as if he would shew all Clemency and Kindness to us as if he would make every one Happy and Great with large Donatives of Riches and Honour Fields and Vineyards and all the Delights of the Sons of Men which to think is very incongruous to Reason and dissonant to the Sentiments of common Prudence unless he and all his Admirers and Favourites loved the People of this Nation better than they do and except we would abandon our Religion which may we never so much as think of doing nor fear his Menaces or any high and lofty Looks But keep we stedfast to our God and our Faith to our Duty and Allegiance unto our Sovereign Lord the KING's Majesty to our Laws our Liberties and our Country and to one another in Love and Unity And may god shower down His Blessings upon us and make His great Salvation for which we now offer unto Him the Sacrifice of Thanksgiving a Pledge of more His abundant Favours to His Anointed and His Subjects And let us always therefore have somewhat of a Divine and Holy Song or Eulogy in our Mouths Plenteously may we be furnished in the Song of Moses and the Children of Israel of Deborah and Barak and in that great Magazine of Praises and Benedictions the Book of Psalms together with many other places of the Sacred Canon of Scripture Let us often think of God's Mercies to us and make Melody in our Hearts unto Him with such Excellent and Proper Lessons as may be taken out of those Breathings of the Holy Ghost Let Lute and Harp awake and let us awake right early with the high Praises of God in our Mouth Let this be the Badge of our Honour and Gratitude Praise ye the Lord. Let us bind it as Signs upon our Hands and Frontlets between our Eyes together with the Te Deum the Benedictus the Magnificat and like Joyous and Devout Trophies of God's Salvation Evermore with the Choir of Saints and Angels above Chanting forth the Trishagion Holy Holy Holy Lord God of Sabaoth Heaven and Earth are full of the Majesty of thy Glory Glory be to thee O Lord Most High Finally As we praise God this Day for His Admired Mercy so let us Beg His Continuance of it to us and pray heartily that the now ensuing Campaign may be Victorious both against F●ance and the Ottoman Empire and that an Honourable and Lasting Peace to England and Her Allies and Friends may succeed thereupon and that God will be pleased to Bless with Length of Days and Riches and Honour in His Throne here and to Crown afterwards with a far more exceeding and Eternal Weight of Glory in the highest Heavens His Anointed Servant our Dread Sovereign Lord and Lawful and Rightful KING WILLIAM Amen FINIS

But the Comfort of all is The Lord liveth who seeth what we cannot so much as think of and saves us when we are ignorant of our Danger and of our Help and Salvation ready at the same time the one to devour and the other to rescue and protect us Wherefore again and again we will with great Joy say The Lord liveth Or Let the Lord live if any will have it Translated so in way of Triumph also As the Hebrews were wont to express their Joy and good Wishes for their Kings Let the King live which we turning into an Anglicism or form of Speech agreeable to our own Idiom and Language do express by saying God save the King and so we have Translated it in several parts of Scripture as that God save King Solomon at his Inauguration when he was Anointed King Which both in the Hebraism and our Mode or Way of speaking implies Zeal and a joyful Acclamation of Triumph and Delight for the King and also a Prayer for his Life in which last sence it is improper to Translate this part of the Text Let the Lord live but not so in the former for with an holy Zeal and Joy and Triumph Delight and Pleasure for his Gracious Goodness it may without any Solecism be said Let the Lord live as well as Let God arise Psal 68.1 that is Let the Lord appear and manifest himself to the World that He is the only Living God the Almighty and Merciful Johovah in saving his own People by putting his Hook into the Noses and his Bridle into the Lips of their Enemies and thus checking their malignant Rage and Fury But to return as we have most fitly render'd it The Lord liveth we may farther take this weighty Clause to have been directed by holy David's Eye against a set of Ungodly and Atheistical Men against such as was the Patron of all Fools the Fool that said in his Heart Psal 14.1 there is no God a Fool 's saying indeed for who but a Fool would ever have said so And therefore they thought it impossible their Devices should prove Abortive for if there had been no God by his Omniscience and Providence to disclose their Secret Cabals and the Arrows of Death prepared by them to let fly against the Lord 's Anointed the stroke would have been unavoidable and fatal for it is not in Man to discover the Secrets of the Hearts of other Men It is a peculiar Prerogative of the Great Searcher of Hearts to do it who knows the Thoughts thereof long before their Conception What a miserable Condition then had holy David been involved in amidst all his Enemies Plotting and Devising his Ruin if there had been no God He must then have fallen into their Pit Well then might he Joy in the God of his Salvation and Congratulate his own Safety with these words expressing his Assurance of Omnipotency on his side against his Enemies to their Confusion The Lord liveth baffling all hereby who in his Days denied the Omnipotent Being or lived and acted as if there were none And the words have the same force against the Atheists and Wicked Men of our Times who deny the Existence of a Deity or else surely never have him in their Thoughts but Plot on and imagine Vain Things in their ungodly Counsels until they fall into the Pit which they make for the Lord 's Anointed and for the Destruction of his People But further this Clause seems also to be levell'd against a second sort of Fools who it 's true might have such a Grain of true Faith as to make a Confession of the Godhead but received false Articles into their Creed in respect of his Providence and Government as that having his Throne so high in the Heavens he would not humble himself to behold the things done on the Earth and so never took any Care of Sublunary Affairs neither of setting up or pulling down of right nor wrong of oppression or injustice or any sore evil under the San So that wicked Men might live in Robbery Spoil and Oppression committing Outrage and Violence and brave it along saying Who is Lord over us And spurning at Omniscience say Tush How should God perceive it Is there Knowledge in the Most High And how shall we think better Principles have governed or influenced those amongst us who so lately meditated upon Regicide Rebellion Invasion and a Total Subversion of these Three Kingdoms besides all the Evil Consequences that would necessarily like a mighty Deluge have flowed in upon many other Nations and People For their Barbarous Practices seem to be the Interpreters of their Minds so that if any will deny the Hypothesis that they were such the sequel drawn from their Bitter Designs infers a Conclusion proving as much against them in deed and reality let them plead for their Thoughts and their Faith or Belief as they please at most their Arguments can be of no force on their side any otherwise than those of Rank Practical Atheists are against them we call speculative And certainly they are the worst of Men who profess to believe well and practice most ill and such justly incur the Divine Abhorrence are frequently forsaken of God being Vessels of his Wrath and left alone to themselves working out their own Destruction That burden of the Lord in the 23d Chapter of the Prophet Jeremiah v. 33. being their Portion I will even forsake you saith the Lord with that direful Catastrophe as an Appendix to the Curse subjoin'd in the end of the Chapter And I will bring an Everlasting Reproach upon you and a perpetual shame which shall not be forgotten This was to be the Fate of some Prophets and Priests with the People who were untoward and dissatisfied with God's Ways in those Days And let them who find themselves alike grieved in our Age make Application hereof to themselves whilst we who are sensible of God's great and undeserved Blessings to us in our Most Gracious King and this Deliverance and are thankful for them will sing Hallelujahs unto His Infinite Holiness and with Glory and Triumph express the gladness of our Souls in saying every one of us with the Royal Psalmist The Lord liveth and blessed be my Rock and exalted be the God of the Rock of my Salvation Which introduces the Second Proposition comprehending King David's grateful Return to God of Benediction and Praise or Exaltation for his Marvellous and Powerful Deliverances of him from the Mischiess formed against him Emphatically expressed in these words and blessed be my Rock and exalted be the God of the Rock of my Salvation Agreeable to the Dutiful and Pious Custom of God's Church in all Ages of blessing and praising Him for His particular Providence in great Deliverances besides the Acts of His Universal Goodness is this Hymn of holy David And of the whole Composure these words last recited have a sound which seems the most Harmonious because they rebound with so

hath done great things for us whereof we rejoice And this affirm we in defiance of all who deny Him or his Providence whether in Thought or in Act or be it by both And for all this may we fear Him may we love Him above all things in Heaven and in Earth May all our Hearts all our Souls our Minds and our Strength have a full share in this Affection towards God and so by the Operation of every Faculty and Power in us proper thereto may we take our fill in loving Him that as He hath loved us so the love of Him may dwell plenteously in us To excite us the more to our Duty of Love and Praise Adoration and Thanksgiving it is requisite that we consider what and how great the Blessing is wherein consists the Salvation wrought so lately in our Land And of the Blessing of God now upon us and His Salvation vouchsafed unto us none can be ignorant forasmuch as all know that God Almighty has manifested his Providence his Power and Mercy towards His Most Excellent Majesty and His People by laying open the Depths of Satan and the secret Intentions of wicked Men that He has Discovered and Delivered the King from an Horrid and Barbarous Conspiracy of Papists and other Trayterous Persons to Assassinate and Murder His Royal Person and the Kingdom from an Intended Invasion by the greatest Enemies to its and all Europe's Repose the French By which great Deliverance the King 's Royal Person is saved from Destruction His Government Secured and this Realm Freed from that Total Subversion of its Religion Laws and Liberties which if God had not thus mercifully interposed would have been the Fate of it Lo this is the Blessing and it is very great this is the Salvation we now give thanks for and it is wonderful Here is repeated Mercy and Goodness to an unwise and foolish People who have ill requited God with Ingratitude for His former Loving-kindnesses But as we now meditate on His Mercy so may we with Rivers of Tears in our Eyes think of the other Method God so lately used to reduce us unto a right Sense of our selves by the Deplorable Loss of that most Virtuous and Pious Princess the Queen of Blessed Memory who fell by a heavy stroke alas To us it was God punishing us for our many Provocations our Incorrigible and Undutiful Behaviour to Him that He might melt us thereby into Sorrow and Repentance that He might force us to humble our selves with Weeping and Fasting and to cloath our Souls with Mourning Attire when the thick Cloud of his Anger overspread these Nations by Her Death And now again He invites us to Him in love for lo the Bright Beams of His Mercy shining every where He hath called us this Day out of the Houses of Mourning into those of Joy He hath put a new Song into our Mouths even a Thanksgiving unto our God for the Safety of our Most Serene and Illustrious Monarch KING WILLIAM the Father of our Country the Great Joy and Hope and Support of many Nations the most Heroick and Noble Patron and Assertor of ours and all Europe's Liberties by whose Crown falling from His Head and so the Glory departing again from us God might have laid us with Bleeding Hearts in Dust and Ashes have heaped upon us all the Mischiefs that the Rage and Madness of our Incensed Enemies could bring who would have number'd their Merits by the quantities of our Blood they should have caused to run in our Streets when the more of us they had killed the more Service to God they would have boasted that they had done like that Duke D'Alva who assumed much Glory and Honour to himself for the Slaughter he made of many Thousand Protestants or Hereticks by such Men of Blood falsly so called But O that Men would praise the Lord for his Goodness and declare the Wonders he doeth for us the Children of Men when by a Miracle of Mercy we are saved from that Wo and Destruction which otherwise would at this time have been raging by Fire and Sword in these Islands with Apparent Danger of Ruin and Desolation upon all the Confederate Countries by that Ambitious Prince who has hunted after the Precious Life of our KING that he might Subdue the Nations to the Rod of his Power and tread them under his Feet But behold the Justice of the Lord as well as his Mercy in the King's Salvation For what had Men to do to take God's Prerogative out of His Hands and to number the King's Moments of Life by the time they should set a Fatal period thereto So long as God hath bound up his Soul in the Bundle of Life and may it be I pray God for many Years even to a good Old Age those who have to do with the Stool of Wickedness may sit thereon long enough Plotting and Contriving his Death thus imagining or framing Mischief by their own Wicked Counsels as a Law or Decree written like but more Cruel than those of Draco said to be in Blood and yet shall not be able to prevail with all the Powers of Hell on their side For no Sorcery no Divination no Inchantment no Conspiracy or Weapon form'd against this Mighty Defender of our Faith and of the Liberties of Europe can prosper so long as the Lord is on our side so long as He is the Rock of our Salvation and He will not leave us nor forsake us if we do not leave Him first O therefore draw we near unto Him in Faith and full Assurance of His continual Favour and keep we from every wicked thing from Atheism of the Mind from Atheism of the Will and the Act From Profaneness in our Hearts in our Words and in our Deeds Let us Religiously observe this Day with an holy Joy that it may be acceptable unto the Lord. Let no vain Oaths cause the Land to mourn nor any other Sin of our Souls or Bodies pollute this Day And let us observe every Lord's Day with greater distinction from other Days than we have hitherto done And so may we now turn unto the Lord and prosper May we wash off all Stains and Blemishes of past Ingratitude and be thankful for evermore hereafter And then will we say unto the Grand Enemy of Europe The Virgin Isa 37.22 the Daughter of Zion hath despised thee and laughed thee to scorn the Daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her Head at thee Then the Gates of Hell shall not prevail against the Church of England for her Faith is Built on a Rock and He who is truly the Defender thereof shall stand by Her with Power from God to preserve Her as He hath promised to do to His utmost To our Consolation then be it spoken That Great Deliverance giveth God unto His King that he is a Tower of Salvation unto him and sheweth Mercy unto His Anointed Wherefore will we rejoice and sing triumphantly The Lord liveth and blessed be

her Virtues shaking the Foundation of those Vices which had Triumph'd too much threat'ned their total and in part at least wrought their Destruction This made her truly Great added much to her High and Illustrious Birth and to her Person on the Throne And in all respects her Qualifications enforced and drew a lively pattern from her for all to profit by according to their several States and Conditions As a Queen and a Ruler let Kings and all Princes follow her with the highest Emulation if with her they will take God's Directions amongst King David's last words into their Books of Politicks how to Govern which Divine Lesson was her Majesty's grand and principal Point in the whole Compass of her Government how to steer by and which way to move The Needle pointing always in her Thoughts to these and the like holy Instructions He that ruleth over Men must be just ruling in the fear of God and he shall be as the light of the Morning when the Sun riseth even a Morning without Clouds as the tender Grass springing out of the Earth by clear shining after Rain 2 Sam. 23.3 4. Which Sacred Aphorism herein seems to have been the Golden Rule and Line she measured her Royal Thoughts Words and Actions by all her Reign the holy Balance in which she first weighted every proceeding through the whole Series of her great Affairs And so she answered likewise this Divine Simile as in Water Face answereth to Face truly and exactly Let it be said then of our most Devout and Religious Queen that like holy David she was after God's own Heart With Hezekiah and other Pions Kings She did that which was right in the sight of the Lord. And like good King Josiah she declined neither to the right Hand nor to the left Mercy and Justice resided in the Throne with her the former render'd her very Compassionate but yet her Prudence and Magnanimity were such as shewed her how she should not bear the Sword in vain she being the Ordinance and Minister of God And as she was in high Authority so was she above all idle and vulgar Censures or what was little and mean Consider her Majesty as a Wife Our Great Monarch whom she hath left behind and whom God in his Mercy long preserve to us will witness yea his great Grief of Heart doth Attest how she answer'd God's intent in the Creation of Woman that she should be (a) Gen. 2.18 an help meet for Man And according to the Apostolical Canons with a meek and quiet Spirit she gave reverence and yielded Subjection to her Royal Husband who with mutual Returns of Endearment according to like Holy Rules loved and honoured her as the weaker Vessel and his Glory also For the Man is the Image and Glory of God but the Woman is the Glory of the Man 1 Cor. 11.7 She well deserved the praise of the Virtuous Woman in the last Chapter of the Proverbs Ver. 11 12. For the Heart of her Husband did safely trust in her and she did do him good and not evil all the Days of her Life Her Candle did not go out by Night Ver. 18. for she was always mindful of her Duty and great Affairs She looked well to her Houshould and did not eat the Bread of Idleness Ver. 27. for by her own Labours she gave a New-birth to Work and Industry Her Children her good and dutiful Subjects I mean for she was a most Dear Tender and Compassionate Mother to us all did arise up and call her blessed her Husband also and he praised her Ver. 28. Both whose mutual Affections and Returns of Love and Kindness united their Two Royal Persons into One. Think upon her Majesty only as a Woman but of an uncommon Excellency of Spirit and largeness of Heart of such a Capacious Soul and Radiancy of Mind which is very seldom found and all tending more to Ambition of Goodness than Desire of Greatness for Majesty it self could not tempt her to Pride in any thing All which looked as happy presages of bringing much Benefit to Mankind But according to our purpose to descend from the Throne let us view her as if in a far lower Station amongst her Sex and say no more but she was a Woman We shall find her Exemplary Virtues justly Claim an high precedency amongst the whole Feminine Race For shew us such another when we call to witness her Majesty's profound Piety and Devotion her admired Meekness and Humility her Sweet Temper her Courteous Behaviour and Affability yet preserving Majesty as a Queen and her Moderation which was known unto all Men with that Serenity and Evenness of Mind also that not Passion but Reason moved and sway'd her that not easily lifted up nor soon cast down Heroick and Free yet Serious and Grave Chearful but without Levity She opened her Mouth with Wisdom and in her Tongue was the Law of Kindness Pro. 31.26 so Obliging and Discreet that she gain'd much upon the Affections even of her Enemies and at least often silenced the Tongues of unreasonable Men if she could not correct and alter their Judgments But to Crown all her Majesty's Excellencies she was a holy and good Christian Zealous always in that one thing needful Her unspotted and unblameable Life and Conversation shined before Men whilst she adorn'd the Gospel of Christ with her Divine Graces amongst which we must again inroll her Piety her unaffected Piety and Devotion and all the aforemention'd Virtues that belong to the Christian Chain with an unwearied Constancy in all her Duties At the Head of all placing her servent Charity that notable Badge of Christianity by which she forgave many Affronts and return'd none but with an high sort of Divine Clemency did do good for evil that her Light might shine not for vain Ostentation far from it was she but for God's Glory and an imitable Example to all others and that by an entire Resignation of her Will to Christ's Law which himself exemplified in pardoning and praying for his bitterest Enemies Mat. 5.48 she might be perfect as her Father which is in Heaven is perfect Add we here her Boundless Charity in giving and distributing to those in Want Alas how many indigent and decay'd Persons whom her Royal Bounty and Pity Relieved may bemoan themselves For her Charity was so unlimited that few if any but her self knew its utmost extent or could give it a place wide enough in the vast Sphere of Imagination that the compass of any Persons Thought could comprehend it So Largely and Secretly but Prudently withal did she stretch out her Hands to the Poor yea she reached forth her Hands to the Needy In general shewing the Celestial Extraction of her Blessed Soul when her Love and Charity was Universal like that of her Heavenly Father which our Blessed Saviour hath set forth for our Imitation Mat. 5.45 Who maketh his Sun to rise on the evil and