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A sermon preached before the general and officers in the King's chappel at Portsmouth on Sunday July 24, 1692 : being the day before they embarqu'd for the descent upon France / by William Gallaway.
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Gallaway, William, fl. 1692-1697.
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Shipwrack if we do not lay hold and make use of it to save our selves we must sink into the bottomless Pit 'T is now offer'd to you 't is now in your choice to lay hold on the long-suffering of God he will speak Peace and Pardon if you will quit your Sins I will only add that we implore the Divine Protection in all our dangers and assistance in all our endeavours let our Prayers be made to God with the qualifications necessary to make them prevalent which are by a true repentance of our sins a settled and relying Faith an humble resignation to the disposal of his Divine Will Let us readily concur and vigorously co-operate with his Providence in order to our Temporal Preservation as with his Grace for our Eternal Salvation And last of all let us give God all the Glory for his past invaluable mercies and pray that he will preserve the Persons and prosper the Attempts of our gracious Sovereigns who seem to be the Instrument chosen to accomplish and perfect his Will against the common Enemy and Oppressor and whose past successes give a promising earnest if not prevented by our ungrateful sins of future and more considerable Atcheivments And now O Lord God of Hosts do thou go out with our Armies do thou protect and defend us and though we cannot but acknowledge our selves unworthy and undeserving of those mercies thou hast from time to time heaped on a wicked and ungrateful Generation yet O Lord let not thy hand be shortned towards us but let all the World see and know that thou alone art our Saviour and mighty Deliverer and give us once more by our success in this enterprize an opportunity of praising and magnifying thy holy and great Name not only with our lips but in our lives through Jesus Christ our Lord to whom with thee and the Holy Ghost be all Honour and Glory both now and for evermore Amen FINIS A Catalogue of Books to be Sold by Richard Baldwin near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane STate Tracts Being a farther Collection of several Choice Treatises relating to the Government From the Year 1660. to 1689. Now Published in a Body to shew the Necessity and clear the Legality of the Late Revolution and our present Happy Settlement under the Auspicious Reign of Their Majesties King William and Queen Mary A True Relation of the Cruelties and Barbarities of the French upon the English Prisoners of War being a Journal of their Travels from Dinant in Britany to Thoulon in Provence and back again With a Description of the Scituation and Fortifications of all the Eminent Towns upon the Road and their Distance Of their Prisons and Hospitals and the number of Men that died under their Cruelty With the Names of many of them and the Places of their Death and Burial c. The Speech of the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Stamford Lord Gray of Grooby c. at the General Quarter-Sessions held for the County of Leicester at Michaelmas 1691. His Lordship being made Custos Roâ—â—lorum for the said County by the late Lord Commissioners of the Great Seal A Project of a Descent upon France By a Person of Quality A New Plain Short and Compleat French and English Grammar whereby the Learner may attain in few Months to Speak and Write French Correctly as they do now in the Court of France and wherein all that is Dark Superfluous and Deficient in other Grammars is Plain Short and Methodically supplied Also very useful to Strangers that are desirous to learn the English Tongue For whose sake is added a Short but very exact English Grammar The Second Edition By Peter Berault Truth brought to Light Or The History of the First 14 Years of King James the I. In Four Parts I. The Happy State of England at His Majesty's Entrance The Corruption of it afterwards With the Rise of particular Favourites and the Divisions between This and other States abroad II. The Divorce betwixt the Lady Frances Howard and Robert Earl of Essex before the King's Delegates authorized under the King 's Broad Seal As also the Arraignment of Sir Jervis Yelvis Lieutenant of the Tower c. about the murther of Sir Thomas Overbury with all Proceedings thereupon and the King 's gracious Pardon and Favour to the Countess III. A Declaration of His Majesty's Revenue since he came to the Crown of England with the Annual Issues Gifts Pensions and Extraordinary Disbursments IV. The Commissions and Warrants for the burning of two Hereticks newly revived with two Pardons one for Theophilus Higgons the other for Sir Eustace Hart. A Faithful Account of the Renewed Persecution of the Churches of Lower Aquitain in France in the Year 1692. To which is prefixed A Parallel between the Ancient and New Persecutors or the Protraiture of Lewis XIV in some of his Cruelties and Barbarities With some Reflections upon the unreasonable Fondness of a certain Party amongst us for the French King Europe ' s Chains Broke Or A Sure and Speedy Project to Rescue Her from the present Usurpations of the Tyrant of France Bibliotheca Politica Or a Discourse by way of Dialogue Whether Absolute Non Resistances of the Supream Powers be enjoyned by the Doctrine of the Gospel and was the Ancient Practice of the Primitive Church and the constant Doctrine of our Reformed Church of England Collected out of the most Approved Authors both Ancient and Modern Dialogue the Fourth Printed for R. Baldwin in Warwick-Lane near the Oxford Arms where also may be had the First Second and Third Dialogues Vtrum Horum Or God's Ways of disposing Kingdoms And Some Clergy Mens Ways of disposing of Them The Devout Christian's Preparation for holy Dying Consisting of Ejaculations Prayers Meditations and Hymns adapted to the several States and Conditions of this Life and on the four last Things viz. Death Judgment Heaven and Hell The Memoirs of Monsieur Deagant Containing the most Secret Transactions and Affairs of France from the Death of Henry IV. till the beginning of the Ministry of the Cardinal de Richlieu To which is added a particular Relation to the Archbishop of Embrun's Voyage into England and of his Negotiation for the advancement of the Roman Catholick Religion here together with the Duke of Buckingham's Letters to the said Archbishop about the Progress of that Affair Which happen'd the last Years of King James I. his Reign Faithfully translated out of the French Original The Gentleman's Journal Or the Monthly Miscellany By Way of Letter to a Gentlemen in the Country Consisting of News History Philosophy Poetry Musick Translations c. July 1692. Printed for Rich. Parker and are to be Sold by R. Baldwin near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane Where are also to be had Journals for January February March April May and June
great concession to allow them preference in unworthy corruptions and ignoble treacheries Besides we will grant them to be men of Courage because mean Adversaries give no Honour to the success of their Competitors and those Atcheivments are most glorious when the enterprizes meet with opposition and difficulties But we are not altogether strangers to their methods when they would pass treachery upon us for bravery and it is not long since they have undeceiv'd us as to their bribed Character and have visibly verified what Historians have always recorded of them That at their first onset they were more than Men at the second less then Women We have less reason I hope to fear them and they more to fear us and I question not but they will find that we are not wholly degenerated and tho' all methods have been formerly used to make us dissolute and so consequently effeminate yet still the same Seeds of Virtue and Courage remain in us undestroyed and the present example of an Heroick and Gallant King will make them shoot up and flourish and excite us to imitate what even our Forefathers acted in the Reigns of Edward the 3d. and Henry the 5th that the French may experimentally find that we have neither forgot to attempt and perhaps succeed too Besides 't is Liberry and Freedom that for the most part makes men valiant and couragious when on the contrary cowardice is the natural Product and Off-spring of Slavery Those who are kept under and trampled on can hardly aspire to noble and brave attempts For which reason in an Air and Government so well temper'd as ours where neither extream heat or cold is predominant where neither arbitrary Power nor an ungovernable Liberty prevails we may reasonably suppose the Hearts and Spirits of those Subjects will be sprightly and bold agreeable to their Constitution and Climate Nor is this consideration improper to encourage you since your enemies are absolute Slaves Nor is it probable they will fight heartily who have nothing to defend they can properly call their own and I presume 't will appear evident upon Trial that when men are Slaves to a barbarous Tyrant they will be so too to fear and baseness of Spirit Again The design it self barely considered is enough to raise the most dejected spirit into courage but when reflected on in all its glorious Circumstances and advantageous Consequences then it hath force enough to transport us beyond the bounds even of prudential Fortitude to attack an insulting enemy at his own door to endeavour something extraordinary to resettle our Friends and Allies into their own possessions unjustly seiz'd and detain'd from them to be the generous instruments of so great and so much good to all Mankind at least all Europe in attempting to lower the grandeur of that Pharaoh-like and swelling Tyrant to redeem and retreive the Interest and Honour of our own Nation which is in a manner lost to be the Arbitrators of the Peace of Europe and to have it in our power to hold the Ballance so equal that none shall over-run or oppress his Neighbour which is in effect to give Laws to all other Princes certainly this must give such an edge to the attempt as must make those who are actors in it even out do themselves It was bravely said of Caesar to the affrighted Marriners who almost despair'd of safety in a violent Storm Be of good cheer ye carry Caesar with his Fortune thus ye go with Caesars Fortune too ye fight under his Banner who was always a stranger to fear yet well acquainted with never avoided dangers His commands are weighed with Judgment and his Counsels with caution and circumspection his designs because laid with wisdom and prosecuted with resolution have seldom prov'd abortive or fail'd of success If he hath been disappointed at one time he hath succeeded at another with interest and made amends for the loss with a double advantage He never imprudently trusted in the uncertain arm of flesh or vainly and proudly boasted his Victories as owing to his own strength or conduct but always with a religious deference gave the whole Honour and Glory to the Lord of Hosts strong and mighty in Battle therefore I cannot for my own part but believe that God will in his own due time Crown his Endeavours and Designs with Glory and Success and cloth his enemies whether Foreign or Domestick with shame and confusion of face I could not but offer this weighty Consideration as a forcible Motive amongst many others to perswade you to Embarque in this Expedition whatsoever it is or wheresoever intended with vigour and courage since 't is in his service and in obedience to his commands who hitherto hath been and I trust in God will still continue a Favourite of Heaven 'T is hardly possible to enumerate or foresee the invaluable advantages we may reap by an undaunted prosecution of the Expedition how far 't will tend to procure an uninterrupted tranquility at home under the happy Government we now enjoy how much 't will secure and enlarge our Trade and Commerce abroad and make us both a terror to our enemies and the admiration and envy even of our Confederates and Allies Reflect but on these Considerations for they speak an Exhortation For my part I must declare I am so fully perswaded of your forwardness that could I be guilty of a thought that look'd like a mistrust of any mans zeal amongst you to promote and pursue this noble enterprize the next words should be an Apology for it Having thus far observ'd and laid before you these obvious reasons to expel all the least degrees of fear I proceed now to offer some few Considerations to perswade you that in all probability God will go with you to fight for you and to save you The works of Providence are framed in the depth of God's Wisdom His Counsells are steady and immutable He who shall look slightly on the different position of the Wheels of a Clock at the first sight perhaps they will appear confusedly mixt among each other yet by the skill and judgment of the Artificer every the least part is so order'd that the motion is both just and regular and answers the end for which it was at first design'd So let a man cast his eyes round view and reflect on the affairs of this World what a confusion of interests there seems to be amongst men what alterations in Kingdoms what Revolutions of things one Country destroyed and lost another regain'd one interest prevailing another sinking to our shallow apprehensions the whole Scene of Affairs appears full of giddy and unsteady Chance yet notwithstanding in this seeming discord of jarring of things the All-wise God makes them all Harmonious and composed and serve the purposes and designs he intended to bring to pass He beholds at once things past present and to come they must obey his unbounded Will because his Power is Almighty Through the past favours and