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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62602	A sermon preach'd at the Cathedral Church of Worcester upon the thanksgiving-day, April 16, 1696 by W. Talbot ...	Talbot, William, 1658 or 9-1730.	1696 (1696)	Wing T124; ESTC R9963	17,703	30

to see a plentiful Country turned into a barren Wilderness a free People that had many valuable rights made Slaves and dependants upon the Arbitrary Will of a Tyrannical Conquerour a pure Religion extirpated and Idolatry and Superstition set up in the room of it This must have been the miserable condition in which we should all have been involved If any think they should have fared better than their Neighbours upon the account of their own great Merits on the fair promises they may have had from abroad they have very wrong notions of Popish Gratitude and French Trust Alas Papists have engross'd all merit there is no such thing in Protestants and Promises made to the prejudice of the great Monarch or Holy Church are not to be kept All they could have hoped for is that if they would have gone some few steps further and turn'd their Religion they might possibly have been treated as the new Converts are in France but otherwise all the mercy to have been expected would have been this to have been eaten last though it has not always been so instances are not wanting where those Protestants that have been most zealous and forward in setting up a Popish Prince have been the first that had cause to repent of it In short whatever is dear to us as men English Men and Protestants must have been wrested from us 't is not to be supposed that being driven on by Rage and Revenge as well as Avarice and Ambition they should have used softer methods here than they do in their other Conquests where they tinge the Rivers with Blood where Sword and Fire devour all before them and if they would but totally extirpate the rational Inhabitants of the Country and leave none but the four footed ones of the Field and Forest the Beasts of burthen the Beasts of prey they would make very proper Subjects for such a Government But though God suffered them to go so far as they did in their Hellish Enterprize that the proof of it might be clear beyond denial or doubt yet was he pleas'd so seasonably to discover and defeat it that the mischief falls only on their heads that devised it and we may say with Israel he has not given us as a prey to their teeth our Soul is escaped as a Bird out of the Snare of the Fowler the Snare is broken and we are escaped with them let us also join in making such grateful returns to the Divine Goodness as the great Mercy calls for 1. Let us look up to God as the Author of it I do acknowledge it is not always safe or easy to determine what events are to be ascribed to God's special efficacious Providence and as the Lords doing and what are not yet in some there are such visible marks of Discrimination that a Man must be willfully blind if he does not distinguish them I may not at present enter upon this Argument and shall only say that in occurrances which are brought about unexpectedly but seasonably for the deliverance or good of a Church or Nation professing God's true Religion without their privity or assistance by invisible or incompetent means or by the Ministry or Instrumentality of such things as are only or immediately under the direction and government of God in such cases not to trace the out-goings of the Almighty where his footsteps are so plain is to be more stupid or Atheistical than the very Heathens Ps 126.2 Exod. 14.25 In our deliverance I will remark but two things which must lead us to God as the Author of it The design against the King's Life was prevented only by the discovery voluntarily made by some of those who were to be concern'd in the execution of it and the Invasion or Descent upon us was hindred by our Fleets being in such a readiness to guard our own Coasts and block up our Enemies in their Harbours But to what shall we ascribe all this was it through our Policy or Conduct that we had such a Fleet at home Were they not to have been gone long before to the Streights and stopt only by a contrary strange Wind which has hardly been known at that Season of the Year to sit so long in that quarter And to whom shall we attribute this but to him whom the Wind and Seas obey who brings the Winds out of his Treasures and makes them blow under Heaven whither he lists And what was it that made the discoverers confess the designed Assassination when 't was so near being Executed were they not Papists who are not generally over tender of the Blood and lives of Hereticks when their destruction may promote the good of Holy Church were they not engaged and encouraged in it by some of their Priests and no doubt assured if they lost their lives in the attempt of Eternal Life in Exchange and how came the Christian the Gentleman the Man to be too hard for the Papists Conscience Honour or Pity to be too strong for their Religion what or who touch'd their hearts and melted them into remorse and Confession Who but he who only knows and alone can change the heart take away the heart of stone and give one of flesh Him therefore let us acknowledge to be our Saviour and Deliverer and say if the Lord himself had not been on our side when men rose up against us they had swallowed us up quick when they were so wrathfully displeased at us 2. To him let us in the second place pay the tribute of praise and thanks for it this is what he expects call upon me in the day of trouble and I will hear thee and thou shalt praise me And very reasonable certainly for any benefit bestowed brings the person that receives it into debt to his Benefactor and thanks is the least part of payment if God has rescued us from the very Jaws of Death how ought we to glorify him both in Soul and Body which he has redeemed How should we excite all the powers of our Soul and Members of our Bodies to join in his praise Praise the Lord O my Soul and all that is within me bless his holy name who saveth thy life from destruction and crowneth thee with mercy and loving kindness Awake also my Glory my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness O Lord and my Lips shall praise thee Has he preserved to us our Churches where we may have liberty to worship him in Purity and the beauty of Holiness has he secured to us those swept and garnisht Houses from the return of the evil spirit and shall not the Tribes go up thither to worship to give thanks to his holy name Has he continued to us a service in our own Language and shall we not join in it when we may sing with the Spirit and with the understanding also and can say Amen at the giving of thanks Have we still access to him through the Mediation and Intercession of our great High Priest only

and shall we not through him offer to God the Sacrifice of praise continually May we still partake of the Wine as well as Bread in the Eucharist and shall we not receive the Cup of Salvation and call upon the name of the Lord Is Jerusalem safe notwithstanding her Enemies cry'd down with her down with her even to the ground and may our Feet stand in her Gates may we yet frequent her solemn Assembly and praise the Lord of Heaven with Musick Vocal and Instrumental and shall we be silent If any thing strikes us dumb but wonder and astonishment at the greatness and strangeness of our Salvation we shall deserve to continue so and that our tongues should cleave to the roof of our mouths 't is fit the neglected Harps should be hang'd for ever upon the Willows and the skilful hand that toucht them forget its cunning if they make not a chearful noise to the God of Jacob upon so Joyful an occasion and if we prefer not Jerusalem above our chief Joy and join not in one of the Songs of Zion for her deliverance in the Temple of God how deservedly may God give her up to the will of our Enemies suffer them to carry us away Captive and tauntingly require of us in a strange Land a Song and Melody in our heaviness My Brethren this is the business for which Authority has this Day call'd us together and who ever can willfully disobey that call and without very just reason refuse to come up with the multitude to the House of God with the Voice of Joy and Praise with the Multitude that keep Holy-day they give but just cause of suspicion that they were Well-wishers to the Villainous Design and are sorry 't is defeated I am very glad to see such a numerous appearance in this place and hope that better Principles than Formality or Curiosity or fear of Censure that a true sence of the never to be forgotten Mercy and hearty desire to express your thankfulness to the gracious Author of it has brought you together And oh that I could say any thing to increase that sence in you and to enlarge your Hearts and raise up your Souls to the highest pitch of Gratitude and Devotion Assure your selves if the greatness of the destruction which threatned and was within few days of over taking us if the wonderfulness of our deliverance who are escaped as a Bird that was taken in the Snare if the visible appearance of the hand of God in our rescue who saw the Snares and Designs our Enemies were privily laying while we were secure and unapprehensive of them and discover'd and broke them before they could take effect if these are any motives of thankfulness they have their full strength and force upon us in the present case All that is valuable to us as appertaining either to this Life or Godliness our Lives with all the Comforts of them our Liberties our Estates our Friends and which I hope we esteem above all our Reformed Religion were all upon the very brink of ruine The Blow was near being given and we knew nothing of it so far were we from being able to have warded it of which must either have Murdered us presently or if any had survived it for some time they must have lived Slaves and then died with the miserable prospect of leaving their wretched Posterity such fetter'd both in Body and Mind under Temporal and Spiritual Chains and nothing has prevented this Blow or saved us from this ruine but a merciful and watchful Providence Let us then say in the words of our Royal Prophet Blessed be the Lord God the God of Israel who only doth wondrous things and blessed be his glorious name for ever and let the whole Earth be filled with his glory Amen Amen 3. But lastly to conclude let us repose our Trust and Confidence in this God for the future and say with Israel our help standeth in the name of the Lord who made Heaven and Earth 'T is certain this Church and Nation have been for some time preserved in that peaceable and happy state we enjoy by little less than Miracle God has as plainly appeared for us as he did of old for his People whom he brought out of Aegypt with a mighty hand but yet as they were questioning his power even in the midst of Miracles and distrusting his goodness at the same time that they had present Experience of it He smote the stony Rock indeed but can he give bread c. Those mouths which should have been opened only in his praise were filled with nothing but murmurings and diffidence so has it been with too many among us complainings and repineings doubts and despair almost have been heard in our streets and how justly might God have verifyed our unreasonable and unthankful fears When St. Peter at his own request was commanded by Christ to come unto him upon the Water he walked safely upon the surface of it while his Faith boy'd him up but when at the raging of the Winds his Faith began to shake and he was afraid as if Christ who he saw at that time Commanded the Seas and they obey'd could not govern the Winds too and secure him against both how reasonably did Christ chastise his despondency and want of Faith by letting him begin to sink And so might God have dealt with us withdrawn his Protection from us and suffered the Waters to have over-whelmed us when we had so unworthily distrusted his Power and Readiness to Rule the raging of them after he had so often forced them within their Banks and for our sakes said to them hitherto shall you come and no further But he has rather chose to upbraid than correct us for our repining and doubting and to bring us to our duty of an humble affiance and trust in him by giving fresh instances of his Power and Goodness than punish our neglect of it by withdrawing them from us How should this even shame us out of our insidelty I can call it no better and give us a holy Confidence in him and Dependance upon him that he who has so often and strangely appeared for us will be our God and Guide for ever that he who has deliver'd us from so great a death and doth deliver will yet deliver us and perfect in his time that good work which he has begun and carried on so far for us But then in order to this trust and relyance that they may be reasonable and well grounded we cann't but think there is something to be done by us and what is that but to endeavour to walk worthy of that goodness which God has shew'd to us by improving the mercy he continues to us to his Glory and by making him the returns of a filial fear unfeigned Love and an universal Obedience without this our Faith will be but a vain Considence and meer Presumption We have the best Government and Laws in the World but if