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A29155	A sermon preached at St. Catharine Cree-Church, on the 26th of November, 1691 being the thanksgiving-day, for the preservation of the King, and the reduction of Ireland / by Nicholas Brady ... ; printed at the request of his parishioners.	Brady, Nicholas, 1659-1726.	1692 (1692)	Wing B4174; ESTC R40295	11,416	32

A SERMON Preached at St. CATHARINE CREE-CHURCH On the 26th of November 1691. BEING THE Thanksgiving-day FOR THE Preservation of the KING and the Reduction of Ireland By Nicholas Brady M. A. Minister of St Catharine Cree-Church and Chaplain to his Grace the Duke of Ormond Printed at the Request of his Parishioners LONDON Printed for Samuel Crouch at the Corner of Popes-Head-Alley over against the Royal Exchange 1692. To my Worthy Friends The Parishioners of St. C. Cree-Church Gentlemen I Am so many ways indebted to you both for your obliging Election of me to be your Minister and for the several Civilities which I have received since my living amongst you that I could not refuse so small an acknowledgment as that of publishing the following Discourse at your Request tho I am not ignorant that besides its own defects the very subject matter of it will expose it to the Censure of some who will not allow others the liberty to speak well of the Government whilst they assume to themselves the priviledge of Railing at it and speaking evil of Dignities But since I proposed to my self no other end in it when I delivered it from the Pulpit than the instruction of my Congregation and the discharging of a good Conscience I am little concerned what Reception it may meet with abroad being abundantly satisfied by the desire you have testified to have it made publick that it has had its wish'd effect upon You who heard it and for whose use and advantage it was primarily designed As therefore I have consented to the Publication of it for no other reason but because I could not deny you the absolute disposal of that which is so justly your own so the only return that I expect or desire is that you will go on to exemplifie it in your practice and approve your selves in all things else as true Friends to the Government as you have done in your favourable acceptation of the following Discourse That it may please God to give you frequent occasions of Praises and Thanksgivings and to perfect the Deliverance which he has so happily begun shall be the constant Prayer of Decem. 4th 1691. Your Hearty Well-Wisher Obliged Friend and Servant in the Lord N. Brady A SERMON Preached on the Thanksgiving-day PSAL. XVIII The former part of the last Verse Great deliverance giveth he to his King GOD having rejected Saul from being King over Israel and having raised up his chosen Servant David to govern in his stead many were the Attempts against him of his potent and designing Enemies both by open Violence and by secret Practices But the Lord whose right hand has the preheminence and brings mighty things to pass whose Counsel shall stand let there be never so many devices in the heart of man gave Victory unto his King and shewed Mercy unto his Anointed and by signal and frequent manifestations of his Power established and quietly setled him in that Throne to which his good Providence had so remarkably conducted him In grateful Commemoration of these wonderful Deliverances the Royal Prophet composed this Psalm of Thanksgiving as we may clearly gather from the Preface of it where it is intitled 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 out of the hand of all his Enemies and out of the hand of Saul In it he gives us a large and eloquent description of Almighty Power and unbounded Goodness and shews us how eminently they had both been exerted in his own favour and being rapt up into a holy extasie upon a due contemplation of the Mercies which he had received he breaks forth into this passionate Acknowledgment in the words of my Text Great deliverance giveth he to his King In my following Discourse upon which words I shall insist upon these four particulars The two former of which are contained in my Text The two later are naturally deducible from it and fitly accommodated to the present occasion First I shall examine what it is to be Gods King and what qualifications are generally found in such a Prince as may justly deserve that Denomination Secondly I shall shew that to such a Prince as is God's King God will give great deliverance Thirdly I shall prove both from the qualifications generally found and from the deliverance given that his present Majesty does justly deserve the denomination of God's King Fourthly and lastly I shall enquire what Returns are due from us to God for the great deliverance which he has given to his King First then I shall examine what it is to be Gods King and what Qualifications are generally found in such a Prince as may justly deserve that denomination Great deliverance giveth he to His King It is indeed most undeniably true that in a large and unlimited sense every Sovereign Prince may be styled God's King since the most Arbitrary Tyrants and most forcible Usurpers are without question ordained by God according as he testifies of himself Is there any evil in the City and I have not done it But what we here mean by His King is such a King as is designed by God to be the instrument of signal Mercies and an extraordinary Blessing to the people which he governs And in such a Prince as we now speak of these three following Qualifications are generally found 1. A visible and more than common designation of him to the Government 2. A Course of Government advantagious to his People and tending to the Advancement of True Religion 3. A Life Exemplary and Unblameable in his private Actions and Conversation 1. Then in order to denominating a Prince God's King there is generally found a visible and more than common designation of him to the Government God in his ordinary Dispensation of common Mercies generally proceeds in a setled course he makes his Sun to rise daily his Rain to fall at its appointed Season and thus he dispenses his usual Blessings after a familiar manner in a regular way and ties himself up as it were to Rule and Method But when he designs to bless remarkably and to give extraordinary Instances of his good Will and Favour he then has no other bounds but his own Omnipotency and constrains us to confess that it is the Lord 's doing by making his proceedings appear marvellous in our eyes Thus if a Nation be to be rescued from Slavery a Moses shall be sent in the power of Miracles if a tottering Government be to be settled and confirmed a David shall be conducted to the Helm by a constant Series of most especial Providences if Idolatry be to be rooted out a Jehu shall be Anointed to it in a particular and solemn manner that so at the same time that we are sensible of the Mercy we may also perceive from whose hand it comes that God may not only give Blessings unto his People but may make unto himself also a glorious Name

of his Subjects and how zealously did he establish Religion in its purity How Examplary was his Life and how Unblamable his Conversation Well might he then assure himself of the Divine Protection and that God would give great deliverance to his King And this leads me to the consideration of my second General namely to shew that to such a Prince as is God's King God will give great deliverance Great deliverance giveth he to his King God is not a man that he should repent nor does he ever do things by halves but will thoroughly compleat whatever he has designed To raise up a man after his own heart to advance him by unusual methods to the Supreme Authority to promote by his means the publick good both of Church and State and when by the vigorous discharge of his Duty in so eminent a Station he has exposed himself to dangers and to difficulties to let him then sink poorly under them were to impeach himself of impotency or inconstancy either of which would derogate from the Divine Perfection God has engaged himself in honour to stand by him whom he has so visibly acknowledged for his King and if God be for him who can be against him How little will all the Tricks and Contrivances of human Policy be able to supplant or undermine him who has the Wisdom of God to support him and sustain him God bringeth the counsel of the Heathen to nought and maketh the devices of the People of none effect But the counsel of the Lord standeth for ever and the thoughts of his heart to all generations How little can the united Forces of Conspiring Adversaries prevail against him who has the Power of God to strengthen and uphold him He will not be afraid for ten thousands of the people that should set themselves against him round about for God smites all his enemies upon the cheek-bone and breaks the teeth of the ungodly Since God has designed him for the performance of a work he will not suffer him to faint till the Accomplishment of it for that were to frustrate his own intentions and consequently to be inconsistent with himself that were to make the workers of Iniquity to rejoyce and triumph and to say over him There there so would we have it to leave the two great ends at which he aim'd the benefiting the publick and the advancing true Religion utterly imperfect and uncompleated and to bring his own power into question and dispute And therefore Moses makes use of this argument effectually and successfully to turn away God's Anger from the Jewish Congregation by interesting the Divine Honour in their preservation for perfecting the work which he had undertaken Now if thou shalt kill all these people says he as one man then the Nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak saying Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the Land which he sware unto them therefore hath he slain them in the wilderness and now I beseech thee let the power of my Lord be great as thou hast spoken But shall the designs of the Lord just come unto the birth and can there be wanting strength to bring forth No certainly God will rise up as in mount Perazim and strengthen himself as in the valley of Gibeon that he may do his work his strange work and bring to pass his act his strange act He will give Salvation unto his King and will deliver David his servant from the peril of the Sword he will hear his Anointed from his holy Heaven even with the wholesome strength of his right hand Having thus run over the two general Propositions which were contained in the words of my Text I proceed in the third place to consider the former of these two which are naturally deducible from it and fitly accommodated to the present occasion namely to prove both from the qualifications generally found in such a Prince and from the Deliverances given to him that his present Majesty is God's King The first Qualification as you have been told is a visible and more than common designation of him to the Government And certainly no Prince was ever advanced to the Sovereign Authority in a more remarkable manner or more evidently promoted by God himself than ours was For how prodigious will it appear in future Story that presently upon his Landing with so inconsiderable a party is compared to the numerous multitudes that might have opposed him he should quietly possess himself of the whole Kingdom almost without the effusion of one drop of Blood Who but God alone who has the hearts of all men in his hand as the rivers of waters and turns them whithersoever he pleases could have bowed the hearts of all the people to him even as the heart of one man Could any thing be more strange or improbable if we consider it after the manner of men than that a King peaceably possessed of the Throne of his Ancestors established in the Government for several years and thereby having had means to oblige many should scarce find one in the extent of his Dominions that durst maintain and espouse his cause against an Enemy in all appearance much weaker than himself That an Army of English-men and consequently Courageous should unanimously Disband without fighting a stroke in behalf of him who had raised them and maintained them That so many different Factions which divided us among our selves should unanimously agree in the same Resolution and fill up the vacant Throne by common consent notwithstanding all former Heats and Animosities Yet these almost impossible Suppositions did all concur to advance his present Majesty to the Government of these Nations and thereby to convince us that he is God's King A second Qualification as you may remember is a course of Government advantageous to his People and tending to the advancement of True Religion And here also I may safely affirm that his present Majesty has fully and sufficiently made good this Character For does not the English Reputation which was lately sullied and almost totally Eclipsed begin to shine out in its Ancient Lustre and to dazle the Eyes of Foreign Beholders Are not Liberty and Property those two great priviledges which jointly make up the Birthright of an English-man and happily distinguish him from most other Subjects rescued from the encroachments which they were about to sink under Are not the several Courts of Justice and Equity advantageously redeemed from Bribery and Oppression and become in deed what they were formerly but in name But above and before all is not our endanger'd and almost supplanted Religion setled again upon its sure Foundation and not only by Law Established but by Law protected also Are not our Churches retrieved from their destined perversion to the use of Error and Superstition and setled in the due Exercise of a Reasonable Service These and such like have been the blessed Effects of his present Majesties Government and they abundantly evince