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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

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

our selves so free from the Defilements of Sin that Iniquity may not be our Ruin For to illustrate this when Balaam would have Cursed the Israelites but had not power to do it he told Balak God did force him contrariwise to bless them as it is in the 20th Verse of this Chapter of my Text Behold I have received commandment to bless and he hath blessed and I cannot reverse it And then ensues the true Cause of this Blessedness in the next Verse He hath not beheld Iniquity in Jacob neither hath he seen Perverseness in Israel The People were Holy and Righteous and so long God's Especial Presence was with them as the following words do declare The Lord his God is with him and the shout of a King is among them But yet when a little after they were subjected to Sin and committed Lewdness and Folly and bowed down to other Gods then God withdrew his gracious Presence and instead thereof sent a Plague among them which lessened their number by Twenty and Four Thousand that were quickly swept away Numb 25. Whereby we see it is the Evil of Sin that causeth the Evil of Punishment one particular Act whereof is enough to provoke Divine Justice to strike and satisfied it must be either by Contrition and true Sorrow of Heart here or Pain hereafter And then how aggravating is it for Men to proceed still in an Habit and Custom of the highest Provocations without any Remorse or Consideration at all of the Evil of their Doings Notwithstanding God's calls to Repentance and Amendment at one time by Judgments inflicted upon a People or Nation and at another time impendent and hovering over their Heads like a huge black Cloud threatning a most violent Storm From which near and approaching Danger nevertheless when God hath made a way for an escape and a great Deliverance then for Men to be unthankful after fears of Evil to murmur at Mercy To be pleased no way neither in Danger nor out of it is a strange and almost if not altogether an unpardonable Crime for the Sin of Ingratitude in its own Nature must needs be very heinous and provoking in the Eyes of a most Wise and a Good God especially when Mercies are extraordinary in their kind and like to Miracles then to be angry even as Jonah because Nineveh was not destroyed To be displeased at the great Instrument under God of our Deliverance and in the Heart to desire Spoilers to Invade the Land is Malicious and Spiteful And in the Mind to wish for and bid welcome to the Forces of a known Foreign Tyrant who know no other than to Burn and Destroy when and where they have Power and thus in effect to hope for Slavery is a Wickedness and Folly scarce or not at all to be parallei'd in any History But now let the People of this Land shew themselves unto the World to be a Wise and Understanding Nation let us all declare our selves to be Men of Reason and Prudence by being sensible of our late wonderful Deliverance and knowing our present Happiness Let us be just unto God by due praises to him for this great Blessing upon us Let the Te Deum be always in our Mouths and the Trisagion sounding out of our Lips Holy Holy Holy Lord God of Hosts with continual Hallelujahs praise ye the Lord praise O ye Servants of the Lord praise ye the Name of the Lord. O give thanks unto the Lord for he is good for his Mercy endureth for ever Let the Redeemed of the Lord say so whom he hath Redeemed from the Hand of the Enemy And next let us render unto Caesar our due Tribute of Thanks and Faithful Obedience for venturing his Life for us and Fighting our Battels Nay this to the King and Queen both let us give for their Zeal and Courage and great Conduct of Affairs for their good Will and tender Affection towards us all Let us be sensible of our Happy Condition under the Influences of their most Auspicious Government and let us Congratulate one another therein because they will by the Blessing of God support and defend us and our Religion our Laws and Liberties And then let us manifest unto the World that we do fully know and understand and are satisfied that God hath undeservedly and greatly Blessed us with a most Religious Wise and Gracious King William and Queen Mary For whom let us pray That God will grant Them an Happy Meeting by the King 's Safe Return from the Wars with Victory and all Good Success and that He will Establish Them in the Thrones of Their Kingdoms and Enable Them to lay a lasting Foundation to the Peace and Tranquility of Our Church and These Nations That They may be Victorious over All Their Enemies both by Sea and Land and strengthen the Hands of Their Allies against the Great Troubler of our Israel and the Common Disturber of all Christendom that Their Reign may be Prosperous and Their Days many Their People Loyal and Dutiful Subjects unto Them And that They may Both so serve God here that when He shall be pleased to Call Them from these Earthly Crowns unto Himself He may Crown Them with Eternal Glory and Felicity in the highest Heavens In which Prayer let the whole Nation join together and to it now let all this Congregation say Amen The GLORY Departed SERMON II. ON THE DEATH Of Our Late Most Gracious Queen Mary II. Of Blessed Memory Preached in Mortlake-Church in Surrey on the Third Day of March 1694. ISAM iv 22. The Glory is departed from Israel IN a most sad and lamentable manner is this Scripture of late fulfill'd in your Ears And Oh! that my Head were Waters Jer. 9.1 and mine Eyes a Fountain of Tears that I might weep Day and Night for the unspeakable Loss of that Glory which is departed from our Israel by the surprising Decease of Our Most Gracious and Pious Queen Mary of Ever Blessed Memory The Solemnity of whose Funeral beging near it may be proper now to speak of her Majesty of whom we said Under Her Shadow with the Joint-protection of His Most Excellent and Sacred Majesty King William we shall live among our greatest Enemies And through the Mercy of God who gave unto us those two Unparallel'd Virtuous Princes we shall they Reigning over us in defiance of the proudest Powers enjoy our Religion our Laws and Liberties have all Rights Immunities and Privileges restored to our Nation setled and confirmed unto us and our Posterity on a lasting Foundation Yea although we have lost the Best of Princesses we still hope by God's Grace for those Blessings through our Surviving Soveraign's Auspicious and Valiant Endeavours through his Wisdom and the great Counsels of our August Assembly the thrice Honourable Senators of our Land But alas the unexpected Breach that is made is Dismal and Amazing when God had given us a double portion of his Spirit of Love and Kindness in two such