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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47440	Europe's delivery from France and slavery a sermon preached at St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, on the 16th of November, 1690, before the right honourable the Lords Justices of Ireland : being the day of Thanksgiving for the preservation of His Majesty's person, his good success in our deliverance, and his safe and happy return into England / by William King ...	King, William, 1650-1729.	1691 (1691)	Wing K532; ESTC R17458	18,583	31

to his Religion and cunning design of spinning out his Life with their Pian Piano put them upon urging to him that great alterations are dangerous when carried otherwise than by slow and inperceptible degrees The same tells him that nothing causes irresolution more than a medley of Councellors of a different Religion from their Prince yet King James could never free himself from this Medley And that is the reason that his Actions were never of a piece and that he commonly spoiled his business by doing too much and yet too little thus he ought either not to have brought any Irish or French into his Army or made the whole intirely Papists He ought either to have accepted the French King's Assistance and Fleet without reserve or else broken with him altogether and declared against him But by hanging between both he lost the affections of his own Subjects which might have supported him and the benefit of Foreign Assistance his doing and undoing things had the same effect in which and many other particulars his not sticking intirely to one sort of Councellors was to us a great Providence I must reckon it as a sixth That the States of Holland should without scruple trust their All into His Majesty's Hand and be content to run his fortune which they plainly did in his Expedition We all know that the Vnited Netherlands are a free People most Jealous of their Liberty and who have done and suffered more to maintain it than perhaps any Nation in the World And as they are jealous of their Liberty so they are close and wary and not apt to venture too much at one slake Now that such a People should commit the absolute disposal of their Navy their Armies and their Money the very Sinews of their State to one Man and venture all in the same Bottom with him was an unbounded Trust and Kindness as his Majesty himself is said to have expressed it to them They trusted not only him but the Winds and Seas for his sake And tho' they had such intire confidence in his Conduct and Faith as not to ask him what he designed yet the hazard of a Winter-Voyage where the whole of their State was at once exposed to the Mercy of a Tempest was sufficient to have stumbled them had not the same God that inclined the hearts of Israel as of one man towards David knit their hearts to him and made them tender of his Life and Person where they without hesitation ventured their State 7thly It must be owned as an effect of the same Providence that King James's Court and Ministers were so blinded that they could not see into his present Majesty's designs And so secure that they would not give credit to the many Advices given them of these Preparations of which we can give no other account than that of Job Chap. 5. 13. He taketh the wise in their own craftiness and the councel of the froward is carried headlong they meet with darkness in the day and grope in the noonday as in the night 8thly I shall only mention King James's deserting his Army in England on which if he had absolutely cast himself and depended on their Fidelity it is certain by what has happened since that a great part of them would have stood by him There were enough to make a vigorous Opposition who were willing to run his Fortune if God had not enfeebled their Courage and put fear in their Hearts It was this opened the way to one of the greatest Revolutions that ever happened in that Kingdom almost without a drop of blood which must be owned as a singular Providence 9thly It was an over-reaching act of Providence to make that the Key to open a way for our settlement which was projected by our Enemies as the certain means to embroil us for ever I suppose no body doubts but those who advised King James to desert the Kingdom believed that we could never come to a settlement without him and yet the event proved directly contrary to their expectation for his presence in all probability had been such a rub to our settlement that it had not been easie to get over it It was indeed strange we should come to a Resolution so soon especially where the weight of the matter was so great and the opinions of men so divided that in the near equality of voices the wisest could not foresee how it would end till Heaven it self determined it For what else could have brought such different Interests and Judgments to acquiesce in the conclusion Neither in the 10th place must we imagine that the strange and absurd division of Protestants in England into Jacobites and Williamites happened without a Providence Whatever sence some may have of it in other respects we of this Kingdom must own it as a great and signal Mercy King James and his adherents here reckoned upon a strong and numerous Party in England and were affraid if they had utterly destroyed us that they should have lost them and therefore in many cases were obliged to bear an easier hand towards us than otherwise they would have done And whatever Favour or Forbearance we received from them was intirely due to this consideration This was the use God made of this Faction and now it has served his purpose I hope he will extinguish it 11thly God in his Providence so ordered it that King James found an unexpected diversion in Ireland that employed all his Forces till things were setled in England and till his present Majesty had leisure to break the Enemies power in Scotland and prepare for the Conquest of Ireland Had King James on his Landing in Ireland found no opposition in it but been intirely at Liberty to joyn his Forces with that Party that appeared for him in our neighbouring Kingdom every one is sensible how fatal the event might have proved not only to England but also to the Liberty of all Europe But it pleased God to find him work here by an unexpected Opposition which not only imployed but ruined his best men and lost him such an Opportunity as never could again be expected If we consider the Places and Persons that made this Opposition it is a Miracle that they should undertake much more that they should succeed in it and it looks as if God Almighty in his Providence had raised them up for that juncture and inspired them with Resolution in an extraordinary manner to shew his power in their weakness and his care of us in the seasonableness of their undertaking Our Enemies were very sensible of the unluckiness of this accident as they called it and curst Derry and Eniskillin as the occasion of the ruin of their affairs 12thly It was certainly a great Providence to us that his Majesty in person should undertake the Reduction of Ireland At a time and in such circumstances that King James and his Party judged it impossible and promised themselves that they had made him such work at