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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47445	A sermon preached at St. Patrick's Church Dublin on the 16th of Novemb. 1690 being the day of thanksgiving for the preservation of His Majesties person, his good success in our deliverance, and his safe and happy return into England : before the Right Honourable the Lords Justices of Ireland / by William King.	King, William, 1650-1729.	1691 (1691)	Wing K537; ESTC R26831	18,020	35

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 entire 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 s●umbled 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 7 thly It must be owned as an Effect of the same Providence that King James's Court and Ministers was 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 carryed headlong They meet with Darkness in the Day and grope in the Noon-day as in the Night 8 thly 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 enow 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 9 thly 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 believe 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 10 th Place must we imagine that that strange and absurd Division of Protestants in England into Jacobites and Williamites happened without a Providence Whatever Sense 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 afraid if they had utterly destroyed us that they should have lost them and therefore in many cases were oblig'd to bear an easier hand towards us than otherwise they would have done And whatever Favour or Forbearance we received from them it 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 11 thly God in his Providence so order'd it that King James found an unexpected Diversion in Ireland that employed all his Forces till things were settled 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 join 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 12 thly 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 home that he should rather fear an Invasion from Ireland than think of an Expedition into it But the Providence of God by his single Courage and Resolution broke all their Measures and put them out of those Methods which they imagined so well concerted that it must be impossible to defeat them 13 thly Can it be ascribed to any thing else than a singular Providence that they should mistake themselves and disregard the Advices or rather as they themselves used to call them their Orders from France so as to put themselves to the hazard of a Battle when delay was so much their Interest whatever it cost them and so easie to them had they not been infatuated 14 thly It was no less an Over-ruling Providence that an Army so well Trained Disciplined and Armed and so advantageously posted should make so little Opposition The Advantage of their Post by all Intelligent men was reckoned above three to one and it had been impossible to beat them from it had not the God of Battles enfeebled their hearts and animated his Majesty to an Attempt that seems next in strangeness to that of Jonathans on the Philistines And which perhaps only his Majesty of all Men living would have attempted 15 thly Add to this the strange Panick Fear that seized the Vanquished Tho' their Troops were for the most part untouched and a very few fallen yet such Dread and Terror possessed them as did formerly the Syrians at Samaria and they fled where no man pursued them King James did not stop till he got out of the Kingdom and his Army fled as far as the Sea would let them had they had ships they would