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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29567	Achitophel befool'd a sermon preached November V, 1678 at St. Sepulchres / by Aaron Baker ...	Baker, Aaron, b. 1651 or 2.	1678 (1678)	Wing B478; ESTC R5235	15,256	39

themselves and melting their hearts into Panick Fears and Terrors This was the Course God took to discomfit the host of the Syrians 2 Kings 7 8. The Lord made them to hear a Noise of Chariots and a Noise of Horses even the Noise of a great Host wherefore they arose and fled for their Life when there was no Danger near And thus dealt he with the Builders of Babel Gen. 11. they agreed all to work Confusion 'till at last they were so confounded that they could not understand any more one anothers Language This was the Case of those Popish Conspirators what Disputes were there What difference among themselves how to dispose of the Kings Children after the King himself was blown up and how to share such and such Lands It is usual with Traitors as with Thieves their particular Interest sets them together by the Ears and turns their Counsel into Foolishness A fourth way is Cutting them off by Death in the works of their own Designs while their Plot is but on the Anvile and hammering The Lot of Antiochus Herod Julian and many others and the same that befell those Popish Traitors who were opportunely cut off by the hands of Justice Traitors walk always as though they trod the Scaffold The Axe of God's Justice is evermore turn'd upon them and they are still menaced with Destruction A fifth and last way for I will instance in no more is surprizing them in their greatest Security and disappointing them of their hopes even Then when they are ready to grasp them The rich Miser in the Gospel had Corn Wine and Oyl had all in his Barns and Store-houses for many years but is deceived he cannot enjoy them one Night Like 12.20 How was he befool'd how were his Counsels and Expectations turn'd into Foolishness Even so was it with those Romish Traitors they had a Hellish Birth but it prov'd Abortive for want of strength to bring forth Isa 37.3 All the Plot suited to their Desires The Vault was hired the Gunpowder laid the Barrels and Engines of Death hid and disguised the Train laid Match ready and all this Undiscover'd How near were they now how near the end of their Hellish Designs one spark of Fire had done all and how soon is that struck Yet now behold God the Keeper of our Israel who all this while overlook'd all their Actions and heard their guilty Whispers disappoints and befools them Traitors seldom fare better when they are as they imagine nearest to their Ends God wrests the Booty from them and sets them further off than ever from their Purposes While they go on in their Plots and Counsels and serious Projections That God who is called by the Prophet Amos Amos. 5.9 Deus subridens vastitatem so in the Latine with much Allowance from the Hebrew sports and laughs at them bringing Destruction upon their Counsels which Infatuates and turns them into Foolishness And now after all this on God's Part there remains certainly something to be done on Ours Secondly therefore Let the Consideration hereof invite us to the Exercise of a double Duty Thankfulness and Prayer As to the First of these David tells us That it is a good thing to give Thanks unto the Lord Psal 92.1 2. and to praise his Holy Name to shew forth his Loving kindness in the Morning and his Faithfulness every Night 'T is a Duty wherein we resemble the blessed Angels of Heaven and which we must never forget on Earth Gods Mercies are Renewed to us every Morning and every moment gives us some Evidence of his Love to us He cloaths he feeds us and preserves us from Innumerable Dangers and therefore 't is but Reason as for him to expect so for us to pay him the Tribute of our Thanks and that daily and hourly But these are Private Thanksgivings there are Blessings that concern the Publick as the Peace Plenty and Safety of the Nation wherein we live and these we must thank God for in our Publick Capacities But especially we should take Notice of Gods Signal Deliverances either from his greater Judgments or the Enemies of our Church and State The latter of These concerns us more Peculiarly at present and which I am briefly to exhort you to as it relates to the Discovery of the Powder-plot And here to raise your Gratitude I shall desire you to reflect and consider a little Who were designed to Destruction in this Plot and what the sad Consequences of it would have been had it taken effect The latter of these we can but guess at the former is most certain that it was design'd against King and Parliament which you know is made up of the Honourable Nobility and Reverend Bishops of our faithful Counsellors and grave Judges in a word of the greatest part of the worthy Knights and Gentlemen of our Land All these must have been dispatched as in the twinkling of an eye and at one mighty Thunder-clap been sent to Heaven together where though they should have been happy to Eternal Ages we should for a while have been left behind to bewail the wretched Condition of this our helpless Land and mournfully to weep forth the sad Elegies of Sion for a while I say for though Poena Damni our Punishment in the Loss of our Pious King and Parliament might not presently have broken our hearts yet Poena Sensûs the Inquisition would unless we would submit to the Yoak of Popery and to save our Bodies for a moment have damn'd our Souls for ever All this I ground upon this easie Supposition that had this Plot of theirs met with its hop'd Success they would have Introduc'd the Establishment of Popery and probably back'd the Observance of it with an Inquisition And then what good Christian could have expected but to feel the Tortures of the Rack or Gibbet and to hear of many doleful Outcries many Shrieks and Groans and other sad Notes from the distressed Protestants And is not this O ye men and Brethren matter of a Thanksgiving to us that God deliver'd us from this Plot and snatch'd us as Firebrands out of the Fire Amos 4.11 Is it not worthy of our Everlasting Remembrance that he suffered us not to become their Prey nor to be cloathed with Shame and Dishonour Certainly if this be not 't is not easie to name a Temporal Deliverance that is For alas who are we and what is there in us that God should signalize this Nation with such a Complicated Mercy We are a very sinful and Rebellious People and therefore might justly fear that God should rather give us up into the hands of our Enemies than deliver us from them We have deserv'd his Anger and must therefore confess Lam. 3.22 that it is of the Lords Mercies that we are not Consumed because his Compassions fail not God hath hitherto preserved us and would fain preserve us still if we would pay him Obedience and answer his Mercies with fit returns of Gratitude Then might other Nations dash one against another and the World tumble upon heaps whatever Confusion there is in other Kingdoms whatever Plots and Conspiracies against This of us God would take a Peculiar Care and Charge Which that he may doe let us add to our Thankfulness for the Time past our Prayers for the time to come First That he would be pleased to make us more Thankful for all his great and undeserved Mercies Private and Publick Temporal and Spiritual especially for this Signal Preservation from Popery and for this great Deliverance of King and Parliament Secondly That he would continue still to turn the Counsels of Achitophel into Foolishness and discover more and more the Plots and Designs of the Enemies of his Church and our Peace That he would lay open more and more their fraudulent and wicked Purposes especially the Papists and Jesuits at this Time to render them as Odious to men as they are to God Thirdly and lastly That he would continue and perpetuate his Mercy in Preserving our Gracious Sovereign that now is with this Protestant Church and Common-wealth from all Treasons and Traiterous Conspiracies Which God grant to us of this Kingdom for his Son Christ Jesus's sake To whom with the Father and the Holy Spirit be ascribed by us as is most due all Honour Glory Power Might Majesty Wisdom and Thanksgiving henceforward and for evermore Amen FINIS