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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53084	A sermon preached in the parish-church of Aldenham, in the county of Hertford, on Thursday, April 16, 1696 being the day of thanksgiving to almighty God for discovering and disappointing a horrid and barbarous conspiracy of papists and other trayterous persons to assassinate and murder His Most Gracious Majesty's Royal Person, and for delivering this kingdom from an invasion intended by the French / by Peter Newcome ... ; published at the request of the inhabitants of the said parish.	Newcome, Peter, 1656-1738.	1696 (1696)	Wing N903; ESTC R42212	15,546	31

sedulously clearing our selves from all suspicions that we may formerly have lain under and entring our Protestations against approving or abetting or any way being concern'd in so foul a Crime And yet tho' we never so much Detest the Crime we should hence be moved also 2. To Compassionate and Pray for such as are involved in it Because the more hainous the Guilt the more wretched the Sinner and the more an object of our Pity and Intercessions to God for him That Humane Nature should be so stain'd is Deplorable That any of our Fellow-Creatures should so abuse Reason and Conscience is more so But that our Fellow-Subjects and Christians should be so devoid of Grace and Humanity is most of all sad and miserable In such we see the Misery Sin exposes to and the Weakness of Nature to preserve it self and the great dependance we have continually on the preventing and assisting Grace of God And if others fall while we stand it is not becoming such as we are to be high minded but the rather to fear Such sins therefore of others ought to make us more careful over our selves and to compassionate their Miscarriages to which we were so obnoxious our selves No man's Misfortune deserves our Insults tho' the Occasion may justly our blame His Sin that made him miserable is to be detested but the Misery it makes him suffer deserves our Pity It now therefore becomes us to Compassionate the Guilt and Sufferings which the unbridled Madness and Blindness of these Sinners hath insnared them in and to recommend their Misfortune to the God of Pity to open their Eyes to a due sence of their Error and to break their Hearts into a sincere Contrition for their Guilt and to fit them for and support them under and sanctify to them the sufferings they have procured to themselves in this World so as to avoid those eternal Torments they have reason to expect otherwise will await them in the next World Neither while we are thus concern'd for Their Sin ought we to be unmindful of our own And therefore further hence it becomes us also 3. To be Humbled for our own sins which have threaten'd us with such a Judgment from other men's For it is for Those that God permits These to threaten or afflict us with an Injury He designing our Punishment by their Guilt And therefore now we see the Danger and Ruin we were brought just upon the Brink of by others Treachery it should make us reflect upon our own Guilt that hath provoked God to raise up such turbulent and false Rebels among us and permitted them to design and carry on their Conspiracy so far as to endanger our Liberty Laws and Religion thereby The Fault is theirs but the Warning is ours And tho' our Reprieve is obtain'd yet nothing but an unfeigned Repentance can secure us a Pardon The Danger we were in is graciously discover'd to us to let us see our demerits and to provoke us to a Reformation which is the only Terms upon which we may promise to our selves safety without which God can easily reduce us into the like or worse danger and deny us any more such Deliverance Our Enemie's Disappointment then must be our Warning lest our continued impenitency may give them Success against us for the Punishment of our Sins which their Disappointment could not warn us to Reform Therefore it is not so much the Injury they design'd us as our Sins that provoked God to permit them to design any against us that upon such Discovery and Disappointment we ought chiefly to oppose our selves and be humbled for God will preserve us if we will not be wanting to preserve our selves from Sin which is the only Enemy we need to fear and which we have a great deal of Reason to fear even from an Apprehension of the Miseries it so lately threaten'd us with and had certainly executed upon us had not God stept in between to save us yet longer from long since deserved Destruction 'T is fatal to persist in such Provocations And having received yet another Deliverance it the more concerns us now at length to be more wary of presuming to weary out Divine Patience to no purpose and to Sin now no more lest a worse thing come next unto us And hence then how can we but own our Obligation further 4. To be truly Thankful to God for our present Deliverance It being only his Mercy and undeserved Forbearance towards us that hath granted us a longer Respite who have long since deserved Ruin and continues his Warnings when our Punishment was so ready to fall down on our heads and which nothing but the watchfull eye of Providence could have rescued from 'T was only God in whose hands the hearts of all men are to turn as the Rivers of Water that turned the hearts of some of the Conspirators themselves to become our Deliverers Fetching Good out of Evil and by a miracle of Providence securing both our Church and State in the Trust only of those that were pitch'd upon as fittest to be entrusted with the perpetration of the worst of Villanies For what greater Evil could men contrive or have we to fear than the Assassination of his Majesty's person to make way for a foreign Invasion whereby to enslave both our Bodies and Souls Yet this is what was designed for us and what God hath shewn himself so signally in the Discovery of what we are now Assembled here to return him Thanks for To Him therefore be render'd all the Praise and our heartiest Thanks for this his infinite Goodness to us That he still shews his Almighty Hand in our Defence by which he wrought out at first our Deliverance That he hath hitherto prevented our Return to Bondage and still continues us on the Borders of the Land of Rest and hath not yet after all taken from us our Hopes of a seasonable entrance and happy settlement therein That He hath preserved to us his own Anointed the Breath of our Nostrils and the Light of Israel continuing the same miraculous Providence that hath shewn it self in so many wonderfull Deliverances thro' the whole course of his Life to encircle still his Head both as an Ornament and Helmet bespeaking him no less the Darling and Care of Heaven than exposing him to be the Envy and Wonder of Earth Oh that Men would therefore praise the Lord for his Goodness and declare the Wonders that he doth for the Children of Men That he doth for his Anointed And hath now once more done for Us in preserving him from those bloody Designs which nothing but his own Infinite Wisdom and Power could have discovered and defeated Not unto us O Lord not unto us but unto thy Name be ascribed all Honour Glory and Praise with most humble and hearty Thanks in all Churches of the Saints Even so Blessed be the Lord our God who only doth wondrous things and blessed be the Name of his Majesty for ever This surely is our Duty hence to Heaven whence our Mercy comes and which if duly perform'd will influence our Behaviour here towards his Vicegerent on Earth to whom it more immediately was directed For this finally instructs us 5. Lastly To Confirm and Strengthen more our Loyalty to the present Government for the future For to this end God seems to have brought it into so Eminent Danger and to have so eminently rescued it therefrom to let us see its Worth and how dear it is to Him and to endear it hereby to us For the true worth of a Mercy is never valued we say till lost And therefore tho' we have not yet lost ours yet by the Danger it was in to be lost God hath made us very sensible of the Evil it would have been to us and hereby hath taught us the more to value it Let us therefore at last persuade our selves not only to be reconciled to the Government God hath put us under and would do us good by but to endear it to us and unite and firmly Associate our selves to defend and support it since God appears so eminently for it and calls to us by such repeated Providences to do so too Let us look up to God and take our measures from him to submit to his Councils and quietly to permit him to govern the World and Us by the Captain of his own appointment Laying aside our Prejudices and Passions Rancor and Rebellion let us at least hearken to the seasonable Advice of Gamaliel Act. 5.35 38 39. Ye Men of Israel take heed to your selves what ye intend to do as touching these Men. Refrain from these Men and let them alone for if this Council or this Work be of Men it will come to naught But if it be of God ye cannot overthrow it lest haply ye be found even to fight against God If ever Prince in the World was own'd to be of God then surely is Ours by a continued Succession of such Providences to Preserve him and Disappoint his Enemies And may God still continue the same Miracle of Protection of him to us And add One more in uniting all the Hearts and Affections of this whole Nation to him that so he may henceforward without any Discouragement or Interruption go on to perfect the Deliverance he is engag'd in for us and not only secure us from ever returning again in Rebellion to Bondage but speedily bring us into the Land of Rest our Sins hitherto have only delay'd our entrance into and secure to us inviolably our Religion and Rights by a lasting advantageous Peace and after a long and happy Reign on Earth be late admitted to a Glorious and Everlasting Kingdom in Heaven And let all the People say Amen FINIS