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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62602	A sermon preach'd at the Cathedral Church of Worcester upon the thanksgiving-day, April 16, 1696 by W. Talbot ...	Talbot, William, 1658 or 9-1730.	1696 (1696)	Wing T124; ESTC R9963	17,703	30

of the Vngodly and let the oppressed Captive go free Great Reason therefore had Israel for such a miraculous Escape to make these Acknowledgments and Returns to the Author of it which we here see they did namely 1. To ascribe their Deliverance wholly to God as the doing of that right hand only which bringeth mighty things to pass If the Lord himself had not been on our side we had been swallowed up quick and the Stream had gone over our Souls 2. To give him the Praise due unto his Name for it Blessed be the Lord who has not given us over as a Prey to their Teeth 3. And Lastly to declare their Confidence in him and intire reliance upon his Power and Goodness for the time to come Our Help standeth in the Name of the Lord who hath made Heaven and Earth That God who manifested his Power and Goodness by Creating the World out of Nothing by a Word of his Mouth and giving Being to all the Creatures in it has as evidently shewn forth those glorious Attributes in our strange Preservation and Rescue out of the Hands of our formidable and implacable Enemies there will we therefore place our Confidence not fearing what Man can do unto us On God we will depend He only is our Rock and Salvation our Defence and Refuge through him we shall do valiantly and he shall tread down our Enemies This is that short Account of this Psalm of Israel's imminent Danger their wonderful Deliverance from it and grateful Behaviour thereupon I proceed now to take a View of our own Case It will not I suppose be expected that I should go about to prove the Plot That there has been a most Horrid and Hellish Design on-foot against the Life of our King and the Laws and Religion of this Kingdom After the voluntary Depositions of several that were to be concerned in it and these confirm'd from abroad by the visible Preparations that were made on the French Coasts for a Descent upon us a great number of their Forces drawn down thither and Vessels ready to bring them over when the Signal an Account of the Dreadful Blow should be given them the mighty boast of their great Design and Confidence of Success which were express'd in Letters from some of the first Quality in that Kingdom and the Harangues of their Ministers at other Courts This confirm'd also at home by the Confessions of those who have been Convicted and Executed here who have all own'd the shares they were to have had in it upon their Deaths and some gloried in it While a Papist at his Execution looks back with regret upon the part he was to have acted in the bloody Tragedy as a Crime he was led into by his own Rashness and Passion as a Wickedness which he repents of and for the punishment of which particularly he acknowledges he was brought to suffer Death by the just Hand of God our Protestant Conspirators to the reproach I hope not of our Holy Religion which I am sure is far enough from countenancing such things but of their wretched Guides boast of the Villainy take Pride and Comforts at their Deaths in it so far were they from repenting or expressing the least Sorrow for it and yet had Absolution publickly after a very unusual manner which plainly shews what Thoughts their Confessors had of that Matter for which they died Blessed God! how amazing is it that any that had ever heard of thee or thy Nature or Properties especially that had ever look'd into those Revelations thou hast made thereof in thy Written Word should call the Assassinating the best of Princes and involving his Subjects in Blood Destruction of the best Church and the over-turning the best constituted Government in the World the Murdering their King in cold Blood and which must have been a consequence the Butchering of many Thousands of their innocent Fellow-Subjects the making all that surviv'd Slaves to France and Rome subjecting both their Bodies and Minds to the worst of Tyrannies How amazing I say is it that any should call these the Causes of God Religion and the Laws as if the Blood of Kings shed by their own Subjects was an acceptable Offering to God as if Religion were promoted by forcing us into the Communion of such a Church as will lock up the Scripture from us teach us to believe without Reason to Pray without Understanding and give the Worship of God to his Creatures as if our Laws would be safe in the hands of such a Guardian who Tyrannizes Arbitrarily over his own Subjects and would have had the pretence of Conquest to use us worse if possible If these are the Cause of God and Religion I know no such thing as the Works of the Devil and what we renounc'd as such in our Baptism was a meer Chimera This shews how much the Interest of a Party when a Man 's throughly embark'd can blind his Reason as well as harden his Conscience how dangerous it is to engage at all in a Faction since a Man knows not where he shall stop when he is once in how by steps he is lead to call Evil Good and Good Evil and practice accordingly and to make the measures of both the serviceableness or diserviceableness of any Action to the Party and how careful every one that has any regard for his Soul should be when he choosest out for the directors of his Conscience and intrusts with the Conduct of it But to return after all this I say 't would be but to abuse your Time and Patience to offer at any other proof of the truth and reality of the wicked Design whoever can call for further Conviction does the least need it 't is no breach of Charity to believe that none can pretend to doubt of it but such as know it too well Let us then briefly see what the Design was and as to that examine the same Particulars which we did in Israel's case who were engaged in it what they intended against us how near they were to effect it and how strangely we escap'd it Our Enemies like theirs were such whose Wrath was kindled against us Nothing under God has or does so much obstruct the aspiring and wicked Designs of our Neighbour on the other side of the Water as this Nation and Church nothing can satisfie the Pride and Ambition of that Prince less than an universal Monarchy and no Methods does he stick at how base and ungrateful how fraudulent and treacherous how violent and cruel soever that may promote his great end no ties of Honour and Conscience no Obligations of Justice or Mercy no Treaties or Leagues neither Word nor Oath can hold him but he breaks through them with as much ease as Sampson did the Wit hs that bound him which were as a Thread of Tow when it toucheth the Fire But while he makes War and disturbance every where that he may have quiet within that if at any time

and shall we not through him offer to God the Sacrifice of praise continually May we still partake of the Wine as well as Bread in the Eucharist and shall we not receive the Cup of Salvation and call upon the name of the Lord Is Jerusalem safe notwithstanding her Enemies cry'd down with her down with her even to the ground and may our Feet stand in her Gates may we yet frequent her solemn Assembly and praise the Lord of Heaven with Musick Vocal and Instrumental and shall we be silent If any thing strikes us dumb but wonder and astonishment at the greatness and strangeness of our Salvation we shall deserve to continue so and that our tongues should cleave to the roof of our mouths 't is fit the neglected Harps should be hang'd for ever upon the Willows and the skilful hand that toucht them forget its cunning if they make not a chearful noise to the God of Jacob upon so Joyful an occasion and if we prefer not Jerusalem above our chief Joy and join not in one of the Songs of Zion for her deliverance in the Temple of God how deservedly may God give her up to the will of our Enemies suffer them to carry us away Captive and tauntingly require of us in a strange Land a Song and Melody in our heaviness My Brethren this is the business for which Authority has this Day call'd us together and who ever can willfully disobey that call and without very just reason refuse to come up with the multitude to the House of God with the Voice of Joy and Praise with the Multitude that keep Holy-day they give but just cause of suspicion that they were Well-wishers to the Villainous Design and are sorry 't is defeated I am very glad to see such a numerous appearance in this place and hope that better Principles than Formality or Curiosity or fear of Censure that a true sence of the never to be forgotten Mercy and hearty desire to express your thankfulness to the gracious Author of it has brought you together And oh that I could say any thing to increase that sence in you and to enlarge your Hearts and raise up your Souls to the highest pitch of Gratitude and Devotion Assure your selves if the greatness of the destruction which threatned and was within few days of over taking us if the wonderfulness of our deliverance who are escaped as a Bird that was taken in the Snare if the visible appearance of the hand of God in our rescue who saw the Snares and Designs our Enemies were privily laying while we were secure and unapprehensive of them and discover'd and broke them before they could take effect if these are any motives of thankfulness they have their full strength and force upon us in the present case All that is valuable to us as appertaining either to this Life or Godliness our Lives with all the Comforts of them our Liberties our Estates our Friends and which I hope we esteem above all our Reformed Religion were all upon the very brink of ruine The Blow was near being given and we knew nothing of it so far were we from being able to have warded it of which must either have Murdered us presently or if any had survived it for some time they must have lived Slaves and then died with the miserable prospect of leaving their wretched Posterity such fetter'd both in Body and Mind under Temporal and Spiritual Chains and nothing has prevented this Blow or saved us from this ruine but a merciful and watchful Providence Let us then say in the words of our Royal Prophet Blessed be the Lord God the God of Israel who only doth wondrous things and blessed be his glorious name for ever and let the whole Earth be filled with his glory Amen Amen 3. But lastly to conclude let us repose our Trust and Confidence in this God for the future and say with Israel our help standeth in the name of the Lord who made Heaven and Earth 'T is certain this Church and Nation have been for some time preserved in that peaceable and happy state we enjoy by little less than Miracle God has as plainly appeared for us as he did of old for his People whom he brought out of Aegypt with a mighty hand but yet as they were questioning his power even in the midst of Miracles and distrusting his goodness at the same time that they had present Experience of it He smote the stony Rock indeed but can he give bread c. Those mouths which should have been opened only in his praise were filled with nothing but murmurings and diffidence so has it been with too many among us complainings and repineings doubts and despair almost have been heard in our streets and how justly might God have verifyed our unreasonable and unthankful fears When St. Peter at his own request was commanded by Christ to come unto him upon the Water he walked safely upon the surface of it while his Faith boy'd him up but when at the raging of the Winds his Faith began to shake and he was afraid as if Christ who he saw at that time Commanded the Seas and they obey'd could not govern the Winds too and secure him against both how reasonably did Christ chastise his despondency and want of Faith by letting him begin to sink And so might God have dealt with us withdrawn his Protection from us and suffered the Waters to have over-whelmed us when we had so unworthily distrusted his Power and Readiness to Rule the raging of them after he had so often forced them within their Banks and for our sakes said to them hitherto shall you come and no further But he has rather chose to upbraid than correct us for our repining and doubting and to bring us to our duty of an humble affiance and trust in him by giving fresh instances of his Power and Goodness than punish our neglect of it by withdrawing them from us How should this even shame us out of our insidelty I can call it no better and give us a holy Confidence in him and Dependance upon him that he who has so often and strangely appeared for us will be our God and Guide for ever that he who has deliver'd us from so great a death and doth deliver will yet deliver us and perfect in his time that good work which he has begun and carried on so far for us But then in order to this trust and relyance that they may be reasonable and well grounded we cann't but think there is something to be done by us and what is that but to endeavour to walk worthy of that goodness which God has shew'd to us by improving the mercy he continues to us to his Glory and by making him the returns of a filial fear unfeigned Love and an universal Obedience without this our Faith will be but a vain Considence and meer Presumption We have the best Government and Laws in the World but if