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A46900	Three sermons preached the first in Richmond Church, August 17. 1690. on the most happy accession of Their Majesties, King William and Queen Mary to the Crown. The second in Mortlake Chuch in Surrey March 3. 1694. on the death of our late most gracious soveraign lady the Queen, of blessed memory. The third in Mortlake Church, April 16. 1696. being the day of Thanksgiving unto Almighty God, for discovering and disappointing the horrid and barbarous conspiracy to assassinate His most gracious Majesty's royal person: and for delivering this kingdom from an invasion, intended by the French. By Christopher Johnson, M.A. and school-master of Richmond in Surrey. Printed to prevent mistakes concerning the author.	Johnson, Christopher, b. 1657 or 8.	1696 (1696)	Wing J770BA; ESTC R216574	43,561	66

Pleasure O therefore great is the Deliverance beyond the Comprehensions of our Understandings And praised be the Lord who hath not given us over for a prey unto their Teeth for our Soul is escaped as a Bird out of the Snare of the Fowler the Snare is broken and we are delivered For which may all that are or would have been sensible of the Black Device if it had taken its Dismal Effect Bless and Exalt God's holy Name May all the good People of this Nation Obey their Sovereign Lord the KING's Commands in such manner as may be acceptable to God And as His Majesty doth so may they acknowledge the singular Mercy and Goodness of God See His Majesty's Most Gracious Speech to Both Houses of Parliament Feb. 24. 1695. May all His Subjects Piously and Joyfully keep this Day and ponder the Occasion of it in their Hearts with a Perpetual Thanksgiving to the utmost extent of their Lives for so great a Salvation May it make such deep and lasting Impressions in their Souls Yea let them tell it to their Childrens Children that the Generations to come may Bless God for it And may no Rank or Quality Sex Order or Degree think themselves exempted from their Duty on this Day which the KING with the Advice of his Nobles hath thought fit to apply to so Solemn and Sacred a Use But praise the Lord ye House of our Israel praise the Lord ye House of Aaron praise the Lord ye House of Levi ye Clergy of this Land Ye that fear the Lord praise the Lord and confess he is Gracious and his Mercy endureth for ever Kings of the Earth and all People Princes and all Judges of the World Young Men and Maidens Old Men and Children praise the Name of the Lord for his Name only is Excellent and his Praise above Heaven and Earth He shall exalt the Horn of his People all his Saints shall praise him And now pray we unto God to open Mens Eyes that they may see and know those things that belong unto their Peace that they may not be Credulous of Dreams and Fancies nor give heed unto Fables As if that Monarch who has Troubled Christendom a long time has Cruelly Persecuted and Tormented Protestants and has laid waste Defenced Cities into Ruinous heaps as if he would shew all Clemency and Kindness to us as if he would make every one Happy and Great with large Donatives of Riches and Honour Fields and Vineyards and all the Delights of the Sons of Men which to think is very incongruous to Reason and dissonant to the Sentiments of common Prudence unless he and all his Admirers and Favourites loved the People of this Nation better than they do and except we would abandon our Religion which may we never so much as think of doing nor fear his Menaces or any high and lofty Looks But keep we stedfast to our God and our Faith to our Duty and Allegiance unto our Sovereign Lord the KING's Majesty to our Laws our Liberties and our Country and to one another in Love and Unity And may god shower down His Blessings upon us and make His great Salvation for which we now offer unto Him the Sacrifice of Thanksgiving a Pledge of more His abundant Favours to His Anointed and His Subjects And let us always therefore have somewhat of a Divine and Holy Song or Eulogy in our Mouths Plenteously may we be furnished in the Song of Moses and the Children of Israel of Deborah and Barak and in that great Magazine of Praises and Benedictions the Book of Psalms together with many other places of the Sacred Canon of Scripture Let us often think of God's Mercies to us and make Melody in our Hearts unto Him with such Excellent and Proper Lessons as may be taken out of those Breathings of the Holy Ghost Let Lute and Harp awake and let us awake right early with the high Praises of God in our Mouth Let this be the Badge of our Honour and Gratitude Praise ye the Lord. Let us bind it as Signs upon our Hands and Frontlets between our Eyes together with the Te Deum the Benedictus the Magnificat and like Joyous and Devout Trophies of God's Salvation Evermore with the Choir of Saints and Angels above Chanting forth the Trishagion Holy Holy Holy Lord God of Sabaoth Heaven and Earth are full of the Majesty of thy Glory Glory be to thee O Lord Most High Finally As we praise God this Day for His Admired Mercy so let us Beg His Continuance of it to us and pray heartily that the now ensuing Campaign may be Victorious both against F●ance and the Ottoman Empire and that an Honourable and Lasting Peace to England and Her Allies and Friends may succeed thereupon and that God will be pleased to Bless with Length of Days and Riches and Honour in His Throne here and to Crown afterwards with a far more exceeding and Eternal Weight of Glory in the highest Heavens His Anointed Servant our Dread Sovereign Lord and Lawful and Rightful KING WILLIAM Amen FINIS

our selves so free from the Defilements of Sin that Iniquity may not be our Ruin For to illustrate this when Balaam would have Cursed the Israelites but had not power to do it he told Balak God did force him contrariwise to bless them as it is in the 20th Verse of this Chapter of my Text Behold I have received commandment to bless and he hath blessed and I cannot reverse it And then ensues the true Cause of this Blessedness in the next Verse He hath not beheld Iniquity in Jacob neither hath he seen Perverseness in Israel The People were Holy and Righteous and so long God's Especial Presence was with them as the following words do declare The Lord his God is with him and the shout of a King is among them But yet when a little after they were subjected to Sin and committed Lewdness and Folly and bowed down to other Gods then God withdrew his gracious Presence and instead thereof sent a Plague among them which lessened their number by Twenty and Four Thousand that were quickly swept away Numb 25. Whereby we see it is the Evil of Sin that causeth the Evil of Punishment one particular Act whereof is enough to provoke Divine Justice to strike and satisfied it must be either by Contrition and true Sorrow of Heart here or Pain hereafter And then how aggravating is it for Men to proceed still in an Habit and Custom of the highest Provocations without any Remorse or Consideration at all of the Evil of their Doings Notwithstanding God's calls to Repentance and Amendment at one time by Judgments inflicted upon a People or Nation and at another time impendent and hovering over their Heads like a huge black Cloud threatning a most violent Storm From which near and approaching Danger nevertheless when God hath made a way for an escape and a great Deliverance then for Men to be unthankful after fears of Evil to murmur at Mercy To be pleased no way neither in Danger nor out of it is a strange and almost if not altogether an unpardonable Crime for the Sin of Ingratitude in its own Nature must needs be very heinous and provoking in the Eyes of a most Wise and a Good God especially when Mercies are extraordinary in their kind and like to Miracles then to be angry even as Jonah because Nineveh was not destroyed To be displeased at the great Instrument under God of our Deliverance and in the Heart to desire Spoilers to Invade the Land is Malicious and Spiteful And in the Mind to wish for and bid welcome to the Forces of a known Foreign Tyrant who know no other than to Burn and Destroy when and where they have Power and thus in effect to hope for Slavery is a Wickedness and Folly scarce or not at all to be parallei'd in any History But now let the People of this Land shew themselves unto the World to be a Wise and Understanding Nation let us all declare our selves to be Men of Reason and Prudence by being sensible of our late wonderful Deliverance and knowing our present Happiness Let us be just unto God by due praises to him for this great Blessing upon us Let the Te Deum be always in our Mouths and the Trisagion sounding out of our Lips Holy Holy Holy Lord God of Hosts with continual Hallelujahs praise ye the Lord praise O ye Servants of the Lord praise ye the Name of the Lord. O give thanks unto the Lord for he is good for his Mercy endureth for ever Let the Redeemed of the Lord say so whom he hath Redeemed from the Hand of the Enemy And next let us render unto Caesar our due Tribute of Thanks and Faithful Obedience for venturing his Life for us and Fighting our Battels Nay this to the King and Queen both let us give for their Zeal and Courage and great Conduct of Affairs for their good Will and tender Affection towards us all Let us be sensible of our Happy Condition under the Influences of their most Auspicious Government and let us Congratulate one another therein because they will by the Blessing of God support and defend us and our Religion our Laws and Liberties And then let us manifest unto the World that we do fully know and understand and are satisfied that God hath undeservedly and greatly Blessed us with a most Religious Wise and Gracious King William and Queen Mary For whom let us pray That God will grant Them an Happy Meeting by the King 's Safe Return from the Wars with Victory and all Good Success and that He will Establish Them in the Thrones of Their Kingdoms and Enable Them to lay a lasting Foundation to the Peace and Tranquility of Our Church and These Nations That They may be Victorious over All Their Enemies both by Sea and Land and strengthen the Hands of Their Allies against the Great Troubler of our Israel and the Common Disturber of all Christendom that Their Reign may be Prosperous and Their Days many Their People Loyal and Dutiful Subjects unto Them And that They may Both so serve God here that when He shall be pleased to Call Them from these Earthly Crowns unto Himself He may Crown Them with Eternal Glory and Felicity in the highest Heavens In which Prayer let the whole Nation join together and to it now let all this Congregation say Amen The GLORY Departed SERMON II. ON THE DEATH Of Our Late Most Gracious Queen Mary II. Of Blessed Memory Preached in Mortlake-Church in Surrey on the Third Day of March 1694. ISAM iv 22. The Glory is departed from Israel IN a most sad and lamentable manner is this Scripture of late fulfill'd in your Ears And Oh! that my Head were Waters Jer. 9.1 and mine Eyes a Fountain of Tears that I might weep Day and Night for the unspeakable Loss of that Glory which is departed from our Israel by the surprising Decease of Our Most Gracious and Pious Queen Mary of Ever Blessed Memory The Solemnity of whose Funeral beging near it may be proper now to speak of her Majesty of whom we said Under Her Shadow with the Joint-protection of His Most Excellent and Sacred Majesty King William we shall live among our greatest Enemies And through the Mercy of God who gave unto us those two Unparallel'd Virtuous Princes we shall they Reigning over us in defiance of the proudest Powers enjoy our Religion our Laws and Liberties have all Rights Immunities and Privileges restored to our Nation setled and confirmed unto us and our Posterity on a lasting Foundation Yea although we have lost the Best of Princesses we still hope by God's Grace for those Blessings through our Surviving Soveraign's Auspicious and Valiant Endeavours through his Wisdom and the great Counsels of our August Assembly the thrice Honourable Senators of our Land But alas the unexpected Breach that is made is Dismal and Amazing when God had given us a double portion of his Spirit of Love and Kindness in two such

on the good and sendeth Rain on the just and on the unjust After such Charity 't is impossible for us to doubt of her Faith and Hope but we may rest assured that both were very great And in short that she might finish her Course with Joy she left not the great Work of Repentance to the last Call but with the Wise Virgins had her Lamp ready trimmed with Oyl in it when the Bridegroom came requiring her to come away So did she watch that when her Lord came expecting immediate Attendance she was not found Sleeping nor Trifling or wasting away her precious time but in the Exercise of all those Christian Graces which with her humble Submission and Resignation to God's Will through Christ translated her from the Corruptible Crowns here below to an Eternal and Glorious Diadem above when being Faithful to her Death God gave her a Crown of Life O to her most Happy and Glorious Second Coronation in the highest Heavens while we Mortals here below lament our Loss which is her Gain Thus have I Coasted upon the Sea-shore of those Graces and Virtues which did shine on Earth in God's Anointed and the Nursing-Mother of our Church And to launch out farther into the unfathomable Ocean of them would require more time with a stronger and larger Vessel than my poor Talent can equip and send out into so vast a Deep An Ocean of them I mention because her Brook became a River and her River became a Sea a main Sea Ecclus 24.31 encompassing that whole Globe of Goodness which was inherent in Her Majesty while she acted in that great Sphere of Glory and Honour here to save our Church and these Nations and the sinking Parts of Europe out of the Hands of their Potent and Common Enemy which was purely Her Majesty's Design and is the Intent of the Mighty NASSAU our Most Gracious King And so to prevent a Rushing Destruction at Hand and be the Deliverers of many Nations and People from Ruin by the Power put into their Hands through God's Merciful Providence when the Nobles and Patriots of this Nation made their Requests to Their Majesties and the Peoples Cries and humble Prayers and Solicitations by their Representatives wrought upon them to fill the Empty Throne therefore This did not I hope infrinnge or trespass against the Fifth Commandment when the People of the Land took them and made them KING and QUEEN their Crowns were even forced upon their Heads for the Salvation of our Church and an Universal Deliverance from the approaching Thraldom of a Foreign but yet too Near and too Potent an Enemy I Challenge the World then to find out any Blemish or Spot in that Bright and most Clear Luminary which now the Curtain being drawn by the interposition of the great Vail and Canopy of the Heavens between her and us suffers an Eclipse in respect of our selves but not of her who enjoys a far more exceeding and eternal weight of Glory And yet Her Just Title here was Glorious too MARY the Second by the Grace of God QUEEN of Great Britain France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. But she added thereto the Choicest Ornaments and most precious Rubies in her Crowns the Transcendent Virtues of her most Comely and Graceful Person with great Majesty outwardly and all Mercy within So that as our Loss is more than we can express so are her due Praises beyond all the Flowers of Rhetorick and Art of Elocution To Enumerate whose Virtues as the Honourable House of Commons said were to aggravate our Sorrow Address to the King Dec. 31.1694 Wherefore a mighty Glory is departed from us from the Christian World from all true Protestants chiefly whose great Hope and Joy and Comfort she was And France it self tho' different in Religion from us is not free from that Cloud of Darkness whether sensible of it or no that covers us by the Decease of Her Most Excellent Majesty That such an Unparallel'd Good Princess had so Just a Title to that Crown from Her Royal Ancestors For not to insist upon all that we might we will only mention that our Valiant King Edward the Third but for the unjust Salique Law was Heir to France after the Death of Philip the Fair * Philip Duke De Valois the other See Sir R. Baker's Chron. Life of Edw. 3. being then according to some Histories the nearer in Blood of the Two Competitors but drawing his Pedigree by a Female Our Victorious King Henry the Fifth was Proclaim'd in France as well as in England to be the only Regent of that Realm and Heir Apparent to that Crown Whose Son the Devout King Henry the Sixth was not only Proclaim'd but with all usual Ceremonies Crown'd in Paris King of France And now consider we what profound Veneration and Love had this our Great Princess gain'd in the Minds and Affections of those beyond the Sea What Universal Affliction is in those Countries she lived in What huge Expressions of Sorrow for her Death do they give Blessed be they of the Lord for the great Honour and Kindness they bare to her when she was in a strange Country But O the unexcuseable Ingratitude of those who did not the like to Her Majesty in the Land of her Nativity When in other Parts of the World she so drew the Eyes and Hearts of all People after her that she was Beloved to Admiration and was their great Desire But now she is taken from us as well as from them Of whom the World was not worthy she being too Good and Virtuous for this Wicked and Adulterous Generation And so like another Astraea she is fled to Heaven for a Resting-place And what Vows would we make What Prayers would we offer up to Enjoy her again What Returns of Praises and Thanksgivings would we present to God in imitation of David and all Israel when they brought home the Ark But alas she is gone and shall not return to us Which sad Affliction is enough to damp and weigh down the greatest Spirits and to strike us all Dumb that we open not our Mouths only by the way of Mourning and Humiliation because it is God's doing who in the Flower of her Days as well as of our Hopes sent forth his Decree to call her hence To reverse which if it had been the Blessed Will of the Lord what Prayers what Sighs and Tears were poured forth and Means used that the Distemper might not prevail over her nor the King of Terrors Conquer by to us such a bitter Destiny cutting so early the Thread of so Precious a Life so universally desired long to remain But Oh! the Hand of the Lord hath been very heavy upon us for our Sins and to the utmost period of her Race here she hath suddenly and unexpectedly run So that with Job we may now say Our Harp is turned to Mourning Job 30.31 and our Organ into the Voice of them that weep

Crowning with Glorious Success His Present Most Excellent and Sacred Majesty our Most Gracious Sovereign and Rightful Lord KING WILLIAM For whom all Praise Adoration and Thanksgivings which the Finite and Weak Understandings and Faculties of Mortal Men can give unto an Infinite Being an Immortal and Omnipotent God are a Tribute due unto Him But though God be always Merciful there are Sons of Belial who will be most Wicked will Murmur and Repine and even Despise and Cross the Divine Goodness and will not have Him to Reign over us whom God hath appointed to be our King and hath made next to Himself our Mighty Deliverer Against whom nevertheless that there should be Men Living under the Benign Influences of His Merciful and Happy Government who Conspire with Gall and Bitterness of Spirit not only to Dethrone Him but Insidiously and Basely in a most Barbarous and Inhuman manner to take away His Sacred Life by the Assassination and Murder of His Royal Person notwithstanding all his Clemency and thereby to make way for a Foreign and Arbitrary Power to rush in upon these Nations of Great Britain and Ireland to the Destruction of our Religion Laws and Liberties It would seem incredible to Men of Reason and Ingenuity be to them more than a Paradox but that it is no longer in the dark being now clearly discovered and the Good God be Blessed and Praised therefore the Mischief most providentially prevented Wherefore Sing we every one with holy David in the front of this Divine Canticle Ver. 2 3. or Psalm The Lord is my Rock and my Fortress and my Deliverer The God of my Rock in Him will I trust He is my Shield and the Horn of my Salvation my high Tower and my Refuge my Saviour Thou savest thine Anointed and Us from Violence And again join we with the Royal Psalmist in a joyful Hope and Confidence in God in Acclamations of Benedictions and Praises unto Him evermore rejoicing and saying The Lord liveth and blessed be my Rock and exalted be the God of the Rock of my Salvation Which words are part of holy David's Song of Deliverance this Chapter and the 18th Psalm being of one and the same substance but run with a little variation of reading in some parts wherein that great Saint then but Militant did Celebrate the Solemnities of an holy Triumph and Praise to the God of his Salvation who had preserved his Person from the great Dangers that had threatned him from the violent Hands of Saul and other his Inveterate Enemies who had by various Snares and Stratagems sought his Life for thus we find the Preface or Inscription to this Thanksgiving Hymn of the sweet Psalmist of Israel And David spake unto the Lord the words of this Song in the Day that the Lord had delivered him out of the Hand of all his Enemies and out of the Hand of Saul And with such a lofty strain of Melody and delightful Harmony has he run through this his Noble Anthem as must needs Charm his chief Musician both in setting and playing the Tune proper to it And also with a Ravishing Delight raise and exhilarate the Spirits of the whole Choir those concern'd therein either with Vocal or Instrumental Musick those that sang or those that play'd on the Organ Harp or Cymbal c. chearing and refreshing even the Hearts and Souls of all then present And most grateful are his Acknowledgments of God's Gracious Benefits unto him flowing from many of his Holy and Essential Attributes from his Free and Immense Goodness and Mercy his Incomprehensible Wisdom Infinite Justice and Power and that great Providence which attended him through so many various Scenes of Troubles in the most difficult Stages of his Life Very expressive also is he of the Sense he had of the Dangers he escaped Such like as those out of which God Blessed be his Holy Name for it lately deliver'd our Most Gracious King even the Waves and Snares of Death the Floods of ungodly Men their deep and subtil Plots and Conspiracies their violent Stratagems and Devices as unavoidable as Floods and Inundations of Water are till God puts a stop to them by his Omnipotent Command Hitherto shalt thou come and no further When after such a wondrous and special manner he is pleased to be present as holy David hath set him forth with the highest flights of Divine Rhetorick using many exalted Metaphors to express the same as of the Earth trembling and shaking as also the Foundations of Heaven it self being put into the like terrible Commotions with such Thunders and Lightnings Storms and Tempests of his Wrath as aforetime had really destroy'd the Enemies of his People And then after many Blessed Eulogies and Seraphical Raptures of Holy and Eloquent Dictates from that Spirit which taught him how to pray unto as well as to praise his Mighty Deliverer he closes the whole Encomium with glorying in the God of his Salvation and yet further Returns of Blessing and Thanksgiving to him part whereof the Text doth especially denote unto us The Lord liveth and blessed be my Rock and exalted be the God of the Rock of my Salvation For the Interpretation and Explanation of which and for our present Edification on this Day of a General Thanksgiving throughout this Nation for His Majesty's Blessed Deliverance and our Happiness thereby I shall observe these Two following Particulars First Holy David's Joyful and Triumphant Acknowledgment of God and his Providence in the former words The Lord liveth Secondly His grateful Return to God of Benediction and Praise or Exaltation for his Wondrous and Powerful Deliverances of him from the Mischiefs formed against him Emphatically expressed in the following parts of the Text and blessed be my Rock and exalted be the God of the Rock of my Salvation First The Lord liveth is a Recognition of God and His Providence even with an Extasie of Joy The Royal Saint being Transported thereby into Triumphant Acclamations in consideration of God's Potent Deliverances and Manifold Benefits through abundance of various and critical Circumstances of his Race under the Sun frequently rescuing him out of the very Jaws of Destruction as they were ready to tear him in pieces as from Saul's Javelin at one time his and other wicked Mens Instigations their Combining Plots and Snates and Conspiracies to snatch away his Life at other times For all which he might with great Reason pronounce The Lord liveth As for Deliverances from great and apparent Dangers especially from the intended Mischief of Bitter Enemies it is very proper for Men to express their grateful Sentiments in these or words of like consonance and import There is a God a God that Ruleth all a God that helpeth in time of need yea and when we are Poor and Naked Blind and Lame that without him we should be remediless being our selves neither able to see the approaching Destruction nor to ward off the Blow if we have time to see it

But the Comfort of all is The Lord liveth who seeth what we cannot so much as think of and saves us when we are ignorant of our Danger and of our Help and Salvation ready at the same time the one to devour and the other to rescue and protect us Wherefore again and again we will with great Joy say The Lord liveth Or Let the Lord live if any will have it Translated so in way of Triumph also As the Hebrews were wont to express their Joy and good Wishes for their Kings Let the King live which we turning into an Anglicism or form of Speech agreeable to our own Idiom and Language do express by saying God save the King and so we have Translated it in several parts of Scripture as that God save King Solomon at his Inauguration when he was Anointed King Which both in the Hebraism and our Mode or Way of speaking implies Zeal and a joyful Acclamation of Triumph and Delight for the King and also a Prayer for his Life in which last sence it is improper to Translate this part of the Text Let the Lord live but not so in the former for with an holy Zeal and Joy and Triumph Delight and Pleasure for his Gracious Goodness it may without any Solecism be said Let the Lord live as well as Let God arise Psal 68.1 that is Let the Lord appear and manifest himself to the World that He is the only Living God the Almighty and Merciful Johovah in saving his own People by putting his Hook into the Noses and his Bridle into the Lips of their Enemies and thus checking their malignant Rage and Fury But to return as we have most fitly render'd it The Lord liveth we may farther take this weighty Clause to have been directed by holy David's Eye against a set of Ungodly and Atheistical Men against such as was the Patron of all Fools the Fool that said in his Heart Psal 14.1 there is no God a Fool 's saying indeed for who but a Fool would ever have said so And therefore they thought it impossible their Devices should prove Abortive for if there had been no God by his Omniscience and Providence to disclose their Secret Cabals and the Arrows of Death prepared by them to let fly against the Lord 's Anointed the stroke would have been unavoidable and fatal for it is not in Man to discover the Secrets of the Hearts of other Men It is a peculiar Prerogative of the Great Searcher of Hearts to do it who knows the Thoughts thereof long before their Conception What a miserable Condition then had holy David been involved in amidst all his Enemies Plotting and Devising his Ruin if there had been no God He must then have fallen into their Pit Well then might he Joy in the God of his Salvation and Congratulate his own Safety with these words expressing his Assurance of Omnipotency on his side against his Enemies to their Confusion The Lord liveth baffling all hereby who in his Days denied the Omnipotent Being or lived and acted as if there were none And the words have the same force against the Atheists and Wicked Men of our Times who deny the Existence of a Deity or else surely never have him in their Thoughts but Plot on and imagine Vain Things in their ungodly Counsels until they fall into the Pit which they make for the Lord 's Anointed and for the Destruction of his People But further this Clause seems also to be levell'd against a second sort of Fools who it 's true might have such a Grain of true Faith as to make a Confession of the Godhead but received false Articles into their Creed in respect of his Providence and Government as that having his Throne so high in the Heavens he would not humble himself to behold the things done on the Earth and so never took any Care of Sublunary Affairs neither of setting up or pulling down of right nor wrong of oppression or injustice or any sore evil under the San So that wicked Men might live in Robbery Spoil and Oppression committing Outrage and Violence and brave it along saying Who is Lord over us And spurning at Omniscience say Tush How should God perceive it Is there Knowledge in the Most High And how shall we think better Principles have governed or influenced those amongst us who so lately meditated upon Regicide Rebellion Invasion and a Total Subversion of these Three Kingdoms besides all the Evil Consequences that would necessarily like a mighty Deluge have flowed in upon many other Nations and People For their Barbarous Practices seem to be the Interpreters of their Minds so that if any will deny the Hypothesis that they were such the sequel drawn from their Bitter Designs infers a Conclusion proving as much against them in deed and reality let them plead for their Thoughts and their Faith or Belief as they please at most their Arguments can be of no force on their side any otherwise than those of Rank Practical Atheists are against them we call speculative And certainly they are the worst of Men who profess to believe well and practice most ill and such justly incur the Divine Abhorrence are frequently forsaken of God being Vessels of his Wrath and left alone to themselves working out their own Destruction That burden of the Lord in the 23d Chapter of the Prophet Jeremiah v. 33. being their Portion I will even forsake you saith the Lord with that direful Catastrophe as an Appendix to the Curse subjoin'd in the end of the Chapter And I will bring an Everlasting Reproach upon you and a perpetual shame which shall not be forgotten This was to be the Fate of some Prophets and Priests with the People who were untoward and dissatisfied with God's Ways in those Days And let them who find themselves alike grieved in our Age make Application hereof to themselves whilst we who are sensible of God's great and undeserved Blessings to us in our Most Gracious King and this Deliverance and are thankful for them will sing Hallelujahs unto His Infinite Holiness and with Glory and Triumph express the gladness of our Souls in saying every one of us with the Royal Psalmist The Lord liveth and blessed be my Rock and exalted be the God of the Rock of my Salvation Which introduces the Second Proposition comprehending King David's grateful Return to God of Benediction and Praise or Exaltation for his Marvellous and Powerful Deliverances of him from the Mischiess formed against him Emphatically expressed in these words and blessed be my Rock and exalted be the God of the Rock of my Salvation Agreeable to the Dutiful and Pious Custom of God's Church in all Ages of blessing and praising Him for His particular Providence in great Deliverances besides the Acts of His Universal Goodness is this Hymn of holy David And of the whole Composure these words last recited have a sound which seems the most Harmonious because they rebound with so