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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86068	God the believer's best stronghold in the worst times. A sermon preached upon the preservation of His Majesty's person, and the discovery of the late plot of the intended invasion. / By Edmund Godwin ...	Godwin, Edmund.	1696 (1696)	Wing G967A; ESTC R177501	23,981	57

God the Believer's best Strong-hold in the worst Times A SERMON PREACHED Upon the Preservation of His MAJESTY'S Person AND THE Discovery of the late Plot of the Intended Invasion By EDMVND GODWIN Rector of Cowley Deo confisi nunquam confusi LONDON Printed for Jonathan Robinson at the Golden Lion in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1696. To the Right Worshipful Sir JONATHAN KEATE Knight and Baronet WHereas formerly there hath been some promise of my coming into your parts to preach and to pay my Respects to your Worship for Kindnesses of old when you and others with you did largely declare your Desire of having me your Minister at Paul's Walden I should readily have accepted of your Kindnesses but that the Vicaridge-House was so ruinous and a Promise being past of my being elsewhere yet I must needs confess my self to be indebted since to come and give you a Sermon So that I am so long indebted upon that account Usque dum usura superat sortem That the very Interest doth far exceed the Principal However I would have you know that I still bear an honest Mind having a Desire to pay according to my Ability and though I cannot come and pay what I owe in Person yet I have sent my Substitute this Paper Messenger to supply my Place and knowing how well you and those about you stand affected to the Present Government I have pitcht upon Printing a Thanksgiving-Sermon for the Discovery and Disappointment of the late Dangerous Plot of Assassinating His Majesty and the Invading this Kingdom with a design of rooting out our Religion under the notion of the Northern Heresie And I knowing how stedfast you have been and others about you to the Truth and how ready you are to assist its Favourers and to resist its Opposers I thought good to present you with a taste of what I did deliver upon that Occasion hoping it may fall into the Hands of some of that worthy Family of the Hales that formerly were my Noble Benefactors I hope there are some of that Race alive in those Parts though I hear to my Grief that Worthy Lady the Lady Austin is dead God hath hitherto prolonged my Life and it is much upon my Spirit to give you a Visit in those Parts before I die I do but present you with a taste of my Labours and wish they may be well relisht and received by you it then may be an Inducement to put out more of my Labours yet before I die I remember a Passage of Bishop Latimer's that he Preached in a Sermon before the King of one that had brought up his Son at the University and a Gentleman not far off from him having a Living in his Gift newly fallen that he might gain it for his Son presents him with a Dish of ten very fair Apples and had put into every one of the Apples 10 twenty Shilling Pieces and sent his Man with them to the Patron and withal to desire him to present his Son to the Living of his that was fallen The Man having delivered them and desiring him in his Master's Name to remember his Son for the Living the Gentleman seemed to be angry and bid him carry back his Master's Apples he would have none of them Which the Man did and told his Master that he would have none of his Apples Says his Master to him Carry them again and desire him but to taste one of them and as he likes that to accept of the rest Which the Man did and tells him That his Master however did desire him but to taste one of them Which he did and finding 10 twenty Shilling Pieces in it crys out I marry if they be all like this thy Master's Son shall have the Living I will assure you says the Man they all came off of the same Tree Though Symony was in use then yet not so openly practiced as now a-days The Vse that I shall make of the Story is only to tempt you to a taste of my Labours in Print and as this is relisht it is possible the World may have more of them So beseeching the Lord to bless you and the Worthy Families not far off from you I must needs acknowledge that I still remain Your very much obliged To serve You Edmund Godwin Nahum I. ver 7. The Lord is good a strong hold in the day of trouble and he knoweth them that trust in him THE Apostle Paul hath foretold how in the latter perillous times 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hard times for Persons to keep Faith and a good Conscience and indeed dangerous in which to live in regard of the abounding of Sin and we seem to be fallen into the same times that the Apostle Paul himself was fallen into mentioned 2 Cor. 11. 26. as you may see there He was in Journeying often as His Majesty K. William hath been in Perils of Waters in Perils of Robbers in Perils by his own Country-men in Perils by other Country-men in Perils in the City in Perils in the Country in Perils amongst false Brethren and in Perils amongst pretended Friends so that there hath been threatned ubique naufragium However God hath been good may his Majesty now say and a Strong-hold and a sure Defence in all sorts of Troubles and wonderfully delivered in every Danger hitherto he hath been an Ebenezer In the foregoing part of the Chapter you have first the Inscription of the Prophesy in the first Verse and then a Description of the Almighty first in his Power and Greatness in five of the foregoing Verses and then in Goodness and Mercy having to deal with many and mighty Adversaries as with Nineveh that great City the Men whereof were great Sinners before the Lord and had repented of their former Repentings in Jonah's time and had returned with the Dog to their former Vomit and with the Sow to their wallowing again in the Mire of Sin so that their latter State was now worse than the former for which God threatens them with the greatest Plagues and heaviest Judgments But God is never so angry but in Wrath he can and will shew Mercy and knows his Friends from his Foes according to the Tenor of the Words of the Text The Lord is good So that the Words are like a Light shineing in a dark place or as a Haven or Harbour in time of a Storm or a strong Fort or Tower in the day of Distress to which the Righteous may run and resort in the time of Danger and be sure to be safe So that you have in the Words First Something affirmed That the Lord is good Secondly You have the same confirmed by a twofold Argument As 1st In that he is a strong hold in the day of trouble 2dly In that he knows those that trust in him That God is good is such a Truth as we all have cause to set our Seals unto for he hath not left himself without witness of doing of us good especially of late in