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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47445	A sermon preached at St. Patrick's Church Dublin on the 16th of Novemb. 1690 being the day of thanksgiving for the preservation of His Majesties person, his good success in our deliverance, and his safe and happy return into England : before the Right Honourable the Lords Justices of Ireland / by William King.	King, William, 1650-1729.	1691 (1691)	Wing K537; ESTC R26831	18,020	35

have gone all together 16 thly I must remark it further as a peculiar Providence that his Majesties Victory happened at such a Critical Time that the Peace of England nay perhaps the Fate of Europe depended on it Had it but been delayed one Week no body knows what would have been the Consequence 17 thly The saving of this City of Dublin from so often threatned and as both we and the generality of our Enemies believed resolved Destruction is another piece of Divine Goodness And withal so strange that we can yet give no Account of it or so much as guess at what altered their Resolution I need only mention this to most of my Hearers to fill their hearts with Admiration and open their Mouths with Thansgiving to God for the Miracles of his Mercies 18 thly And yet there is still behind a greater Miracle and Mercy than this and which we can hardly think on without Terror and that was the Miraculous Preservation of his Majesties Person in the Battle To whom we may apply what David affirms of himself there is but a step between me and Death our danger came nearer even within a hairs breadth If there were no dangers difficulties in Life we should not be sensible of particular Providences But one such escape as this awakens the Sense of Religion and of Gods Power more in our Hearts than many years of even and un-interrupted Happiness We must acknowledge that all our Lives in him were at the Mercy of that one Bullet And 't was surely the God of Battles in his unspeakable Mercy and Providence preserved us If Thousands of us had dyed the Enemy would not have cared for us And notwithstanding they lost the Battle yet they would have counted it a Victory and their loss sufficiently Ballanced by the single Life of his present Majesty 'T is certain they would willingly have given their Army for it And this alone is sufficient to teach us how to value it and what thanks we owe to God for preserving it In short we had not neither have we yet in our utmost view another chance to save us our Liberties Estates or Religion but this one of His Majesties coming to the rescue of these Kingdoms And his undertaking it has been carried on by such a miraculous Chain of Providences that we must acknowledge it is by the Grace of God that William and Mary are now our King and Queen Perhaps they have more visible reasons to put that in their Titles than any Princes in Christendom Let us therefore own the whole of our Deliverance to be a work of God and ascribe it intirely to him without assuming any part of it to our selves God in his Providence has so ordered the matter that we in this place have had no hand in it or pretence to it And as for others it plainly appears not to be so much a work of man or carried on by humane means as by the over-ruling Providence of God 'T was manifestly God rather than the People set our King and Queen on the Throne The People Obstructed it as much as they could by their Divisions the Nobles Opposed it the Mighty stood up to hinder it the Nations Combined against it but God had them in Derision and not only delivered their Majesties from the Striving of the people but also made them their Head 'T is He the most High that Ruleth in the Kingdom of Men and giveth it to whomsoever he will 'T is He raised up King William to be a Deliverer to us And to sum up all 'T is He that delivered us from so great a death and doth deliver In whom we Trust that he will yet deliver us And therefore to him be the sole glory of it And now that God has so signally appeared for us let us which was the Second General Head I proposed Consider what Returns we are Obliged to make him First Let us Remember that it was not for nothing that he Delivered us He had Certainly a Peculiar design in saving us from the Hands of our Enemies by so many and so Remarkable Providences even that we might serve him without fear Let us therefore Employ those Lives Liberties Estates and Churches to his service that he has preserved for us and restored to us Let us avoid those provocations that induced him to bring such Heavy Judgments upon us and let us Remember how Easy it is for him to bring us to a condition much worse than that from whence he delivered us and assure our selves that if instead of serving him we serve his Enemies the Devil and our Lusts he will make his Providence as signal in our future punishment as it has been in our present Deliverance It were Easy to point out the sins that provoked God and Occasioned our late Sufferings and the same causes will always have the same Effects 2 dly Let us own God's goodness to us in our late Sufferings how in the midst of his anger he remembred Mercy how he made our Sufferings easier to us than we expected and relieved us sooner than we could have reasonably imagined he continued us amongst the living when we expected Death He gave us Hearts to bear up under our Pressures and made us Unanimous and kind to one another He prâ—served us from Famine and Pestilence which we feared and granted us for the most part Opportunity of Meeting together to Worship him and in many things rather afforded our Enemies an occasion of shewing their Malice and wicked Intentions against us than of Executing them So that we must acknowledge with the Psalmist That the Lord has Chastned and Corrected us but hath not given us over unto Death 3 dly Let us be thankful to God for our Deliverers and thankful to them for the great Pains they have taken and the great Dangers they have run to effect it This is in a manner all we can return them at present for all the Pains and Costs they have been at for us and for all the Generosity they have shewed towards us Our Enemies having disabled us in a great Measure either to help our selves or make any Retribution to them However what we can do let us do cheerfully And let us return at least our hearty acknowledgments and Prayers to God for them Especially for their Majesties whose Parts have been so signal in it that they revive in our Minds the Memories of the Ancient Heroes the Kings of England the Edwards Henries and of Queens the fam'd Elizabeth that made us safe at home and dreadful to our Neighbours If we consider what we have seen the King do in Ireland and what part her Majesty in the mean time acted in England it must be our own faults if we are not a happy People under such Princes and we must be very ungrateful both to God and Them if we are not sensible of his Goodness in blessing us with such Governors either of which seems capable of Governing much larger Territories than they yet possess And I hope as they are Entitled to them so in time they will acquire them 4 thly Let us spare no pains nor costs to perfect this happy Work of our Deliverance And let us remember that if this had not happened we must have lost our Estates and Liberty and perhaps together with them our Lives Who would not within these last Three Years have given one half of his Estate to save the other And then what great matter if we give half of our In-comes for some Years to Enable Their Majesties to secure the whole to us since whatever it cost us 't is but restoring part of what we have saved or had Restored by their Means 5 thly Let us not grudge or murmur at the Hardships or Difficulties with which we may be obliged to struggle for a few Years No great Cure was ever perfected without putting the Patient to some pain and then why should we expect it Those that saw not what we suffered under the Late Government may think some things hard at present But I observe that the People of this Kingdom that seem to have the greatest Cause to complain are best satisfied Which gives us reason to suspect that if any complain 't is rather from their dissatisfaction with the present Government than their Particular Uneasiness And I am afraid some among us are become like the Roman Common-Wealth in the Time of Sylla which as the Historian observes could neither indure its Wounds nor its Remedy 'T is want of Experience in the World for any one to Expect that such a great Revolution should be brought about without Exposing many to Hardships and Difficulties But he that has Patience shall see the end of his Hope Lastly Let us lay aside all Animosities amongst our selves and all Virulency against our Enemies Let us be Charitable to the Distressed and mindful of those that have not yet obtained their Share in this Deliverance Let us perform our Vows and Engagements to God which we made in our Distress Let us lay aside self-Interest and set our selves to lay the Foundations of a solid Peace in Piety and Justice That the God of Peace may delight to bless us and our Governours and grant us an intire Victory over our Enemies a Happy Union and Agreement amongst our selves and Minister unto us many more occasions of Thanksgiving FINIS * Sir Henry Sidney Five times Chief Governor between the years 1557. and 1578. Adam Loftus Arch-Bishop of Dublin three times Lord Justice between the years 1582. and 1600

A SERMON PREACHED AT St Patrick's Church DUBLIN On the 16 th of Novemb. 1690. BEING THE Day of Thanksgiving FOR THE Preservation of His MAJESTIES Person His good Success in our Deliverance and his Safe and Happy Return into England Before the Right Honourable the Lords Justices of Ireland By WILLIAM KING D. D. Dean of St. Patrick's Dublin LONDON Printed for Robert Clavel at the Peacock in St. Paul's Church Yard 1691. To the Right Honourable Henry Lord Sidney Uiscount Sheppy AND Thomas Conningsby Esq Lords Justices of IRELAND May it please your Lordships THIS Sermon was at first Composed and is now Published with peculiar respect to their Majesties Subjects in this Kingdom Those in England who had the Advantage of Enquiry and Correspondence need not the Informations here offered But the Protestants of this Kingdom have been so long and industriously kept in the Dark and not suffered to look into the Designs of those that had them in Subjection further than they felt the effects of them that many may be Strangers to the full extent of those Designs and the Miraculous steps of Providence by which they have been â—elivered from them I know much more might â—e â—aid and has been said on this Subject But I have chosen those points that seemed to me most Pâ—â—per for the Occasion And I hope enow to satisfie us all of the great reason We have to Praise God for our wonderful Deliverance which was the design of the Discourse Your Lordships can witness what sense the Protestants of this City have of it and for ought appears the whole Body of them through the Kingdom are in their present Majesties Interest to a Man Which could never have happened If the Late Government had been in any measure Tolerable to them And had others instead of being at ease where they were at that time Lived here under the Government they fancied so Indulgent I doubt not but they would have had the same Sentiments with us and been cured of their Folly Your Lordships have come to the Government of this Kingdom in an ill and Unsettled Posture of Affairs But you need look back only to Presidents in each of your own Families to Guide your Management with the happiest Success your Ancestors Governed it in times as difficult as the present and had the Chiefest part in Reforming the Superstition and Barbarity of the Natives and in settling Religion on that happy Foot on which it has since stood But they and all since have been forced to leave the Work Imperfect It remains now I hope to be perfected by You. Your Lordships may reasonably conclude That it is not an easie undertaking to Civilize and Reform this Nation since so great Persons were not able to perfect it And yet that it is to be done because they went so far in it For want of a Vigorous Prosecution it has been to do a-new every forty years hitherto Your Lordships have the Experience of many such Periods to direct you how to do it effectually We hope and heartily Pray That it may now at last have its Accomplishment in Your Hands under their Majesties Government and that this may be one of the Blessings of their Reign Providence has given you an opportunity of making your Selves and your Memory Grateful to Present and Future Ages by becoming happy Instruments in it That you may be such I hope Your Lordships will believe is by none more Zealously desired than by My LORDS Your Lordships most Humble and Obliged Servant WILLIAM KING A SERMON Preach'd on the 16 th of Novemb. 1690. Psal. 107 2d and 3d. Verses Old Translation Ver. 2. Let them give Thanks whom the Lord hath Redeemed and Delivered from the hand of the Enemy Ver. 3. And gathered them out of the Lands from the East and from the West from the North and from the South THanksgiving is all the Tribute we can pay to Heaven and 't is so easie a Return for our Beings and the many Comforts we receive from thence that he is very inexcusable and unworthy the Mercies he receives who is backward in so easie an Acknowledgment Hence the whole World has ever look'd on it as the securest way for continuing their present and procuring new Blessings to own God to be the Author of them and to express their Gratitude in Hymns and Sacrifices and in other Acts of Devotion and Thanksgiving As appears not only from the People of God in the Old Testament but likewise from the yet remaining Devotions of the Ancient Heathen This Psalm is a solemn Form used by the Jewish Church on such occasions 'T is not material to explain to you the first occâ—sion of its being made it sufficiently appears from my Text which is the Introduction to it that it was designed as a Solemn Return of Praise to God for Redeeming the Israelites from Captivity for delivering them from their Enemies and bringing them back to their own Country whence they had been driven by Violence and Oppression ver 39.40 Now this is so exactly Our Case and the design of our present Meeting that I think there is no more incumbent on me than to endeavour to beget in you a due sense of it and to stir you up to an hearty Acknowledgment of Gods present Mercies to us And I promise my self some Success in this Undertaking and that the Consideration of the following Particulars will make the same Impression on every body concerned as they have done on me First Therefore let us consider our Deliverance And Secondly The Returns we are obliged to make for it In our Deliverance we ought to Reflect I. On the Depth of the Contrivance and Design against us from which God has graciously been pleased at this Time to Deliver us II. On the great Extent of it All Princes in Europe especially such as profess the Reformed Religion being struck at by it III. On the Miraculous Concurrence of Providences for our Deliverance in breaking this Design so deeply laid and vigorously Prosecuted You all have suffered so much by this Design and the Memory of your Dangers and Deliverance from it is so fresh before you that I need not trouble you with the Particulars of it 'T was in short to destroy you and your Religion and enslave all Europe under the Tyranny of the French King I. The Depth of this Design appears 1 st From the length of Time wherein it has been forming and carrying on Some and not without Reason date it from the very beginning of the Reformation some from the Restauration of the Royal Family and some from the Pyrenean Peace but as it immediately concerns these Kingdoms we can trace it by many Footsteps from the year 1670 since which Time not only we but all Europe have groaned under the Fatal Effects of it As to this Kingdom of Ireland we find a Scheme of it laid down at large in a Paper formerly found in the Earl of Tyrconnel's House then

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