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A31832	A sermon preached at St. Lawrence-Jury, London, upon the 9th of September being the day of thanksgiving for the deliverance of the King & kingdom from the late treasonable conspiracy / by Benjamin Calamy ...	Calamy, Benjamin, 1642-1686.	1683 (1683)	Wing C217; ESTC R5418	15,786	42

Ordinance of God saith St. Paul To oppose and shake off their Government to Plot and Conspire against their Life is to Rebel against God and when we will not suffer our Lawful Soveraign whom the Divine Majesty hath appointed to Rule over us we do by just consequence and fair interpretation endeavour what we can to dethrone God himself and prove Traytors not only against our Natural Lord and King but against the Heavenly Monarch himself by whose Commission he Reigns II. Another reason to perswade us of the truth of this that God's Providence is more peculiarly engaged for the safety and protection of Soveraign Kings and Princes may be taken from this Consideration viz. how much the Publick doth depend upon and is concerned in their welfare and prosperity Thus the People 2 Sam. 18. 3. told King David when they would not suffer him to expose his own Person to hazard in the Battel against Absalom Thou art say they worth ten thousand of us Hence was he called the light of Israel Thou shalt go no more out with us to Battel said Abishai 2 Sam. 21. 17. that thou quench not the light of Israel Nay that wicked King Zedekiah of whom it is expresly said 2 Kings 24. 19. that he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord yet is stiled by the Prophet Jeremy Lam. 4. 20. the Breath of our Nostrils The Fates of whole Kingdoms depend upon them All that live under their Government are interested in them and partake with them and a Villanous Attempt succeeding against our Soveraign may stab an whole Nation to the Heart and fill all places with Blood and Confusion Now God Almighty extendeth his Providence to the meanest and minutest things He cloatheth the grass of the Field he provideth for the Raven his food a Sparrow doth not fall to the ground without his knowledge by him are all the hairs of our Head numbered and can we think that this same Providence is not more particularly employ'd in matters of such vast moment which are of such Universal Consequence as the Life and Safety of Kings and Princes God exerciseth a more special Providence over their Sacred Persons on whom under himself the whole Community doth depend For the sake of the People whose Happiness is so closely wrapt up in the prosperity of their Prince doth God Almighty guard him from secret Treachery defend him from open Assaults and by various means deliver him from imminent Dangers Especially good and gracious Kings who are Fathers of their Country and Nursing Fathers of the Church who maintain the true Religion encourage Vertue protect Right and Innocence and resemble the Divine Majesty not only in Power and Authority but also in his Attributes of Justice Mercy and Goodness they are more tenderly regarded by God He hideth them under the shadow of his Wings he keepeth them as the apple of his Eye he giveth his Angels stricter Charge over them that no evil may approach them Such Princes being publick Blessings to the Kingdoms or Nations over which they preside in their safety must consist the greatest part of the Common Welfare And thus if we consider either Governours themselves or the People commited to them we shall see sufficient reason to believe that Soveraign Kings and Princes are the peculiar Care and Charge of Divine Providence Nor have we reason only to believe this but the experience of all Ages doth most abundantly confirm it For surely there is not any one thing wherein God's Providence hath more remarkably appeared and interposed it self at all times than in Discovering the secret Plots and Defeating the traiterous Designs of wicked Men against the Government they lived under which hath been often done by such ways and means as have most evidently demonstrated the Finger of God in it and must be ascribed to him who only doth wonderful things Nor have we perhaps besides what Divine Revelation affords us a greater Argument to prove this World to be Governed and all things in it directed by the vigilant Eye and powerful Hand of Almighty God than the sudden and seasonable Discovery of such Damnable Enterprises contrived with the utmost caution and secrecy carried on with great subtlety and cunning and just ripe for Execution yet in an instant blasted in a trice broken all to pieces either by a surprizing dread and fear seizing the Conspirators themselves or an unlucky word over-heard or an unaccountable suspicion of some ill Designs which tho' founded upon no reason or a very trifling one yet hath proved true or God hath smote upon the Conscience of some one of them and for the ease of his own tortur'd mind he is forced to a Discovery or a jealousie that they are betrayed by others hath made some of them give the first notice of it themselves or a Letter miscarried or some fright mistake oversight something hapning otherwise than was expected hath brought the hidden works of darkness to light by which the King and his People have been just snatch'd out of the Jaws of Ruine True indeed it is that there are some Exceptions against this Sometimes it hath hapned that such Desperate Undertakings have been prosperous and God's Providence hath suffered even a Good and Excellent Prince to fall a Sacrifice by the Merciless Hands of a Bloody Assassin or being over-powered by his own Rebellious Subjects to be more pompously Murdered under the pretence of Justice of which we have had a sad and never to be forgotten Instance in our own Nation But then this hath been permitted when the sins of a Nation have been extream and called aloud for Punishment when God hath been long and highly provoked to give up a People to Destruction who have filled up the measure of their Iniquities then hath he sometimes suffered such inhumane Barbarities to take place But ordinarily it is otherwise and by some secret invisible means God doth either infatuate the Counsels and confound the Devices or else by some fortunate accident seasonably discover the horrid Conspiracies of his own and the Kings Enemies A Bird of the air shall carry the voice and that which hath wings shall tell the matter Of the truth of all that I have now said concerning God's wonderful Care and Providence over Soveraign Kings and Princes we cannot reasonably desire we cannot easily meet with a more Illustrious Instance than his Majesty that now is whom God long preserve A Prince for whose safety and protection Heaven hath all along so signally interested it self and so miraculously defended him in spite of all the restless attempts of his and ours either open or secret Adversaries that I cannot but wonder if no other Argument could prevail with these Sons of Belial to desist from such Hellish Enterprises yet that they should not at last be tyred with Plotting against him to no purpose that they should not despair of doing him any hurt for whose Defence and Deliverance God Almighty hath so frequently and

Superiours at length plain accusing their Proceedings till by such undutiful Practices they become Conscious to themselves that they have offended the Government at so great a rate as that they cannot be safe under it and then in their own defence they think of destroying it 3. Let us all be warned to have a great care ofreading Factious Seditious Libels or of imbibing Antimonarchical Principles many of which have strangely prevailed these last years amongst us as that the Supream Power is always in the People in the Kingonly in Trust And that the People may resume that Power whenever they Please and call their King to an account for his Execution of it that here in England the Soveraignty is not by Law compleatly and absolutely in the King That he is but one of the three Estates of the Kingdom And especially one very ill Antichristian Principle which hath done an infinite deal of Mischief amongst us and perhaps hath brought more into this Plot than any one thing else I mean that it is lawful in some Cases by Force and Violence to resist the Supreme Authority especially in defence of the True Religion particularly if the King or those Commissionated by him use illegal Force to bring in another Religion or to Persecute the Professors of the True Religion All such Principles as these and many more might be named are directly fitted and calculated for such a Conspiracy and Association as this lately discovered amongst us Let us all have a care therefore of the books wherein such poysonous Doctrines are taught or of the Company of those who profess to believe them lest before we are aware they insinuate themselves into us and so betray us into infinite mischiefs 4. And lastly What a fit opportunity is this for all those that are Honest and Sincere amongst the Dissenters to lay aside their Prejudices and little Sngularities and Affectations and as one man to unite with the Church And this would be the greatest means to preserve the Civil State in peace for as long as there remain these Divisions in Religion these several Sects and Parties amongst us we shall always be in danger of Plots and Conspiracies against the Government These Parties will be always matter for Ambitious Discontented Persons to work upon and to sow the Seeds of Sedition and Rebellion amongst them All the Malecontents in the Kingdom fly to these Dissenters and to the Separate Meetings for refuge and there herd and shelter themselves This therefore is the time for those amongst them who heartily love the King and their Country as many of them profess to do publickly to disclaim and declare their utter Detestation of all such Principles and Practices which have given occasion and encouragement to these late Horrid Conspiracies against the Kings Person and Government with Sorrow to acknowledge how much they have been abused and deceived by the plausible pretences of Wicked Men to become ashamed and weary of Schism and Fanaticism since by this late Discovery they cannot but plainly see whither it tends how troublesome and dangerous it is to the Publick Peace what a Bloody Devillish Spirit it possesses men with al lastly as an Evidence of their sincerity in all this to return into the Bosom of the Church This indeed would be a most happy Fruit of this Conspiracy if all men would now be perswaded how much it is their Interest and Security to unite in the Publick and Legal Establishment which under God can be the only probable way of preserving the Peace Happiness and Religion of our Nation The Lord grant that we may all in this our day mind the things that belong to our Peace before they are hid from our Eyes FINIS