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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34430	A sermon preached at Islington upon the 26th day of July, 1685, in the afternoon being the day of solemn thanksgiving to almighty God for His Majestie's late victories over the rebels / by Shadrach Cooke.	Cooke, Shadrach, 1655?-1724?	1685 (1685)	Wing C6038; ESTC R29331	10,001	32

actions but of mortal and damnable sins and does it prompt them to suitable acknowledgments and expressions in Mourning Sorrow and Lamentation for this which is to us a good day a day of Joy and rejoycing to such as these should be a day of sorrow and humiliation not as some may make it because the mischief did not succeed but for their being any ways concern'd or instrumental in it for it will be your most aggravated crime and condemnation if you yet continue your obstinacy And ye when ye had seen it repented not afterwards So that this great goodness of God in our present most gracious deliverance should now at length prevail upon such who were concern'd in the Rebellion or any ways favourable to it to be sincerely penitent for their great sin in this case Though God knows and with sorrow we speak it their obstinacy appears even yet to be very great and almost incorrigible And ye when ye had seen it repented not afterward In speaking on this Subject I shall consider I. What it is in the case before us that should prevail with men to repent where we shall remember the great mercy and goodness of God in some of our late Deliverances II. The persons that yet continue Impenitent III. The little or no grounds or reasons we have to believe them Penitent Notwithstanding IV. The great cause they have to be so at this time or occasion V. We shall lay down the more particular signs or tokens of their Repentance which we may and do justly expect from them I. Were we to consider the several mercies favours and deliverances God has bestowed upon us the time would fail us to speak of them However we may very usefully for a while entertain our selves on this point by representing to you some short account of those many and great deliverances God has given us from these Phanatical Republican Spirits that are near at hand or fresh in our remembrance 1. And here we might in the first place bring to Your minds the Great Rebellion which some of you have known or been concerned in which cannot but call to our minds the dismal Scene of a most distrest and unhappy Nation overwhelm'd with Blood Ruin and Confusion both in Church and State and will be evermore black and remarkable for that most horrid murder of the best of Kings But how good and gracious was God towards us even in the midst of this great Calamity for that good Prince who is lately gone to his long home and our present Soveraign that were the great sufferers in those times and chiefly aimed at were wonderfully preserv'd in great dangers by land and by water and at length brought to succeed and sit in their rightful Inheritance And indeed when we consider the present we have great reason to call to mind and bewail those rebellious times for These among us have been some of the very same men that were then notorious for this villany and is no doubt the self-same Phanatical Spirit that runs through all these designs which is and ever will be addicted to Treachery and Rebellion So that we do in a great measure owe all or most of our present Sects Factions or Parties to those times These being the Tares now grown up that the Devil did then sow among the Wheat 2. The next remarkable deliverance from this sort of men is very legible in that impious design of Excluding our present Prince from What was inviolable by the strictest laws of God and Nature A design full of Ingratitude and Irreligion Therein more resembling a Fanatick contrivance He that had suffer'd such hard things for his Countries good and was banish'd from his own home He that had ventur'd his own life and lost his dear Royal Father in the defence of Truth and a good Cause He who when restor'd to his own Country and native soil would yet again resolutely hazard himself in a most dangerous Naval fight He that has often ventured his life for the defence of this Nation must now for a requital be debar'd from that his most undoubted and inviolable Right in it What an unparallell'd baseness and ingratitude is this and such as will be a lasting shame to the Impenitent Promoters and Abettors of it in all ages Being withal most unchristian prophane and impious contrary to our Solemn Oaths and all the obligations both of Scripture and Conscience So that for the honour of our Nation and Religion too all honest Loyal Churchmen must look upon and bless God for our deliverance from that impious unchristian and truly Fanatick Conspiracy 3 Which brings us to consider a Third Instance of their wicked designs and our great deliverance That of the Rye Conspiracy being the result of their disappointment in their former design for when the pretence of Law would not effect their business now comes out That their black hellish contrivance of Murdering the Royal pair after a most dismal and horrid manner which when one of the design'd Actors in it did openly confess He acknowledgeth himself to be a Hearer of the Baptists Independents and Presbyterians Now we cannot but look upon this to be a most Providential and remarkable Instance of Gods wonderful mercy and deliverance towards us A sudden fire hastning Their return before the Villans were ripe and prepar'd for that horrid execution 4 And now as a branch and consummation of that and all their other Plots let us as behoves us consider and reflect upon our deliverance from their late horrid traiterous Conspiracy that unnatural open Rebellion for which we are now especially to magnifie the Lord and exalt his Name together I shall not need surely to spend much time in shewing you the heinousness of all Rebellion and this in particular having done it already in some late Discourses only let us remember that our Religion our Prince the lives of all honest men and whatever is dear to us in this world were in danger by the designs of these ambitious restless and bloud thirsty men To whom had God given us over as a prey as our sins most justly deserved our bloud would have been spilt like water upon the ground we must have lost all that is dear to us in this world and we should have been overwhelmed in a deluge of Sects and Heresies of wars and confusions of which we could not have expected to see any other issue than the final ruin and destruction of this Kingdom and God's Church among us This is in short the account of our deliverance or the grounds of our Joy for it and certainly if any thing can make us truly chearful and pleasant and heartily thankful to God we have abundant reason to be so for this his present mercy and goodness towards us Who has so graciously rescu'd us from these most accursed and damnable designs contriv'd and carried on by the several Sects and Parties of pretended Religion the known and avowed enemies to the present