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A45673 A thanksgiving sermon for discovery of the late phanatick plot, September 9, 1683 by John Harrison ... Harrison, John, d. 1698. 1683 (1683) Wing H895; ESTC R12763 8,750 30

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of these Common-wealth-Protestants scarce out of our sides had been turned into a very Shambles For it is a damnable Maxim among them if ever they again attain the Power to destroy all Loyal Families Root and Branch for say they the sparing these Amalekites was the high provocation which Restored Charles Stuart to the Throne no better Language to have been allowed our now Dread Sovereign and all his Loyal Followers Should we ever trust a Rebellion though flattered with Golden Lives and Liberties never any single Person that had signally served his King and Church but he shall be shackled with Iron Fetters In one word to conceive our selves under the mercy of a Sword is no other than England now an Earthly Paradise to become an Akeldama that is a very Field of Blood Therefore the Thanksgiving in the Text fitly applieth it self on this days Deliverance Blessed be the Lord thy God which hath delivered up the men that lift up their hand against my Lord the King I can compare the Enemies of this day next this of the Text with no fitter Scripture examples than with Bigthan and Teresh the Chamberlains of Ahasuerus the great Persian Monarch Esther 2. 21. Two of the Kings Eunuchs Bigthan and Teresh were wroth and sought to lay hands on the King More than Heathenish wickedness this to render evil for good because the King had raised them to be the chief keepers of his Body to become the chief seekers of his Blood The Text gives no reason for all this only they were angry yet being said they were angry in those days it is agreed by Interpreters it was at the Marriage of Queen Esther she being a Captive of the Iews they presently clamor we shall now all be Iews for Ahasuerus must not Marry but where Bigthan and Teresh do appoint No reason this at all to forget an Oath of Allegiance to cast behind them all past Favours to betray their Trust to lift up a hand against God's Anointed Yet for a far less Reason were our Traitors full of wrath not for the Kings Marriage with a Captive but for his near adherence to his own flesh and blood his dearest Brother Iames Duke of York presently we must be all Papists As Bigthan and Teresh so our Traitors once men of great Wealth and Renown some Guardians of the Kings Person others of his Council-board are on a sudden entrapp'd in the Devices of their own hands This must needs be the Lords doing and it is Marvellous in our eyes O that men would therefore Praise the Lord for his Goodness and declare the Wonders that he doth for the Childen of men Sure there are the better they be dealt with the worse still ye shall find them and of these David was in most danger Alas nothing but a Vow at Hebron when this Vow was to have deprived him of Life and Kingdom This is the way of them all that before it be seen it may do the Mischief that is meant What Dangers are they in that are in this Case How neer being lost only the Kings Enemies being the Enemies of God They are preserved of Ishbenot an open Enemy 2 Sam. 21. 16. as well as of Achitophel a wicked Counsellor No way it seems to prevail against a Righteous King except they can keep back an All-seeing Eye And shall it please God to find a watchful Eye to save us and shall not we find Lips to Bless and Magnifie him for it O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his Goodness and declare the wonders that he doth for the Children of Men Ahimaaz and Cushi strive very hard which might out-run the other to bring an earthly King the defeat of a Rebel-Army Theirs was an open Rebellion opposed of a like open Force and so in some sence to be ascribed to the help of men ours was a close Conspiracy carried on in dark corners impossible ever to have seen the Light so as to have been prevented except of an All-mighty God How infinite more Reason then for each of us to hasten which may exceed each other in our Joys Praise and Thanksgiving O that Men would therefore Praise the Lord for his Goodness and declare the Wonders that he doth for the Children of Men. FINIS