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A sermon preached upon September the 9th, 1683 being a Thanksgiving Day for a late deliverance from a fanatick-conspiracy / by Edward Pelling ... ; printed in his own defence.
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Pelling, Edward, d. 1718.
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A SERMON Preached upon September the 9th 1683. BEING A Thanksgiving-Day For a Late DELIVERANCE From a Fanatick-Conspiracy By Edw. Pelling Chaplain to his Grace the Duke of Somerset Printed in his own Defence LONDON Printed for Will. Abington next the Wonder Tavern in Ludgate-Street 1683. To His Grace Charles Duke of Somerset Marquess and Earl of Hertford Viscount Beauchamp Baron Seymour of Trowbridge Lord Lieutenant of the East-Riding in Yorkshire and of the County of Somerset May it please Your Grace AFter so many Honourable Titles some due to you by Inheritance some given you by your Prince his Favour All Your own besides that of Your Virtue and Loyalty which is Your greatest Character it might justly be expected that some Considerable thing something more than an Ordinary Sermon should be presented to Your Noble Patronage and I have only this to say in my Excuse that it comes from the hands of him who has nothing Great enough to lay at Your Feet My Lord I am bound to tell You that the reason of Publishing these Papers is my own Vindication some Passages therein being so mis-represented as if I had made several Rude and Unjust Reflections from which nothing can clear me but the submitting of the whole Sermon to Publick Censure And now My Lord I cannot blame that Necessity which obligeth me at once to do my self Right and to express my Duty to Your Grace whom I am bound to Honour particularly not only for the sake of the same Loyal Principles but also in the Bond of Natural Affection which is no more than a Just and Necessary Homage from me I most humbly beg Your Favourable acceptance of this my Duty beseeching God to Bless Your Grace and Your Noble Consort with a long Continuance of the Dearest Love with a Noble Train of a most Prosperous Issue and with all the Blessings of This world and a Better it is the Hearty desire my Lord of Your Graces most Dutiful and Affectionate Servant and Chaplain Edw. Pelling Sept. 13. 1683. Psal XXXIV 19. Many are the afflictions of the Righteous but the Lord delivereth him out of them all THE Special Providence of God is seen in nothing more than in watching over Princes in preserving Them and their Kingdoms and in supporting their Government and just Authority For the Hearts of Men are Naturally so impatient of Subjection and so greedy of Power their particular Interests are so Divided their Designs are so Various their Passions are so Violent their Principles are so Different their Minds are so set upon Villany and Mischief and what through Ambition or Covetousness or Discontent their Spirits are so Restless that 't is by a daily Miracle that Princes live and that their Thrones stand and 't would be impossible for them to be safe one moment did not the immediate hand of God of whom alone they hold their Crowns shelter and protect their Persons and over-rule the Madness of Turbulent and Bloud-thirsty People Perhaps no Prince living ever had such ample Experience of this as King David had unless we will except our own Dread Soveraign whose case comes nearest to a Parallel David's Title to the Crown was unquestionable for it was set upon his Head by the direct appointment of God himself His Government was equal and easie His Heart was of a Tender and Compassionate Temper he was ready to Forget the greatest Wrongs and not only to Forgive but also to express Kindnesses to the greatest Criminals insomuch that Joab had the Confidence in the heat of his Passion to tell him That he loved his Enemies more than his Friends and by so doing shamed the Faces of all his Servants 2 Sam. 19. All this notwithstanding though David was a man according to Gods own Heart a Character which God himself gave of him yet the poor Prince found Troubles on every side First he was persecuted by Saul and anon forced to a Controversie with Saul's House One while he was in danger from Enemies Abroad and another while from dis-affected men at Home Now he was Conspired against by Absalom which afflicted him the more because the Rebel was his Son This Conspiracy was fomented by that Oracle of Treason Ahitophel that afterwards Saddled his Ass and Ran for it and ended his Life miserably through Discontent Then he was railed at by Shimei that Dog as Abishai rightly called him the Sire of all that Litter which are continually yelping at the Lords Anointed Nor was this all for after all this Sheba and his Fellow-Traytors raised a formidable Insurrection against him being frustrated of their Expectations at the Kings Return For David had been in Exile being forced to flee from his Rebellious Subjects and upon his happy Restauration some Israelites were inraged that they had not that Interest at Court which they hoped for and hereupon they were vexed that the King was come home and so an Alarm was sounded Every man to his Tents O Israel 2 Sam. 20. Had not the Divine Providence been David's Shield and Salvation that Excellent Prince had been utterly Ruin'd by this Army of Troubles which continually follow'd him at the Heels But God was his support and stay and though there was Plot upon Plot and Rebellion after Rebellion yet he trusted still to the Righteousness of his Cause and to the Promise of God That he would cloath all his Enemies with shame and that upon his own Head his Crown shall flourish This was his Hope and Confidence and this Hope made him not asham'd David Commemorates with Thankfulness throughout this his Book of Psalms the Singular Mercy of God to him and to his People And from that constant experience which He and They had of Gods unwearied Goodness he draws this Conclusion for the Comfort of all Righteous Princes which should come after that though God may and many times doth for great Ends and Reasons suffer them and their good Subjects to be Evil-intreated for a time yet he will not only be with them in their Troubles but also will sooner or later give them a fair Exit out of all their Distress Many are the afflictions of the Righteous but the Lord delivereth him out of them all I shall not for the further clearing of this matter speak more of David's Troubles and Deliverances for our own late Deliverance which we thankfully Commemorate this day is a plain Comment upon my Text. A Deliverance which the very immediate hand of God hath wrought for us as we shall see anon A Deliverance of a Righteous Church of a Righteous Prince and of all his Righteous Subjects throughout the Nation A Deliverance which if we consider the Nature of it is one of the most Signal if the Manner of it is one of the most Surprising and if we consider our own former Ingratitude one of the most Unpresidented Deliverances that ever was wrought for a People But before I speak of the particular Branches of this Deliverance 't is necessary for me