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A62599	A sermon preached at Lincolns-Inn-Chappel, on the 31th of January, 1688 being the day appointed for a publick thanksgiving to Almighty God for having made His Highness the Prince of Orange the glorious instrument of the great deliverance of this kingdom from popery & arbitrary power / by John Tillotson ...	Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.	1689 (1689)	Wing T1236; ESTC R6939	16,918	45

One of our Neighbour Nations which hath long pretended to the Profession of the most refin'd and moderate Popery in the World but hath now at last shewed it self in its true Colours and in the Perfection of a Persecuting Spirit and have therein given us a most sad and deplorable Instance of a Religion corrupted and degenerated into that which if it be possible is worse than None And since by the undeserved Mercy of God to us we have upon such easie terms in comparison escap'd their Rage and Fury let us now at length resolve never to join in affinity with the People of these Abominations since our Alliances with them by Marriage have had so fatal an Influence both upon the publick Peace and Tranquillity of the Nation and upon the Welfare also of private Families I have known Many Instances of this kind but hardly ever yet saw One that prov'd happy but a great many that have been pernicious and ruinous to those Protestant Families in which such unequal and as I think unlawful Matches have been made Not that such Marriages are void in themselves but yet for all that sinful because of the apparent Danger and Temptation to which those of our Church and Religion that enter into them do evidently expose themselves of being seduc'd from their Religion not by the good Arguments which the other can offer to that purpose but by the ill Arts which they have the Confidence and the Conscience to make use of in the making of Proselytes And let us pay our most hearty and thankful Acknowledgments chiefly and in the first place to Almighty God the Blessed Author of this Deliverance and under Him to that happy Instrument whom God hath been pleased in great pity to this sinful and unworthy Nation to raise up on purpose for it his Highness the Prince of Orange and to that end did in his All-wise Providence lay the Foundation of our then future Deliverance in that auspicious Match which was concluded here in England about eleven years ago between this Renowned Prince and our Excellent Princess This is that most Illustrious House of Nassau and Orange which God hath so highly honoured above all the Families of the Earth to give a Check to the Two Great aspiring Monarchies of the West and bold Attempters upon the Liberties of Europe To the One in the last Age and to the Other in the present As if the Princes of this Valiant and Victorious Line had been of the Race of Hercules born to rescue Mankind from Oppression and to quell Monsters And lastly let us beseech Almighty God all whose Ways and Works are perfect That he would establish that which he hath wrought and still carry it on to further and greater Perfection Which after such an Earnest of his Favour and Good Will to us we have no reason to doubt but that he is ready to do for us if by our own fickleness and inconstancy disgusting the Deliverance now it is come which we so earnestly desir'd before it came if by our ingrateful Murmurings and Discontents by our own foolish Heats and Animosities kindled and carried on by the ill designs of some working upon the tenderness and scruples of others under the specious pretences of Conscience and Loyalty I say if by some or all these ways we do not refuse the Blessing which God now offers and defeat and frustate the merciful Design of this wonderful Revolution God will still rejoice over us to do us good and think thoughts of Peace towards us thoughts of good and not of evil to give us an expected end of our long Troubles and Confusions But if we will not know in this our day the things which belong to our Peace our Destruction will then be of our selves and there will be no need that God should be angry with us for we shall be undone by our own Differences and Quarrels about the Way and Means of our being saved and so be angry with one another till we be consumed Which God of his infinite Goodness give us all the Grace and Wisdom to prevent for his Mercies sake in Jesus Christ to whom with Thee O Father and the Holy-Ghost be all Honour and Glory Thanksgiving and Praise both now and ever Amen FINIS BOOKS lately Printed for Brabaz Aylmer THE Rule of Faith or An Answer to the Treatise of Mr. J. Sarjant By John Tillotson D. D. Dean of Canterbury To which is adjoined a Reply to Mr. J. S. his Third Appendix c. By Edward Stillingfleet D. D. Dean of St. Paul's The Advice of a Father or Counsel to a Child Directing him how to demean himself in the most important Passages of this Life The True Mother-Church or a Short Discourse concerning the Doctrine and Worship of the First Church at Jerusalem upon Acts II. By Samuel Johnson Author of Reflexions upon Julian Price 2 d. Books Printed for Brab Aylmer and W. Rogers SErmons and Discourses some of which never before printed The Third Volume By the Reverend Dr. Tillotson Dean of Canterbury 8vo A Discourse against Transubstantiation In 8vo Price 3 d. A Perswasive to frequent Communion in the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper By John Tillotson Dean of Canterbury In 8vo Price 3 d. Books Printed for William Rogers AN Answer to a Discourse Intituled Papists protesting against Protestant Popery being a Vindication of Papists not Misrepresented by Protestants 4to A Sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London at ●uild-Hall Chappel on Sunday November the 4th 1688. By William Sherlock D. D. Master of the Temple A Letter of Enquiry to the Reverend Fathers of the Society of Jesus Written in the Person of a Dissatisfied Roman Catholick 1 Chro. 29. 4. Psalm 103. 10. I. II. Lev. 26. 13. Isai. 1. 4. Vers. 5. Isai. 9. 13. Isai. 25. 11. 2 Chro. 28 22. Judg. 8. 34 35. 1 King. 11. 9. 2 Chro. 32. 25. Isai. 1. 2. Vers. 3. Isai. 26. 10. Deut. 13. 1 2. Vers. 5 Numb 14. 22. Judg. 10. 11 12 13 14. Jer. 2. 19. Judg. 10. 13. Gen. 15. 16. Rom. 9. 22. Isai. 1. 5. Matth. 23. 37 38. Psal. 28. 5. Psal. 118. 23 24. 1 Cor. 1●… 9 10 11. Numb 21. 5 6. V. 11.

When God sees that all the means which he can use do prove ineffectual and to no purpose he will then give over a People as Physicians do their Patients when they see that nature is spent and their case past remedy When men will not be the better for the best means that Heaven can use God will then leave them to reap the fruit of their own doings and abandon them to the demerit of their Sins That which now remains is to apply this to our selves and to the solemn Occasion of this Day And if this be our Case let us take heed that this be not also our Doom and Sentence First The Case in the Text doth very much resemble Ours And that in three respects God hath sent great Judgments upon us for our evil deeds and for our great trespasses He hath punish'd us less than our iniquities have deserv'd And hath given us a very great and wonderful Deliverance 1. God hath inflicted great Judgments upon us for our evil deeds and for our great trespasses Great Judgments both for the quality and for the continuance of them It shall suffice only to mention those which are of a more ancient Date Scarce hath any Nation been more calamitous than this of Ours both in respect of the Invasions and Conquests of Foreigners and of our own Civil and intestine Divisions Four times we have been Conquer'd By the Romans Saxons Danes and Normans And our intestine Divisions have likewise been great and of long continuance Witness the Barons Wars and that long and cruel Contest between the two Houses of York and Lancaster But to come nearer to our own Times What fearful Judgments and Calamities of War and Pestilence and Fire have many of us seen And how close did they follow one another What terrible havock did the Sword make amongst us for many years and this not the Sword of a Foreign Enemy but of a Civil War the mischiefs whereof were all terminated upon our selves and have given deep wounds and left broad scars upon the most considerable Families in the Nation Alta manent civilis vulnera dextrae This War was drawn out to a great length and had a Tragical end in the Murtber of an excellent King and in the Banishment of his Children into a strange Countrey whereby they were expos'd to the Arts and Practices of those of another Religion the mischievous Consequences whereof we have ever since sadly labour'd under and do feel them at this day And when God was pleas'd in great mercy at last to put an end to the miserable Distractions and Confusions of almost twenty years by the happy Restoration of the Royal Family and our ancient Government which seem'd to promise to us a lasting settlement and all the felicities we could wish yet how soon was this bright and glorious morning overcast by the restless and black Designs of that sure and inveterate Enemy of ours the Church of Rome for the restoring of their Religion amongst us And there was too much encouragement given to this Design by those who had power in their hands and had brought home with them a secret good will to it For this great Trespass and for our many other Sins God was angry with us and sent among us the most raging Pestilence that ever was known in this Nation which in the space of eight or nine Months swept away near a third part of the Inhabitants of this vast and populous City and of the Suburbs thereof besides a great many thousands more in several parts of the Nation But we did not return to the Lord nor seek him for all this And therefore the very next year after God sent a terrible and devouring Fire which in less than three days time laid the greatest part of this great City in ashes And there is too much reason to believe that the Enemy did this that perpetual and implacable Enemy of the peace and happiness of this Nation And even since the time of that dreadful Calamity which is now above twenty years agone we have been in a continual fear of the cruel Designs of that Party which had hitherto been incessantly working under ground but now began to shew themselves more openly and especially since a Prince of that Religion succeeded to the Crown our eyes have been ready to fail us for fear and for looking after those dreadful things that were coming upon us and seem'd to be even at the door A fear which this Nation could easily have rid it self of because they that caused it were but a handful in comparison of us and could have done nothing without a foreign force and assistance had not the Principles of Humanity and of our Religion too restrain'd us from violence and cruelty and from every thing which had the appearance of undutifulness to the Government which the Providence of God had set over us An Instance of the like patience under the like provocations for so long a time and after such visible and open attempts upon them I challenge any Nation or Church in the World when they had the Laws so plainly on their side from the very foundation of it to produce Insomuch that if God had not put it into the hearts of our kind Neighbours and of that incomparable Prince who laid and conducted that great Design with so much skill and secrecy to have appear'd so seasonably for our rescue our Patience had infallibly without a Miracle been our ruine And I am sure if our Enemies had ever had the like Opportunity in their hands and had overbalanced us in numbers but half so much as we did them they would never have let it slip but would long since have extirpated us utterly and have made the remembrance of us to have ceas'd from among men And now if you ask me for what Sins more especially God hath sent all these Judgments upon us It will not I think become us to be very particular and positive in such determinations Thus much is certain That we have all sinn'd and contributed to these Judgments every one hath had some hand more or less in pulling down this vengeance upon the Nation But we are all too apt to remove the meritorious cause of God's Judgments as far as we can from our selves and our own Party and upon any flight pretence to lay it upon others Yet I will venture to instance in one or two things which may probably enough have had a more particular and immediate hand in drawing down the Judgments of God upon us Our horrible contempt of Religion on the one hand by our Infidelity and Profaneness and our shameful abuse of it on the other by our gross Hypocrisie and sheltering great wickedness and immoralities under the cloak and profession of Religion And then great Dissentions and Divisions great uncharitableness and bitterness of Spirit among those of the same Religion so that almost from the beginning of our happy Reformation the Enemy had sown these Tares