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A62609	A sermon preached before the King and Queen at White-Hall, the 27th of October being the day appointed for a publick thanksgiving to Almighty God, for the signal victory at sea, for the preservation of His Majesty's Sacred Person, and for his safe return to his people / by John, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury.	Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.	1692 (1692)	Wing T1246; ESTC R17994	15,618	38

Provocation And this in a more Barbarous manner than the most Barbarous Nations ever did carrying Fire and Desolation wheresoever he went and laying wast many and great Cities without necessity and without pity And now behold what a terrible Rebuke the Providence of God hath given to this mighty Monarch in the full Carrier of his Fortune and Fury The consideration whereof brings to my thoughts those Passages in the Prophet concerning old Babylon that standing and perpetual Type of the great Oppressors and Persecutors of Gods true Church and Religion How is the Oppressour ceased the exactour of gold ceased He who smote the People in wrath with a continual stroke he who ruled the Nations in anger is himself persecuted and none hindreth The whole Earth is at rest and is quiet and breaks forth into singing The grave beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming it stirreth up the dead for thee even all the Captains of the Earth it hath raised up from their Thrones all the Kings of the Nations all they shall speak and say unto thee art thou also become weak as we are art thou also become like unto us How art thou fallen from Heaven O Lucifer Son of the morning How art thou cut down to the ground that didst weaken the Nations For thou hast said in thy heart I will ascend into Heaven I will exalt my Throne above the Stars of God I will sit also upon the Mount of the Congregation in the sides of the North That is upon Mount Zion for just so the Psalmist describes it Beautiful for situation the joy of the whole Earth is Mount Zion on the sides of the North. Here the King of Babylon threatens to take Jerusalem and to demolish the Temple where the Congregation of Israel met for the Worship of the true God I will also sit upon the Mount of the Congregation in the sides of the North Much in the same Style with the threatnings of Modern Babylon I will destroy the Reformation I will extirpate the Northern Heresie And then he goes on I will ascend above the height of the clouds I will be like the most High Yet thou shalt be brought down to the grave to the sides of the pit They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee and consider thee saying Is this the man that made the earth to tremble that did shake Kingdoms that made the World as a Wilderness and destroyed the Cities thereof and opened not the House of his Prisoners God seems already to have begun this Work in the late glorious Victory at Sea and I hope he will cut it short in righteousness I have sometimes heretofore wondred Why at the destruction of Modern and Mystical Babylon the Scripture should make so express mention of great wailing and lamentation for the loss of Her Ships and Seamen Little imagining thirty years ago that any of the Kingdoms who had given their power to the Beast would ever have arrived to that mighty Naval Force But the Scripture saith nothing in vain Whether and how far Success is an argument of a good Cause I shall not now debate But thus much I think may safely be affirmed That the Providence of God doth sometimes without plain and downright Miracles so visibly shew it self that we cannot without great stupidity and obstinacy refuse to acknowledge it I grant the Cause must first be manifestly just before Success can be made an Argument of Gods favour to it and approbation of it And if the Cause of true Religion and the necessary defence of it against a false and Idolatrous Worship be a good Cause Ours is so And I do not here beg the Question we have abundantly proved it to the confusion of our Adversaries If the vindication of the common Liberties of Mankind against Tyranny and Oppression be a good Cause then Ours is so And this needs not to be proved it is so glaringly evident to all the World And as our Cause is not like theirs so neither hath their Rock been like our Rock our Enemies themselves being Judges And yet as bad an argument as success is of a good Cause I am sorry to say it but I am afraid it is true it is like in the conclusion to prove the best Argument of all other to convince those who have so long pretended conscience against submission to the present Government Meer Success is certainly one of the worst Arguments in the World of a good Cause and the most improper to satisfie Conscience And yet we find by experience that in the issue it is the most successful of all other Arguments and do's in a very odd but effectual way satisfie the Consciences of a great many men by shewing them their Interest God has of late visibly made bare his Arm in our behalf though some are still so blind and obstinate that they will not see it Like those of whom the Prophet complains Lord when thy hand is lifted up they will not see but they shall see and be ashamed for their envy at thy People Thus have I represented unto you a mighty Monarch who like a fiery Comet hath hung over Europe for many years and by his malignant influence hath made such terrible havock and devastations in this part of the World Let us now turn our View to the other part of the Text And behold a greater than he is here A Prince of a quite different Character who does understand and know God to be the Lord which doth exercise loving-kindness and judgment and righteousness in the Earth And who hath made it the great Study and Endeavour of his life to imitate these Divine Perfections as far as the imperfection of humane nature in this mortal state will admit I say a greater than he is here who never said or did an insolent thing but instead of despising his Enemies has upon all occasions encounter'd them with an undaunted Spirit and resolution This is the Man whom God hath honoured to give a Check to this Mighty Man of the Earth and to put a hook into the Nostrils of this great Leviathan who has so long had his pastime in the Seas But we will not insult as He once did in a most unprincely manner over a Man much better than himself wheu he believed Him to have been slain at the Boyne And indeed Death came then as near to him as was possible without killing him But the merciful Providence of God was pleased to step in for his Preservation almost by a Miracle For I do not believe that from the first use of great Guns to that Day any mortal man ever had his shoulder so kindly kiss'd by a Canon bullet But I will not trespass any further upon that which is the great Ornament of all his other Vertues though I have said nothing of Him but what all the World does see and must acknowledge He is as much above being flatter'd as it is beneath an honest and a generous mind to flatter Let us then glory in the Lord and rejoyce in the God of our Salvation Let us now in the presence of all his People pay our most thankful acknowledgments to him who is worthy to be praised even to the Lord God of Israel who alone doth wondrous things Who giveth Victory unto Kings and hath preserved our David his Servant from the hurtful Sword And let us humbly beseech Almighty God that he would long preserve to us the invaluable Blessing of our two Excellent Princes whom the Providence of God hath sent amongst us like two good Angels not to rescue two or three persons but almost a whole Nation out of Sodom By saving us I hope at last from our Vices as well as at first from that Vengeance which was just ready to have been poured down upon us Two Sovereign Princes reigning together and in the same Throne and yet so intirely one as perhaps no Nation no Age can furnish us with a Parallel Two Princes perfectly united in the same Design of promoting the true Religion and the Publick Welfare by reforming our Manners and as far as is possible by repairing the breaches and healing the ●ivisions of a miserably distracted Church and Nation In a Word Two Princes who are contented to sacrifice Themselves and their whole Time to the care of the Publick And for the sake of that to deny themselves almost all sort of ease and pleasure To deny themselves did I say No they have wisely and judiciously chosen the truest and highest Pleasure that this World knows the Pleasure of doing good and being Benefactors to mankind May they have a long and happy Reign over us to make us happy and to lay up in store for Themselves A Happiness without measure and without end in Gods glorious and everlasting Kingdom 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 for ever Amen FINIS Advertisement THERE is newly Printed and in few days will be publisht Sixteen Discourses on several Texts of Scripture By the late Pious and Learned Henry More D. D. in Octavo Printed for Brab Aylmer in Cornhil 1 Cor. 1. 25. Job 21. 30. Chap. 28. 12. Job 28. 28. Eccl. 9. 11. Job 38. 22 23. Ps 52. 1. Prov. 23. 5. Eccl. 5. 13. Prov. 1. 18. Job 40. 9. Judg. 10. 13. Deut. 32. 20. Jer. 6. 8. Isa 14. Ps 48. 2. Rev. 18. 17. Isa 26. 11.

A SERMON Preached before the KING and QUEEN AT WHITE-HALL The 27th of OCTOBER Being the Day appointed for a Publick Thanksgiving to Almighty God For the Signal Victory at SEA For the Preservation of His Majesty's Sacred Person And for His safe Return to His People By JOHN Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Published by Their Majesties Special Command LONDON Printed for Brabazon Aylmer at the Three Pigeons over-against the Royal Exchange in Cornhill And William Rogers at the Sun over-against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet 1692. A SERMON Preached before the KING and QUEEN JEREM. IX 23 24. Thus saith the Lord Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom neither let the mighty man glory in his might let not the rich man glory in his riches But let him that glorieth glory in this That he understandeth and knoweth Me that I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness and judgment and righteousness in the earth For in these things I delight saith the Lord. THESE words are a message from God sent by his Prophet to the People of the Jews who trusted in their own Wisdom and Might and Riches for their safety and preservation from that Destruction which in the former part of this Chapter God had threaten'd to bring upon them by the King of Babylon To take them off from this vain confidence is this Message sent to them Thus saith the Lord Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom neither let the mighty man glory in his might let not the rich man glory in his riches But let him that glorieth glory in this That he understandeth and knoweth Me that I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness and judgment and righteousness in the Earth For in these things I delight saith the Lord. In the handling of these Words I shall abstract from the particular Occasion of them and only consider the general Truth contained in them Which I shall do under these two Heads First What we are not to glory in Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom neither let the mighty man glory in his might let not the rich man glory in his riches Secondly What it is that is matter of true glory But let him that glorieth glory in this That he understandeth and knoweth Me that I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness and judgment and righteousness in the Earth I. What we are not to glory in The Text instanceth in three things which are the great idols of mankind and in which they are very apt to pride themselves and to place their confidence namely Wisdom and Might and Riches I shall consider these severally and shew how little reason there is to glory in any of them 1. Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom This may comprehend both human knowledg and likewise prudence in the management of affairs We will suppose both these to be intended here by the name of Wisdom Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom that is neither in the largeness and compass of his knowledg and understanding nor in his skill and dexterity in the contrivance and conduct of human affairs And that for these two reasons First Because the highest pitch of human knowledg and wisdom is very imperfect Secondly Because when knowledg and wisdom are with much difficulty in any competent measure attained how easily are they lost First the highest pitch of human knowledg and wisdom is very imperfect Our Ignorance doth vastly exceed our knowledg at the best Wisdom in any tolerable degree is difficult to be attain'd but perfection in it utterly to be despair'd of Where is there to be found so strong and sound a head as hath no soft place so perfect so clear an understanding as hath no flaw no dark water in it How hard a matter is it to be truly wise And yet there are so many pretenders to wisdom as would almost tempt a man to think that nothing is easier Men do frequently murmur and repine at the unequal distribution of other things as of health and strength of power and riches But if we will trust the judgment of most men concerning themselves nothing is more equally shar'd among mankind than a good degree of wisdom and understanding Many will grant others to be superior to them in other gifts of Nature as in bodily strength and stature and in the gifts of Fortune as in riches and honour because the difference between one man and another in these qualities is many times so gross and palpable that no body hath the face to deny it But very few in comparison unless it be in mere complement and civility will yield others to be wiser than themselves and yet the difference in this also is for the most part very visible to every body but themselves So that true Wisdom is a thing very extraordinary Happy are they that have it And next to them not those many that think they have it but those few that are sensible of their own defects and imperfections and know that they have it not And among all the kinds of Wisdom none is more nice and difficult and meets with more frequent disappointments than that which men are most apt to pride themselves in I mean Political wisdom and prudence because it depends upon so many contingent causes any one of which failing the best laid design breaks and falls in pieces It depends upon the uncertain wills and fickle humours the mistaken and mutable interests of men which are perpetually shifting from one point to another so that no body knows where to find them Besides an unaccountable mixture of that which the Heathen call'd Fortune but we Christians by its true name the Providence of God which does frequently interpose in human affairs and loves to confound the wisdom of the wise and to turn their counsels into foolishness Of this we have a most remarkable Example in Achitophel of whose wisdom the Scripture gives this extraordinary testimony That the counsel which he counselled in those days was as if one had enquired at the Oracle of God Such was all the counsel of Achitophel both with David and with Absalom It seems he gave very good counsel also to Absalom and because he would not follow it was discontented to that degree as to lay violent hands upon himself And now who would pride himself in being so very wise as to be able to give the best counsel in the world and yet so very weak as to make away himself because he to whom it was given was not wise enough to take it The like miscarriages often happen in point of Military skill and prudence A great Prince or General is sometimes so very cautious and wary that nothing can provoke him to a Battel and then at another time and perhaps in another Element so rash and wilful that nothing can hinder him from fighting and being beaten As if the two Elements made the difference and caution were great wisdom at Land and confidence and