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A47440	Europe's delivery from France and slavery a sermon preached at St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, on the 16th of November, 1690, before the right honourable the Lords Justices of Ireland : being the day of Thanksgiving for the preservation of His Majesty's person, his good success in our deliverance, and his safe and happy return into England / by William King ...	King, William, 1650-1729.	1691 (1691)	Wing K532; ESTC R17458	18,583	31

EUROPE's Deliverance from France and Slavery A SERMON PREACHED AT St. Patrick's Church DUBLIN On the 16th of November 1690. Before the Right Honourable the LORDS JUSTICES of IRELAND Being the day of THANKSGIVING for the Preservation of His MAJESTY'S PERSON His good Success in our DELIVERANCE and His safe and happy Return into ENGLAND By WILLIAM KING D. D. Dean of St. Patrick's DVBLIN Since Bishop of LONDON-DERRY Printed at Dublin And Reprinted at London for Tim. Goodwin at the Maidenhead against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet MDCXCI TO THE READER THE great Respect and Reverence which is universally paid by the whole Church of Ireland to the Author of this Sermon who His Majesty has been graciously pleas'd to advance to the Bishoprick of Londonderry and of whom we here in England have large Accounts from those who have come from that Kingdom made me think it would be no unacceptable thing to reprint this Sermon which was receiv'd with so great applause at Dublin But this is all personal to the Author The Book it self needs not any Foreign recommendations drawn from Favour or Concern for the Person who writ it For here are many particular Matters of Fact hinted at relating to the Irish Affairs which are little known amongst us and the Causes of their and our late Miseries and Distractions are so distinctly and methodically set down that tho very many of them are generally known and commonly talked of and many more have been of a long time fufficiently guessed at by thoughtful and inquisitive Men yet such Books can never be useless or unpleasant which set those things all together in one continued Light that before for the most part lay dispersed in the Minds of those who read them They that read the Sermon will find other Beauties in it which will sufficiently please them Every thing is described in such moving and lively Colours that it was but a common piece of justice to so great and so good a Man to Reprint a Discourse which will assuredly convince the Nation That the great esteem which is paid to him in his own Countrey proceeds neither from want of Judgment nor from an over-great Partiality W. W. To the Right Honourable HENRY Lord SIDNEY Viscount SHEPPY AND THO. CONNINGS BY Esq Lords Justices of IRELAND May it please Your Lordships THIS Sermon was at first Composed and is now Published with peculiar Respect to Their Majesties Subjects in this Kingdom Those in England who had the Advantage of Enquiry and Correspondence need not the Informations here offered But the Protestants of this Kingdom have been so long and industriously kept in the Dark and not suffered to look into the Designs of those that had them in Subjection farther than they felt the effects of them that many may be Strangers to the full extent of those Designs and the Miraculous Steps of Providence by which they have been delivered from them I know much more might be said and has been said on this Subject But I have chosen those Points that seemed to me most proper for the Occasion And I hope enough to satisfy us all of the great reason we have to praise God for our wonderful Deliverance which was the design of the Discourse Your Lordships can witness what sense the Protestants of this City have of it and for ought appears the whole body of them through the Kingdom are in their Present Majesties Interest to a Man Which could never have happened if the late Government had been in any measure Tolerable to them And had others instead of being at ease where they were at that time lived here under the Government they fancied so Indulgent I doubt not but they would have had the same sentiments with us and been cured of their Folly Your Lordships have come to the Government of this Kingdom in an Ill and Vnsetled Posture of Affairs but you need look back only to Presidents in each of your own Families to guide your Management with the happiest Success Your Ancestors governed it in Times as difficult as the present and had the chiefest part in reforming the Superstition and Barbarity of the Natives and in setling Religion on that happy foot on which it has since stood but they and all since have been forced to leave the Work imperfect It remains now I hope to be perfected by you Your Lordships may reasonably conclude that it is not an easie undertaking to Civilize and Reform this Nation since so great Persons were not able to perfect it And yet that it is to be done because they went so far in it For want of a vigorous prosecution it has been to do a-new every forty years hitherto Your Lordships have the Experience of many such Periods to direct you how to do it effectually We hope and heartily pray that it may now at last have its accomplishment in Your hands under Their Majesties Government and that this may be one of the blessings of Their Reign Providence has given you an opportunity of making your Selves and your Memory grateful to present and future Ages by becoming happy Instruments in it That you may be such I hope your Lordships will believe is by none more zealously desired than by My LORDS Your Lordships most Humble and Obliged Servant WILLIAM KING A SERMON Preach'd on the 16th of November 1690. PSAL. 107. 2d verse Old Translation Let them give thanks whom the Lord hath redeemed and delivered from the hand of the Enemy V. 3. And gathered them out of the Lands from the East and from the West from the North and from the South THanksgiving is all the Tribute we can pay to Heaven and 't is so easie a return for our Beings and the many Comforts we receive from thence that he is very inexcusable and unworthy the Mercies he receives who is backward in so easie an acknowledgment hence the whole World has ever look'd on it as the securest way for continuing their present and procuring new Blessings to own God to be the Author of them and to express their gratitude in Hymns and Sacrifices and in other Acts of Devotion and Thanksgiving as appears not only from the People of God in the Old Testament but likewise from the yet remaining Devotions of the Ancient Heathen This Psalm is a solemn form used by the Jewish Church on such occasions 'T is not material to explain to you the first occasion of its being made it sufficiently appears from my Text which is the Introduction to it that it was designed as a solemn return of Praise to God for redeeming the Israelites from Captivity for delivering them from their Enemies and bringing them back to their own Country whence they had been driven by Violence and Oppression vers 39 40. Now this is so exactly our Case and the design of our present appearing in this place that I think there is no more incumbent on me than to endeavour to beget in you a due sense of it and

of Protestant or Papist Enemy or Ally All were equally devoted to destruction in it The Duke of Lorrain was actually turned out of his Dukedom The Prince of Orange his present Majesty was deprived of his Principality of Orange The Empire was partly to be given up to the Turk and the remaining Princes were to apply themselves to France for Protection and to chuse his Son King of the Romans The Dukedom of Savoy was to be brought in under the notion of Pupillage The Princes of Italy were frightned bought or wheedled out of their strong Holds and the Keys of their Country such were Ca●al and Guastalla put into French hands Sicily was perswaded to Rebel and sollicited to serve the Spaniard as they had done the French before in the famous Vespers Genoa was to be Bombed England bought and Holland drowned Spain had a Barren Queen designedly made so as many believe put upon him that his Crown might fall to France by Succession The Northern Kingdoms whose cold and distance secured them from immediate attempts were yet taken off from assisting their Neighbours and bought into something worse than a neutrality The great Contrivers and Managers of these were the French King the great Turk and I need not name the third in the Triumvirate 'T is too much that we groan yet under the mischievous effects of their Conspiracy which has been no less pernicious to all Europe than that of Antony Lepidus and Augustus was to the Roman Common-Wealth There is no doubt but all these have been designed attempted and almost brought to perfection within these 20 years by strength of this Confederacy and there is not one Prince or State in all Europe that has not been concerned in the fatal effects thereof But 3dly This design was levelled more immediately at the destruction of the Protestants of Europe The Extirpation of the Pestilent Northern Heresie has been long known to be the Principal Article in it and was probably the pretence and bait that induced his late Majesty to espouse it He was not fonder of being obeyed without reserve than of propagating his Religion and perhaps he chiefly desired an absolute Authority over his Subjects that he might compel them to come into the Bosom of his Church What business had he with a standing Army or numerous Troops of Dragoons but to employ them as Missionaries to convert his Heretical Subjects The example of France had taught him their use and that Dragooning was a much more effectual way to Reconcile men than Sermons or Arguments In short by this Conspiracy the Protestants of France are already destroyed those of Savoy turned out of their Country those of Holland have been invaded and forced to cover themselves with their Waters And as for us in Ireland I need not tell you how we have been used The least hint is sufficient to refresh your memories and the danger we have escaped is yet so near that it supersedes all necessity of a description It has been said of some that when they have been shewed the next morning the danger they escaped in the night they have died with apprehension I am sure no Precipice can have a more dreadful prospect to those that have escaped it than our danger ought to have and will have to all that duly consider and look back on it But God has Redeemed and Saved us out of our Enemies hands He has brought us back into our own Land and we are now before him this Day to Magnifie him for our Deliverance Let us therefore joyn in that which is the burthen of this Psalm O that men would Praise the Lord for his goodness and Declare the wonders he doth for the Children of men But 4thly This Conspiracy had a peculiar respect to the Free States of Europe 'T was about the time of the entring into this League that famous saying was applied to Holland Delenda est Carthago It was pretended to be of ill consequence to Princes and Crowned Heads to let a Common-Wealth be their Neighbour lest the fight and example of Liberty might influence their People they combined therefore to destroy them that the slaves of France might not understand that there was a milder Government in the World than the Tyranny of their Master If his present Majesty cou'd have been prevailed on to come into the Confederacy he needed not have ventured his Life to rescue England and merited a Crown by such hazardous undertakings He might have been a King out of hand in his own Country and secured of his Succession to the English Throne but he scorned Crowns of Lewis's giving much more one that he cou'd not take without injuring his Country the Liberty of which is due to his Ancestors and the Preservation of it to Himself But when they cou'd not corrupt they resolved to destroy him and that more particularly because they look'd on him as the Patron and Defender of the Liberty of Europe to which they on all occasions declared their enmity 'T is not imaginable with what Passion and Zeal their whole Party here used to enlarge on the Praises of an Absolute Government how impatient they were to hear any one name to them the Laws the Liberty of the Subjects or a Common-Wealth No the King's Will was the only Law they cou'd endure to hear of and they mightily admired and praised the submissive temper of the Mahometans that counted themselves happy to be under a Power which when it pleased might present them with a Bow-string They did not mince the matter but openly professed that they designed to free the King from the chains of the Laws and the Pupilage of Parliaments or as the Irish Proposals I mentioned before word it make his Monarchy absolute and real The very terms of the League according to Abbot Primi were to secure to the King an Absolute Authority over his Parliament and the Re-establishment of the Roman Catholick Religion in the three Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland But 5thly This Confederacy or rather Conspiracy had a peculiar relation to Ireland The great Body and Magazine of Men whose hands were to perform this Work in these Kingdoms were to be raised out of Ireland The Irish Proposals I have so often mentioned promise 150000 part of them were to be the King 's immediate Guards part of them the standing Army of England and all of them the Instruments of our slavery In order to make them considerable and to hire them to do their work cheerfully Ireland was to be seperated from the Crown of England and made independant on it The English interest in it was to be destroyed and the Protestants under the notion of Whigs Fanaticks Cromwelians rooted out of it How near these things were to taking effect you all can witness they were not only designed and attempted but actually for the most part executed upon us our Estates were taken away and this Kingdom cut off from England by Acts past in their late