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lord_n	day_n	holy_a	keep_v	30,638	5	6.5047	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54465	A sermon preached on the 16th day of April 1696 in the parish church of St. Michael in New-Malton, being the thanksgiving day appointed for the discovery and disappointment of the horrible and barbarous conspiracy &c. / by William Perse.	Perse, William, 1640 or 41-1707.	1696 (1696)	Wing P1656; ESTC R25780	18,110	33

who made this Conspiracy to be the happy Instruments of his wonderful Deliverance and Preservation Thus God when he pleases to appear for the safety of the Church and his People can turn a Lion into a Lamb he can make of Saul who was a Persecutor of the Saints a Paul a Preacher and an Apostle and a Propagator of his Holy Gospel Thus near was this Deadly Execrable Plot of being fully executed upon us And that there was something at that very time extraordinary in the Wind some great matter hoped and suddenly look'd for by that Party which is still though God be praised for it unsuccessfully plotting the Downful both of our Church and State might easily have been conjectur'd neither did it miss the Observation of some by the more than ordinary Feasting and Revelling and meeting together of the professed Enemies of our Religion the Flocking together of those ill-boding Vultures in unusual numbers of that time in the chiefest Places of concourse shewed that they more than smelt the Bloody Design and that they were in daily expectation of their long-look'd for Prey waiting to be gorged with Royal Blood and that with the Gore of those innumerable Sacrifices of both the Senatorian Orders as well as of those of inferior Ranks which must have indistinctly fallen to have made way for the compleating of that detestable and almost unparallel'd design which they had undertaken And indeed the time of extremity of Danger is the usual Season that God for the manifestation of his own Honour and to shew that it is his Hand that does it chuses for the Discovering and Frustrating the Wicked Counsels of those who are in deep Consult to overthrow the Foundations of that Government he hath establish'd and for the Deliverance of his Chosen Servants When the Mandatory-Letters were sent Post by Haman's Order to destroy to kill and cause to Perish the whole Nation of the Jews then was God pleased to give Esther so much favour in the sight of the King as to obtain to have them counter-manded and to turn the Destruction intended against them upon the Heads of the Authors themselves O may we ever as the Jews did keep solemn the two days of our Purim for our wonderful Deliverance when the Lot was on both days cast to consume and destroy us That these Days may be may kept Holy to the Lord by an Ordinance according to their appointed time every Year that they may be remember'd in every Generation and the Memorial of them be continued to our Posterity after us Again when the Match was laid to the Train and the Conspirators were in expectation every Minute to hear the Fatal Crack then GOD when they least expected it was pleas'd to open the long hidden Mine and to discover their Magazine of Ammunition that was laid to have blown up the King with all the Flower of his Nobility and Gentry together with our Religion at one blast Thus God suffer'd this damnable Conspiracy for the greater Confusion of the Traytors who fell so suddenly from their hopes with which they were puff'd up and to give us the greater occasion to Praise and Magnifie his Goodness towards us to come just to the Birth and then would not give it strength to come forth He saw them all along follow'd them from one place of Meeting to another his Eye pursued them from one Tavern to another for there in those Temples Dedicated to Bacchus they held their most Private and nocturnal Consults there on his slippery Altars they sacrific'd their Drink-offerings in intemperate Bowles for the success of their unhallow'd and most bloody Conjuration and when they were thorowly heated with the furious Spirit of their impure Deity then were they fittest to contrive and the most audacious to execute the maddest and most desperate Designs Dignum sanè Patellâ operculum a fit Cover for such a Mess A proper Place and fit Ingredients for the carrying on such a cruel and bloody Enterprize that no Man in his right Wits and in a sober Mind durst so much as think on Thus Cataline such another bold Conspirator against his Country as these were who plotted the Death of one of the Chief Magistrates Tully the best Consul they almost ever had and the burning the City the slaughter of the Senate and the ruin of their Temples and all that was Sacred among them just such another Holy and Worthy Project as this was kept all his debauched Consults by night with all manner of lewd Intemperance and Excess and when they were high flown then he carried about a great Goblet wherein Wine and Man's Blood was mix'd together and when all his Accomplices had tasted of it and taken that Sacrament of Confederation to be true to one another he swore them all to Secrecy and then participated his Intentions and then consulted for the most proper time and means for the execution of them but when all their black and horrid Designs which they had formed against their Country Laws and Magistrates were ripe for to be put in Action and a Day appointed for the same even a time prefixt in the Month of February as the Historian tells us their Plot was discovered to the Consul by one of their own Party and the City saved and his Life with the Lives of the Patricians and the whole Order of Senators and their Liberties preserved Thus God to shew how easily he can baffle all the most cunning contrivances of the wisest Achitophels let 's them go on without seeming to take the least notice of them he suffers them to Pride and boast themselves in the happy invention of their bloudy Project and of the fitness and convenience of the place for the Execution of it he lets them go on to fill up the measure of their Iniquity and then on a suddain when they think they have their Prey so safe in the compass of their Net that he cannot escape them and that nothing can intervene to frustrate their expectation Behold a Bird of the Air a Message from Heaven sent by God into the Heart of one of their own Tribe which prompts him to a Discovery carries the Tidings and that which hath wings tells the matter And now what can we think of a Religion if we may call it one which Authorizes Allows and Commands the acting such barbarous Villanies for promoting the Interest of the Roman Catholick Faith as it is by themselves incongruously and absurdly called and the bringing a Nation back again to that Spiritual Thraldom and Captivity out of which God had wonderfully deliver'd it which even the worst of Heathens would have been asham'd to own or in the least to countenance to the great scandal and reproach of our most Holy Pure and peaceable Christian Profession which suffers much in its Credit and Reputation by such pernicious Doctrines as the Church of Rome teaches and prescribes to those of her Communion under the colour and pretended Authority of Religion