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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63076	A sermon preached in St. Andrew's Church, Dublin, before the Honourable the House of Commons, the 8th day of October, 1695 the day appointed by the Lord Deputy and Council for a solemn thanksgiving, for the preservation of our gracious King William, and the good success of His, and His allies forces this last campagn [sic] / by John Travers, A.M. ...	Travers, John, d. 1727.	1695 (1695)	Wing T2057; ESTC R17404	9,765	17

Mercurii 9 die Octob. 1695. Ordered THat Mr. Delaune and Mr. Weaver give the Thanks of this House to Mr. Travers for his Sermon Preached yesterday before this House and desire him to Print the same Ex. per Tho. Tilson Cler. Parl. Dom. Com. A SERMON PREACHED IN St. ANDREW's-CHURCH DUBLIN Before the HONOURABLE The HOUSE of COMMONS The 8th Day of October 1695. The Day appointed by the Lord Deputy and Council for a Solemn Thanksgiving for the Preservation of our Gracious King WILLIAM and the good Success of His and His Allies Forces this last Campagn By John Travers A. M. Minister of St. Andrew's and Chaplain to the House DUBLIN Printed by J. Ray and are to be Sold by William Norman Eliphal Dobson and Patrick Campbel Booksellers A SERMON PREACHED IN St ANDREW's-CHURCH c. Psalm 126. Verse iv Yea the Lord has don great things for us already whereof we rejoyce THIS Psalm 't is believ'd was compil'd by Esdras and 't was sung by Israel as a Thanksgiving unto God when he turn'd their Captivity in which they devoutly acknowledge his Mercy and joyfully celebrate his Praise The Lord has don great things for us whereof we rejoyce I shall not confine my Meditations on the Text to this peculiar occasion of it but give it a larger extent as consider'd abstractedly in its self and in the handling of it I will do only Two things First To enquire what matter of rejoycing our God has afforded us And 2dly To deduce some useful Inferences from the solution of this Enquiry Upon the holy Robe of Aaron's Ephod there were Bells of Gold fix'd between the Pomegranates round about Exod 28. 33. the mystery whereof by interpretation was that for every single benefit we receive we shou'd thankfully acknowledge God's goodness in giving it And we find St. Paul prescribing the duty of Thanksgiving in the same Latitude Ephes 5. 20. Give thanks unto God always for all things and in the 1. Ep. Thes 5. 18 In every thing give thanks The common Daily blessings bestow'd upon us transcend the bounds of Numeration and they justly Command a constant gratitude But the rare and remarkable occurrences of Providence do present unto us a more special season for the celebration of this Homage Such extraordinary benefits do frequently happen to particular Persons nay there are I believe few but meet with them some time or other and as oft as they do they shou'd sound forth the Divine beneficence by particular acts of Praise And the collation of such Favours on a Nation or People bespeaks and requires a general Thanksgiving and all that share in the Bounty are oblig'd to joyn in the Sacrifice Of these publick Mercies We have a great many to commemorate too many to be crouded into one Sermon and therefore I shall at present only Recommend unto you these Four viz. 1st The Restauration of our Peace at Home 2d The good Success of our Affairs abroad 3d The Preservation of our King from the manifold great Dangers whereunto he has been expos'd 4th The happy Assembling of this August Senate 1. Among worldly blessings Peace has been always esteem'd the most valuable partly because it comprizes many excellencies in its self and partly because t is the Parent that bears or at least the Breast that gives Suck to all other comforts and enjoyments and so 't is a kind of Epitome of good things I shall not now recount the advantages of it you know them by the Fruition But if we recollect the grievous circumstances wherewith we were lately encompass'd or look back on those boysterous Seas through which we have made our Port 't would justly heighten both our estimate of the Divine vouchsafements to us and our thankfulness to them I should sin against the design of the Day should I entertain you with the melancholy Scene of the miseries the War brought upon us 'T would be lamentable to tell of the Ruins and Devastations the Wrongs and Oppressions the Rapine and Violence the Poverty and Complaining the Blood and Slaughter that attended it It stampt much the same impression upon our Land that the Army of Locusts and Caterpillers did upon that of the Jews it found it like a Garden of Eden but left it a desolate Wilderness And tho its wasts be to a miracle Repair'd yet there are some Footsteps of it still Remaining and I wish all its sorrows were always so fresh in memory as to influence us to vow and perform perpetual gratitude to our Gracious Benefactor to the Almighty God of Peace who has so mightily rescu'd us from that dismal State of thraldom and distress O how great has been his mercy towards us O how Lovingly has He dealt with us the manifestation of His marvelous loving kindness exceeded our hopes as well as deserts it fore-ran but crown'd our expectations He put down our Enemies under our Feet and pluct us from the jaws of Destruction He chang'd our Grief into Joy our Slavery into Liberty our Want into Plenty our distraction into Quiet and our Confusion into Settlement And all this when we thought our selves Irrecoverably wrapt up in a mass of evil and misery for ever God has had a signal Favour unto these Nations as at sundry other times so especially in their late Redemption from the Oppression of a Popish the worst of Tyrannies and us particularly from the worst Branch of that an ignominious hard bondage under our own Servants Our deliverance came visibly attested with the divine Power in the Atchievment the Line of its mighty Progress was chalk't out by the Finger of the most high and the stupendous advances it made against the greatest difficulties and disadvantages speak the whole to be one great Miracle 'T was miraculous in our Eyes and astonishing to our Thoughts in so much that our joyfulness resembled that of Israel at their unexpected return from Captivity out of a just Wonderment We were like unto them that Dream We know O Lord that this is thy Hand and that Thou Thy Self hast done it No Hand but that of Omnipotence could have Roll'd a Stone of that great Weight up the Hill against the strong Inclinations and joynt Interests of a People who had so much Power in their Hands and so great Advantages on their side and who were prompted to make the best use they could of both by their Pride and Malice by ill Nature and prejudicate Education by the Guilt of base Ingratitude and barbarous Cruelties by strict Commands Powerful Encouragements from abroad and indeed so they did with the most inveterate Obstinacy Their Hands may be said to have been Mighty if we consider their great Numbers and strong Holds But alass they found nothing unless it be an undoubted assurance of the Injustice of their Cause and their insufficiency for the support of it They have so often attempted our Ruin and always fail'd in the Execution of their imagin'd Mischief that methinks they should at