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A40432	A sermon preached before the honourable House of Commons, at St. Margaret's Westminster, on Wednesday the fifth of November, 1690 being the anniversary thanksgiving for the happy deliverance of King James the First, and three estates of the realm, from the Gunpowder-treason : and also for the happy arrival of His present Majesty on this day, for the deliverance of our church and nation from Popery and arbitrary power / by Sa. Freeman ...	Freeman, Samuel, 1643-1700.	1690 (1690)	Wing F2146; ESTC R2149	10,052	36

and has thereby encourag'd us still to pray Strengthen O Lord that which thou hast wrought for us Clothe all his Enemies with Shame but upon himself let his Crown flourish 4. God's special Presence with and Protection of righteous and religious Princes calls upon us to bless God for the two great Deliverances of this Day An eminent Jesuit Campian by name long since declared in Print that their Society had made a Holy League and solemn Oath that as long as there were any of them alive they would destroy heretical Princes by all means possible and as for the English Nation they would procure and for ever pursue its Ruine and the utter Destruction of its Religion And to do them right hitherto they have made good their Oath how unwearied and restless have their Malice and Rage been against us The Royal Family of the Stuarts to begin no higher are indebted to them for many signal Kindnesses What strong Endeavours were made to keep King James the First from the Crown Garnet a Jesuit brought two Breves from Pope Clement the 8 th to exclude him commanding all Catholicks both Clergy and Laity not to suffer him or any other that was not a Catholick to succeed to the Crown Parsons another Jesuit under the Name of Doleman wrote against his Title and set up another that of the Infanta of Spain against his after a most rude and insolent manner blackning his Name and loading his Actions with the most spiteful Calumnies But when after all their Attempts they could not hinder him from coming in they resolv'd by dreadful blow of Gunpowder to rid themselves at once both of him and his whole Family A Villany so black and odious that the Papists themselves are ashamed to own it and would fain have it pass for a State-trick and a Plot of an Eminent Minister at that time against them But this was an invention of their own not thought of till long afterwards not in the least mentioned nor pleaded by any of the Conspirators in their defence But on the contrary 't was confess'd by the Traytors themselves justified by some of them own'd by Sir Everard Digby's Letters now made publick taken care of before-hand not to be discovered in Confessions The Success of it pray'd for under the name of a great Design in hand for the good of the Catholick Cause The disappointment of it sorely lamented but in all Probability had it succeded would have been welcom'd at Rome with as publick Festivals and Triumphs as the great Thuanus an Historian of their own informs us the Parisian-Massacre was wherein 30000 Protestants were slain in one Night But blessed be God who hath hitherto defeated the malicious Purposes of the inveterate Enemies of our Church and Nation that brought to light that Work of Hell and Darkness and hath preserved us in the Enjoyment of the Benefits of that great Deliverance to this Day In the Reign of King Charles the First they carried on the same Design They began with a Plot to murder the Archbishop and to take away the King's Life happily discovered by means of Andreas ab Habernfield What salvage and inhumane Cruelties they committed in Ireland I tremble to mention wherein a 100000 Protestants were barbarously murdered in cold Blood What hand they had in kindling and carrying on that cruel and unnatural War and in the execrable murder of that incomparable Prince how at their Consults they voted 't was for the Interest of Holy Church and how active and instrumental they were to promote the Councils that did it has been offer'd to be prov'd against them In King Charles the Second's time Into what innumerable Sects and Factions did they break us what fiery Strifes what implacable Animosities which God help us are burning to this very day did they blow up amongst them How dextrously did they manage the contending Parties encouraging now one and then the other till they had almost beat out one anothers Brains And then at last by plotting to take away the Life of that Prince who was now thought it seems to stand in their way and to give a Toleration to the Popish Party how advantagiously did they prepare the way for a total Extirpation as they call'd it of the Northern Heresy which they doubted not to effect under the Reign of a more resolute Prince that should more heartily and vigorously espouse their Cause And you all know how near they were to the accomplishing of it Good God! What a black and melancholy Prospect of things was then before us What a horrible Storm hung over our Heads threatning Ruin to every thing that was dear to us and to entail Slavery Ignorance and monstrous Errors even Transubstantiation it self upon our Posterity How were we daily threatned with an Army of Forreigners and those the most infamous for Blood and Cruelty and some of them actually brought in upon us But blessed be God who hath put an end to our Miseries and almost to our very Fears who put it into the Heart of the King to come in to our Succour and who made even the Winds and the Waves propitious to him and his glorious Enterprize Blessed be God who hath preserved him hitherto to settle and establish us in that Salvation which under God he hath wrought for us who suffered not the fatal Bullet that came so near him to do him Mischief nor the Swords of his Enemies that thirsted for his Blood to touch him who preserved him safe in the Crowds of his Enemies and in the midst of innumerable Dangers and after a signal and glorious Victory landed him safe again on our joyful Shoar Blessed be God who hath given him the Hearts of his Parliament and the Affections of his People Blessed be God for his Heroick Spirit of Wisdom and Magnanimity for his merciful Disposition for the Justice and Equity of his Government for his sincere Love to the Church for his unshaken Constancy to the Protestant Religion and Interest and for his Fatherly Care and Tenderness over all his Subjects May his Life be long and his Reign prosperous and may the English Nation under his Auspicious Conduct and Victorious Banners become a Terror to its Adversaries Deliverance to the Oppressed and as heretofore so for ever the Bulwark of the Protestant Religion To the only wise God our Saviour be all Praise and Glory both now and for evermore Amen FINIS Advertisement A Sermon Preach'd at the Assizes held at Northampton August the 26 th 1690. Before the Right Honourable Sir Henry Pollexfen Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas By Sa. Freeman D. D. Rector of St. Paul's Covent-Garden and Chaplain in Ordinary to Their Majesties A Sermon Preached before the King and Queen at Whitehall on the 19 th Day of October 1690 being the Day of Thanksgiving for his Majesties Preservation and Success in Ireland By the Right Reverend Father in God Gilbert Lord Bishop of Sarum Both Sold by Richard Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard 1 Sam. 15. 23. 1 Sam. 12 3. Vid. Tract of the Unreasonableness of the New Separation Hag. 2. 23. Psal 144. 10. Camp Epist 10. ad Conc. Reg. Angl. p. 22. Sir Edw. Cook 's Speech at Gar. Tryal Pr●fat mon. p. 146. Hist Gun-Powder Tr. p. 232. Delr disquis mag l. 6. c. 11. Pr●fat mon. p. 8 9. See Dr. Pet. du Moulin Vind. of Prot. Relig. ch 2. p. 58. and his Reply to a Person of Honour p. 4 5.

Majesty So that would Men lay aside their Prejudices and their Passions their Piques and Revenges their Peevish and Awkward their Selfish and Narrow Spirits they would soon perceive that the Preservation of our Laws and Religion wherein consists the Publick Good of this Realm nay which yet adds to it the Preservation of the Protestant Religion and Interest all the World over whereon the Glory of God and the Salvation of Men's Souls do so much depend have in a manner forced the Royal Diadem where it is And this Consideration alone had it not been seconded with a just Cause and a prevailing Power in a Sovereign Prince seems to me to give an Undoubted Title II. Here 's the Promise it self In the following Verses from the 25th to the 30th God promises David greatly to enlarge his Empire to exalt him to the highest pitch of Human Power and Glory to continue the Crown for ever in his Family from which it should never be taken as it had been from Saul's But these may be thought peculiar to David who was a Type of Christ as well as King of Israel especially the last which did not receive its full accomplishment but in the Kingdom of the Messiah who was to come of the Race and is said to sit on the Throne of David What he promises him in the Text is His powerful Presence with him to protect him in all Dangers to direct and assist him in all his just Undertakings to strengthen him against all the Enemies both Domestick and Foreign of his Crown and Kingdom and this every Righteous and Religious Prince may ordinarily take Confidence in and apply to themselves And that 1. As they are God's Representatives and Vicegerents in the World They are call'd Gods and St. Paul stiles the Supreme Magistrate The Minister of God Because we are not capable of an immediate Converse with Heaven therefore does God govern us by Men like our selves and so puts part of his Power into their Hands for as Prophets receive of the Spirit so do Kings of the Power of God Now those who are employ'd by God to act for and under him in the World have reason to expect proportionable Assistance and Protection from him 2. As they are entrusted by God with the Management of Publick Affairs and so the welfare of the whole Community depending in a great measure upon their prudent Conduct and Safety We have ten parts in the King said the Ten Tribes Thou art worth Ten thousand of us And again Thou shalt not any more go out to Battel with us lest thou quench the Light of Israel said the Israelites to King David What the Sun is to the World that is a Wise and Gracious Prince to a Nation its Happiness and its Glory Now we may be sure that that Providence which as the Scripture tells us extends its Care over the least and most despicable things over the Birds of the Air and the Beasts of the Field will much more concern it self for things of a more worthy Nature for Men for Communities of Men for Princes the Life and Soul of Communities God is more concern'd in Many than in single Persons and since a Kingdom is the general Concernment of a King a King must be the special Concernment of God Kings by the Ancients were call'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Men kept by God He hides them under the Shadow of his Wings he keeps them as the Apple of his Eye He sets them as a Signet on his right hand God hath this as his peculiar Title The God that giveth Salvation unto Kings 3. That I may put many things together and hasten Good Kings may expect God's special Presence with them In regard of the difficulty of their Office and Duty being oft times to deliberate about the Fate of Kingdoms to judge in Matters of a dubious and intricate Nature and to engage in Enterprises of the greatest Hazard In regard of the many Temptations the Height of their Place and Power subjects them unto The uncontrollableness of their Power the abundance of their Wealth the multitude of their Cares and Business the Crouds of Sycophants and Flatterers that always follow the Courts of Princes are very dangerous Snares to their Virtue The Devil knows how much it would be for the advantage of his Kingdom in the World to have the Governors of it on his side that they cannot sin alone but they must be follow'd by Troops and therefore he 's always watching occasions and craving permission from God to seduce and pervert them In regard of the many Dangers they are expos'd to Princes have not only many Potent Enemies from abroad but for the most part many envious ill-willers and discontented Male-contents at home that are always beating how to supplant or overthrow them In regard lastly of some momentous and important Work and Business a Prince may be call'd to by God Be it for example to put a stop to the spreading of Idolatry or to give a check to the merciless Rage of Tyrants and Persecutors This is the Cause of God and he must be wanting to himself should he be wanting to those whom he hath raised up for the defence of it The Worthies of the Old Testament Moses and Joshuah and Gideon and Barak and Jeptha and David and many others were bright examples of this with whom God was peculiarly present and sometimes after a miraculous manner The Author to the Hebrews tells us what Heroical Atchievements they perform'd by faith in God I must not stay to lead you far back in other History yet I cannot forbear mentioning the many wonderful Deliverances and Successes wherewith it pleased God to crown the Great Constantine and our own Renown'd and never to be forgotten Queen Elizabeth whom God raised up the one for the Deliverance of his Church Universal from Heathen Rage the other for the Deliverance of this Church from Popish Fury But I must pass over these and innumerable others that I may come to them which I am concern'd particularly to remember What an admirable Providence was it that discover'd the Gunpowder Treason the black Conspiracy of this Day by the Lines of a dead Letter sent to the Lord Monteagle What could it be but a Beam from Heaven that darted into the King's Mind a meaning quite contrary to the natural sense of the Words and all Grammatical construction The expression was The Danger is past as soon as you have burnt the Letter which King James interpreted as quickly making it signifie the suddenness and quickness of the Blow intended And no less visible was the Sword of the Lord than the Sword of Gideon in our late happy Happy and Glorious Revolution when we consider with what an invincible Spirit of Wisdom and Courage His Majesty undertook the Cause of our Country what general Desires and Inclinations were on the sudden kindled in Mens Hearts towards Him their Laws and their Religion What a burning Zeal and

Vigour what an universal Harmony of Affections what a perfect agreement of Councils and Endeavours inflamed the Breasts of all Men What a strange Folly and Infatuation blinded the Counsels of our Enemies What guilty Fears and Cowardise seiz'd their Spirits How all was brought about by a dry Victory without the expence of the Blood either of our Friends or Enemies We must conclude That God was with him of a truth and that it was he that made it to prosper III. It remains now only that we consider what are the proper Uses and Application of this Doctrine I shall name at present but these four And 1. What a sincere regard and esteem ought we to have for those for whom God is pleased to have so great and particular a concern The Scripture is very strict in injoyning Honour and Reverence to them we are commanded to fear the King to obey him to pay tribute to him all just and legal Power and Authority is not to be resisted this is the Ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation Wise and gracious Princes are so great Blessings to their Kingdoms that in the Heathen World their Subjects not only paid them the highest Honours during their lives but worshipt them too after their deaths They could not imagine that those who either by the invention of useful Arts or the institution of an excellent Government or by many noble Exploits and Deliverances had in a high degree obliged their Countries died like other Men they reckon'd they became Divine and were translated among the Gods and so chang'd their Allegiance into Adoration I mention this not for imitation but as an infinite shame and reproach to too many Christians who cannot find in their Hearts to make any other returns to their Princes for the innumerable Benefits and mighty Deliverances they at the peril of their Lives and Blood have purchas'd for them than Curses and opprobrious Language than meditating Ruine and Destruction against them What can we desire more that is not by the blessing of God upon their Undertaking restor'd and confirm'd to us Our Laws have recover'd their just Vigour and Authority our Rights and Properties are secur'd our Holy Religion safe our Lives and our Souls too if we are not wanting to our selves out of danger We feel indeed at present some Burdens and Taxes but are they any other than what are absolutely necessary for our preservation voluntarily impos'd upon us by our Representatives in Parliament And what are tollerable and easie when compar'd with the Slavery and Oppression we are freed from and the far greater Miseries we had just reason to fear were coming upon us We have nothing to complain of unless it be that the Government is too mild and merciful to them who so little deserve it Certainly they who so murmur and repine under this Golden Scepter consider not what it would be to feel the Iron Rod of French Cruelty and Popish Revenge 2. God's special Presence with and Protection of good Kings shews how vain and foolish a thing it is as well as sinful to conspire against them Never was there yet a Government or Governour that could give Content and Satisfaction to all its Subjects so long as there are Devils in Hell that delight in the Miseries and Confusions of Men and so long as there is Pride and Ambition and Malice and Revenge and Covetousness lodg'd in the Breasts of Men must Princes expect to meet with those who envying their Power and Greatness will be always contriving how to snatch it from them or make them uneasie under it some there are that affect a Change for Change sake and therefore desire to be rid of their present Masters onely that they might have new ones Others are for troubling the Waters hoping thereby for an opportunity to heal their lame Fortunes in them Others are against the Government because the Government is against them It 's an Enemy to some Mens Debaucheries and they had as live part with their Lives as their Vices and their Pleasures It s an Enemy to some Mens Profits and Honours they have lost something they had or they want something they cannot get they have no share in the Administration no Place of Trust no Post of Advantage in it and some Men can be true to nothing but their own Interests and because a Government does not serve their turn they are for another that will It s an Enemy to that which some Men call their Religion I mean their Superstitious and Idolatrous way of Worship and that State must not think to stand long if the Devil and the Jesuit can help it that does not fall down to their Dagon But in vain are all the Attempts of Malice and Treason against those who are compass'd about with God's Favour as with a Shield Good Princes are the peculiar Charge and Favourites of God He in an especial manner interests himself in their Safety and unless their Enemies are of God's Privy Couucil and can know before-hand that he 'll suffer it they can no more be secure of Success in their Conspiracies than they can be of being too hard for the Almighty Give me leave therefore in this case to apply the beginning of the 2 d Psalm that was literally spoken of David as well as figuratively of Christ Why do the Papists rage and the disaffected People imagine a vain thing He that sits in Heaven shall laugh them to scorn the Lord shall have them in Derision yet have I set my King upon my Holy Hill of Sion 3. God's special Presence with and Protection of good Kings calls upon us to pray for the continuance of it to those whom in his good Providence he hath set over us the Mercies God promises he expects should be fetch'd down by Prayer Now Kings being the main Instruments of Providence whereby God conveyeth his Favours and dispenseth his Justice to a People as we cannot expect to be happy and prosperous but by their means so we cannot expect that they should be a means of it unless by fervent and devout Prayer we engage the continual powerful Presence of God with them Not to invoke the Blessing of God upon Governours is to disown God's Government of the World whose Ministers they are And how can that People expect to be blessed by God who disown his Government There are none but must be sensible how much the welfare of this Kingdom is bound up in the Preservation of this Government In all likelihood our Religion our Laws and our Liberties will stand and fall with our Princes we are therefore highly oblig'd if not for theirs for our own Sakes to lift up our Hearts and our Voices to Heaven for them I hope we have not yet forgot the Day of our Distress what passionate Prayers we then sent up to Heaven to take pity on us And God was pleased to hear the Prayers of his People He rais'd us up a Deliverer