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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29155	A sermon preached at St. Catharine Cree-Church, on the 26th of November, 1691 being the thanksgiving-day, for the preservation of the King, and the reduction of Ireland / by Nicholas Brady ... ; printed at the request of his parishioners.	Brady, Nicholas, 1659-1726.	1692 (1692)	Wing B4174; ESTC R40295	11,416	32

A SERMON Preached at St. CATHARINE CREE-CHURCH On the 26th of November 1691. BEING THE Thanksgiving-day FOR THE Preservation of the KING and the Reduction of Ireland By Nicholas Brady M. A. Minister of St Catharine Cree-Church and Chaplain to his Grace the Duke of Ormond Printed at the Request of his Parishioners LONDON Printed for Samuel Crouch at the Corner of Popes-Head-Alley over against the Royal Exchange 1692. To my Worthy Friends The Parishioners of St. C. Cree-Church Gentlemen I Am so many ways indebted to you both for your obliging Election of me to be your Minister and for the several Civilities which I have received since my living amongst you that I could not refuse so small an acknowledgment as that of publishing the following Discourse at your Request tho I am not ignorant that besides its own defects the very subject matter of it will expose it to the Censure of some who will not allow others the liberty to speak well of the Government whilst they assume to themselves the priviledge of Railing at it and speaking evil of Dignities But since I proposed to my self no other end in it when I delivered it from the Pulpit than the instruction of my Congregation and the discharging of a good Conscience I am little concerned what Reception it may meet with abroad being abundantly satisfied by the desire you have testified to have it made publick that it has had its wish'd effect upon You who heard it and for whose use and advantage it was primarily designed As therefore I have consented to the Publication of it for no other reason but because I could not deny you the absolute disposal of that which is so justly your own so the only return that I expect or desire is that you will go on to exemplifie it in your practice and approve your selves in all things else as true Friends to the Government as you have done in your favourable acceptation of the following Discourse That it may please God to give you frequent occasions of Praises and Thanksgivings and to perfect the Deliverance which he has so happily begun shall be the constant Prayer of Decem. 4th 1691. Your Hearty Well-Wisher Obliged Friend and Servant in the Lord N. Brady A SERMON Preached on the Thanksgiving-day PSAL. XVIII The former part of the last Verse Great deliverance giveth he to his King GOD having rejected Saul from being King over Israel and having raised up his chosen Servant David to govern in his stead many were the Attempts against him of his potent and designing Enemies both by open Violence and by secret Practices But the Lord whose right hand has the preheminence and brings mighty things to pass whose Counsel shall stand let there be never so many devices in the heart of man gave Victory unto his King and shewed Mercy unto his Anointed and by signal and frequent manifestations of his Power established and quietly setled him in that Throne to which his good Providence had so remarkably conducted him In grateful Commemoration of these wonderful Deliverances the Royal Prophet composed this Psalm of Thanksgiving as we may clearly gather from the Preface of it where it is intitled A Psalm of David the Servant of the Lord who spake unto the Lord the words of this Song in the day that the Lord delivered him out of the hand of all his Enemies and out of the hand of Saul In it he gives us a large and eloquent description of Almighty Power and unbounded Goodness and shews us how eminently they had both been exerted in his own favour and being rapt up into a holy extasie upon a due contemplation of the Mercies which he had received he breaks forth into this passionate Acknowledgment in the words of my Text Great deliverance giveth he to his King In my following Discourse upon which words I shall insist upon these four particulars The two former of which are contained in my Text The two later are naturally deducible from it and fitly accommodated to the present occasion First I shall examine what it is to be Gods King and what qualifications are generally found in such a Prince as may justly deserve that Denomination Secondly I shall shew that to such a Prince as is God's King God will give great deliverance Thirdly I shall prove both from the qualifications generally found and from the deliverance given that his present Majesty does justly deserve the denomination of God's King Fourthly and lastly I shall enquire what Returns are due from us to God for the great deliverance which he has given to his King First then I shall examine what it is to be Gods King and what Qualifications are generally found in such a Prince as may justly deserve that denomination Great deliverance giveth he to His King It is indeed most undeniably true that in a large and unlimited sense every Sovereign Prince may be styled God's King since the most Arbitrary Tyrants and most forcible Usurpers are without question ordained by God according as he testifies of himself Is there any evil in the City and I have not done it But what we here mean by His King is such a King as is designed by God to be the instrument of signal Mercies and an extraordinary Blessing to the people which he governs And in such a Prince as we now speak of these three following Qualifications are generally found 1. A visible and more than common designation of him to the Government 2. A Course of Government advantagious to his People and tending to the Advancement of True Religion 3. A Life Exemplary and Unblameable in his private Actions and Conversation 1. Then in order to denominating a Prince God's King there is generally found a visible and more than common designation of him to the Government God in his ordinary Dispensation of common Mercies generally proceeds in a setled course he makes his Sun to rise daily his Rain to fall at its appointed Season and thus he dispenses his usual Blessings after a familiar manner in a regular way and ties himself up as it were to Rule and Method But when he designs to bless remarkably and to give extraordinary Instances of his good Will and Favour he then has no other bounds but his own Omnipotency and constrains us to confess that it is the Lord 's doing by making his proceedings appear marvellous in our eyes Thus if a Nation be to be rescued from Slavery a Moses shall be sent in the power of Miracles if a tottering Government be to be settled and confirmed a David shall be conducted to the Helm by a constant Series of most especial Providences if Idolatry be to be rooted out a Jehu shall be Anointed to it in a particular and solemn manner that so at the same time that we are sensible of the Mercy we may also perceive from whose hand it comes that God may not only give Blessings unto his People but may make unto himself also a glorious Name