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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61370	A sermon to bring to remembrance God's wonderful mercies at the Boyn preach'd on the second day of July, 1699 at St. Nicholas within, Dublin: by John Stearne, D.D.	Stearne, John, 1660-1745.	1699 (1699)	Wing S5361; ESTC R221904	12,499	23

A SERMON To bring to Remembrance GOD's Wonderful Mercies at the BOYN PREACH'D On the Second Day of July 1699 At St. Nicholas within DUBLIN By Iohn Stearne D. D. DUBLIN Printed by Joseph Ray and are to be Sold at his Shop in Skinner-Row over against the Tholsel 1699. To Their EXCELLENCIES CHARLES Duke of Bolton HENRY Earl of Gallway And NARCISSUS Lord Archbishop of Dublin LORDS JUSTICES OF IRELAND This SERMON Preach'd and Publish'd in Remembrance of God's Wonderful Mercies at the Boyn Is humbly Dedicated by Their Excellencies Most obedient Servant John Stearne A SERMON Preach'd the Second Day of July 1699 ON The 24th and 25th Verses of the XXXVI Chap. of Job Remember that thou magnifie his Work which Men behold Every Man may see It Man may behold It a far off THrough the merciful Providence of Almighty God We are All this Day to the great Disappointment of our Enemies in the Land of the Living and this very Day nine Years are compleated since We were assur'd of our Deliverance from the threatning Pow'rs of France and the bloody Hopes of Rome for thô the First of July will be long observable in Story for that Glorious Victory with which Heaven was pleas'd to bless the Forces of our Mighty Deliverer KING WILLIAM at the Boyn yet in what Melancholy Thoughts what fearful Expectations and what restless Distraction that doubtful Day was spent many of this City cannot easily forget But on the Second of this Month on this memorable Day did We joyfully behold the prevailing Fears of our Enemies prevent the Execution of their own cruel Designs This Day instead of being buri'd in the Ruines of our City or of seeing it in Flames and Ashes round about Us did We thô still with some Remainder of our Fears as the Sea continues disturb'd and rough for some time after the stormy Winds are laid this Day I say did We look out from our Consinement and see our Enemies in their disorderly Flight as if they cou'd not make too much Haste from an advancing Army whose Hearts and Hands they had lately known to their Loss and Sorrow For thô they are a sort of Men that allow their Senses to be Dull and Deceitful in the Church yet in the Field they are very Quick and Faithful and in Our Great Day of Battel all their Catholick Faith cou'd not hinder their Senses from doing their proper Office they soon felt the Blows and Shot of our Army and believ'd them Real They saw their own Party Substantially beaten and did not conceit that they were knock'd down by Accidents In short they were too sensible that Our Army was a Body of Men too Brave and Daring for them to rally against and engage and therefore with all the Expedition of Fear they turn'd their Backs ran away and spurr'd on as if a wing'd commission'd Angel had pursu'd their dismay'd flying Camp to execute the Vengeance of the Lord of Hosts And since on this Day We saw Our Enemies scatter'd and those that hated us like well disciplin'd Souldiers following their Leader flie before Us shall not We this Day shall not Our Posterity for ever magnifie this marvellous Work of God which We beheld that God may never upbraid Us as He did his People with this heavy Charge They remember'd not God's Hand nor the Day when He deliver'd them from the Enemy We must not only magnifie God for his Eminent Works of Mercy while they are New and can hardly be forgotten but allow them a constant Place in our Remembrance and that vast Debt of Gratitude which We our selves cannot wholly discharge must be entail'd upon our late Posterity In a due Sense of this did the Jews upon the sudden Disappointment of Haman's bloody Conspiracy set a part the Days of Purim as Days of Feasting and Gladness in Commemoration of so signal a Deliverance They ordain'd that those Days should be kept through ev'ry Generation ev'ry Province ev'ry City and ev'ry Family that the Memory of them might not perish from the Jews nor from their Seed for ever This their Religious Decree must condemn us all unless We faithfully record Our Deliverances for the Generations to come that the Children which are yet unborn may praise the Lord. If the Deliverance of any People upon the Face of the Earth has deserv'd a stated Day of Anniversary Thanksgiving surely Ours as at this Time may justly expect It and I wish that the want of an Act of Parliament for celebrating the First of July as well as the Twenty Ninth of May or the Twenty Third of October may not be number'd among those National Sins which provoke the Jealous God to visit Us again with a more heavy Hand Shou'd We or Our Posterity ever suffer God's Great and Compendious Mercy at the Boyn to grow into neglect the Astonish'd World may justly tell us in the Psalmist's Words that We have sinn'd with our Fathers who regarded not God's Wonders in Egypt neither kept his great Goodness in Remembrance but were disobedient at the Sea even at the Red Sea Even the most important Blessings We are too prone to forget and therefore wise and grateful Antiquity contriv'd various Ways to renew and strengthen our Memories And our Blessed Saviour considering how often the thronging Concerns of this present Life thrust Him and All his Benefits out of our Minds very kindly left us a most indispensible Command for the frequent Celebration of the Holy Eucharist saying Do this in Remembrance or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for a Memorial of Me. And that the People of God might never want an Evidence of His exceeding Goodness towards them in destroying Amalek with the Sword of Joshua God enjoyn'd Moses to write It in a Book and for a standing Monument of so glorious a Defeat Moses built an Altar and call'd the Name of It JEHOUA-nissi The Lord my Banner And surely We are not less oblig'd to convey by ev'ry kind of Tradition the wonderful Works of Divine Mercy to the coming Generations that God's Name may be exalted in ev'ry succeding Age to the Consummation of all Things when all Holy Souls shall joyn with the coelestial Choir in more refin'd and sprightly Hallelujahs and keep one great Day of Thanksgiving that shall never know a Night And if this be our Duty as most certainly It is Wonder and Pity must by Turns employ a serious Person when He Duly reflects on our National Mercies and our general Ingratitude For How can He but be fill'd with Admiration to consider the many and great Deliverances which a most gracious Providence has vouchsas'd to give Us notwithstanding all our provoking Impieties And how can He but look down with a sorrowful Eye upon the unhappy Condition of such Men as by their continu'd Course of Wickedness seem obstinately resolv'd to disappoint all the obliging Methods of Divine Goodness and Love Thô the Lord hath done great Things for Us already and so done them that they ought to be