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A34430 A sermon preached at Islington upon the 26th day of July, 1685, in the afternoon being the day of solemn thanksgiving to almighty God for His Majestie's late victories over the rebels / by Shadrach Cooke. Cooke, Shadrach, 1655?-1724? 1685 (1685) Wing C6038; ESTC R29331 10,001 32

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A SERMON Preached at ISLINGTON Upon the 26 th day of July 1685 In the Afternoon Being the Day of Solemn Thanksgiving To Almighty God for His MAJESTIE' 's late Victories over the REBELS By Shadrach Cooke M. A. Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Earl of AYLESBVRY Behold their threatnings Acts 4. 29. Rusticus es Corydon nec munera curat Alexis Virg. LONDON Printed by R. N. for Walter Kettilby at the Bishop's-Head in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1685. To the Right Honourable ROBERT EARL of Ailesbury and Elgin Viscount Bruce of Ampthill Baron Bruce of Wharlton Skelton and Kinlos Lord Lieutenant of the Counties of Bedford Huntingdon and Cambridge Hereditary high Steward of the Honour of Ampthill Lord Chamberlain of His Majestie 's Houshold and one of the LORDS of His Majestie 's most Honourable Privy Council MY LORD I Humbly offer This to Your Lordship not only as an acknowledgment of Your Lordship 's many Favours and my hearty Gratitude for them but also with a design of craving Your Lordship's farther goodness in protecting This against the clamorous opposition of unreasonable men For by what I have already experienc'd I may easily guess at the unwelcome entertainment it is like to meet with from some for whom yet it bears the most Christian and Charitable design And though of late especially I have met with unkind usage and very severe reflections for doing my duty in speaking seasonable Truths yet I declare I think I could not be more Kind and Charitable even to our Enemies than in Preaching against what they are most guilty of And now the ensuing Discourse is so far from railing as they have term'd it their usual Character of what dislikes them that I hope it will appear to Your Lordship to have in it a good natur'd and Charitable intention For having before spoken to the subject of Praise for our late Deliverance for which I was disturb'd and bely'd in the very Church I thought I could make no better improvement of the late Solemn Thanksgiving than in the design of the ensuing Discourse which I lookt upon as peculiarly proper for the Afternoon being so sutable to that most pious Prayer for our Enemies therein appointed My Lord I shall forbear reflections on those who make severe ones on this and the like when they heard it from the Pulpit Considering it would be no very decent entertainment for Your Lordship and a means I hope to make them more candid Interpreters in the Reading than they were in the Hearing of it Though in the midst of all it has been I must confess no small support and satisfaction to me That I have had the particular signal Respect and Incouragement of that Reverend Canon for whom Your Lordship has so great and just esteem for some of those Discourses that have suffered under the untoward reproach of others Now Your Lordship knows with what Authority I might term Him one of the most Learned men and best Preachers of this Age. And when I consider This together with the cool reception even He found among some when he urg'd them lately and so well To give unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's 'T is well the case is no worse with me But I must consider that minutes now especially are precious with Your Lordship And that high Place to which a most gracious and discerning Prince has exalted Your Lordship suffers too much by this tedious interruption And yet I have not performed what is the usual entertainment in these Applications Having given no account of Your Lordship's great Vertues and Accomplishments Nor should I need to do it if I could all mens mouths being sill'd with the Praises of Your Lordship and most noble Son who would almost convince us of the Natural Parental Production even of humane souls so exactly resembling Your Lordship in untainted Loyalty and Goodness And here I enter on a large field Your Lordship being the happiest of Parents having a truly Noble and most dutiful Off-spring And a Family that for a strict Conformity to the Church and stanch Loyalty to the King can scarcely be match'd or surpass'd by any I speak not these things out of design or flattery but can assert them from some experience and dare challenge any that know Ailesbury house to contradict me in the least particular Though I the less wonder at that strain of Goodness and Loyalty which runs through the whole Family when I consider that it has Two such eminent Examples which shine so illustriously before it And we all know that the best way to obtain my Lord's and Lady's Favour is to Fear God and Honour the King Which by the Grace of God shall evermore be the most hearty and constant endeavours of My Lord YOUR LORDSHIPS most Obliged Obedient and humble Servant and Chaplain SHADRACH COOKE IMPRIMATUR Jo. Battely RR mo P. D no Guil. Archiep. Cantuar. à Sacris Domesticis Ex Aedib Lambeth Aug. 1. 1685. A SERMON PREACHED On the 26. of July 1685. The day of Solemn Thanksgiving to Almighty God for His MAJESTIE' 's Late Victories over the REBELS S. MATT. XXI 32. And ye when ye had seen it repented not afterward WE are this Day to Bless and Magnifie the name of God who has manifested his great goodness towards our King and his Kingdoms in giving Him so absolute and signal victories over the late Rebels And I dare say that there is no truly honest Loyal Soul among us but does it with a great deal of hearty Zeal and Chearfulness For tell me did not your Hearts burn within you were you not wonderfully enlivened and almost transported at the first news or certainty of that utter defeat and overthrow Though which is very sad to think of we could not but observe nor can we well forget the quite different humour and behaviour of too many among us who shew'd as much as men could or dare their open dislike of God's special Providence in this matter I need not tell you how brisk and pleasant they would appear on every vain report raised by their own Party of the hopes or success of the Rebels in both Kingdoms and which is more prodigious what pains and industry they us'd to defame and discredit that good true news which they had no mind to believe Had we not seen it we could scarce have imagined that men should thus resolutely oppose the Truth and be so given over to believe a lye But when this Goodness of God became unquestionable and they were now utterly confounded and the Devil had no more lyes in store to buoy them up with Doth their belief and conviction now influence their heart and that their practice Since the Villany is so plainly discovered are they asham'd of or sorry for it Doth this goodness of God to others lead them to repentance Do they lay these things to heart Do they seriously consider that these Rebels their Adherents and Abettors are guilty not only of Imprudent hot or rash