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A47445	A sermon preached at St. Patrick's Church Dublin on the 16th of Novemb. 1690 being the day of thanksgiving for the preservation of His Majesties person, his good success in our deliverance, and his safe and happy return into England : before the Right Honourable the Lords Justices of Ireland / by William King.	King, William, 1650-1729.	1691 (1691)	Wing K537; ESTC R26831	18,020	35

A SERMON PREACHED AT St Patrick's Church DUBLIN On the 16 th of Novemb. 1690. BEING THE Day of Thanksgiving FOR THE Preservation of His MAJESTIES Person His good Success in our Deliverance and his Safe and Happy Return into England Before the Right Honourable the Lords Justices of Ireland By WILLIAM KING D. D. Dean of St. Patrick's Dublin LONDON Printed for Robert Clavel at the Peacock in St. Paul's Church Yard 1691. To the Right Honourable Henry Lord Sidney Uiscount Sheppy AND Thomas Conningsby Esq Lords Justices of IRELAND May it please your Lordships THIS Sermon was at first Composed and is now Published with peculiar respect to their Majesties Subjects in this Kingdom Those in England who had the Advantage of Enquiry and Correspondence need not the Informations here offered But the Protestants of this Kingdom have been so long and industriously kept in the Dark and not suffered to look into the Designs of those that had them in Subjection further than they felt the effects of them that many may be Strangers to the full extent of those Designs and the Miraculous steps of Providence by which they have been ●elivered from them I know much more might ●e ●aid and has been said on this Subject But I have chosen those points that seemed to me most P●●per for the Occasion And I hope enow to satisfie us all of the great reason We have to Praise God for our wonderful Deliverance which was the design of the Discourse Your Lordships can witness what sense the Protestants of this City have of it and for ought appears the whole Body of them through the Kingdom are in their present Majesties Interest to a Man Which could never have happened If the Late Government had been in any measure Tolerable to them And had others instead of being at ease where they were at that time Lived here under the Government they fancied so Indulgent I doubt not but they would have had the same Sentiments with us and been cured of their Folly Your Lordships have come to the Government of this Kingdom in an ill and Unsettled Posture of Affairs But you need look back only to Presidents in each of your own Families to Guide your Management with the happiest Success your Ancestors Governed it in times as difficult as the present and had the Chiefest part in Reforming the Superstition and Barbarity of the Natives and in settling Religion on that happy Foot on which it has since stood But they and all since have been forced to leave the Work Imperfect It remains now I hope to be perfected by You. Your Lordships may reasonably conclude That it is not an easie undertaking to Civilize and Reform this Nation since so great Persons were not able to perfect it And yet that it is to be done because they went so far in it For want of a Vigorous Prosecution it has been to do a-new every forty years hitherto Your Lordships have the Experience of many such Periods to direct you how to do it effectually We hope and heartily Pray That it may now at last have its Accomplishment in Your Hands under their Majesties Government and that this may be one of the Blessings of their Reign Providence has given you an opportunity of making your Selves and your Memory Grateful to Present and Future Ages by becoming happy Instruments in it That you may be such I hope Your Lordships will believe is by none more Zealously desired than by My LORDS Your Lordships most Humble and Obliged Servant WILLIAM KING A SERMON Preach'd on the 16 th of Novemb. 1690. Psal. 107 2d and 3d. Verses Old Translation Ver. 2. Let them give Thanks whom the Lord hath Redeemed and Delivered from the hand of the Enemy Ver. 3. And gathered them out of the Lands from the East and from the West from the North and from the South THanksgiving is all the Tribute we can pay to Heaven and 't is so easie a Return for our Beings and the many Comforts we receive from thence that he is very inexcusable and unworthy the Mercies he receives who is backward in so easie an Acknowledgment Hence the whole World has ever look'd on it as the securest way for continuing their present and procuring new Blessings to own God to be the Author of them and to express their Gratitude in Hymns and Sacrifices and in other Acts of Devotion and Thanksgiving As appears not only from the People of God in the Old Testament but likewise from the yet remaining Devotions of the Ancient Heathen This Psalm is a solemn Form used by the Jewish Church on such occasions 'T is not material to explain to you the first occ●sion of its being made it sufficiently appears from my Text which is the Introduction to it that it was designed as a Solemn Return of Praise to God for Redeeming the Israelites from Captivity for delivering them from their Enemies and bringing them back to their own Country whence they had been driven by Violence and Oppression ver 39.40 Now this is so exactly Our Case and the design of our present Meeting that I think there is no more incumbent on me than to endeavour to beget in you a due sense of it and to stir you up to an hearty Acknowledgment of Gods present Mercies to us And I promise my self some Success in this Undertaking and that the Consideration of the following Particulars will make the same Impression on every body concerned as they have done on me First Therefore let us consider our Deliverance And Secondly The Returns we are obliged to make for it In our Deliverance we ought to Reflect I. On the Depth of the Contrivance and Design against us from which God has graciously been pleased at this Time to Deliver us II. On the great Extent of it All Princes in Europe especially such as profess the Reformed Religion being struck at by it III. On the Miraculous Concurrence of Providences for our Deliverance in breaking this Design so deeply laid and vigorously Prosecuted You all have suffered so much by this Design and the Memory of your Dangers and Deliverance from it is so fresh before you that I need not trouble you with the Particulars of it 'T was in short to destroy you and your Religion and enslave all Europe under the Tyranny of the French King I. The Depth of this Design appears 1 st From the length of Time wherein it has been forming and carrying on Some and not without Reason date it from the very beginning of the Reformation some from the Restauration of the Royal Family and some from the Pyrenean Peace but as it immediately concerns these Kingdoms we can trace it by many Footsteps from the year 1670 since which Time not only we but all Europe have groaned under the Fatal Effects of it As to this Kingdom of Ireland we find a Scheme of it laid down at large in a Paper formerly found in the Earl of Tyrconnel's House then