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A sermon preached in the parish church of Newbury, Berks, on the 26th of July, 1685 being the day of Thanksgiving for His Majesty's late victory over the rebels / by John Hinton.
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Hinton, John, d. 1720.
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would have had it or that Absalom harkened to more Dilatory Counsels and slower Methods of Sedition than his were however that he died before this Horrid and Trayterous Conspiracy came to an Head and having before he Died set his House in Order being buried too in the Sepulchre of his Father near to the very place where our Rebellion began I could tell you of others delivered up to Slaughter or to Justice to Prison or to Death and of a general Dispersion of all the rest contemptible pieces of Mortality that are gone that are vanished like a Shadow and there place can no where be found I could tell you in the next place of the Suddenness as well as the Entireness of their Defeat how that their Calamity has risen as suddenly and as unexpectedly to themselves as their Rebellion did to us that they are speedily fallen themselves into the Pit they designed for others and were not so swift to shed Blood but they have brought upon themselves as swift Destruction I could tell you yet farther and I ought That the Providence of God has appeared likewise very wonderfully and signally on our King's side and That Heaven has manifestly fought for us too as it did for David and Judah in old time that we have vanquished a numerous Army with the loss of a Few so very few that perhaps no modern Story can parallel the Disproportion that if an hundred have not chased a Thousand nor two put two Thousand to Flight yet that for ought we hear with the loss of not many more than two Hundred we have routed more than twice two Thousand I could tell you of many other Instances of the Divine Mercy toward us that might make us with David sing for joy * Ps 86.10 Thou O Lord art great and dost wondrous things thou art God alone * Ps 77.14 Thou hast declared thy power among the People Thou hast mightily delivered thy People even the sons of Jacob and Joseph But the time would fail me and now I fear your Patience too should I insist upon these things or other things of this Nature and what I have hinted to you already is so well known to the Nation and to all of you here present that having drawn one Line to your Hands you may save me the Labour in drawing out the Parallel your selves Only I shall pray that you and I may continue the Parallel to the end in our Thanksgiving for the Defeat which is indeed the Last but should be the Chief Part of our Task What therefore remains my Brethren but that with Ahimaaz in my Text we also Bless the Lord our God who has delivered up the Men that lift up their Hands against our Lord the King and after the * Ps 124.6 Example of David give him our just Praises that he has not given us over as a Prey unto their Teeth Our King has himself given us his Royal Example He has given us his Royal Command for so doing You have lately heard by This Proclamation that upon due considerations hereof he does with all Humility admire and adore the late Mercy and Goodness of God in giving Victory to his Arms and Delivering him and his Kingdoms from the Miseries and Calamities that might and that constantly do ensue an Intestine and Unnatural Rebellion And that considering such Signal and Publick Mercies are an invitation from Heaven to render the most Publick and Chearful Expressions of Thankfulness to the Divine Goodness that we who equally share in the Blessings and Joys of this Deliverance may be United in the Devotions which are offered for it 't is his Will that the just Tribute of Praise and Thanksgiving to his and our Great Soveraign the King of Heaven and Earth be return'd by himself and us for the late Mercy Let then our Joy let our Praise be as Publick be as Universal as the Occasion Let us with David let us with our King ascriâ—e the Honour of the Victory to God let us offer Thanks and Praise unto God who has given us the Victory Let us give unto the Lord my Friends let us give unto the Lord Glory and Honour let us give unto the Lord the Glory due unto his Name Oh! Praise the Lord with me and let us Magnify his Name together High and Low Rich and Poor Young Men and Maidens Old Men and Children let us all Praise the Name of the Lord for his Name only is Excellent and his Praise above Heaven and Earth Oh! sing Praises sing Praises unto our God sing Praises unto our King sing Praises for God is the King of all the Earth sing ye Praises with Vnderstanding Let us Praise him with our whole Hearts let us Praise him among much People let as shew forth his Praise not only with our Lips but in our Lives by giving up our selves to his Service and by serving him without Fear Let the Righteous be glad and rejoyce before God Let them also be merry and joyful Rejoyce in the Lord ye Righteous yea and again I say rejoyce Shout unto God with the Voice of Triumph shout for joy all ye that are upright in Heart that he has not made our Foes to Triumph over us nor delivered us into the Hands of the Wicked whose very Mercies are Cruel This is the Day that the Lord has made let us rejoyce and be glad in it and be glad with exceeding Joy But let us not shew our Joy by our Excesses Nor let Gladness transport us beyond the Bounds of Sobriety and Discretion For true Joy as Seneca tells us is a * Sen. Epist 23.59 Severe a Serious and a Sober thing and can no where be found but in a temperate a just and a good Man Whoever rejoyces to Intemperance rejoyces to Madness rejoyces to his Sorrow he must one day be sorry for his very Joy And surely all such Rejoycing is Evil. This is not Rejoycing in God For 't is as Impossible as Absurd while we Rejoyce in his Mercy to Provoke his Wrath. * Eccl. 7.14 In this day of Prosperity therefore let us be Joyful but let our Joy be Religious let our Joy be Serious or to use the Expression of King David let us * Psal 2.11 rejoyce with Reverence Let us so rejoyce for past that we do not render our selves unworthy of future Mercies And if our Joy proceed from Gratitude let it appear by our Obedience by our Obedience to God by our Obedience to the King by performing the vows that we promised with our Lips and spake with our Mouths when we were in Trouble God of his Infinite Mercy hath delivered us from the Rebels and let not us rebel our selves against the God of our Deliverance nor against the King whom God has delivered But let us be thankful to God for his Goodness to our Sovereign let us be thankful to our Sovereign for his Goodness to us And let us Express our Thankfulness to the one and to the other by Honouring and by Fearing Both that he who has already delivered us may continue to deliver us from our Enemies and from the Hands of all that hate us till he settle us at length in the Holy Land the Land of Rest and Peace where no Absaloms no Achitophels nor any of their Associates dwell where even Conspiracies are Impossible and Rebellion has no place FINIS
Vice-gerent So that they could not but say * Psal 118.23 This was the Lords doing and'twas marvellous in their Eyes For the Kings Forces at least they that engaged were but few in Comparison of the Rebels and they were much fewer that fell in the Engagement We read of no less than * Vers 7 8. Twenty Thousand of the Rebels that were slain in the Battle besides we know not how many more destroyed and taken in the Pursuit But not a Word of any Considerable Loss that the King or the King's Forces had nor of any Considerable Officer of the King 's that fell The two chief of his Commanders Joab and Abishai we are sure survived the Defeat From all which 't is plain 't was * Psal 144.10 God who gave Victory to his King and delivered David his Servant from the peril of the Sword And accordingly in my Text we have the Honour of the Victory ascribed to God who Defeated the Rebels that had lift up their Hand against him But this brings me to the third thing considerable in my Text. III. The Thanksgiving for the Defeat And Ahimaaz said unto the King Blessed be the Lord thy God which hath delivered up the Men that lift up their Hand against my Lord the King In which words the good Man first acknowledges God to be the Author of the Deliverance and Secondly Offers unto him the just Tribute of Praise and Thanks for the Deliverance that he wrought 1. I say he acknowledges God to be the Author the sole Author of the Deliverance He Consesses 't is God that delivered up the Men that had lift up their Hands against his Lord the King And the same acknowledgment the thankful King makes himself in the 30th 37th 124th and in several other Psalms that are concluded by Learned Men to have been Composed upon this very Defeat wherein he confesses * Psal 30.3 That the Lord had kept his Life from them that went down to the Pit that * Psal 30.11 't was he that had turned his Heaviness into Joy and put off his Sackcloth and girded him with Gladness That Psal 37.39 the Salvation of the. Righteous cometh of the Lord who is also their Strength in the time of Trouble And that Psal 124.1 2 3 4. If the Lord had not been on their side now might they say if the Lord had not been on their side when Men rise up against 'em they had swallowed up 'em quick when they were so Wrathfully displeas'd at 'em Tea the Waters had drown'd 'em and the Stream had gone oven their Soul the deep Waters of the Proud had gone even over their Soul their Enemies had overwhelmed 'em like a mighty Deluge and buried 'em in the Flood And then he adds Verse 6. Blessed be the Lord who has not given us over as a Prey unto their Teeth Which is the second part of his Thanksgiving 2. The Oblation of his just Tribute of Praise and Thanks to the God whom he had before acknowledged for the Author of his Deliverance To which purpose we find him in the forementioned and in other Psalms Composed as I said before upon this Defeat Psal 30.1 Magnifying the Lord who had set him up and not made his Foes to Triumph over him And Commanding others to Magnifie the Lord with him * Psal 31.23 Oh Love the Lord all yet his Saints for the Lord preserveth them that are faithful and plenteously rewardeth the Proud Doer * Psal 40.16 Let all those that seek thee rejoyce and be glad in thee let such as love thy Salvation say continually The Lord be Magnified * Psal 27.6 And now shall my Head be lifted up above mine Enemies round about me God has given me a Glorious Victory and made me to Triumph over mine Enemies therefore will I offer in his Tabernacle Sacrifices of Joy I will sing yea I will sing Praises unto the Lord c. 'T is true the Death of Absalom did somewhat lessen and abate his Joy and he seems to lament it with a Great Lamentation * Verse 33. O Absalom my Son my Son Absalom would to God I had died for thee oh Absalom my Son my Son Insomuch that 't is said the Victory for a time was turn'd into Mourning unto all the People Chap. 19.2 But 't is not to be thought he was sorry for the Rebels Defeat No that had lately been the 01 matter of many Prayers 't was even now the matter 01 of many Praises unto God Doubtless 't was not the Death of the Rebel but the Death of the Man that he bewailed a Man whose Person he lov'd and whose Crimes he would have pardon'd Or rather 't was not the Death of the Rebel but the Rebel's dying with the Guilt of Rebellion upon him that he did not live as he would have had him that he did not live to repent but went out of the World as Rebels generally do without any Remorse for his Crime without any sense of his Sin or Danger without making his Peace with God or with the King without which there could be no hopes of Mercy for him And truly this is a sad Consideration indeed so sad that I must beg your Pardon for mentioning it upon a day of Thanksgiving upon a day of Joy But all our Joys in this World have a Tincture of Sorrow And the Mercy of God is never the less to us that others fall and will fall into the hands of Justice David therefore had reason to rejoyce and he did rejoyce in the Goodness of God toward him And * Psal 21.1 his Joy was great in his Salvation And surely ours my Brethren ought to be no less For God be blessed we have the very same reason for Joy we have the very same Obligation to Thanksgiving with David and the Men of Judah in my Text. And I pray God we may be as Joyful we may be as Thankful as they were The truth is our Case seems to be so much the same with theirs almost in every Partâ—cular that I cannot but wonder that I even stand amazed at the Exactness of the Parallel For with Changing only the Names of Things what has been said of this Conspiracy of Absalom's which was acted almost 3000. years ago might pass for the History of our Late Rebellion The one beâ—ng so perfect a Transcript of the other both as to the Rebels Defeated and as to the Defeat of the Rebels that in good earnest I am almost at a loss what to say in the Application of the Subject without saying over again what I have said already For we too have had a young foolish Absalom the ill Son of a good King corrupted by as Perfidious as Wicked an Achitophel from all sense of Duty to his Father to his Prince and by the like Vanity of Ambition by the like Affectation of Popularity betrayed into as ill Counsels into as ill Actions to