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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41323	A sermon preached in the Cathedrall Church of St. Patrick's Dublin, on the 5th of November, 1690 before the Right Honourable the Lords Justices of Ireland / by John Finglas ...	Finglas, John, Prebend of St. Audoens, Dublin.	1690 (1690)	Wing F950; ESTC R5603	16,312	28

detests such wicked practices they might well gather that their courses are not warrantable or as some of them in indignation have blundred out that the Judge of all the world is become a Lutheran If we are as the same Author expostulates such damnable Hereticks as they would make us how comes it to pass that God so takes our part Is it possible that their Doctrine that is so Catholick or those Catholicks that are guided by an Infallible Head should venture so far and attain so little profess such Infallibility and be so often deceived sure if they were not given up to a spirit of delusion such palpable tokers of Gods Judgments against their proceedings and such manifestations of his Mercy towards us might breed at least a suspition in them that something is a miss and force them to a serious Examination to know where the cause lyeth They call much for a Judge of Controversies between them and us but why take they not notice how God hath time after time shewed himself a Righteous Judge pleading our cause and preventing their Plots but never more then in the preservation of our Religion and our selves on this day for never was Wickedness nearer being acted nor more strangely discovered nor effectually defeated then this was so that the Pit they have dug for others they have fallen into themselves How near this work of darkness was to have been brought to a fiery light judge you it was not according to Jonas Prophecy forty days nor four days nor scarce so many houres one night betwixt and but a part of that neither er'e the Terrible blow had been given and we destroyed the hand of wickedness was ready to have done the work before it was known to be lifted up the snare on our heels before it was discovered to be laid we might well say had we known it there was but a step between death and us all things were so ready and we so near being undone that these wretched Conspirators applaud themselves in their pregnant hopes and believe all their own The Letter said God and man was agreed to punish the wickedness of the times but stay man was agreed God was not blessed be his Name he was at but not of their Council he who is a present refuge stept in trapping them in their own snare and discovered his Justice in detecting their Mallice and indeed none but he could do it not man but the Devil devis'd it not man but God defeated it so that in this if in any thing the Lord was known as a just Judge Do but trace the several steps of the discovery and you will plainly see it was not it could not be any other but God himself that snared them in their worke and so brought it about by his wonderfull providence that he makes these very Traytors to be the betrayers of themselves For the discovery was made but the night before by the delivery of a monitory Letter written in an obscure stile and given by a Lackey crossing the street to the Lord Monteagle son and Heir to the Lord Morley wherein he is desired to Retire into the Country where he might expect the event with safety for tho there be no appearance of any stir yet I say they shall receive a terrible blow in this Parliament and the danger is past so soon as you have burnt the Letter which Letter my Lord Salisbury who first carried it to the King concluded to be an Idle Paper design'd only to amuse the Lord to whom it was written or to make him the subject of some mirth if upon it he should absent himself from the Parliament the Principal words were the danger is past as soon as you have burnt the Letter this might seem a slight danger indeed and not worth the warning if it had not been meerly to amuse one but the King on the contrary from this very sentence devin'd the whole Truth of the matter interpreting it thus That the danger or blow intended to the Parliament should be past as soon or as quickly and in as short a time as that Paper should be blazing in the fire So concluding it to be something of Powder the Rooms under the Parliament were searched and the whole Villany discovered and prevented and that by as signal a Providence as is to be found in the Records of any Nation and which is such a mark of the Divine favour to us and to our Church and Rellgion as can never be too much praised and admired by us in our Annual Thanksgivings Now I beseech you consider what was it that extorted the means of revealing this from his Pen whose Tongue had sworn Concealments that made him who was Plotting the ruine of many to consult for the preservation of one not any innate pity in the Traytor but the over-ruling Soveraignty of God What was it that inclined the heart of that noble Lord who affected their Religion to communicate the Letter which detected the Treason to the King not Popery or carnal policy but the all disposing Providence of God What was it that inspir'd I can call it no less the breast of that Royal King otherwise free from Jealousie as a badge of Tyrany to suspect the danger and by a violent unnatural construction of a phrase to find out the violent unnatural destruction that was hatching not so much his own prudence tho otherwise great but the wisedom of the Almighty What was it that infatuated the Traytors who while the Plot was but suspected had oppertunity to escape that they should try the utmost and afterwards sharpned the edg of all mens spirits against them to kill some and surprise the rest even before a Proclamation could overtake them but that just severity of God So that all the attributes of God were concentred and met together in this days deliverance and therefore not unto us not unto us O Lord but to thy name be the glory of this and all our deliverances for it is of the Lords Mercies that we were not consumed because his compassions faild not Lam. 3. 22. For if the Lord had not been in our side may we now well say if the Lord had not been in our side when men rose up against us the had blewn us up quick when their wrath and their match was kindled against us Psal 124 1 2 3 O let the Lords Mercy and their Cruelty never be forgotten The Israelites had their Pascha and Purim Holydays set apart for the acknowledgment of their grand deliverance from Pharaoh and Hamons Treason so let this days solemnity be continued with everlasting thankfulness for the miraculous discovery of the Powder Plot let the People learn from our Pulpits and our Children understand in our streets the barbarousness of this design the profession of the Actors the danger that would have fallen on their innocent heads if the Lord in judgment to the contrivers and in mercy to us had not prevented it and insnared