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A40097	A sermon preached before the House of Lords in the Abby-Church at Westminster, upon Thursday the sixteenth of April, 1696 being a day of publick thanksgiving to Almighty God for the most happy discovery and disappointment of a horrid design to assasinate His sacred Majesty, and for our deliverance from a French invasion / by Edward Lord Bishop of Gloucester.	Fowler, Edward, 1632-1714.	1696 (1696)	Wing F1724; ESTC R887	16,520	42

in some so that those who discern it not must shut their Eyes on purpose that they may not And among these may this Deliverance be well reckon'd as I hope 't will appear anon But there have been in the World such wilfully Blind and Perverse People as would not acknowledge God's Hand no not in the most incontestable Miracles Such were those of whom the Prophet complain'd That they regarded not the Work of the Lord neither considered the Operation of His Hand And those of whom the Psalmist saith That they understood not God's Wonders in Egypt And what strange Examples were those of this Perverseness who had so many of the most Wonderful Miracles wrought by our Saviour and His Apostles before their Eyes and yet believ'd not Ordinarily the Divine Concurrence with the free Actings of Men and with natural Agents is not so discernible as that we are able to say this is the Divine Part of the Event and that the Humane or merely Natural tho' right Reason as well as the Divine Oracles will not so exclude God out of any Event as to make Him a mere Spectator thereof or a bare Permitter of any more in it than what is morally Evil. For the Notion of God's being the Wise Governour as well as Maker of the World which is evident from the Improvement of Natural Reason as well as from Revelation and therefore taught by the Pagan Philosophers as well as by the Jewish and Christian Divines will not admit of His being wholly Unconcern'd inany Occurrence whatsoever since very great things may be occasion'd and very frequently have been by as small and inconsiderable ones I say there are Occurrences and such as strictly speaking may not be called Miracles which have such Circumstances belonging to them that an Impartial Considerer of them must necessarily see a Special Providence and God's more immediate Hand in them And these are so far from being Rarities that all Ages and Countries have abounded with them Nay I question whether there be any one single Person who hath not experimented several such relating to himself But as to Publick and National Instances of this kind how full are the Best Historians of them To confine our selves to Deliverances of Kings and their People out of great Calamities or from imminent Dangers of falling into such Who for Example can question whether there was an Extraordinary Divine Hand in the Raising of Cyrus for the Deliverance of the Jews from their Seventy Years Captivity tho'he were an utter Stranger to Isaiah's Prophecy in which he is foretold by Name as their Deliverer above Two hundred years before he was in being if he hath read Tully's Prince of Historians Herodotus Or Xenophon Or Justin In whose Accounts of Cyrus's Birth and Preservation from being Butcher'd as soon as Born by the Commandment of his Grandfather Astyages and of the most wonderful Fortune that all-along attended him from a poor Shepherd's Boy to his Advancement to a Mighty Empire tho' I remember not one Miracle recorded in his Story yet so long a Series of Marvelous Events as we find therein must needs have made the observers of them conclude him to be the immediate Care of Heaven in order to the Accomplishment of some Glorious Design There was no Miracle neither in the Jews Deliverance from the Cursed Design of proud Haman but there was a concurrence of such Happy Events for the bringing it about as spake it to be the Peculiar Work of God as evidently every whit as if it had been the Atchievement of many Miracles But because I want time to enlarge upon Examples of this nature I 'le content my self to mention but two or three more which shall be Deliverances of our own Kings Church and People There was nothing properly Miraculous in the Discovery of the Hellish Pouder Plot but it being brought to light by such very Strange Means which I hope few of us are Ignorant of and so very late that had it been delay'd but some Hours longer the Astonishing Blow would have given the first News of it even Cardinal Bellarmin was so affected with the Consideration of these things as to acknowledge to the World that he looked on this Deliverance as no less than Miraculous The Deliverance of King Charles II d from his Twelve years Banishment and of his Kingdoms from Arbitrary Government Oppression and Confusion had no Miracle neither accompanying it but so great a number of the most Surprizing things all of a suddain follow'd upon the neck of each other till they had made way for the King 's Easie Return even without the Effusion of a drop of Blood through the most inconquerable difficulties that the Divine Power Wisdom and Goodness were scarcely less eminently visible therein than if no Human Means had contributed towards it And what are we to think less of our Late Deliverance from Popery and Slavery and as scaring a Prospect as ever People had Surely the most Egregious Folly of the Jesuites Counsels as cunning shrewd Fellows as the World to that time had long accounted them The strong Impressions which were upon the Minds of Great Men Abroad even of both Religions to Assist in Promoting this Deliverance The Unanimous Agreement of so many of different Sentiments at Home to the utmost to put to their helping Hand The so close Concealment of so Hazardous a Design which so many were Privy to The Ordering of the Wind The strange dispiriting of those who humanely speaking had Power as well as Will abundantly enough to defeat this Design These with many things more are demonstrations that this Mighty Deliverance was no less the Work of the Almighty God than that of the Israelites at the Red Sea tho' it was not properly and strictly Miraculous as that was I may well add to this the Deliverance of poor Ireland afterwards out of the most deplorable Circumstances it having been brought about by so many most Signal Events as are enough to make a good Volume After the self-same manner that Tully ridicul'd the mad Epicuraean Hypothesis of the World 's being form'd by a lucky jumblement of Atoms may our Infidels imputing such Deliverances to mere fortunate Chances be expos'd to the Laughter of all who are but a remove or two from Idiots And we have great reason to reckon the Deliverance we are now Commemorating among the ' foremention'd The Hand of God so appears in this that no Thanks are due for it to either any Humane Power or Policy The happy Discovery of the horrible Design to Assassinate our Gracious Sovereign and to back his Murther with a powerful Invasion together with a mighty Assistance from the Combin'd Forces of Papists and a strange sort of Protestants among ourselves I say the mere Discovery hereof was our Deliverance like that of the Gunpowder Treason Which by the way was in some respects the less dangerous of the two viz. as none but Papists were engag'd in this and there was no