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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47440	Europe's delivery from France and slavery a sermon preached at St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, on the 16th of November, 1690, before the right honourable the Lords Justices of Ireland : being the day of Thanksgiving for the preservation of His Majesty's person, his good success in our deliverance, and his safe and happy return into England / by William King ...	King, William, 1650-1729.	1691 (1691)	Wing K532; ESTC R17458	18,583	31

EUROPE's Deliverance from France and Slavery A SERMON PREACHED AT St. Patrick's Church DUBLIN On the 16th of November 1690. Before the Right Honourable the LORDS JUSTICES of IRELAND Being the day of THANKSGIVING for the Preservation of His MAJESTY'S PERSON His good Success in our DELIVERANCE and His safe and happy Return into ENGLAND By WILLIAM KING D. D. Dean of St. Patrick's DVBLIN Since Bishop of LONDON-DERRY Printed at Dublin And Reprinted at London for Tim. Goodwin at the Maidenhead against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet MDCXCI TO THE READER THE great Respect and Reverence which is universally paid by the whole Church of Ireland to the Author of this Sermon who His Majesty has been graciously pleas'd to advance to the Bishoprick of Londonderry and of whom we here in England have large Accounts from those who have come from that Kingdom made me think it would be no unacceptable thing to reprint this Sermon which was receiv'd with so great applause at Dublin But this is all personal to the Author The Book it self needs not any Foreign recommendations drawn from Favour or Concern for the Person who writ it For here are many particular Matters of Fact hinted at relating to the Irish Affairs which are little known amongst us and the Causes of their and our late Miseries and Distractions are so distinctly and methodically set down that tho very many of them are generally known and commonly talked of and many more have been of a long time fufficiently guessed at by thoughtful and inquisitive Men yet such Books can never be useless or unpleasant which set those things all together in one continued Light that before for the most part lay dispersed in the Minds of those who read them They that read the Sermon will find other Beauties in it which will sufficiently please them Every thing is described in such moving and lively Colours that it was but a common piece of justice to so great and so good a Man to Reprint a Discourse which will assuredly convince the Nation That the great esteem which is paid to him in his own Countrey proceeds neither from want of Judgment nor from an over-great Partiality W. W. To the Right Honourable HENRY Lord SIDNEY Viscount SHEPPY AND THO. CONNINGS BY 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 farther 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 delivered from them I know much more might be said and has been said on this Subject But I have chosen those Points that seemed to me most proper for the Occasion And I hope enough to satisfy 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 Vnsetled 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 setling 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 16th of November 1690. PSAL. 107. 2d verse Old Translation Let them give thanks whom the Lord hath redeemed and delivered from the hand of the Enemy V. 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 occasion 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 vers 39 40. Now this is so exactly our Case and the design of our present appearing in this place that I think there is no more incumbent on me than to endeavour to beget in you a due sense of it and