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mercy_n	day_n	lord_n	vouchsafe_v	2,258	5	11.0723	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30057	A sermon preached at the Cathedral-Church of Hereford on May the 29th, 1684 being the anniversary day of His late Majesties birth and happy restauration, at a feast then first instituted by some of the loyal inhabitants of that country / by Richard Bulkeley ...	Bulkeley, Richard, 1657 or 8-1702.	1685 (1685)	Wing B5406; ESTC R3336	17,961	32

to that of our Redemption being ransomed thereby from the greatest Tyranny but that of Hell and restored to our Sovereign and in him to the greatest of Earthly and Temporal Blessings and therefore have all the reason imaginable to break forth into this grateful recognition of the Psalmists The Lord hath done great things for us whereof we are glad In the prosecution of which words which I hope may suit with the serious business of the day I shall endeavour these three things 1. I shall observe unto you the great things that God hath done for us the signal Mercies he hath vouchsafed unto us in this days Dispensation Secondly I shall endeavour to shew since there is no good Christian or good Subject which are reciprocal and convertible terms but will one way or other be glad and rejoyce in this day which the Lord hath made which way and by what means we may best and most acceptably express our Joyes of it Thirdly and lastly I shall make some brief Application to the whole with reference to this Solemn this Loyal Appearance First then I shall observe unto you the great things that God hath done for us the signal Mercies he hath vouchsafed unto us in this dayes Dispensation Both which Topicks if taken together will try the utmost stretch of Thought and Contemplation will amount to a Subject that can never be exhausted such that Language it self cannot with all its copiousness sufficiently express So that when we have us'd all our Faculties to utter our Praises and bespeak our Gratitude when we have been swallowed up in the deep contemplation of the Divine Goodness and Protection to which we owe our present Stabiliment and Continuance when we have almost breathed out our very Souls into Ecstasies of Joy and pious Raptures of Thanksgiving and in a word have with the best expressions of exalted Gladness with Acclamations loud as Thunder and Hallelujahs like the roarings of the Sea manifested our deep our profound sense of His Majesties miraculous Restauration from the miseries and hardships of a cruel Exile and unnatural Banishment when we have done this and more we shall still find matter of wonder before us to silently admire when we can no longer express the immense Goodness and stupendious Bounty of Heaven extended unto us in these two instances of the Day the Nativity of our Sovereign and his Accession to the Throne And though we may well expatiate on both and have as great reason to bless and praise God for the one as well as the other to bless God that he who rules over us rules by undoubted Succession that he is our Natural Lord and born Prince that he sways the Sceptre not by Violence and Usurpation as the late infamous Protector not by Adoption as Tiberius not by Election as Vespasian heretofore amongst the Romans but by an uninterrupted Lineal Descent but by an unalterable Right of Inheritance a Right that cannot be alienated without the highest violation of Justice Oaths and Laws National Natural and Sacred tho I say these are Blessings if any can be equal with those of His Majesties happy thrice happy Restauration yet I shall forbear the consideration of them at present and speak to the latter chiefly wherein we have sufficient to exert our wonder and to make us conclude with the Psalmist Psal 59. ver 10. that God hath shewed us his goodness plenteously For when we were void even of all other help and quite destitute of hope from Men from the Arm of Flesh when we groaned sighed and languished and were ready to expire under the heavy Oppressions of Tyrannical and Arbitrary Government when we had utterly lost and were totally depriv'd of that we now to the full enjoy viz. our Liberty Property and Religion when we were consumed even from Morning till Evening all the day long our Houses plundered our Wives violated our Virgins rap't and our Churches too without any respect had to the Sacredness of Temples sacriledg'd and prophaned when All but Rebells and Traytors were reduc'd to Cain's sad Cain's disconsolate condition to dread every one they met to be their Executioners and to consummate our Miseries and compleat our Infelicity that our better Parts might not escape Phanatick Rage and Tyranny when we were deny'd our religious and well-digested Forms of Prayer and our Souls almost poyson'd with the blasphemous and fulsome stench of Extempore Nonsence when the Pulpits were usurp'd by Jeroboam's Priests the Beasts of the People the lowest and vilest and most contemptible Mechanicks and the rever'd Name and Sacred Word of God abus'd and prostituted by Enthusiastick Canting and unintelligible Babble and in a word when all the Miseries that can be thought of by the loss and most savage Murder of the best of Kings and by the outragious cruelty of the worst of Traytors had sadly had lamentably befallen and consumed the Nation then even then did it please Almighty God to come in to our Aid and Succour to free us by this dayes Blessing from all the Insolencies and Spoils and Devastations of an Army from all the direful Issues of a Civil and Intestine War and for nothing else nothing less than our Sovereign's Return would have put the period from all the different Competitions and variety of endless Claims which would have been still started up and so consequently begot and bred everlasting Disturbances circular eternal Fears So that a bare exemption from such a long Train such a complicated Series of Miseries which must have unavoidably ensued such Confusion in the Government had no other Blessings which God be praised we abound with been superadded must have put us upon declaring our grateful Resentments but then if to this we add the miraculous manner of his Majesties Return it must needs excite our wonder and admiration For He was restored to Us after some Men some Potent men had arrived to that Audacious degree that high pitch of Impudence as to form and pass an Illegal and Diabolical Act Sir R. Bakers Chron. pag. 588. for the Exheredation of the Royal Line for the utter Extirpation and Abolishing of Monarchy it self the best of Governments He was restored after a Proclamation issued forth that none should presume not only to declare and publish nay Ibid. p. 587. even to breathe or whisper him or to express it in their own terms any ways to promote him to be King He was restored by General Monk p. 693. to whom they had offered the Government and so one would have thought should not have proved so industriously instrumental in bringing the Lawful Heir to it Nay farther yet to our greater Astonishment He was restored when there was a well formed well disciplin'd Army on foot against him when his own Friends were low and poor harrassed and oppressed but his Enemies strong and powerful when it was their Interest as well as Principles to keep him now they had him out And lastly for all this He