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A30426 A sermon preached in the chappel of St. James's, before His Highness the Prince of Orange, the 23d of December, 1688 by Gilbert Burnet. Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715. 1689 (1689) Wing B5883; ESTC R27817 13,997 18

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without justifying what they have done we may well rejoyce for what they have not done and that Bloody and Outragious Sacrifices have not been made It is the peculiar Character and Glory of this Nation That Tenderness and Compassion are so natural to it that the Unfortunate are always pitied by them And if tumultuous Numbers have observed so much temper in their wrath how much more is to be expected from Councils that are to be governed by Justice and Mercy and under the directions of a Prince who has shewed that his hatred of Persecution in others was not only because his own side suffered in it but from a steadly and uniform Principle which has made him not only just to those of that Religion but even kind too whensoever they deserved it We indeed ought to study the firm securing of our Religion even from the remotest possibilities of hurt that can come to it from that restless and violent spirit which has hithero created us so much trouble this we owe to Almighty God to this Glorious Church to our Selves to our Posterity but in doing this we must so govern our selves as not to suffer our Blood to boil too high nor our Thoughts to run too fast and while we consider that we may perhaps owe our Enemies we ought to take care not to forget what we owe our selves that so we may look to the honour as well as the security of our Holy Religion In a word let us resolve to be Christians indeed and to act as Men that have those undefiled Rules and that bright Example which our Saviour has given us ever in our Eyes and then it is impossible for us to miscarry But if Revenge and Animosity prevail over the softer and wiser Councils that Reason and Religion may suggest and if in all that we do we take not care to have God ever on our sides it will be easie for him to blast all Councils and to defeat even the greatest and best laid Designs We have now before our Eyes one of the signallest Instances that is in any History of the Instability of all human things on which one cannot refl●ct without making a full stop in his thoughts But the subject is so speaking that it needs not be insisted on and there are particular Circumstances in it that forbid it but if it is not decent to speak much of it yet I hope none are so insensible as not to think much of it Perhaps some may imagine that are safe because we cannot be dashed on the same Rock about which we see so great a Shipwarck but alas if we provoke God to hide his Face and to withdraw his Protection from us his ways are past finding out he can bring ruine and destruction on us from that hand from which we perhaps apprehend on us from that hand from which we perhaps apprehend it the least If Prosperity and Success blow and up and make them forget God and all the Vows that they made to him he will never want means and methods to make them return to themselves and to remember him Upon the whole matter then since God has wrought so extraordinary a deliverance for us let us adore him who is the true Author of it and under him let us pay all the returns possible of Respect and Gratitude to that Blessed Instrument on whom he has laid so much Glory Let us improve it to the highest and noblest ends that can be thought on let us live under as becomes those who take care to do nothing that may render them unworthy of the continuance of it and let us all in our several Stations study to behave our selves so That the Glory as well as the Safety of the Nation and the lustre as well as the establishment of our Religion may be raised up to that pitch that the Name of an Englishman and a Protestant may have a sound all the World over that may give Terror as well as creat Esteem and that this Work which is now brought to so great a forwardness may in due time attain to its full perfection and that then we may all have reason to break forth in the Triumphant words with which this Psalm begins O give thanks unto the Lord for he is good because his mercy endureth for ever Let Israel now say That his mercy endureth for ever Let the house of Aaron now say That his mercy endureth for ever And let them that fear the Lord say That bis mercy endureth for ever FINIS