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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59279	A sermon preached upon the fast-day, June the 18th, 1690 by a presbyter of the Church of England, that swore in the sincerity of his heart, with a full satisfied conscience, to King William and Queen Mary.	Presbyter of the Church of England.	1690 (1690)	Wing S2643; ESTC R19775	12,201	33

Bibles our Lives Good God! what desperate Wickedness is this that People obliged equal to their wishes but much beyond their expectation should entertain an unthankful rebellious thought against their successful Preserver and Defender of these near Concerns What Villany is it beyond the reach of words to brand with sufficient Reproach that unquiet Ahithophel Shimei's and Sheba's should consult and strive to throw him down whom God by amazing Miracles advanced to Royalty who succeeded on the Throne over us both by an Hereditary Right and an uncorrupted Election What black and new-invented sin is this deserving Punishment I will not name since his God-like Mercy can remit that they who have acknowledg'd the Hereditary Right of King William and elected his particular for their King in the vacancy of the Throne by the majority of their Representatives and taken their Corporal Oath many of them to defend him should defie their Oaths and give their Conscience the Lie in Passion for a Tyrannous Bigott whom they always resisted after they had made him King and never began to love till they had lent their helping hand to make him none David's Enemies gave him great and frequent occasion of Complaint but no Affliction of his was so circumstanced as that related in the 55 Psalm where he mournfully Expostulates thus It was not an Enemy that reproached me then I could have born it neither was it he that hated me that did magnifie himself against me then I would have hid my self from him But it was thou O man my equal my guide and my acquaintance we took sweet counsel together and walked unto the house of God in company How may a Parallel-complaint be taken up by him that is how much soever oppos'd both in Right and Fact our King It was not an open Enemy only not one alone that profess'd to hate me that magnified himself against me this would not have so much surprized me nor so nearly have affected my mind it was not a Babylonish Idolater nor a Gothick Barbarian nor such a senseless Picture of Humanity as Juverna draws upon cold Boggs that consulted to thrust me away whom God hath exalted but it was thou of late the Reformation's chief Support and Hope whose labouring over-loaded and only not yielding strength I hastened to relieve but O my Soul now while I build up thou pullest down David concludes with Prophetick Rage Let c. our Liege Lord with winning Mercy be forgiven may his Mercy prevail over all his Enemies over him their hatred never it never shall for to him and David one and the same assurance remains fast Truly my soul waiteth upon God from him cometh my salvation he is my defence I shall not be greatly moved and this is the third and last Head to be considered And first with respect only to the Royal Psalmist and then to his Parallel Assurance is not always well grounded nothing is more usual than to see the confident frustrated of their pleasing expectations and betray'd into sudden and surprizing Misery But David's assurance was just reasonably and safely relied upon it had for its support not partial self-love which construes all things in its own favour nor proud contempt which lessens the real strength of an Enemy till the Battel is joyn'd and then finds it powerfully increas'd not unactive security which ruines the very Favourites of Providence notwithstanding their vast Advantages David's Assurance was upheld by these two mighty Pillars the Power and the Promise of God the fram of Nature does not stand firmer his Royal Breast harbour'd no partial self-love for he speaks of himself in words of the lowest Humility and admires the Divine Goodness which took him from the Sheep-folds from following the Ewes great with young to feed Israel his People and Jacob his Inheritance reflecting on the uncertain state of his own Affairs he fear'd his Enemies complain'd of their number and their strength he was not unactive and secure for though he trusted not in his Bow yet he drew the feather'd Arrow to the head and bravely laid about him with his Sword the Sword he won from the Monstrous Philistine and with it lopt off the proud Head of its Master but he piously own'd his Salvation to have come from the assistance of the Lord of Hosts How weak soever a man is in himself and his Friends yet he must needs be safe if God Almighty condescend to be his Protector and to fight his Battels Unto David God often promised his Protection upon Conditions which no man more diligently made it his business to perform than he well might he therefore upon the examination of his own Heart and consciousness of his Righteousness and trust in God rest satisfied that after all the subtile contrivances and bold efforts of his Adversaries he should not be greatly moved if troubled yet not over-power'd if distressed yet not ruined if assaulted yet not dethron'd Well might he reflecting on the unjust and impious daring of his Adversaries conclude Surely men of low degree are vanity and men of high degree are a lie Our Righteous King sits on the English with like assurance as David on the Throne of Israel beloved of all even beyond the Lines of the Reformation though no self-lover as well acquainted with the Strength and Treachery of one Enemy as with the Cowardize and Treachery of another a vigilant Observer and an indefatigable Providitator against both But after all his Warlike Provisions after all his Powerful Alliances the bravery of his Worthies and the Courage of his Army and the steadiness of his own stout Heart and Hand he places his grand Satisfaction in the Justness of his Cause and fixes his Trust and Confidence in the Blessing of God Almighty therefore has he appointed a Monthly Fast to be observed as his Proclamation informs us in a most Solemn and Devout manner for Supplicating Almighty God for the Pardon of our sins and for imploring his Blessing and Protection in the Preservation of His Majesty's Sacred Person and the Prosperity of his Arms in Ireland and the Naval Forces What can I advance more on this Argument than is already set before you in that excellent Form of Prayer which we have this day used St. Matthew says of our Saviour That coming to a certain place in his own Country he could do no mighty works there because of the peoples unbelief Oh let it not be said of our Gracious Soveraign that he has Victoriously led Armies of several Nations and done Wonders for the Protestant Interest abroad but could not compleat the Settlement of these now his three Kingdoms because of our crying sins here at home our Heats and Animosities our careless way of Living our uncharitable way of Censuring our Disputes and Cavils our Discontents and Murmurings our secret Luxury and our publick Railing our gainsaying Authority and worshipping Names given to Change when they become obstinate in an Error Remove from us O God these and

all other our Offences whereby we have dishonoured thee not duly honoured our Soveraigns King William and Queen Mary troubled the Peace of the State hindred the Success of our Land and Naval Forces wronged our Brethren or abused our selves so shall we have hope in thy Mercy incline us to be hearty in worshipping thee to be careful that our Lives be henceforth reform'd as well as our Profession so though our Enemies rage yet they shall imagine but a vain thing so though they set themselves together against us yet shall they not prevail but we shall be saved both we and our King I cannot but add a word upon occasion of the Happy Success of our Forces in Ireland under the Conduct of our Lawful King William whose Subjects we are by the justest and wisest Act that ever the Representatives of English-men made Blessed be the Lord God of Heaven who hath heard the Prayers of all the truly Loyal and Honest Men in the Kingdom who hath given them their Hearts desire and hath not denied them the request of their Lips in covering their valiant and forward King's Head in the Day of Battel in protecting his Life in which their Safety was bound up which Life was in eminent danger and very near being took away as if to shew us how unworthy we are of him and to affect us with a true sense of the many Deliverances which Almighty God the God of Hosts by his Warlike Hand worketh for us in scattering the Troops of that unhappy man's profligate Adherents who fights now only for a Power to destroy us in blasting the pernicious Hopes and cursed Prayers of unreasonable unconstant unquiet discontented Men who might have every thing proper to make them easie could they but be so without the Power to Lord it over the Faith of their Brethren in frustrating a sedulously-labour'd Bloody Foreign Invasion by secret vile Practises brought about from the most barbarous Tyrant that ever own'd the Name of Christian May these ineffable Mercies of the Divine Providence which so carefully and tenderly watcheth over the Kingdom of England as also over other Reformed Churches and Injur'd States be ever marvellous in our Eyes so marvellous as to cause us when we cannot comprehend them to endeavour to express a quick lively becoming and pious sense of them in all Humble Obedience to the Commands of our God in Scripture in all Loyalty to our King according to the Laws of the Kingdom in due compliance to those Laws according to every Capacity wherein they concern us by which Laws the best of Laws I believe may He the best of Kings undoubtedly long Reign over us and let all the People who fear God Honour King William and say Amen Postscript THE Scandalous neglect of the due Observance of the late enjoyn'd Monthly Fast prompted a Person of Honour and good Affection to our Ancient English Government as it is now happily settled under King William and Queen Mary to recommend to the Author of this Sermon the Penning and Preaching a Discourse suitable to the Solemnity In the late Reign 't was not an Angry Monarch could restrain the Clergy from thankfully Commemorating as it well became them the Fifth of November's Deliverance But a late enjoyn'd Fast to beg Pardon of our sins that they might not hinder the happy course of King William's Victories by which our Laws and Lives have been rescued from Violence and are from Violence defended has been not only not Observ'd but also in some places with contemptuous frowardness a great deal worse used than shall be mentioned unless the Proof be required by such as did it without shame and would without shame deny it To the Printing this honest tho' mean and plain Discourse the Author was obstinately averse alledging some excuses which were allow'd even by them that loved him too much and importuned him dangerously yet at last he chose unask'd to Print being over-ruled by an Accident which tho' he does not publish he is willing to declare to any Person that may perchance discover his Name and accuse him as a pragmatical medling Fellow beyond what his particular Station in the World might be reasonably construed to warrant He thinks it reasonable that every Writer be oblig'd to set his Name to what he Prints that so the Publick may have satisfaction if injur'd but he uses a liberty commonly taken both because the Book-seller promises to get the Trifle Licensed and also for that as he does not seek to be commended of which indeed there 's no danger so neither is he fond of hard censure which yet he does not much suspect from the Friends of the present Settlement and in point of deserving has no need to fear from the Jacobite-People who are certainly the worst of Christians and of Philosophers the most absurd of Philosophers the most absurd for they have now this long time debauch'd their Reason by giving Credit to false News concerning the late King 's Northern Forces Foreign Aids and Irish numbers by believing the French King's Irresistibility Heaven defend them from taking up Infallibility which the Popes may chance to Iay down if the Succession goes on in one or two good Choices more I call them the worst of Christians the Formidable French Fleet now in our Seas evinces it When we have weather'd the Storm which a Providential Wind in greatest part diverted and of which blessed be God there is now no great danger it is to be hoped that the unnatural raisers of it will recover their Senses and outwardly at least abhor their unsuccessful Villany or else be forc'd to be so far Loyal as inability to do great mischief amounts to If any man should seem to wonder at this piece of Zeal from a Clergy-man against the faults of some of his Brethren he bids this Reply be made He has been often in the Company of Men of Quality great Learning and fair Estates amongst whom he has often heard the Clergy censur'd for an unhappy unquiet Order who have been in very great part in all times Authors of the Troubles and Calamities of the Nation he thereupon resolv'd if ever it fell in his way to offer one word on behalf of the Settlement conducive as far as he is able to the Security of the same which he is glad that some Eminent Clergy-men with better Abilities do honestly frequently endeavour and he wishes that more would do so were it but for this reason That the Lord's peculiar Inheritance as they call themselves may no longer stink in the nostrils of the People FINIS Some Books Printed for John Lawrence at the Angel in the Poultrey London INstitutio Grammaticae ad Juventutis captum summo studio artificio concinnata In qua artis Ratio genuina Notio accuratè disquiritur atque enucleatim enodatur Per A. M. M. A. In Octavo The Map of Man's Misery Or The Poor Man's Pocket-Book Being a Perpetual Almanack of Spiritual Meditations or Compleat Directory for one endless Week Containing many useful Instructions and Prayers plainly shewing every Christian so to walk that he may please God Twelves Man's whole Duty and God's wonderful intreaty of him thereunto Set forth from 2 Cor. 5.20 By Daniel Burgesse Minister of the Word of Reconcillation Twelves Advice to Parents and Children Being the sum of several Sermons by the same Author In Twelves