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A63119	A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord-Mayor, and Court of Aldermen, of the city of London, at St. Mary le Bow, on the 29th of May, 1694 by John Trenchard ...	Trenchard, John, 1662-1723.	1694 (1694)	Wing T2114; ESTC R23483	18,711	37

Religion and Men of approved moderation to heal the Sores of our Church and to cure those many Distempers of Irreligion which the several Factions and Heats of the late Enthusiastical Times have so notoriously fomented and bred amongst us In short according to Isaiah's Prophecy 49.23 We have now thanks be to God for them and God long preserve them to us a King and Queen that are truly and literally a nursing Father and a nursing Mother to the Church and People of England In a word two Princes of our own Choice and according to our own hearts desire And therefore if the greatest Temporal Blessing which the Infinite Benefactor can bestow on a Nation be a sufficient Reason for our present Joy and Thansgiving 't will then be our indispensable Duty to be heartily and sincerely thankful Which brings me to speak of the Duty of this Day 's Thanksgiving But having exercised your Patience too much already I shall therefore add a very few words on this Head First Ye are to consider That as it is not the Design of our Present Government in continuing the observation of this Day to try the Strength and Zeal of a Party as perhaps was the usual Practise and Abuse of it in the late times so ye are to conclude that the Business or Duty of this Day 's Thanksgiving does not consist in loud Acclamations of Joy and a vain Repetition of Huzzah's nor in Sumptuous Fireworks and Ringing of Bells or other such like popular entertainments which generally speaking do end in nothing that is good but are such expressions of Joy as serve only to promote Tumults and Disorders Drunkenness and Licentiousness amongst us and are therefore upon that account a very improper and unsuitable return to the Supream Governor and Great Benefactor of Mankind for the Blessed Revolutions which he has been the Principal Author and Contriver of in these Nations in order to our Peace and Happiness But Secondly to conclude all ye are rather to look up unto God only as the Fountain and Foundation of all these Blessings Ye are to address your Thanks to the Divine Majesty with the humblest sense imaginable of your unworthiness of these his manifold Benefits and having made your suitable acknowledgments and returns of Praise and Thanksgiving to the Great and Merciful God in the most Devout and Seraphick Strain that ye are able to reach to ye should still continue to admire his Goodness to adore his Wisdom and dread his Power In short for these good things which God hath blessed us with we ought to repay him with a Good and Religious Life and to walk before him in Holiness and Righteousness all our days Which that we may all do God of his Infinite Mercy grant us Grace Now to God the Father God the Son God the Holy Ghost be ascribed as is most due all Honour Praise Might Majesty Glory and Dominion both now and evermore Amen FINIS Books Sold by Richard Baldwin THE Bounds set to France by the Pyrenean Treaty and the Interest the Confederates not to accept of the Offers of Peace made at 〈◊〉 Time by the French King To which are added some short Reflection showing How far England is concern'd in the Restitution of that Tr●●●● Together with a List of the Towns and Countries that the French 〈◊〉 taken since that time A Dissuasive from Murmuring being a Sermon on 1 Cor. 10.10 Preac●●● by Sam. Carte M. A. There will very speedily be published the Third and last Volume of 〈◊〉 Works of Francis Rabelais M. D. containing the Fourth and Fifth Books the Heroick Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and Pantagruel which 〈◊〉 Books are the whole Voyage to the Holy Bottle The Pantagruelian Prognostication Enciclopidic Questions Three Epistles in Verse Historical Letters written by the Doctor during his stay in Italy 〈◊〉 Volume which compleats all his Works was never before publish●● English and this is also to contain a Key to the Voyage and large Expla●●●●ons of the most difficult Passages never before published in any Langu●●● A Poem on the Late Promotion of several Eminent Persons in Church State By N. Tate Servant to Their Majesties Bibliotheca Politica Or An Enquiry into the Ancient Constitution the English Government with respect both to the just Extent of R●●●● Power and to the Rights and Liberties of the Subject Wherein all 〈◊〉 chief Arguments as well against as for the Late Revolution are Impart●● represented and considered In XIII Dialogues Collected out of the 〈◊〉 Authors both Ancient and Modern To which is added An Alphabe● Index to the whole Work The Gentleman's Journal or the Monthly Miscellany In a Letter 〈◊〉 Gentleman in the Countrey Consisting of News History Philoso●●● Poetry Musick Translations c. April 1694. To be continued Mo●●● Sold by R. Baldwin Where are to be had Compleat Sets for the two 〈◊〉 Years or single ones for every Month. A New Plain Short and Compleat French and English Grammar wh●●● by the Learner may attain in few Months to speak and write French Corre●●●● as they do now in the Court of France And wherein all that is dark pers●●●uous and deficient in other Grammars is plain short and methodi●●● supplied Also very useful to Strangers that are desirous to learn the ●●●lish Tongue for whose sake is added a short but very Exact English G●●●mar The Third Edition with Additions By Peter Berault

the coals of their Contention into a flame or improve their first misunderstandings into the bloody Acts of an open and implacable Hostility Thus for instance he can distinguish whether their Murmurings and whisper'd Discontentments have a true and just occasion yea or no If they are just and rational he will perhaps regard their Complaints and further all their Attempts whatsoever for the Redress of their Grievances and the Recovery of their just Rights and Liberties But if on the contrary they are peevish and unreasonable Exceptions only against the honest and well-meant Administration of their Governors he will then frustrate all their Seditious practices and by the Rod of the Civil Magistrate give them ample Chastisement for their folly Thus according to that of the Psalmist 37.17 God breaketh the arm of the wicked So on the other hand he is not so insensible as some Machiavillians may imagine when Princes design the Ruin and Destruction of their Subjects for the hearts of kings are in his rule and governance he knows what Designs are clandestinely formed and carried on by them and their Ministers for the subversion of a National Religion and other Legal Immunities of a People and if it so pleases him then Achitophel and Absalom-like they shall not prosper but be confounded He sees the difference between just and unjust and between right and wrong and can readily adjust all the many bloody Controversies that have been started and bandied to and fro about Liberty and Prerogative Because he knows the utmost Bounds of Princes Power and the Original or Fundamental Reason of their being so entrusted with it Thus for instance if Princes employ their Power and exercise their Authority for the common Weal of a Nation God will undoubtedly crown all their Undertakings with Success and then like Solomon their Wisdom improving with that of their Government they shall daily encrease both in Power and in Riches But if they begin to affect an unreasonable Jurisdiction and to Tyrannize over the People contrary to the implied Conditions of all Governments which are no longer justifiable than whilst the primary ends of their Institution shall be observed in the Protection and Preservation of a Peoples Just Rights and Liberties If Princes I say begin to affect such Abuses of Power as these then it may reasonably be presumed that he will cross and disappoint all their Measures and cut them off as he did Reboboam that early Affecter of Arbitrary Power by the Loss of Ten Tribes from his Government And thus as Job long since observeth does God pour out his contempt on some Princes Job 12.21 But further The Infinite Goodness and Wisdom of God is another special Qualification and Title in him to the Supreme Government of the Universe and a sufficient reason to evidence this great truth which I have asserted viz. That he does actually concern himself in the various Revolutions and Alterations that do occasionally happen throughout the several States and Kingdoms of the World His Goodness disposes him to commiserate the Miseries and Calamities of an Enslaved and Oppressed People and his Wisdom provides fit remedies against the times of their Distress preparing all things necessary the worthy Instruments and brave Undertakers as well as the ways and means of their Deliverance For his Goodness carries a very tender regard to the Peace and Welfare of Mankind and to the Preservation of their Lives and Liberties And his Wisdom can at his pleasure effectually secure them against any Attempts whatever in the enjoyment of all those many invaluable Blessings Thus for instance out of Sacred History we have Rehoboam who according to the Advice of his Flatterers the young Counsellors and unwary Politicians that were about him was fully resolved instead of redressing Grievances and gratifying the just Complaints of an Oppressed People to load the Israelites with other additional and more heavy Impositions and to make them feel as the Advice was given that his little singer should be more than all his father's loins But yet it so pleased God in mercy to that People to reserve a Jeroboam though one 't is true that afterwards made Israel sin for the prevention of such Evil and Tyrannical Purposes And so it came to pass by the Wisdom of the same good Providence of God that Ten Tribes unanimously revolting together as they did they bravely asserted their Liberty and by the bold refusal of having him for their King they preserved themselves a free and unenslaved Nation For Modern Examples of the like kind besides the late wonderful Revolution that occasions this present Solemnity 't is observable that when the great and very Potent King of Spain was immoveably fix'd upon the oppression of his Subjects in the Low Countries God's Providence was ready at hand to favour the Righteous Cause of the Oppressed and he accordingly raised up as horn of salvation for them in these Kingdoms our Renowned Virgin Queen of most blessed memory to remove the ground and occasion of their just Complaints and to establish their Freedom And for another Instance of this nature but later date it may suffice to remark the stupendious Proceedings of Providence which both disposed and enabled those very People to repay our kindness to them with the very same good Turn done unto us For when our Rights and Properties and what should be dearer to us our Religion were just a breathing out its last by reason of an upstart Popish Arbitrary Power that was then hurrying and hudling up all things together to compleat our Confusions and Destruction it pleased the Infinite Goodness of our Merciful God to put it into the hearts of these very People to furnish our King the glorious Champion of England's nay of Europe's Liberty with means sufficient at once to attempt and accomplish our Deliverance And this too as we have reason to say was marvellous in our eyes and was undoubtedly the Lord's doing In a word The Divine Goodness does principally aim at and intend throughout all his Administrations the particular advantage of every Nation and People and accordingly his Wisdom being wholly intent on the Common weal and general good of Societies is never deficient in its Operations towards that end and never fails by some Expedient or other of bringing his great Designs for the good and happiness of Mankind to pass Supposing therefore one Nation to be more refined and polite upon the account of its Arts and Manners than another or to be very flourishing in any useful part of Learning the method of God's Providence has been such as to suffer a Neighbouring and more Barbarous People to be overcome by and to be rendred tributary to such as were so civilized and improved And thus Learning and Arms heretofore did usually march under the same Banners and travel together out of one Country into another and thus by the alternate Succession of the four great Empires of the World a free circulation and communication of many

'T is undoubtedly one main instance of God's special Favours and Goodness to a Nation and such as ought to be a standing motive of their Repentance nay such Mercies being Probationary ones are to be look'd upon as design'd to make proof of our Gratitude and Obedience to that Infinite Goodness who does freely bestow them out of the Riches of his Mercy upon us So on the contrary when Evil and Tyrannical ones domineer and rule over us 't is an Argument of God's great Displeasure and Anger to a People For such as these and such have these Nations felt are indeed very heavy and deplorable Judgments and consequently are upon occasion the best Lectures that can be enlarged upon in order to correct the Popular Vices of the Age and to reform the Publick and Crying Sins of a Nation In a word 'T was God that in mercy to the Israelites rejected Saul and promoted David 'T was he that divided the Kingdom of the Jews into Israel and Judah That chose Jeroboam to be King over the Tribes that revolted and afterwards upon due provocation overthrew Ahab and Anointed Jehu to be King 'T was he that called in the Medes and Persians to afflict the Israelites for their Idolatry and other Abominations and who afterwards upon due humiliation removed the Yoke of that insupportable State of Bondage And 't was no less than God himself according to the Prediction of his Prophets that rais'd up the Medes and Persians against the Caldeans The Graecians against the Persians and lastly the Romans against all other Nations to work out and carry on the great Designs and Purposes of Infinite Power and Wisdom To conclude It was likewise God alone that facilitated the Attempts of Edward IV. and Henry VII for the recovery of these Kingdoms when they had been a long time banish'd from and dispossest of them and when they landed with the Foreign Assistance of 〈◊〉 above 2000 Soldiers and regain'd the Crown And 't was the same Good Providence of God which in mercy to a distracted divided and almost undone People effected this Day 's Restoration with little or no opposition I may say with less Blood In short 'T was this that brought us all back again to our true Constitution when the many notorious Male-Administrations and Violent Measures of the Late Reign had justly allarm'd our Fears and put us upon the necessity of a Natural State wandring Minds and Self-defence In a word 'T was this that when the Axe was laid to the Root of our Government prevented the deadly design'd Blow and prepared a way for the Resettlement of our Church and State as we now blessed be God do enjoy it This was marvellous in our eyes and was most certainly and undoubtedly the Lord's doing I come in the last place to shew the reasonableness of our present Joy and the Duty of this Day 's Thanksgiving I have been I must confess somewhat longer on the first part of this Discourse because I take it to be the most useful and edifying Enquiry of the two in these Sceptical and Atheistical Times wherein we now live which indeed are Times so desperately wicked as to require new Proofs and Establishment from us for the more effectual maintaining and asserting the very Fundamentals of our Religion 'T is an Age this which has Impudence and Prophaneness enough in store to explode and ridicule upon all occasions the True and Orthodox Notions of a Superintending Providence as if the God that made the World had nothing at all to do in the Appointment and Administration of the great Affairs in it Or as if he who created man at first was no ways concern'd either to govern us by his own Eternal Decrees of Providence or to see us governed by fit and proper Substitutes of his own designation But I am apt to think that the succession of such Mercies as have befallen these Kingdoms especially the happy Circumstances of our Present Establishment are so many standing and convincing Evidences of such a Providence which I have been so long a contending for To conclude therefore with the reasonableness of our present Joy and the Duty of this Day 's Thanksgiving in as few words as I can conveniently use on this Grand Occasion give me leave to observe That though God's Mercies to these Kingdoms have hapned to be liable to several Abuses as all Blessings are when bestowed on any Person or Persons who afterwards prove ungrateful and though they have been perverted perhaps to many evil and pernicious purposes viz. to the apparent hazard of this State and Kingdom and to the notorious scandal of our Church and Religion Yet this ought not in reason to abate the first obligations of our Gratitude nor in the least measure to impair that natural notion or grateful sense of God's Goodness which all Mankind either actually have or ought to have for Signal Benefactions and Providential Deliverances Nor would I be understood to contend altogether for particular days and periodical returns for Persons and Names or for mere forms nor for the sake of any Politick and State-compliance only but rather for a constant and Religious sence of our thankfulness to God upon the account of his publick Benefits and National Mercies as likewise for a substantial and devout expression of our Joy upon all solemn Occasions to him for the same I need not press home any Arguments for the particular duty of Gratitude as the occasion of this days Jubilee and Thanksgiving might otherwise require from me because I hope that in so refined an Age we are none of us grown such Apostates to good Manners and true Religion as to scruple the returning due Thanks and Acknowledgments for the Benefits which the extraordinary Providence of God has already vouchsafed to us and which we trust he will still continue to vouchsafe to these Nations The reasonableness therefore of our present Joy will be best evinc'd from these following Reflections In the First place The great and chiefest Blessing of our Restoration for I know of no other significant enough to be mentioned in this place was That it reduced our Confusions and composed our Disorders That from the mischiefs of Anarchy it improved our condition to the benefits of a certain and fixed Form of Government That from no King no Lords and no Commons I mean duly Assembled in Parliament it brought us to what was anciently what is now and what we hope will ever be Recognized as our true Constitution a Mixt or Limited Government made up of each of the Three particular Forms viz. a Monarchical Aristocratical and Democratical Power A Form of Government this if well Administred and justly Adhered to that affords all Conveniencies and Advantages imaginable that can be reap'd or enjoyed from under any of the Three distinct Species and yet secures us from all the Inconveniences and Disadvantages that through an Unlimited Jurisdiction can possibly result from either of them apart In short a