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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

of Protestant or Papist Enemy or Ally All were equally devoted to destruction in it The Duke of Lorrain was actually turned out of his Dukedom The Prince of Orange his present Majesty was deprived of his Principality of Orange The Empire was partly to be given up to the Turk and the remaining Princes were to apply themselves to France for Protection and to chuse his Son King of the Romans The Dukedom of Savoy was to be brought in under the notion of Pupillage The Princes of Italy were frightned bought or wheedled out of their strong Holds and the Keys of their Country such were Ca●al and Guastalla put into French hands Sicily was perswaded to Rebel and sollicited to serve the Spaniard as they had done the French before in the famous Vespers Genoa was to be Bombed England bought and Holland drowned Spain had a Barren Queen designedly made so as many believe put upon him that his Crown might fall to France by Succession The Northern Kingdoms whose cold and distance secured them from immediate attempts were yet taken off from assisting their Neighbours and bought into something worse than a neutrality The great Contrivers and Managers of these were the French King the great Turk and I need not name the third in the Triumvirate 'T is too much that we groan yet under the mischievous effects of their Conspiracy which has been no less pernicious to all Europe than that of Antony Lepidus and Augustus was to the Roman Common-Wealth There is no doubt but all these have been designed attempted and almost brought to perfection within these 20 years by strength of this Confederacy and there is not one Prince or State in all Europe that has not been concerned in the fatal effects thereof But 3dly This design was levelled more immediately at the destruction of the Protestants of Europe The Extirpation of the Pestilent Northern Heresie has been long known to be the Principal Article in it and was probably the pretence and bait that induced his late Majesty to espouse it He was not fonder of being obeyed without reserve than of propagating his Religion and perhaps he chiefly desired an absolute Authority over his Subjects that he might compel them to come into the Bosom of his Church What business had he with a standing Army or numerous Troops of Dragoons but to employ them as Missionaries to convert his Heretical Subjects The example of France had taught him their use and that Dragooning was a much more effectual way to Reconcile men than Sermons or Arguments In short by this Conspiracy the Protestants of France are already destroyed those of Savoy turned out of their Country those of Holland have been invaded and forced to cover themselves with their Waters And as for us in Ireland I need not tell you how we have been used The least hint is sufficient to refresh your memories and the danger we have escaped is yet so near that it supersedes all necessity of a description It has been said of some that when they have been shewed the next morning the danger they escaped in the night they have died with apprehension I am sure no Precipice can have a more dreadful prospect to those that have escaped it than our danger ought to have and will have to all that duly consider and look back on it But God has Redeemed and Saved us out of our Enemies hands He has brought us back into our own Land and we are now before him this Day to Magnifie him for our Deliverance Let us therefore joyn in that which is the burthen of this Psalm O that men would Praise the Lord for his goodness and Declare the wonders he doth for the Children of men But 4thly This Conspiracy had a peculiar respect to the Free States of Europe 'T was about the time of the entring into this League that famous saying was applied to Holland Delenda est Carthago It was pretended to be of ill consequence to Princes and Crowned Heads to let a Common-Wealth be their Neighbour lest the fight and example of Liberty might influence their People they combined therefore to destroy them that the slaves of France might not understand that there was a milder Government in the World than the Tyranny of their Master If his present Majesty cou'd have been prevailed on to come into the Confederacy he needed not have ventured his Life to rescue England and merited a Crown by such hazardous undertakings He might have been a King out of hand in his own Country and secured of his Succession to the English Throne but he scorned Crowns of Lewis's giving much more one that he cou'd not take without injuring his Country the Liberty of which is due to his Ancestors and the Preservation of it to Himself But when they cou'd not corrupt they resolved to destroy him and that more particularly because they look'd on him as the Patron and Defender of the Liberty of Europe to which they on all occasions declared their enmity 'T is not imaginable with what Passion and Zeal their whole Party here used to enlarge on the Praises of an Absolute Government how impatient they were to hear any one name to them the Laws the Liberty of the Subjects or a Common-Wealth No the King's Will was the only Law they cou'd endure to hear of and they mightily admired and praised the submissive temper of the Mahometans that counted themselves happy to be under a Power which when it pleased might present them with a Bow-string They did not mince the matter but openly professed that they designed to free the King from the chains of the Laws and the Pupilage of Parliaments or as the Irish Proposals I mentioned before word it make his Monarchy absolute and real The very terms of the League according to Abbot Primi were to secure to the King an Absolute Authority over his Parliament and the Re-establishment of the Roman Catholick Religion in the three Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland But 5thly This Confederacy or rather Conspiracy had a peculiar relation to Ireland The great Body and Magazine of Men whose hands were to perform this Work in these Kingdoms were to be raised out of Ireland The Irish Proposals I have so often mentioned promise 150000 part of them were to be the King 's immediate Guards part of them the standing Army of England and all of them the Instruments of our slavery In order to make them considerable and to hire them to do their work cheerfully Ireland was to be seperated from the Crown of England and made independant on it The English interest in it was to be destroyed and the Protestants under the notion of Whigs Fanaticks Cromwelians rooted out of it How near these things were to taking effect you all can witness they were not only designed and attempted but actually for the most part executed upon us our Estates were taken away and this Kingdom cut off from England by Acts past in their late

But 4thly Where they could not Murther Protestant Princes it is hard to say where they have not attempted it they endeavour to defeat them of their Succession We all are satisfied that this was the only womb that conceived a Prince of Wales for us and gave him a Birth There was an attempt of the same kind in the days of Queen Mary which did not succeed to their mind but time and experience make men wiser hence it is that the contrivance that proved abortive then did with us come to perfection but in such a manner that at the same rate if allowed we might be sure never to fail of an Heir to defeat a Protestant Successor A fifth means of promoting this design was by calling the Turk into Europe and by supporting that common Enemy of Christianity to the ruin of those that profess the holy name of Christ. And the French King that he might embroil Christendom by Sea as well as by Land has made his Pride stoop to his Interest and condescended to buy a Peace with the Algerines Covenanting with them to assist them in their Piracies and their enslaving Christians A Man and his designs are known by his Friends and Confederates Now the French King's Allies are the Bandity of Italy the Pirates of Algiers the Turks and Tartars of Asia and the Tories of Ireland What a mercy of God is it to give us a Deliverance from the Conspiracy and Designs of such Monsters The depth of this Design appears from a sixth method used to effect it and that was to stir up and animate one party of Protestants to bite and devour another 'T is not bare difference of Opinion that makes men of different Sects so strange and unsociable to one another as we commonly observe them to be but their strangeness and enmity proceeds either from interest or from some peculiar Principle that obliges them to persecute and destroy all that differ from them tho in a trifle Where neither of these happen or where men of different Opinions are not encouraged or suffered to hurt one another we see they live very easily and lovingly together of which Holland is an undeniable instance and likewise this City under our late common sufferings in which the generality of Protestants notwithstanding their difference in Judgment lived with much mutual confidence and friendship but it is a Principle of the Roman Church that every Prince is obliged to root out and destroy all Hereticks out of his Dominions and that under no less a penalty than Deposition This is required of Princes by the Councils of Lateran and Constance and all Popish States and Princes have been so true to it in their practice that I do not remember that there has been nor believe that there is at this present any Prince or State of that Persuasion who doth Tolerate any Religion besides their own in their Country where they are able to suppress it with safety to themselves and they have generally been so eager upon it that many have attempted it to their own destruction No wonder therefore if their Persons and Religion be very odious to men of different perswasions since every body naturally hates one that is always ready to do him a mischief But I wish that they had kept this Principle to themselves and not industriously sowed it amongst Protestants among whom they first by their Emissaries sow false Doctrines and raise Schisms and then set up others to persecute and destroy those whom they themselves have seduced And when they have prevailed with one Party to bait worry and exasperate another to the height they then take them off for a time and put the Rods and Axes into the hands of the oppressed and whilst they yet smart under their sufferings they stir them up and encourage them to revenge themselves on their persecutors By which Arts they make the breach irreconcilable and the difference tho inconsiderable in it self to become the ground of an eternal Schism and Feud between the parties whom they have thus dashed against one another We all know that these were the methods used to set us together by the ears ever since the Reformation and in the two last Reigns 't was particularly observable that Toleration and Persecution succeeded one another by turns and were timed just as they served most effectually to set People a madding against one another One day the Laws must all be put in execution and none must be a favourite that would not be forward to execute them the next day the Persecution must not only be stopped but the instruments of it exposed to the revenge of those they had exasperated and forced to take their turn in suffering by the Actions and Law-suits of such as they had wronged Thus the common Conspirators against our Peace Liberty and Religion blow the coals and kindled a flame amongst us that was like to devour us all and 't is God's great mercy that we have escaped it These are a few of those considerations which might be offered to shew the depth of this design from which our good God has graciously redeemed us II. But I haste to the Second Head of my Discourse whence we may have occasion to magnify God's goodness in our Deliverance and that is from the extent of the design against us which was equal to its depth it being of a vast and comprehensive Nature The true and great design was to satisfy the ambition of the King of France by advancing him to the universal Monarchy of the West England might be cullied and wheedled with the imaginary pleasure of Mastering his Parliament of getting his will of his People and setling Popery Holland with the hopes of gain and a free Trade The Pope and Emperor with the specious pretence of re-establishing the Catholick Religion but the true and bottom-design was to enslave Europe and to make the French King as great and as pernicious to the Western Princes and States as the Turk has been to the Eastern And they did not miss the matter who in the Emblem represented these two as sawing the Globe asunder whilst the King of England's part was to pour in Oil to make the work more easie for them a thing so destructive to the true interest of his Crown that it is a miracle how he could be prevailed on to accept of the employment much more how he should be able to prevail with his Subjects to assist him in it Whatever be pretended of the stubborness or ungovernableness of the People of these Nations it certainly argued a very passive and submissive temper in them to give Money so liberally and to Fight so fiercely as they did to destroy themselves and their fellow Protestants to make sport for their common adversaries and serve the interests of their most inveterate and most dangerous enemy the French King Secondly The Design was universal and aimed at the destruction and enslaving all the Kingdoms and States of Europe No distinction