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prince_n	lord_n	put_v	trust_v	2,318	5	9.5906	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30425	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 B5881; ESTC R22905	14,041	40

Truth would be sooner found out In a word The Truth of our Religion appearing to us in so many conspicuous Characters especially after the noble and worthy Endeavours of so many of the Lights of this Church who have proposed all the Points in dispute to the World with Advantages beyond any thing that had appeared ever since the first beginnings of those Contests After all this I say we must conclude that this is the Lord 's doing since a Work that is so dear to him seems now to be again received into his protection in so signal a manner after he had seemed to hide himself from it 3. Those Providences which seem immediately to work upon the Minds of Men and to engage them into the Designs of Heaven are in a more conspicuous manner the Work of God. For the Mind of Man being a free Agent it is less accountable how vast Multitudes should come all under the same Impressions unless God did by those secret and undiscernable Methods of his Wisdom give them such directions This Psalm seems to be penned upon the making up of that Breach that was between the House of David and the House of Saul all Israel following the latter while only the Tribe of Judah adhered to the former see 2 Sam. 2. But all were afterwards united in owning of David who was become the Head Stone of the Corner that joined those two great Divisions in one David had felt how little either Princes or People that is those of the Sanhedrim or to speak in an English Phrase the Peers or Commons of the Jews were to be depended upon And therefore vers 9 and 10. he says It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in Man It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in Princes either numerous Armies or wise Councils The Reign of Saul and the Charms that were in Jonathan had no doubt given the Family a great Root But the Divine Designation that was upon David had broke through all that and had turned the Hearts of the whole Nation as one Man to him David had seen a formidable opposition in his way and he himself had passed through great and threatning Dangers but the right Hand of the Lord had been of his side and had done valiantly And all the Force that was brought against him had vanished into nothing or as a Fire of Thorns it had blazed and crackled a little but was soon spent And therefore as there was an universal rejoicing in the Tabernacle of the Righteous so David went into the House of God this Psalm being set as the Hymn of his Triumph which was probably sung before him as he went into the Tabernacle in Mount Zion for these words Open to me the gates of Righteousness I will go into them and praise the Lord together with the answer This is the gate of the Lord into which the Righteous shall enter seem to be set for his entring in at the Gates In a word the centring of the whole People in him was so particularly a work of Providence that in a most especial manner this was the Lords doing And therefore an extraordinary concurrence of all favourable Accidents and particularly the disposing of all Mens minds one way has a Character upon it that must force us to say This is the Lords doing I know how dangerous and deceitful an Argument this form Providence will ever seem to be and therefore I will touch it with that caution which is requisite It is certain that God for the punishing of Nations gives sometimes such a torrent of Success to those who are the Instruments of their Correction that this may be rather a mark of his displeasure against those who are to be brought low than of his favouring those who are lifted up There are also such Mysteries in the whole Conduct of the World that though our Partiality makes us apt to Magnifie all that we like yet if we carry it too far we will be in danger to be often out of countenance when the same Argument turns against us therefore before we can make any Comments on so doubtful a Text we must be first sure that the ground-work is well laid and that both the Cause it self and the means used to advance it are good But when we are got over that and are satisfied both in the one and the other then we can hardly forbear to look on a chain of unlookt for and unaccountable Providences without a most sensible Joy. I will not build too much on the Characters that have appeared in the Insensible part of the Creation I mean the Winds and Weather for one does not know how far those have been the effects of the natural series of things yet one cross Wind which seemed design'd only to make us apprehend the hand of Heaven without suffering much by it and without losing above one Man in it and another strong and prosperons Gale which both preserved us from those who were appointed to wait for us and brought us so near our Port but changed immediately for another to fetch us into it and which having executed its Commission was immediately in another corner and the softness of the Weather in a Season so far advanc'd are things so remarkable that we are extream insensible if they make not deep Impressions on us But as I said before the application of Providence in the turning and bending the minds of Men is yet a most immediate work of Heaven The precipitation and folly of our Persecutors in opening their ill designs so early the Impudent breach of Faith and the unrelenting Cruelty that they had put in practice in the Neighbouring Kingdom sent us over many thousands of Witnesses to awaken us and to let us see what we ought to look for whensoever that bloody Religion should come to prevail among us and of what account all Promises and Laws were to be whensoever they could break through them This coming so critically in the very time in which the Repeal of Laws was to be asked in their favours was a more sensible Argument against it than all the specious ones could ever be that were brought for it and so much Evidence was necessary otherwise the good Nature of some and the weakness and corruption of others had perhaps put us to a more Melancholy and Troublesom after game but such an apparent breach of Faith and so furious a Persecution as they had raised beyond Sea were Arguments that every Man could comprehend and manage and out of which it was not possible to beat them I need not enlarge on all that chain of Errors and Violences that have followed since the first broaching of the Design they were too many to be all repeated and too visible and well known to need that it should be done Nor would I willingly say any thing that might look either like Insulting or Reproaching God has seemed to have given them up to