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A53968 A sermon preached upon September the 9th, 1683 being a Thanksgiving Day for a late deliverance from a fanatick-conspiracy / by Edward Pelling ... ; printed in his own defence. Pelling, Edward, d. 1718. 1683 (1683) Wing P1094; ESTC R38188 15,408 38

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Banishment or to Death Truly it is a fine Credit for that Nation But according to the course which some have taken here they were like to lay a Ground for Such Another Account in this Nation by their Barbarous and Bloody dealings with our Kings from Father to Son The consideration whereof is enough to enrage the Spirits of every English Subject that hath the Conscience of a Christian or but the Heart and Face of a Man And now we clearly see the meaning of those late Mysteries which some among us were not able or not willing to look into before The People were told that the Crown is at their disposal and that Princes may be Deposed Our King was Libelled as a Favourer of Popery and was brought into a Plot against himself 'T was insinuated boldly that he would use his Power after an Arbitrary manner and that all our Liberties and Properties were in Danger 'T was said that the Government was abused and that there was no hope of Redress the King being guided by Evil Counsellors All the most wicked Arts of 40 and 41 were used again to Blacken Majesty and to render a most Excellent Prince Contemptible and Vile and Odius to his Subjects and at last his very Guards were complained of as a great Grievance to the Nation and as Mercenary Forces that were raised to advance Arbitrary Power and still kept up to the great Amazement and Terror of all the good People of the Land they are the words of a Treasonable and Cursed Association Now what was the meaning of these and an hundred Devices more but to alienate the Hearts of the Kings Subjects from him to make the whole Nation Discontented and to bring his Majesty to such a Naked and Defenceless Condition that nothing should be wanting but a few hands to take him off which among so many Old Rebels Cromwellians and Army-Officers that lately swarmed about the City of London was no very hard matter to find But that Good God who caused a Star at Noon to light our Prince into the World who hath all along covered his Head in the day of Battel who preserved him in the Belly of an Oak as he preserved his Servant David in a Cave who defended him abroad from all the Dangers that attend a Twelve years Banishment who at last bowed the Hearts of his People as he did the Hearts of Davids Subjects and by a new Miracle brought him home without shedding of one drop of Bloud who hath ever since supported him against the strivings of Unthankful and Violent Men and who hath kept him safe from the Practices of Popish Jesuits that Good God hath delivered him from the Inhumane Designs and Bloody Attempts of these Protestant Jesuits also And methinks if men would but seriously consider how the Providence of God hath been particularly concerned for the King all along from his Birth even to this day it should be enough to turn the Hearts of all his Enemies and prevail with them to Love his Government and him who hath continually been and still is the very care of Heaven I have heard of a Jew that was Converted to our Christian Faith by considering the wonderful manner of his Majestics most happy Restauration For he presently concluded that the King and his People were very dear unto God who had wrought such a Miracle for both And truly it will be matter of great Admiration if for the future there be any Republicans or Anti-Royalists among us since the God of Heaven hath seemed thus to Attest and to Assert the Authority of the King and the Righteousness of his Cause by working so many Deliverances for him This late Deliverance especially which nothing but Gods own Hand could work for him As if the Almighty did intend by a continued and long Series of Mercies to him to make up to us all those Losses which the Three Kingdoms sustained by the loss of that Incomparable Prince and Royal Martyr of whom the World was not worthy 3. I am sure every Vpright and Loyal man hath all the reason in the World to be truly thankful for and to keep alive the memory of this wonderful Deliverance For Thirdly This Deliverance was wrought for us all for you and for me and for every Faithful and Righteous Subject throughout the Land and which is more for our Hopeful Posterity too and for the Children that are yet unborn Had the Conspiracy succeeded Lord I tremble to think what Confusion what Violence what Massacres must have presently followed and what Seas of Blood we had been drowned in by this time For these were not the desperate Designs of a few the business was laid very broad as one of the Conspirators did confess in his Letter to the Secretary of State And it seems by the Confession of another of them that in and about the City of London above ten thousand men were ready to rise at the holding up of one Mans finger and that these were to be multiplyed in the space of twenty four hours into five times the number besides an infinite Army of Rebels that were to be raised up and down in all Quarters by the several Agitators in every Country And what could have come of this but Plunders Rapine Murders Outrages an unheard of Slaughter and an Vniversal deluge of Blood over the whole Nation The Loyal Nobility the True-hearted Magistracy the Faithful Clergy the Honest Gentry all were marked out as Sheep appointed for Destruction Peers Prelates Judges every rank of Men from him that sitteth at the Council-Table to him that tradeth in his Shop or laboureth at the Plough all were to be under the same unavoidable necessity either of sacrificing their Lives or of prostituting their Consciences to those Barbarous Villains whose very Mercies are as cruel as the Grave however their Consciences are pretended to be so very Nice Delicate and Tender 'T is no New thing to be observed that some who cannot rise up to all the heights of Conformity as the Northern Phrase is can yet strain a point upon occasion and rise up to all the heights of Rebellion and Barbarity And had not God so marvellously interposed these Squeamish-Conscience-Traytors would have shewed us the Truth of this to our great Sorrow and Cost and beyond the Experience of the former Age. For 't is a Mistake if we think that their facino●us Designs were levelled only at his Majesty and his Royal Brother though that was a most flagitious and barbarous Wickedness No the very Foundations of the Earth were to be moved the whole Form of Government in Church and State was to be new model'd if they could but agree upon the Project To be sure Monarchy and Episcopacy the two great Pillars of all our Happiness and Safety were to be utterly pulled down never to be set up more without a Miracle which they who had not God in all their Thoughts nor any true Notion of a Deity did not think it worth