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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42367	A thanksgiving-sermon preached at St. Michaels Crooked-Lane April 16th, 1696, upon occasion of His Majestie's deliverance from the late intended assassination of his sacred person in order to a French invasion / by James Gardiner.	Gardiner, James, 1637-1705.	1696 (1696)	Wing G228; ESTC R26742	7,453	28

July 3. 1696. Mr Biship 6d. Mr. GARDINER's Thanksgiving-SERMON Preached at St. Michaels-Crooked-Lane April 16th 1696. A Thanksgiving-SERMON Preached at St. Michaels Crooked-Lane April 16th 1696. Upon Occasion of His MAJESTIE' 's Deliverance From the Late Intended Assassination of His SACRED PERSON In Order to a FRENCH INVASION By JAMES GARDINER Rector of the said Parish LONDON Printed for B. Aylmer at the Three Pigeons in Cornhill MDCXCVI A Thanksgiving-SERMON 2 TIM 3 Chap. ver 1. and beginning of the 4th 1 This know also that in the last Days perillous times shall come for men shall be 4 Traytors c. A Time Solomon says there is to be Silent and a Time to Speak such an One is this that now offers it self upon the Happy Discovery of the late Barbarous Plot design'd against His Majesties Sacred Life in Order to a French Invasion Of the Truth and Reality of which the flying of some from Justice the very extenuating and mincing of Matters by others at their Tryals and their Voluntary Confessions in their Papers deliver'd with their own Hands immediately before they were turn'd off and went to their Place are full Evidence and irrefragable Arguments and must satisfie all the World except such Miscreants that want Demonstration from the accursed Deed from which Good Lord deliver us Which hath so much of Horror and Villany in it that should we now be Dumb and not open our Mouths in an utter detestation of it the Stone out of the Wall would cry out against such an Irreligious Silence and the Beam out of the Timber would answer it It 's a Sign that the World is a dangerous place to live in and almost at an End not far from the Gates of Death when we see so many Grey Hairs the Messengers of an approaching Dissolution upon her My meaning is when Men shall be Traytors This know also that in the last days perillous Times shall come for men shall be Traytors You 'l pardon me if I be not over-methodical to Day or do not speak so closely to the Text as I ought to have done at another Time my design being only this at present viz. to draw you out a short Figure of those Miseries which would infallibly have attended this Cursed Conspiracy had it taken effect and to hint in two or three Particulars what we are all obliged to for the day is too little for the day to acquaint you with the whole of your Duty upon the Receipt of such Favours of such a Deliverance as this that can be compared to nothing but it self and may have many Deliverances in it which we know not of When Sixtus Quintus began his Encomiastical Oration of the Jacobine that kill'd the French King it was with the Words of the Prophet Habakkuk Chap. 1.5 Behold a work wrought in your days you will not believe it when it shall be told you a poor Fryar hath slain the great King of France Such another piece of Work should have been done in Our Days and I make no Question but we should have had such kind of Speeches made too in Defence of it and the Divine Providence Magnify'd in it also But thanks be to GOD who is wonderful in Counsel and excellent in working he has done another work in which with open Face we may behold his Glory Behold what Prevention of Desolation he hath wrought in the Land for nothing Less could have been expected from such Conspirators Men that neither fear GOD nor Reverence Man Men of such debauch'd Principles to whom it 's as Natural to hate and Kill Princes as to Eat their GOD Men of such Desperate Fortunes or which is worse of the two Plentiful Ones What Flesh does not tremble to think what would have follow'd upon the Kings Death or a French Invasion Blood and Fire and Pillars of Smoak The Confused Noise of the Warriour and Garments rowled in Blood The Mother dasht in pieces upon the Children No Reverence to the Person of the Aged nor pity to the sucking Babe The whole Body of the Clergy to be sure of it either Banished or Sacrificed the Church destroy'd and her Lands Escheated to pay all the Charges of the Plot c. All Laws overlaid and stifled The Nobility and Gentry rooted out and all their Possessions given to his Own Souldiers nothing remaining to their Heirs after them but Poverty which is a sure Inheritance and can neither be plundered nor forfeited forcing them notwithstanding to hold it under them as their Salves and Vassals Hear his Language Thy Silver and Gold is mine thy Women and Fair Children And if any thing be deny'd The gods do so unto me and more also if the Dust of thy Land be sufficient for my People every man to take an handful Not a Remnant to be saved not a Berry here and there in the utmost Boughs In short the Consequence would have been a French Government and French Popery the Yoak of which is neither easie nor the Burden light which if not comply'd with would have forced us to the Galleys or to be Martyrs or Refugees These would have been the Favours and the Graces that our Three Kingdoms had been crown'd and blest withal had the designs of our Foreign Enemies and our False Brethren within our Selves Good God! that ever there should be in a certain Island of the World such Devils in Humane shape had their designs I say succeeded But to the Lord our GOD belong the Issues from Death Come and behold his Works of Mercy and Deliverance See them touch them handle them they are not Spirits Fancies Speculations they are true Bodies and have the flesh and bones of real Works Just when the Arrow was upon the String and the down-lookt Rebels men skilful to destroy had prepared the Instruments of Death and marked out the very Place where to Fire His Majesty out of his Life when the Decree was Signed by a Kings Letters and they said the days of Mourning are come come let us Kill the Spark for we will not have this Man to Rule over us and subvert his Kingdom that his Name may be had no more in Remembrance then it was that He scattered the Proud in the Imagination of their Hearts and so disappointed their Devices that their Hands could not perform their Enterprize The Wicked is snared in the work of his own hands Higgaion Selah Mark and Meditate This is the Lord 's Doing and it is marvellous in our Eyes Da Veniam Imperator Pardon me Great Sir It was not Flesh and Blood that Reveal'd this Mystery of Iniquity unto you but Your Father and Saviour which is in Heaven Happy art thou O England who is like unto Thee saved by the Lord Thine Enemies are found Lyars unto thee The Snare is broken and we are deliver'd their Machinations are unravell'd into Folly and Shame and Dishonour are their last promotion They are hurl'd out of the Land of the Living as out of the midst