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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

to stir you up to an hearty acknowledgment of God's present Mercies to us and I promise my self some success in this undertaking and that the consideration of the following Particulars will make the same impression on every body concerned as it hath done on me First therefore Let us consider our Deliverance And Secondly The Returns we are obliged to make for it In our Deverance we ought to reflect I. On the depth of the Contrivance and Design against us from which God has graciously been pleased at this time to deliver us II. On the great extent of it All Princes in Europe especially such as profess the Reformed Religion being struck at by it III. On the miraculous Concurrence of Providences for our deliverance in breaking this Design so deeply laid and vigorously prosecuted You all have suffered so much by this Design and the memory of your Dangers and Deliverance from it is so fresh before you that I need not trouble you with the particulars of it 'T was in short to destroy you and your Religion and enslave all Europe under the Tyranny of the French King I. The depth of this Design appears 1st From the length of time wherein it has been formed and carrying on Some and not without reason date it from the very beginning of the Reformation some from the Restauration of the Royal Family and some from the Pyrenean Peace but as it immediately concerns these Kingdoms we can trace it by many Foot-steps from the Year 1670. since which time not only we but all Europe have groaned under the fatal effects of it As to this Kingdom of Ireland we find a Scheme of it laid down at large in a Paper formerly found in the Earl of Tyrconnell's House then Collonel Talbot dated July 1671. supposed to be drawn up by his Brother Peter Talbot then Titular Archbishop of Dublin and accidently dropt about that time several Copies of which have for many years been in Protestants hands In this Paper are proposed The modelling the Army The admitting Papists into Corporations The bringing them to serve in Civil and Military Imployments and the raising a vast Army of them to be transported into England on occasion One Particular in this Paper is remarkable 'T is in these words The Toleration of the Roman Catholick Religion in England being granted and the Insolency of the Hollanders taken down a Confederacy with France which can influence Enggland as Scotland can also will together by God's blessing make his Majesty's Monarchy Absolute and Real Where we see that the Design was to make the King Absolute and the means proposed Toleration of Popery a War with Holland and a League with France all which were at that time put in practice and have been prosecuted vigorously to this Day But 2dly We shall better understand the depth of this Design against us if we reflect on the Power Policy and Number of the Persons engaged The Power and Money of France the Cunning and Craft of the Jesuits the numerous and bigotted Roman Clergy the Wealth and Arms of England were all to be employed to our Ruine the Indigent and desperate Papists of Ireland were to be armed and let loose upon us The Common Enemy of Christians the Turks and Ravaging Tartars were called into Christendom to promote this Design and their destructive methods of managing Wars by universal Slaughters havock and burnings brought into practice by the more Unchristian French and to Crown their Design for the general Slavery and Desolation of Europe Protestants were cajoled bribed or compelled to fight against persecute and devour one another All which might be proved by undeniable Instances if this Sermon were designed for a History But 3dly We may have a further Idea of the depth of this Contrivance from which God has hitherto delivered us if we consider the Methods used for effecting it Had it been hatched in Hell it could not have been more a mystery of Iniquity than it was more Black and Villanous means could not have been applied to bring it to perfection For 1st We find Wicked and Treacherous Leagues and Conspiracies entred into in order to carry it on One of which is more especially notorious and remarkable for its folly and falshood A League so contrary to all sense as well as faith that the great Princes concerned in it are yet ashamed to own it a League so mischievous to Europe in general and so destructive to England in particular that it has brought them to the very brink of destruction and it is only God's miraculous Providence that could or yet can preserve them A League that broke the Ballance of Europe so carefully preserved by our wise Forefathers and by that means has advanced one by depressing and sinking all the rest This is that fatal Confederacy with France proposed in the forementioned Paper These are the Engagements of Friendship and Alliance which Monsieur D' Avaux the French Ambassador tells the States of Holland in his Memorial of September 9. 1688 the King his Master had with the King of Great Britain This is the Secret Treaty Abbot Primi tells us his Britannick Majesty signed in the Year 1670. whereby he should have secured to him an absolute Authority over his Parliament and the re-establishment of the Roman Catholik Religion in his three Kingdoms This is the Alliance with France which Maloony the Popish Bishop of Killaloo in a Letter of his to Bishop Tyrest of March 8th 1689. the Original whereof was found amongst the Bishop's Papers and is ready to be produced is so very angry that some Trimmers as he calleth them obliged King James to disown and this is the very source and fountain of all the present Calamities of Europe but more particularly of ours A second method of carrying on of this Conspiracy to Ruin us was by corrupting Ministers by granting large Pensions and multiplying Bribes I wish this means of promoting this wicked design had stopped at Ministers and that the honour of Princes had set them above the suspicion of taking Bribes for we are willing to think that it should be below the Majesty of a Crowned head to turn Pensioner or to sell his Crown or People for Louis d' Ors. A third means for carrying on this Contrivance against us was Murthering and Poysoning an Art too much practised of late in some Courts and 't is observable that wherever the Life of a Protestant stands between a Papist and an Inheritance it is of no long continuance nor doth any Prince begin to appear vigorous or terrible to France but he is in danger to be taken off in the prime of his age and that not without suspicion of foul play witness Prince Lewis of Brandenburgh and the Duke of Lorrain There is much Gold in France and there are every where wicked men ready to be bribed to do any thing and 't is not supposed of some that they scruple much to make the experiment what it is able to do

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

to his Religion and cunning design of spinning out his Life with their Pian Piano put them upon urging to him that great alterations are dangerous when carried otherwise than by slow and inperceptible degrees The same tells him that nothing causes irresolution more than a medley of Councellors of a different Religion from their Prince yet King James could never free himself from this Medley And that is the reason that his Actions were never of a piece and that he commonly spoiled his business by doing too much and yet too little thus he ought either not to have brought any Irish or French into his Army or made the whole intirely Papists He ought either to have accepted the French King's Assistance and Fleet without reserve or else broken with him altogether and declared against him But by hanging between both he lost the affections of his own Subjects which might have supported him and the benefit of Foreign Assistance his doing and undoing things had the same effect in which and many other particulars his not sticking intirely to one sort of Councellors was to us a great Providence I must reckon it as a sixth That the States of Holland should without scruple trust their All into His Majesty's Hand and be content to run his fortune which they plainly did in his Expedition We all know that the Vnited Netherlands are a free People most Jealous of their Liberty and who have done and suffered more to maintain it than perhaps any Nation in the World And as they are jealous of their Liberty so they are close and wary and not apt to venture too much at one slake Now that such a People should commit the absolute disposal of their Navy their Armies and their Money the very Sinews of their State to one Man and venture all in the same Bottom with him was an unbounded Trust and Kindness as his Majesty himself is said to have expressed it to them They trusted not only him but the Winds and Seas for his sake And tho' they had such intire confidence in his Conduct and Faith as not to ask him what he designed yet the hazard of a Winter-Voyage where the whole of their State was at once exposed to the Mercy of a Tempest was sufficient to have stumbled them had not the same God that inclined the hearts of Israel as of one man towards David knit their hearts to him and made them tender of his Life and Person where they without hesitation ventured their State 7thly It must be owned as an effect of the same Providence that King James's Court and Ministers were so blinded that they could not see into his present Majesty's designs And so secure that they would not give credit to the many Advices given them of these Preparations of which we can give no other account than that of Job Chap. 5. 13. He taketh the wise in their own craftiness and the councel of the froward is carried headlong they meet with darkness in the day and grope in the noonday as in the night 8thly I shall only mention King James's deserting his Army in England on which if he had absolutely cast himself and depended on their Fidelity it is certain by what has happened since that a great part of them would have stood by him There were enough to make a vigorous Opposition who were willing to run his Fortune if God had not enfeebled their Courage and put fear in their Hearts It was this opened the way to one of the greatest Revolutions that ever happened in that Kingdom almost without a drop of blood which must be owned as a singular Providence 9thly It was an over-reaching act of Providence to make that the Key to open a way for our settlement which was projected by our Enemies as the certain means to embroil us for ever I suppose no body doubts but those who advised King James to desert the Kingdom believed that we could never come to a settlement without him and yet the event proved directly contrary to their expectation for his presence in all probability had been such a rub to our settlement that it had not been easie to get over it It was indeed strange we should come to a Resolution so soon especially where the weight of the matter was so great and the opinions of men so divided that in the near equality of voices the wisest could not foresee how it would end till Heaven it self determined it For what else could have brought such different Interests and Judgments to acquiesce in the conclusion Neither in the 10th place must we imagine that the strange and absurd division of Protestants in England into Jacobites and Williamites happened without a Providence Whatever sence some may have of it in other respects we of this Kingdom must own it as a great and signal Mercy King James and his adherents here reckoned upon a strong and numerous Party in England and were affraid if they had utterly destroyed us that they should have lost them and therefore in many cases were obliged to bear an easier hand towards us than otherwise they would have done And whatever Favour or Forbearance we received from them was intirely due to this consideration This was the use God made of this Faction and now it has served his purpose I hope he will extinguish it 11thly God in his Providence so ordered it that King James found an unexpected diversion in Ireland that employed all his Forces till things were setled in England and till his present Majesty had leisure to break the Enemies power in Scotland and prepare for the Conquest of Ireland Had King James on his Landing in Ireland found no opposition in it but been intirely at Liberty to joyn his Forces with that Party that appeared for him in our neighbouring Kingdom every one is sensible how fatal the event might have proved not only to England but also to the Liberty of all Europe But it pleased God to find him work here by an unexpected Opposition which not only imployed but ruined his best men and lost him such an Opportunity as never could again be expected If we consider the Places and Persons that made this Opposition it is a Miracle that they should undertake much more that they should succeed in it and it looks as if God Almighty in his Providence had raised them up for that juncture and inspired them with Resolution in an extraordinary manner to shew his power in their weakness and his care of us in the seasonableness of their undertaking Our Enemies were very sensible of the unluckiness of this accident as they called it and curst Derry and Eniskillin as the occasion of the ruin of their affairs 12thly It was certainly a great Providence to us that his Majesty in person should undertake the Reduction of Ireland At a time and in such circumstances that King James and his Party judged it impossible and promised themselves that they had made him such work at