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A45350	A sermon preached in the cathedral and metropolitical church of St. Peter of York, on Thursday the fourteenth of February, 1688/9 being the day appointed by the lords spiritual and temporal, assembled at Westminster, for a publick thanksgiving to Almighty God, for having made His Highness the Prince of Orange, the glorious instrument of the great deliverance of this kingdom from popery and arbitrary power / by George Halley ...	Halley, George, 1655 or 6-1708.	1689 (1689)	Wing H454; ESTC R6579	12,462	36

no time unseasonable for the Practice of this Duty he continually revolv'd in his Thoughts and imprinted upon his Memory the Mercy and Loving Kindness of the Lord it was his pious Resolution to meditate or muse upon all his Works Psal 77.11.12 thus Psal 103.2 Praise the Lord O my Soul and forget not all his Benefits which he expresses Verse 4. Who saveth thy life from Destruction and crowneth thee with Mercy and loving Kindness But Thirdly Who can look upon God as his Creator and not at the same time think himself under an indispensable and eternal Obligation to praise and give him thanks Have we not the strongest Obligations to thank and praise him who is the Author of our Frame and Constitution Who is the Preserver of our Being Who sustains our Life by the continual Influence of his Love Upon him we have a constant and a necessary Dependance to him we owe the Common Protection of Life the Mercies of Health and Liberty and the reasonable Expectation of Happiness hereafter Can we then be so unnatural so inhumane so disingenuous as not to praise and give him thanks It is he that has made us saith the Royal Psalmist Psal 100.2 and not we our selves we are his People and the Sheep of his Pasture upon this Foundation he superstructs our Duty in the next Verse O go your Way into his Gates with thanksgiving and into his Courts with praise be thankful unto him and speak good of his Name We are his Creatures A Word of the greatest Emphasis a Word that demands and extorts from us all imaginable Thankfulness all possible Praise and Adoration being Creatures shews us God's absolute Soveraignty and Dominion over us we depend upon him as a Ray depends upon the Sun. When the Sun goes off the Horizon the Rays perish and vanish away Thus if God should withdraw his Influx from us we should instantly lapse and return into our primitive Nothing But Fourthly That we may be perswaded to offer up unto the Lord the Sacrifice of Praise and Thanksgiving let us consider that by such Sacrifices we not only glorify the Lord but our selves we thereby pursue our own Eternal Wel-fare and Felicity for God is so infinitely happy in Himself so perfect and beautiful so transcendantly glorious that we can give no Addition no Lustre to his Divine Majesty by the greatest Praise and most Solemn Thanksgiving No! God enjoins us to this duty of praise and thanksgiving not for his but our own Interest and Advantage He would have us contemplate his Glory and Perfection bless and praise him for no other end and purpose but that thereby we may be excited to transcribe into our Nature his Adorable Perfections and thus fit and qualify our selves for Heaven and the Joys of Eternity These are Ties these are Obligations strong enough of themselves to enforce upon us the Constant Practice of the Duty of Thanksgiving But these are not all There is yet behind one Argument more an Argument of no little Weight and Importance an Argument which if any thing can must rouze and awake us to the Duty of Thanksgiving must perswade us to entertain a grateful Affection a deep Sense of the Mercy and Loving Kindness of the Lord and that is the rare Accident of Divine Providence our Miraculous Deliverance for which we are this day met to praise the Lord And which is the Second Observable in the Words of my TEXT Namely The Reason or Enforcement to the practice and observation of the Duty of Thanksgiving and that is the Consideration of a Redemption or Deliverance from the Hand of an Enemy Let them give thanks whom the Lord hath redeemed and delivered from the Hand of the Enemy And here I might Discourse of the Universal Redemption of Mankind by Christ who paid the greatest Price who purchased our Liberty and Enlargment with his dear and precious Blood who delivered us from our Spiritual Enemies from the Principalities and Rulers of the Darkness of this World from Spiritual Wickedness in High Places by recovering lapsed Man to his former Capacity of Bliss and Happiness by an Expedient as full of Wonder as Mercy of which we can never express too grateful a Resentment But I shall only speak of a Temporal Redemption or Deliverance for to such a Deliverance the Text directly points Let them give thanks whom the Lord hath redeemed and delivered from the hand of the Enemy E manu tribulantis de manu angustiae de potentia angustiatoris Out of the hand of the Oppressor out of our Distress out of the Power of such as vexed and afflicted us This is that for which we are now to celebrate the Divine Goodness to magnifie him who hath demonstrated his Providence in so wonderfully relieving us in the time of Danger and Distress Let us give thanks whom the Lord hath delivered from the hand of the Enemy that is from the detestable Superstitions and Corruptions of Popery from the intolerable Yoke of the Romish Church A Church which is our implacable Adversary a Church which is become our Enemy for telling the Truth because we worship God after the way which they call Heresy a Church which mortally hates us for recovering the Christian Religion to it's ancient Brightness and primitive Splendor for professing that Faith which was once delivered to the Saints Is not this to hate us without a Cause Because we have accurately filed Religion polished and freed it from the Rust it had contracted and set upon it its former Lustre because we have fully discovered their horrible Cheats and grand Impostures by which they get their Wealth The Romanists for these reasons industriously endeavour to take away both our Place and Nation to destroy not only our Holy and Excellent Religion but our Incomparable Government and to bring our independent Freedom into a Subjection to their Foreign and Antichristian Yoke How many Efforts have been made How many Arrows have been shot at this Glorious Nation out of their Quiver of malice and revenge but all of them missed the Mark it was God that covered this Nation with the Wings of his Providence that Defended it from the Arrows that flew by Day and from the Pestilence that walked in Darkness It was in Eighty eight when the Spanish invincible Navy came like Great and Formidable Castles floating to our Coasts with Sails swell'd with fury and puffed up with hopes of Victory but the Lord fought for us by Fire Winds by Rocks and Tempests how did the Lord then display his Wonders for us in the deep How wonderfully did he then deliver us from the hand of the Enemy Oh that men would therefore Praise the Lord for his Goodness and declare the Wonders he hath done for the Children of Men It was in the Reign of King James the first of Blessed Memory that the Execrable Gun-Powder Plot that damnable Contrivance was formed under Jesuitical Wings but when it was grown to Maturity and ready