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A sermon preached before the Honble Society of Lincolns-Inne, upon the 26th of July, 1685 being the thanksgiving-day for His Majesty's victory over the rebels / by John Goodrick ...
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Goodrick, John.
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1685
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Wing G1144; ESTC R7981
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Zeal were so far to be despised as to think that we were able in a moment to blast and overthrow them for the Case in appearance was quite otherwise and to God only must we ascribe the Honour of the Day and give him the just tribute of it If the Lord himself had not been on our side may Israel now say if the Lord himself had not been on our side when Men rose up against us they had swallowed us up quick when they were so wrathfully displeased at us But Salvation belongeth unto thee O Lord the Help that is done upon Earth he doth it himself God hath shewed us his Goodness plenteously God hath let ussee our desire upon our Enemies Not unto us O Lord not unto us but unto thy Name be the Praise for thy Mercy and for thy Truth 's sake 2. Which is the second Inference and the Duty peculiar to the Day Let us return our just tribute of Praise and Thanksgiving to our great Sovereign the King of Heaven and Earth for this so signal a Mercy well knowing that such publick Blessings as his Majesty most devoutly words it in his Proclamation are Invitations from Heaven to us to render chearful Expressions of Thankfulness to the Divine Goodness It hath pleased God in his Mercy and Justice too to use various Methods to save us from our Sins and the hands of our Enemies He hath tried us by a series of Mercies and a train of Judgments and this on purpose to make us such a People as he may delight in us to do us good and to save us even against our wills and obstinacy But this last Deliverance is of such a nature as could we see to the bottom of this Rebellious Design as I doubt not but those who sit at the Helm are sufficiently acquainted with it it would at one and the same time strike us with horrour and amazement for the danger we were in and fill our hearts and mouths with joy and gladness for the strangeness of the Deliverance The truth is God hath wonderfully appeared in the Preservation of this King and Nation He hath delivered Him out of six Troubles and out of seven So that those words of the Apostle in his own case may without a tort be in some measure applied unto Him That tho he was in Perils of Waters in Perils by his own Countrymen in Perils in the Sea and in Perils by false Brethren yet the Almighty God still was his God and Refuge And notwithstanding the Counsels of some to debar him of his Right the Consequence of which the greatest part then assembled I charitably suppose did not think of yet God frustrated them and setled him peaceably in his Throne This I mention God knows my heart not to exasperate or satyrically to grate upon any but to excite our Praise and Thankfulness to the God of Peace who out of that Evil hath wrought so great a Good Let us with all Sobriety and Reverence render unto God the Author of our Deliverance and Peace all Praise and Thanksgiving saying in the words of the Psalmist with which I will conclude The Lord liveth and blessed be my Rock and let the God of my Salvation be exalted It is God that avengeth me and subdueth the People under me He delivereth me from mine Enemies yea thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me Thou hast delivered me from the violent Man Therefore will I give Thanks unto thee O Lord among the Heathen and sing Praises unto thy Name for great Deliverance giveth He unto his King and sheweth Mercy to his Anointed to David and to his Seed for evermore Now to God the Father the Son and Holy Ghost be ascribed all Honour Glory and Praise now and for evermore Amen FINIS * Vid. Earl of Clarendon's survey of Hobbs's Leviathan p. 8. where he tells my Lord that the reason of his writing that Book was to express it in his own words the truth is I have a mind to return into England