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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56272	A sermon preached in Christ-Church before His Excellency the Lord Deputy and the Parliament, on the fifth day of November, 1695 being the anniversary thanksgiving for the happy deliverance of K. James Ist, and the three estates of the realm of England from the most trayterous intended massacre by gun-powder : and also for the happy arrival of His present Majesty K. William on that day, for the deliverance of our church and nation / by Tobias, Lord Bishop of Dromore.	Pullen, Tobias, 1648-1713.	1695 (1695)	Wing P4195; ESTC R38013	11,068	20

Head I shall only mention some few duties which these words import and leave the enlargement on 'em to your own meditation and the First one of those duties which the latter part of my Text implys and which this days solemnity obliges us to perform is a publick and religious thankfulness to Almighty God for so general and so miraculous a preservation for 't is very evident that Rome intended as on this day to treat the Church of England united in one body in Parliament as Caligula design'd to treat Rome her self If it had but one neck to cut it off at a stroke to destroy it at once with a mighty destruction For all the Representatives of the Realm as the Office of the day expresses were by Popish Treachery appointed as sheep to the slaughter in a most barbarous and savage manner beyond the example of former ages But God has been graciously pleas'd both by his wisdom to detect and by his power to blast this inhuman Conspiracy and therefore we are all indispensibly oblig'd to take care that the religious expressions of our gratitude for so great a Blessing may on the wings of Praise and Thanksgiving ascend to Heaven from whence this wonderful deliverance came And Secondly our publick Thankfulness for so signal a Mercy should express it self in eminent acts of Charity to the Poor for as the miraculous preservation of us as on this day from this inhuman Plot of our Popish Enemies does highly resemble the wonderful deliverance of the Jews from the merciless designs of Haman so we ought to imitate the remarkable Example of their Benevolence on the Feast of Purim in the generous distribution of our Alms to our indigent Brethren as we find it recorded at the first Institution of that Feast in the 9th Chapter of Esther at the 22 d verse where 't is said that the days wherein the Jews rested from their Enemies and the month which was turned unto them from mourning to joy they should make days of Feasting and Joy and of sending portions one to another and gifts to the poor But lastly our miraculous deliverance as on this day shou'd work in us all a hearty repentance for our past offences and a thorough reformation of our lives for the time to come and as we express our publick sense of this mighty Blessing by our publick Offices of religious Praise and as by our Charity we declare our gratitude to Almighty God by making our poor distressed Brethren here below partakers of our Joy so by a true and sincere contrition we shou'd extend our Joy to the triumphant Saints above and cause joy in the presence of the Angels of God over so many penitent Sinners And this excellent duty of a general Repentance on so extraordinary an occasion I shall re-inforce upon you in the words of Samuel to the people of Israel in the 12th Chap. of the first Book of Samuel at the 24th verse Fear the Lord and serve him in truth with all your heart for consider how great things he has done for you and then we may with a rational confidence of future safety commit our selves and all our private and publick affairs our Persons and our Relatives our Religion and Liberties to the care and protection of Divine Providence being fully assur'd that God's infinite Goodness will prevent the Malice his Wisdom will infatuate the Councels and his Almightiness will quell the Power of our most formidable Enemies for Omnipotence is able to support us and Infinite Mercy will never be unwilling to help us and Omniscience can never be Forgetful of us and 't is impossible for Truth it self to disappoint us And now since God has deliver'd us from so great a Death and does deliver in him we 'll hope that he will yet deliver us and that he will compleat his wonderful mercy to us by the speedy conversion of the Corrigible and the utter confusion of our implacable Enemies Which God of his Infinite Mercy grant through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen FINIS