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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86578	The pillar and pattern of Englands deliverances. Presented in a sermon to the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and aldermen, with the several companies of the City of London, in their solemn meeting at Pauls on the Lords Day, Novem. 5. 1654. Being also the first Sabbath after his Lordships entrance upon his majoralty. / By Thomas Horton Doctor in Divinity, and professor thereof in Gresham-Colledge London.	Horton, Thomas, d. 1673.	1654 (1654)	Wing H2878; Thomason E815_1; ESTC R202560	28,310	47

THE PILLAR and PATTERN OF Englands Deliverances Presented In a Sermon to the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Aldermen with the several Companies of the City of London in their solemn Meeting at Pauls on the Lords Day Novem. 5. 1654. Being also the First Sabbath after his Lordships entrance upon his Majoralty By THOMAS HORTON Doctor in Divinity and Professor thereof in Gresham-Colledge LONDON PSAL. 77.11 I will remember the Works of the Lord surely I will remember thy WONDERS of old 2 COR. 1.10 Who delivered us from so great a Death and doth deliver in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us Printed at London by R. I. for Jo. Clark and are to be sold at the entrance into Mercers Chappel at the lower end of Cheap-side 1655. TO The Right Honourable Christopher Pack Lord Mayor with the Honourable Court of Aldermen of the famous City of London Right Honourable THe Devil hath had a double Design about this business of the Gunpowder-Treason the First was to blow up the Parliament the Second is to blow up the Deliverance and to make it appear less to the World than indeed it is It is true I will not deny but that as Corruption will be sure to be at the end of every Action so there might be possibly some Politique advantages made of the Discovery of this Plot by some which had then the managing of present Affairs but that is no Disparagement at all to the Mercy it self nor excuse to those which were Instruments in the Conspiracy The Danger was unquestionable and the Preservation very remarkable and such as we have All cause very deeply to lay to heart with the fullest resentment that may be The scope of this plain Sermon is a little to help us herein which I have now at the last by your Order not of mine own inclination nay indeed with some reluctancies in my self brought to the publique Light but in a desire of the publique Good I have purposedly deferred it to this Time for the publishing of it that so as the thing it self was as the beginning of a New Life so the Discourse about it might fall in with the New Year wherein our Lives are in a manner restored and renewed unto us Besides that the time of Printing it might somewhat answer the time of Preaching it which was New-Year in the Calendar of the City as it is now in the Calendar of the World And lastly That as the Deliverance is a Monument of Gods goodness to the Nation so the Sermon might be a Testimony of mine own respects and thankfulness to your selves in the injoyment and likewise continuance of so much favour and incouragement from you as I am still partaker of I have this only to adde That the Lord who keepeth Israel and who alone is the safety of his people would delight still to watch over this City for good to make the Walls of it Salvation and the Gates of it Praise and the Officers of it Peace to establish Holiness and Righteousness within the borders and in the midst of it that it may prove an eternal excellency and the joy of many Generations which is and shall be the prayer of Gresham-Colledge January 1. 1655 4. Your Servant in the work of the Lord THO. HORTON A SERMON Preached in PAULS on the Fift of November being also the Lords day A. D. MDCLIV NUM 23. ver 23. Surely there is no inchantment against Jacob neither is there any divination against Israel According to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel WHAT HATH GOD WROVGHT THis day on The Occasion which wee are now met and assembled together at this time Right Honourable and Beloved in our Lord it carries the signature of a double Solemnity upon it the one in its weekly revolution as it is the Lords Day the Day which God hath sanctified more especially for his own service And the other in its annual revolution as it is our day the Day which God hath marked with an eminent and famous deliverance of this Land and Nation of which wee are from that horrid and dreadfull conspiracy of the Gun-powder-Treason In either of which respects it is a time much to be observed and regarded by us throughout our Generations and in reference whereunto wee may say of it in the words of the Psalmist this is the Day which the Lord hath made Ps 118.24 wee will be glad and rejoyce in it Hee hath made it to be a Day of Rest and he hath made it to be a day of Joy both And these two they do no way cross or contradict one the other but do very happily agree together for wee can never better sanctily a Sabbath than by works of Prayse nor wee can never better celebrate a Thanksgiving than by works of Piety Indeed every thanksgiving-Day is in the proper nature of it a Sabbath and accordingly if wee rightly understand it is in that manner to be kept by us as an Holy-day not as a play-day as a day of holy and spiritual merriment and rejoycing to the Lord but this which is now before us is so as I may say in a manner whether we will or no from the present frame and disposition of the year which therefore I hope wee shall improve to the best advantage of the duty it self that is not to prophane the Sabbath that we may keep the Festival but rather by keeping of the Festival so much the better to sanctify the Sabbath I may adde one Notion to it more though inferior to the other two yet not altogether to be neglected by us which makes it more solemn yet It is the day wherein the chief Magistrate of this City appears first in this place with that badge of Government upon him who cannot lay a better begining and foundation of such an imployment than this of Praise and Thanksgiving to God especially as the occasion now calls to for protection and preservation from danger being that which those that are Governours as they have most need of so they have most promise for of any men else besides All these they concurr and meet together in this present performance But that which I shall especially frame my discourse unto is the commemoration of the deliverance it self which I have answerably fitted with a Scripture as I conceive most suitable to it in the prophecy of Balaam upon Israel The occasion briefly was The Coherence this Balak the King of Moab hearing of the general success which the people of Israell found in all places whithersoever they came and withall understanding of their pitching in the plains of Moab beganne hereupon to be distrest and fore afraid And now partly to secure himself and partly to displeasure the Israelites sends to Balaam the Magician to curse them The Sorcerer seemed at first to be unwilling but being incouraged by Balaks promises of reward attempts it and that often though in vain Instead of cursing