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A56703	A sermon preached before the Lords spiritual & temporal, in the Abby-Church at Westminster, on the 26th of Novemb. 1691 being the Thanksgiving-day for the preservation of Their Majesties, the success of their forces in the reducing of Ireland, and for the King's safe return / by ... Symon Lord Bishop of Ely.	Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707.	1691 (1691)	Wing P850; ESTC R20816	17,588	38

make him declare That none of our Laws were violated none of our Rights or Liberties invaded When all the World saw them break through the very strongest Laws which were purposely made for the security of our most Holy Religion Let it be a warning to you not to trust them though they give never such goodly words and engage their Faith to you in the most solemn Promises Have nothing to do with that Spirit which will infallibly delude you if you hearken to it into your destruction Suffer not your selves by any artifice to be inveigled into a Belief that they can be innocent and harmless For whatsoever Declarations they make to this purpose they are mere Impostures and most dangerous Snares laid to entrap you Persecution being of the very Spirit of the Church of Rome by its Principles by its Doctrines and by its Practices which cannot alter This hath been so clearly and so lately demonstrated by those of our Church that I shall only briefly remember you Their Principle is That we who stand separated from their Communion are Hereticks who must perish everlastingly Their Doctrine is That the Secular Power ought to extirpate all those whom their Church condemns as Hereticks And their Practices are sufficiently known to be consonant to this For where have they failed when they had Power to exterminate those of our Religion Blessed be God then should we all say that this Spirit is if not quite cast out of these Three Kingdoms in a fair way to be utterly disabled from acting such Tragedies among us as they were manifestly preparing for us What shall we render to the Lord for his Goodness towards us Can it be ever forgotten by us And how can we remember it without such Affections as are suitable to such a remarkable Deliverance Which is the Second Part of this Discourse II. We ought to reflect frequently upon our wonderful Deliveronce from those apparent dangers wherewith we were compassed and consider what the remembrance of it requires of us There is no need I hope to go about to prove that God hath wrought a great Deliverance for us If any be so unhappy as to question it they may soon be resolved by asking themselves would we be willing to be in the same condition wherein we were Three years ago in the Power of our Popish Enemies who without the help of our Deliverer might have done what they pleased with us No body sure can think of being in such a Condition with any satisfaction And therefore I must conclude we all own the great Mercy of God to us in a most seasonable Deliverance Let us see how we ought to be affected with it Which is a Subject very large and copious but it may suffice to suggest these Four things to your Christian Consideration First We ought so to remember the Loving kindness of the Lord as never to fail to bless and praise him for it as long as we have a day to live Secondly We ought to be very grateful to the glorious Instrument of our Deliverance Thirdly Look upon our selves as preserved on purpose by God that we may live to the Praise and Glory of his Grace and Mercy towards us Fourthly And then we may learn hereby to place our trust and confidence in the same Mercy for the time to come I. There can be no dispute of the first of these that the Praises of God ought to be continually in our Mouth for the great thing he hath done for us Nothing can be more unbecoming nothing more disingenuous and vile than instead of this to hear such undutiful murmurings repinings and complaints as too many Mouths are filled withal Which would be quite silenced if we would make it our business as it is our duty to think how much we owe to God and what thanks we ought to be giving continually for the Deliverance he hath wrought for us and for all the Blessings which by that means we enjoy There is nothing can be more rational than this II. And one would think there should be as little dispute about the Second That we ought to be highly grateful to the Glorious Instrument of our Deliverance For whose coming all Men longed The News of whose arrival was every where welcomed with the greatest joy Which I hope we have not already forgotten nor suffered the Benefits we have received thereby to slip out of our Mind For we owe the happy Liberty we now enjoy of worshipping God here together according to the Rules of the Gospel unto that Deliverance Which hath been followed with a very long train of Labours and Toils which His Majesty hath undergone and of marvellous Successes God hath blessed him withal for the confirming the Peace and Prosperity which is continued to us by his means With how many Difficulties hath he wrestled Through what Hardships hath he waded And to how great Hazards hath he exposed his Royal Person both this year and the last that we might reap the peaceable Fruit of them in safety and ease If it had not been for his Courage and Conduct our Irish Brethren might have still languished under those heavy Oppressions from which they are now freed The Common Enemy might have still made greater ravages in our Neighbouring Countries if he had not stood in the Gap to stop their Fury Which we our selves might have felt long before this time had not God raised him up to be our Deliverer and strengthned his Hands to maintain what he had atcheived How vast are the Obligations which by these things he hath laid upon us Can we think that we have ever done enough for him who hath done and endured so much for our Preservation The ancient Heathens thought themselves so much indebted to the Deliverers of their Country that they set no bounds to their affection but honoured them as Gods This was an excess of Gratitude to them But had they given them all the Honour that is short of Divine owned them for Gods upon Earth I mean for their Kings and Governours they had not done amiss For Nature hath ever taught Mankind to pay all manner of Service to such as saved their Lives and redeemed their Liberties when they were in danger to lose them Which was all I am apt to think that the ancient Heathen meant by calling such Persons their Gods That is their Kings their great Benefactors Which was the Name they frequently gave to their Princes especially to such as had been their Deliverers Whom they honoured under that Notion while they lived and superstitious Posterity pursued them with Divine Honours when they were dead How could this Nation then do less than own him for their King who had been their Deliverer from Slavery both of Soul and Body This is no more than common Gratitude hath inclined all Mankind to do for those who only preserved their Civil Liberties when they were invaded He that redeemed them they thought had a good Title to them and