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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 Arabick translation though not in our last Printed Copy yet according to the Erpenian Edition seems to carry it in the very Text. God hath wrought a DESPERATE thing As Paul speaking of himself and his Companions in their great danger in Asia says They were prest out of measure above strength insomuch that they despaired even of life and had the sentence of death in themselves and yet God delivered them from so great a death It was so in the Israelites redemption from the Babylonish Captivity Psal 126.1 When the Lord turned again the Captivity of Sion we were like to them that dream Why like them that dream namely in regard of the strangeness it was such as they could not think there was any truth or reality in it Secondly as to the manner of Transaction 2 The manner of transaction these Providences are wonderful so and we may be very well amazed at them upon that account What hath God wrought as to the means which he hath wrought it by such poor and contemptible instruments as he is pleased now and then to imploy and to make use of for the deliverance of his people And then thirdly 3 The unworthiness of the Persons The unworthiness of the persons which are made partakers of it this advances it so much the more for God to work so strongly and powerfully for those which deserve so little at his hands as he sometimes does this is a Wonder of Wonders and which may very well work us to Astonishment All this comes to this purpose 1 Admire Gods Providence to his Church That we for our parts be so much the more affected with his dealings with us we should not look upon them as ordinary matters but as things above common performance and so they are As the things themselves are admirable so accordingly should they be admired by us and we should bless and praise him for them upon his consideration as the Prophet Esay teaches us to do chap. 25. ver 1. O Lord thou art my God I will exalt thee I will praise thy Name for thou hast done wonderful things c. And further it should teach us to trust in God 2 Trust him in difficulties and to depend upon him in cases of difficulty Wee should not despair in the greatest Extremities nor limit the Holy one of Israel for God he works Wonders for his people and such as they themselves are not able to pre-conceive or to imagine how they should be wrought It is a great piece of weakness in us when we shall measure the Power of God by our poor and shallow apprehensions That because we forsooth cannot see how such and such things should be done in our reason therefore they cannot be done at all O let us take heed of that God does sometimes bring about such things for his Church and People as they themselves shall be ready to Wonder at then when they are done And so much of the first Branch observable in this second General viz. The Prediction or Celebration it self It shall be said of Jacob and of Israel what hath God wrought The second is the Qualification The regulation of the Performance or particular Regulation of it according to this time Now this again it may be understood two manner of ways either as the Occasion or as the Pattern According to this time that is derivatively from it or according to this time that is 1 As the Occasion proportionably to it Answerable to Gods Goodness in this Mercy shall be his Goodness in many others First take it as the occasion according to this time that is with respect had unto it when future Ages shall reflect upon the Mercy which God hath vouchsafed to his people in their deliverance from this Conspiracy they shall exceedingly bless him for it and say What hath he done they shall not only take notice of the Deliverance as it concerns the Church but of the Author of it as it concerns God himself not only say what is wrought as to the meer event but what hath God wrought as pointing out the Worker of it There were divers occasions of Thankfulness and Acknowledgement in this Providence to Israel as fit to be celebrated by them First The disappointment of Balak in his intendments against them Secondly Not only disappointing him of his intended Curse but also vouchsafing a Blessing instead of it this was somewhat more Then thirdly That all this should be done so publickly and with so much solemnity as it appeared to be from the circumstances As it was matter of Astonishment so it was likewise matter of Acknowledgement as of Admiration so also of Thankfulness And according to this time that is for the Mercy that was wrought at this time it shall bee said of Jacob and of Israel What hath God wrought That as the Occasion 2 We may take it also as the Pattern 2 As the Pattern according to this time c. that is look how God hath done at present the like will he do also hereafter These words It shall be said do not only denote the acknowledgement and celebration in regard of the Persons but also the ground of it in regard of the thing there shall be matter for this saying afforded to following times agreeable to what there is now There are two Conclusions which do hence natually arise from these words First That God will be one and the same to his Church in all Ages and Generations of the World for the protection and preservation of them Secondly That there are now and then some standing and more eminent Deliverances which God vouchsafes to his Church and People and which he propounds also to himself as so many patterns and examples of the rest First I say God is the same to his Church in all Ages as he hath been in former times so he will likewise be in this and so downward even to the coming of Christ God is as careful of his Church now as ever he was and Christ hath as great a regard to his Spouse now as ever he had be loves her never a whit the less because of her age nay rather if there be any difference at all he loves her so much the more shee is so much the dearer with him as shee hath longerhad relation to him This point which we are now upon 2 From Gods unchangeablenesse is grounded upon these considerations First the Unchangeableness which is in God himself considered in his own Nature I the Lord change not therefore yee Sons of Jacob are not consumed Mal. 3.6 God is the same in himself therefore the same also in his dealings and passages of Providence towards his Church He does the same because he is the same Thou art the same says the Psalmist Psal 102.27 As the same for the continuance of being so the same for the continuance of properties and attributes considerable in themselves Secondly 2

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