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A56793	The Protestant King protected, the popish kings detected and defeated in a sermon preach'd at St. James Clarkenwell, April 16, 1696, being the day of publick thanksgiving for the deliverance of His Majesty, K. William III from assassination, and his kingdoms from invasion by the French / by Deuel Pead ...	Pead, Deuel, d. 1727.	1696 (1696)	Wing P963; ESTC R17663	21,808	38

The Protestant King PROTECTED THE Popish KINGS Detected and Defeated IN A SERMON PREACH'D At St. James Clarkenwell April 16. 1696. being the Day of Publick Thanksgiving for the Deliverance of His Majesty K. William III. from Assassination and His Kingdoms from Invasion by the FRENCH By DEUEL PEAD Chaplain to His Grace JOHN Duke of NEW-CASTLE LONDON Printed for T. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside MDCXCVI THE Protestant KING protected c. Psal II. 1 2 3 4 5 6. 1. Why do the Heathen rage and the People imagine a vain thing 2. The Kings of the Earth set themselves and the Rulers take Counsel together against the Lord and his Anointed saying 3. Let us break their Bands asunder and cast their Cords from us 4. He that sitteth in Heaven shall laugh the Lord shall have them in Derision 5. Then shall he speak unto them in his Wrath and vex them in his sore Displeasure 6. Yet have I set my King upon my holy Hill of Sion THis is a Day of Thanksgiving a Time of rejoicing not that Babylon is utterly fallen but because two Kings and their People who have committed Fornication with her are confounded in their black and bloody Designs When I first turn'd my Eyes to this Psalm and consider'd it as apply'd to our Saviour I did conceive the Tragedy committed upon him might guide me in describing that of this time but I soon found though in some Circumstances there was a resemblance as that the High Priest Scribes Pharisees and Rulers of the People laid and cherished the Design and that Loyalty and Allegiance to Caesar were pretended to give it the greater Countenance and also they were so far alike that the Devil had a part in it perswading one Disciple to betray another to deny and the rest to abandon him Yet there were other Particulars that did vastly differ as that the Jews aimed at a single Person the Plotters of this Day at multitudes of People young and old The Jews carried theirs on by a Form of Law they had their Sanhedrim C●●ap●●● and Pilate on their side but these Men design d to perpetrate their Villainy by Fire Sword Blood and Cruelty Again the Jews declare that what they did was from a Principle of Fear Joh. 11.48 for fear the Romans should come and take away their Place and Nation their Religion and Country they were forced as they thought to conspire against Jesus But now the bloody Treason at this time was therefore invented and hatch'd that Men of Romish Principles might have had the opportunity of destroying our King our Religion our Laws our Liberties our Lives our Wives Children and Country by introducing Popery and Slavery Disappointed therefore of my first Expectation I consider'd the Words with relation to David and his Affairs and so though I found many things paralel yet not all The Plot against him was very wicked but this of our Time exceeds it However seeing I cannot be so exact as I desir'd I must be content to go so far as I may The Words read acquaint us with a desperate Contrivance against the Crown and Dignity the Life and Person of King David and also they give us an Account of a seasonable and glorious Deliverance In the Plot we are to consider of Four Particulars I. The Persons contriving and carrying it on First The Heathen Secondly The People Thirdly Kings Fourthly Rulers II. The distinct Parts of every one of these First The Heathen raged Secondly The People imagined Thirdly The Kings stood up Fourthly The Rulers took Counsel III. The Persons against whom they plot The Lord and David his Anointed King IV. The End and Design of this Plot. Let us break their Bands asunder and cast their Cords from us In the Deliverance we must consider 1. The Success of the Plot. All that these imagined was vain 2. The Person working this Deliverance He that sitteth in Heaven 3. The Means by which it was wrought First He laughed at the Conspirators and had them in Derision Secondly He spake unto them in his Wrath. Thirdly He vexed them in his sore Displeasure Fourthly He established his Anointed Yet have I c. 4. The Time then when Matters as they thought were ripe and beyond disappointment 1. We begin with the Persons and their Actions And first the Heathen raged The Philistines Moabites and Edomites were in a great Heat against David understanding so religious and Warlike a Prince a Prince that had an undoubted Title having married Saul's Daughter was come to the Crown they now despaired of ever driving Israel out of Canaan and therefore they ●●ged tumultuabantur turmatim congregabantur they murmured and gathered together in a grievous Rage and Tumult against him they raged bitterly against David and Israel's Success and Prosperity 2. The second sort of Enemies are called the People and their part in this Plot was they imagined a vain thing The People i. e. David's own Subjects who should have both known and behaved themselves better yet these being poisoned by the Heathen imagined vain false foolish and wicked things against their King vain things such as they had no occasion for nor could expect any benefit by I will instance in one of these vain Imaginations 2 Sam. 2.8 Abner with a perverse Tumult set up Ishbosheth Saul's younger Son who had no more Right to the Crown of Israel than the pretended Prince of Wales hath to ours God having excluded him by electing David and this was foolish in that the Person design'd by them for the Throne was too weak and unable for Government and also because it was apparently contradictory to the Order of the King of Kings For when Men have done all they can it is God that putteth down one and setteth up another it is but labour in vain for the Wit and Power of the World to attempt the deposing a King against God's Consent and as fruitless it is to endeavour the restoring one he doth not favour 3. The next sort of Enemies were Persons of greater Eminency and Power and therefore might hope to speed better These were Kings of the Earth as the Kings of the Moabites the Kings of Syria and Edom and with them join'd the Lords of the Philistins and their part was to stand up against David to raise an Army and invade his Country Reges adstiterunt Standing up denotes utmost endeavour of an adverse Party standing in the way as the Angel did against Balaam with a drawn Sword These Kings saw they could not prevent David's Accession to the Crown and therefore now they muster up their Forces if possible to take it from his Head but their standing up was every whit as vain as the Heathens rage or the Peoples imagining For read Psal 60 8. In a short time Moab became David's Wash-pot and over Edom he cast his Shoe that is he reduc'd them to what they deserv'd namely a State of Subjection and Slavery 4. The next Enemies

were the Rulers so that David was miserably beset on all hands the Heathen accost him with Rage his own People with mischievous Devices his Neighbour-Kings with all their Force and Might and the chief Rulers and Statesmen some of his own and some of the Enemy's with their Counsel labour to ensare him Rulers Men of Honour of choice Education of great Parts and in high Places such as should have abhorred the base and mean Thoughts of Treachery were drawn into the Plot against King David such as should have been a Skreen to defend the King against all Rage and Insolency of the People consulted how to destroy him We have thus seen the Plotters and their Actions we come next to see Thirdly Against whom this Plot was devised and the Text saith they raged imagined stood up and took Counsel against the Lord and his Anointed So that this was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a fighting against God Where-ever just and righteous Kings are invaded God espouses their Quarrel Hezekiah found it so as well as David 2 Kings 19.27 28. Senacherib was thought to stand up against Hezekiah only and to rage against him but you may there hear what God said to him I know thy rage against Me and because thy rage against Me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears therefore will I put mine hook into thy nose and my Bridle in thy lips and I will turn thee back by the way which thou camest So the War of Moab and Ammon against Jeohoshaphat God interpreted a War commenc'd against himself 2 Chron. 20.15 Thus saith the Lord be not afraid for the Battle is not yours but Gods You may observe it throughout all Ages such as God's gracious Providence places upon Thrones his mighty Arm doth ever defend and protect Fourthly The next thing to be considered is the End and Design of this Conspiracy of this raging imagining standing up and taking Counsel and we shall find it was Let us break their bands asunder and cast their cords from us Their Bands and their Cords must have respect to the Persons preceding namely the Lord and his Anointed and by this we may perceive that these Conspirators were Persons of very perverse Minds they were impatient if under any Restraint from God or Man they rage stand up and take Counsel against any that shall attempt to keep them in good order Bands as it hath respect to God may imply the religious Worship of the Jews those Precepts that God had given them in Command to observe and then the meaning of those Plotters was they were resolv'd to extirpate the true Religion they would not be under any Obligation to the God of Israel but would continue in their blind and devilish Idolatry and therefore they conspire this against David because the Defender of the Faith It is strange to Reason though not to Practice that Kings should suffer the Displeasure of their Neighbours and People meerly for upholding God's true Worship Let us cast their cords from us Cords in Scripture-Phrase signifie Power and Authority Psal 129.4 God hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked i. e. hath destroyed all their Tyrannical Power In this sence this bloody Contrivance against David was to destroy all Legal Authority that the longest Sword might carry all Cords have another signification and proper to the Case in hand The Hebrews divided the Land of Canaan by Lines and Cords setting out thereby every ones Portion Psal 16.6 The lines are fallen to me in pleasant places so that this considered the Heathen the People the Kings and the Rulers though they pretended Rage against King David only yet their chief Design was to beat Israel out of Canaan to root them out so that they should be no more a People Some Rings it is to be feared go to War upon no other account The 2d part of the Text is the Deliverance from this desperate Plot. And herein 1. We may behold the Success of this raging imagining standing up and consulting it was all a vain thing And what is it but vain false and deceitful for Men to take in hand what they are assured God will blast It is true if divers Kings stand up against one weaker according to humane Proceedings they may compel and force him to alter and change his Mind suitably to their Will and Pleasure but when once God shall have engaged when the King of Kings shall have sworn that he will not fail David not all the Kings Popes and Grand Seigniors on Earth can constrain him to alter the thing that is gone out of his lips They may dig as deep as Hell and conjure the Devils to their assistance but still he that sitteth in Heaven will disappoint them Psal 37.12 The wicked plotteth against the just and gnasheth upon him with his teeth He hath whetted his teeth and is ready to devour him yet he shall miss his Prey For Ver. 13. The Lord shall laugh at him for he seeth that his day is coming 2. The Person working this Deliverance He that sitteth in the Heavens God is described as sitting in the Heavens not as a regardless Being but as having the advantage to behold wicked Men in their secret doings Psal 10.14 Thou hast seen it for thou beholdest mischief and spite to requite it with thy hand He that sitteth in Heaven argueth the Power of God that he ruleth over all and will be too hard for the Kings of the Earth their Adherents and Counsellors 3. The means whereby this Deliverance was wrought First God laughed at the Conspirators and had them in derision he infatuated their Counsels and defeated all their Purposes Secondly He also spake unto them in his wrath If we look into the 6th Verse we may see the Words God did speak unto them viz. Yet have I set my King upon my holy Hill of Sion Speaking when referr'd to God is put for doing for non tam linguâ quam manu loquitur Deus He will speak unto them in his wrath Such Rebellion and bloody Designs will kindle God's wrath and then he will afflict such Punishments upon them as he is used to cast upon those that rebel against him 3. And vex them in his sore Displeasure These Words manifesting God's Resolution of upholding his King must needs vex them That was so hard a saying who could bear it that had evil Will at Sion It was certainly the greatest mortification imaginable to these Conspirators to see that the more they shook David's Throne the faster it should stand Fourthly The last means of the Deliverance was God's confirming his former Grant to David when by his good Providence he so over-rul'd all the rage of the Heathen the imagination of the People the standing up of the Kings and the consulting of the Rulers that notwithstanding all David sat fast he reigned a long time in Peace and Prosperity and after he had settled his Kingdom died in Peace and Honour 4. The fourth Particular relating