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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53969	A sermon preached before the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen, at St. Mary le Bow, on Nov. 5, 1683 being the commemoration-day of our deliverance from a popish conspiracy / by Edward Pelling ...	Pelling, Edward, d. 1718.	1683 (1683)	Wing P1095; ESTC R1882	18,522	46

in Forty Four That here a Treasonable Oath and Covenant was Administred in Forty Five That here a Thanksgiving was appointed for several Victories over the King in Forty Six That here Resolutions were taken to stand and fall with a Rebellious House of Commons in Forty Seven That here a Petition was Voted for Justice upon all Capital Actors in the War from the Highest to the Lowest and but a few Days before the King was Murder'd in Forty Eight That here a Petition was drawn for Altering the Laws in Forty Nine That here a Solemn Fast was held for the good Success of a Rebel-Army in Fifty That here 't was Resolved to Adventure Lives and Estates against the King of Scotland in Fifty One That here a Publick Thanksgiving was Celebrated for the Defeat of the King and his Forces at Worcester in Fifty Two That here Cromwel the Usurper was Carest and Treated in Fifty Three That here Thanks were given him for his great Care of the Peace in Fifty Four That here Monies were issued out for a Disloyal Militia in Fifty Five and Fifty Six That here Subjection to the Vsurper was Acknowledged in Fifty Seven That here his Death was Condoled and his Successor Congratulated in Fifty Eight And that here the Parliament so called the Council of State and the Officers of the Army were all Publickly and Splendidly entertained at the Cities Charge in Fifty Nine Such a Chargeable and Costly Rebellion was here for Eighteen years together that it is no wonder if your Publick Bank hath been rob'd not of its Treasure only but in a manner of the very Bags Beloved I am apt to deal Plainly with All men and if I deal so with You now it is not with any the least Design either to Vpbraid this Honourable Assembly or to Reflect upon the Memory of your Loyal and True-Hearted Predecessors but that you may see what great Reasons you have for your Best endeavours to follow the things which make for Peace and to put an Early stop to the Growth of a Faction who when they forsake their Duty forsake all Modesty and good Manners and by ceasing to be Governed become the most Imperious and Heady Governours the most Insolent and Outragious Villains in the World Every Good man ought to be very Careful at least in this our day that he do not Herd or Concur with those Spirits which but the other day as it were to shut out all Arbitrary Power brought it in and to prevent Popery laid aside all True Religion and the Fear of God But this Care especially belongeth unto You the Honourable Governours of this Great Body and your Timely Zeal for the Interest of the King of the Church and of the whole Nation will not only be Eff●ctual to the Establishment of such a Peace as by the Blessing of God will be transmitted to Posterity but 't will also render your Names Great and Precious for being the Happy Instruments to Recover the Ancient Honour of this Renowned City The Story is well known of Tylers Formidable Rebellion who had the Confidence to say in the Reign of King Richard the Second that there should be no Law in England but what came out of his Mouth His Conspiracy was designed to destroy the See Slow and Speed in R●● 2. King the Nobles the Ministers of State and the whole Body of the Clergy saving the Begging Friars who had no●hing to Lose That Truly Honourable Person Sir William Walworth was the Lord Mayor of London that year and that Excellent Man with the help of some of his Brethren ventur'd so Resolutely that the Rebellion failed of Success For being himself in 〈◊〉 of danger he Cryed out Ye good Citizens help your King that is to be Murther'd and succour Me your Mayor or if you will not succour Me yet leave not your King destitute This so animated the Loyal Citizens that in a very short space Sir William brought the Traytor 's head to the King upon the point of his Sword To Reward this great Service the King gave Honours and Estates to the Mayor and his faithful Brethren and to set a particular Mark of his Kindness upon the whole City and to perpetuate the Honour of that day and the Memory of such Signal Loyalty some Historians tell us that the King order'd the Sword to be put in the Dexter Canton of the City-Arms Here is a Noble Pattern of Fidelity and Fortitude for every Honest Magistrate to follow in These days for who is not convinced of the Truth of a Conspiracy now Though God be Blessed we have not yet the Alarm in our Streets yet we have many Tylers that are ready to destroy our Laws and to cut our Throats and many Straws too if you will forgive the Expression that are ready to Stuff our Skins also but we have our Walworths too and as our Comfort is that we are now Bless'd with another Walworth so our Wishes are that men of such Zeal Conduct and True Gallantry may bear the Sword here to the Worlds end When Treasons are Hatched against a most Gracious Prince and the Common Peace is in danger 't is Happy that the Sword is in the hands of Such as will not turn the point of it towards the bowels of that Authority which gives it When Religion is made the Visor of a Faction 't is Happy that the Magistrate is such as will not be favourable to those who go to School to the Atheist and Truck with the Jesuit and the Devil himself to make Spoil of the best Constituted Government in the whole World When this poor distressed Church the Envy of Rome and the Glory of all Christendom is in danger of being torn in pieces by the Lion on This hand and the Bear on That it is Happy for us that the Magistrate is such as will think himself obliged for Conscience and for Gods sake to Rescue the Spouse of Christ from the Jaws of the One and from the Paws of the Other And things being thus well provided it is the part of every one of us to Study to be Quiet and to do his own Business and so in well-doing to commit our selves into the hands of that good God whose Providence careth for us All. It is by means of that Good Providence that we are Assembled this day to praise his Name for our Wonderful Deliverances hitherto and if we our selves be but carefull to Mind the things which belong unto our Peace we need not doubt but the same Providence will deliver us still though Extremity of danger should threaten us yet once again For commonly Gods time of stepping in between Men and Ruin is then when Dangers are come to that Hedd and Crisis that without present help from above there is no Visible way of Escaping Thus the Providence of God interposed on This day when the Bloud-thirsty Papists had laid their Designs so Closely so Opportunely and so Luckily as They thought even