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A43061 A sermon preached upon the fifth of November, 1678 at St. Clements Danes / by Gregory Hascard. Hascard, Gregory. 1679 (1679) Wing H1113; ESTC R25415 13,975 39

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to my sorrow or any grief like to my grief We pen down the black dayes write the Effects of a devouring Flame or Pestilence Judgments upon Marble or Cedar with the Pen of a Diamond we tell them to our Children O passi graviora and entail them upon Posterity but for Mercies and Favours we cry not with the Psalmist Come and see what God hath done for my Soul we hush them in Silence we Degrade and Vilifie them to Advance our own Wisdom and Power and say of them as Nebuchadnezzar of his Babylon Is not this great Babylon that I have built for my Honour and Renown Injuries and Affronts we write down in indelible characters the Persons and Time and all the aggravating Circumstances are ever fresh and green manet altâ mente repostum Judicium Paridis and never laid aside but upon a Sacramental day and taken up the next Though our Memories for Benefirs at first may be fresh and brisk yet the sudden Flame of Joy at length changeth its ruddy Complexion grows pale and endeth in Ashes and is blown away And this day began to lose its Solemnity had it not been reviv'd by the New Traiterous Designs and Contrivances of the same sort of bloody men a Hist of the Powder Plot. p. 7. And if these bold Conspirators having found the Cellar for their Design directly under the Royal Throne did seem to perswade themselves from that Accident that God by a secret Conduct did favour the Attempt we may now justly turn Providence upon them and in this strange Deliverance acknowlege the hand of God in a true Remebrance therefore of this great Deliverance the Knife being taken from our Throat the Flame quench'd the Snare broken and the Tempest calm'd and the Church and State and every private Person riding at an Anchor in a quiet Haven let us acknowledge our mighty Benefactour with our Psalmist and say Our help is in the Name of the Lord who hath made Heaven and Earth Secondly A Dependance upon future Providence a 1 Sam. 7.12 Hitherto said the good man hath the Lord helped us he is god for ever and changeth not and his hand is stretched out still The Familiars of Rome which haunt the Courts and Palaces of Princes like the Devil in the Gospel sometimes attempted to cast us into the Water by the Spanish Armado sometimes into the Fire by this Conspiracy and sometimes by Civil Wars and Rebellion riding another sort of Men they rent and tore us till we foam'd again See the Book called the grand Design of Papists in the Reign of Charles the First But Providence that commands the Waves and Flames kept us secure disposses'd the Fiend and we are in our Wits again and under our own Vines of Peace and Safety And though the ejected Spirit thinks to return again and make our last Condition worse than our first yet we doubt not if our Prayers and just Zeal be not wanting that Providence will put a stop to him and say to him as he doth to these proud Waters the swelling Billows of the Ocean So far shall ye go and no farther for think not that your Saviour is enthron'd above only to hear the Hallelujahs of Saints and enjoy his Triumphs and listens not to the cries and groans of his Distressed Members here He watches still discovers their Dangers feels their Wounds and sends them Aids and Supplies Power and Counsel to make them Successul that the gates of Hell and all its Auxiliaries might not prevail against them Let the Times look Black and Stormy let Predictions be never so sad and gloomy and we hear the sound of may Waters and the Fiend and all his Confederates sit in full Consult for the ruin of Religion and nothing else is heard but the noise of Ravens and Eagles for the dying Corps yet we can stand secure an omnipotent Arm doth wield our Sword and our Councel is All-wise 't is he that neither Heaven above nor Hell below nor Earth and the Sea between can skreen off his Divine and All-seeing Eye The closest Dungeon and most secure Cell neither Shade nor Night as black as a Traytors Soul can conceal their Policy from him that Orders and permits Disposes and Prohibits for the Interest and Benefit of Religion which tells us That all things shall conspire for their good who truly worship him and that he that in former dayes did deliver us out of the paw of the Lion and the Bear will deliver us from this Uncircumcised Philistin and that we might not dispond and suspect his Promises he doth further assure a Matth. 24.35 us that Heaven and Earth shall pass away but my Word shall not pass away and therefore let us not sink and despair and cry out Master we perish but see the Train of Powder and view the Snare all lying Innocent and Unactive the whole Design of our Enemies Defeated and with a grateful Mind sing the triumphal Song to God Rev. 7.12 with the Angels who stood aboue his Throne and worshipped saying Amen Blessing and Glory and Thanksgiving Honour and Powes and Might be unto our God for ever and ever Amen FINIS