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A29155	A sermon preached at St. Catharine Cree-Church, on the 26th of November, 1691 being the thanksgiving-day, for the preservation of the King, and the reduction of Ireland / by Nicholas Brady ... ; printed at the request of his parishioners.	Brady, Nicholas, 1659-1726.	1692 (1692)	Wing B4174; ESTC R40295	11,416	32

unto thy Name give praise for thy loving mercy and for thy truths sake Nor must we think it sufficient to draw near thus unto God with our mouths and to honour him with our lips to give him only a verbal acknowledgment no we must demonstrate our gratitude to be real and substantial by making that return which he chiefly expects in the amendment of our Lives and Conversations according to the instruction of the Prophet Micah He hath shewn thee O man such things as be good and now what doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God But Secondly We must testifie our gratitude for these Deliverances by Loyalty and Obedience to their present Majesties the blessed Objects of some of these Mercies and the happy Instruments of all the others and having rendered unto God the things that are God's we must also render unto Coesar the things which be Coesars Nor indeed can we without the highest dis-respect to God himself be wanting in our Duty to two such Princes whom he has so signally declared to be His King and Queen Now this Obedience must be expressed by a due Recognition of their just Authority by Prayers and Supplications offered up in their behalf by a decent and respectful Behaviour towards them and by Reverent Expressions in relation to them but chiefly and especially by a hearty and vigorous Assistance of them both with our Lives and Fortunes for the compleating those great Deliverances which God through them has so happily begun Thirdly We must testifie our Gratitude for these Deliverances by Love and Assection one towards another the mutual sharers and partakers of them Behold how good and joyful a thing it is for Brethren to dwell together in Unity Let us in the name of God lay aside all manner of rancour and malice all unseemly heats and animosities all odious names of Parties and of Factions Let brotherly love continue and the only Contention amongst us be who shall most Zealously serve his God who shall most Vigorously assist his Prince and who shall most Cordially affect each other Thus as St. Peter advises Let us add to our godliness brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness charity And therefore Fourthly and Lastly We must testifie our gratitude for these Deliverances by shewing Charity to our distressed Brethren It is the most natural Return of Thankfulness to Almighty God for rescuing us from our Distresses when we endeavour to Copy out that great Original by relieving as far as we can the necessities of others For can we be truly thankful for Mercies and not love that God from whom we have received them And he that says he loves God and hates that is relieves not his brother is a liar says the Apostle and the truth is not in him In a word a grateful Return must be made in such a manner as we know is well-pleasing and acceptable to God and therefore to do good and to distribute we must not forget for with such Sacrifices God is well-pleased To him the Father Son and Holy Ghost three Persons but One God of Mercy be ascribed all Honour Glory and Thanksgiving for the manifold Blessings which he has conferred upon us all and for the great Deliverance which he has given to his King FINIS Some Books Printed for and sold by Samuel Crouch at the Corner of Popes-Head Ally next Cornhil FOLIO RVshworth's Collections The Life Reign and Death of Edward II. King of England and Lord of Ireland with the Rise and Fall of his great Favorites Gaveston and the Spencers VVritten by E. F. in the year 1627 and Prented verbatim from the Original QVARTO A Sermon Preach'd before the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen at Guild-Hall-Chappel upon Good-Friday March 29 1689. A Sermon Preach'd before the King and Queen at White-Hall on the 28th of December 1690. A Sermon preached before the King at Belfast in Ireland on the 14th day of June 1690. All three by George Royse D. D. Provost of Oriel Colledge in Oxford and Chaplain in Ordinary to their Majesties The true Interest of the Princes of Europe in the present State of Affairs OCTAVO The Ingenious and diverting Letters of the Lady Travels into Spain Describing the Devotions Nunneries Humours Customs Laws Militia Trade Diet and Recreations of that People Intermixt with great Variety of Modern Adventures and surprising Accidents being the truest and best Remarks extant on that Court and Country The first and second Part. * ⁎ * The third and last Part of the Lady Travels will be published with all speed Materot Redivivus the Italian Master shewing the great Variety and Beauty of the Italian Hand being a Royal Sheet of Paper Containing about 950 Letters By John Ayres Master of the Writing-School near St. Pauls Sold by him and Samuel Crouch

of his Subjects and how zealously did he establish Religion in its purity How Examplary was his Life and how Unblamable his Conversation Well might he then assure himself of the Divine Protection and that God would give great deliverance to his King And this leads me to the consideration of my second General namely to shew that to such a Prince as is God's King God will give great deliverance Great deliverance giveth he to his King God is not a man that he should repent nor does he ever do things by halves but will thoroughly compleat whatever he has designed To raise up a man after his own heart to advance him by unusual methods to the Supreme Authority to promote by his means the publick good both of Church and State and when by the vigorous discharge of his Duty in so eminent a Station he has exposed himself to dangers and to difficulties to let him then sink poorly under them were to impeach himself of impotency or inconstancy either of which would derogate from the Divine Perfection God has engaged himself in honour to stand by him whom he has so visibly acknowledged for his King and if God be for him who can be against him How little will all the Tricks and Contrivances of human Policy be able to supplant or undermine him who has the Wisdom of God to support him and sustain him God bringeth the counsel of the Heathen to nought and maketh the devices of the People of none effect But the counsel of the Lord standeth for ever and the thoughts of his heart to all generations How little can the united Forces of Conspiring Adversaries prevail against him who has the Power of God to strengthen and uphold him He will not be afraid for ten thousands of the people that should set themselves against him round about for God smites all his enemies upon the cheek-bone and breaks the teeth of the ungodly Since God has designed him for the performance of a work he will not suffer him to faint till the Accomplishment of it for that were to frustrate his own intentions and consequently to be inconsistent with himself that were to make the workers of Iniquity to rejoyce and triumph and to say over him There there so would we have it to leave the two great ends at which he aim'd the benefiting the publick and the advancing true Religion utterly imperfect and uncompleated and to bring his own power into question and dispute And therefore Moses makes use of this argument effectually and successfully to turn away God's Anger from the Jewish Congregation by interesting the Divine Honour in their preservation for perfecting the work which he had undertaken Now if thou shalt kill all these people says he as one man then the Nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak saying Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the Land which he sware unto them therefore hath he slain them in the wilderness and now I beseech thee let the power of my Lord be great as thou hast spoken But shall the designs of the Lord just come unto the birth and can there be wanting strength to bring forth No certainly God will rise up as in mount Perazim and strengthen himself as in the valley of Gibeon that he may do his work his strange work and bring to pass his act his strange act He will give Salvation unto his King and will deliver David his servant from the peril of the Sword he will hear his Anointed from his holy Heaven even with the wholesome strength of his right hand Having thus run over the two general Propositions which were contained in the words of my Text I proceed in the third place to consider the former of these two which are naturally deducible from it and fitly accommodated to the present occasion namely to prove both from the qualifications generally found in such a Prince and from the Deliverances given to him that his present Majesty is God's King The first Qualification as you have been told is a visible and more than common designation of him to the Government And certainly no Prince was ever advanced to the Sovereign Authority in a more remarkable manner or more evidently promoted by God himself than ours was For how prodigious will it appear in future Story that presently upon his Landing with so inconsiderable a party is compared to the numerous multitudes that might have opposed him he should quietly possess himself of the whole Kingdom almost without the effusion of one drop of Blood Who but God alone who has the hearts of all men in his hand as the rivers of waters and turns them whithersoever he pleases could have bowed the hearts of all the people to him even as the heart of one man Could any thing be more strange or improbable if we consider it after the manner of men than that a King peaceably possessed of the Throne of his Ancestors established in the Government for several years and thereby having had means to oblige many should scarce find one in the extent of his Dominions that durst maintain and espouse his cause against an Enemy in all appearance much weaker than himself That an Army of English-men and consequently Courageous should unanimously Disband without fighting a stroke in behalf of him who had raised them and maintained them That so many different Factions which divided us among our selves should unanimously agree in the same Resolution and fill up the vacant Throne by common consent notwithstanding all former Heats and Animosities Yet these almost impossible Suppositions did all concur to advance his present Majesty to the Government of these Nations and thereby to convince us that he is God's King A second Qualification as you may remember is a course of Government advantageous to his People and tending to the advancement of True Religion And here also I may safely affirm that his present Majesty has fully and sufficiently made good this Character For does not the English Reputation which was lately sullied and almost totally Eclipsed begin to shine out in its Ancient Lustre and to dazle the Eyes of Foreign Beholders Are not Liberty and Property those two great priviledges which jointly make up the Birthright of an English-man and happily distinguish him from most other Subjects rescued from the encroachments which they were about to sink under Are not the several Courts of Justice and Equity advantageously redeemed from Bribery and Oppression and become in deed what they were formerly but in name But above and before all is not our endanger'd and almost supplanted Religion setled again upon its sure Foundation and not only by Law Established but by Law protected also Are not our Churches retrieved from their destined perversion to the use of Error and Superstition and setled in the due Exercise of a Reasonable Service These and such like have been the blessed Effects of his present Majesties Government and they abundantly evince

to us That he is God's King A Third Qualification as you have been informed is a Life Exemplary and Unblamable in his private Actions and Conversation And here we ought to bless God that we can now commend a Prince's Morals without the odious Imputation of Servile Flattery that we can extol in him the practice of such or such Vertues without being thought to Ridicule him thereby for the Commission of the contrary Vices That God has been graciously pleased to set one over us who is not only a good King but a good Man too and makes Greatness and Virtue no longer incompatible And O! that the Influence of good Example were as strong and prevalent as the Contagion of an ill one And that both Sexes would be as ready to take Lessons from the Throne of Modesty and Sobriety as they are generally prone to follow great Examples of Licesitiousness and Intemperance I chuse to speak less than I ought upon this Head lest I might be thought by some to say too much and shall only add that as well by this as by the two former qualifications his present Majesty may justly challenge the denomination of God's King Another Branch of the proof proposed was to be taken from the Deliverances which have been given him by which also God has approved him to be his King If ever the Providence of God watched over any single person in so eminent a manner as to make him seem to be the whole care of Heaven his present Majesty has been blessed with that advantage Not to insist upon the wonderful Deliverances he has experienced in his former years being inured to Hardships and Difficulties being bred up from a Child in the midst of Dangers and having been a Man of War from his Youth We shall find sufficient Instances of the Divine Favour and Protection since his Auspicious Entrance upon the Government of these Kingdoms How did the Weapons of his Enemies drop out of their Hands upon his first Appearance within this Nation as if a Voice from Heaven had given Command Touch not mine Anointed and do my King no barm How has he beeen surrounded with a Wall of Brass in the midst of Horror and Destruction How has the Lord covered his Head in the day of Battle and when Thousands have fallen on his side and ten Thousands on his Right Hand yet has not suffered it to come nigh him How industriously has he pursued and sought out Danger and how constantly has that avoided him and fled before him How has God rebuked in his Favour the Winds and the Seas and brought him forth safe from the horrours of the deep and set his Feet upon a Rock and ordered his goings How has he discovered and laid open to him the secret Machinations of his Treacherous Adversaries and made themselves to fall into the Trap which they had laid for him In a word How has God protected him from perils by Land and perils by Water perils from his own Country-men and perils from the Heathen as St. Paul expresses himself in his Catalogue of Distresses Well may we then conclude with the Royal Psalmist That many and grievous have been his Troubles but the Lord has delivered him out of them all and both by the qualifications required in such a Person and by the great Deliverances which he has given to him has undeniably demonstrated that he is His King But as if it were a small thing in the Eye of the Lord to rescue and relieve him out of all his Distresses and to give great deliverance unto This His King He has done yet more for him and us he has added to his Deliverance Success and Triumph witness the happy Reduction of the Neighbouring Nation So that he has not only saved his life from destruction but has crowned him also with mercy and loving-kindness as for his Enemies he has clothed them with shame but upon himself he has made his Crown to flourish Certainly the consideration of such extraordinary advantages should powerfully induce us to give praise unto God who has given such great deliverance to his King and communicated by Him such Benefits to us all And this leads me to the consideration of the Fourth and last General being the second Proposition deducible from the words of my Text namely To enquire what Returns are due from us to God for the great deliverance which he has given to his King Ingratitude is not only the basest but the most dangerous too of all Vices and draws after it a Train of Consequences no less fatal and destructive than they are shameful and dishonourable Even amongst Men themselves he forfeits all Title to future Favours that is unthankful for those which he has already received and nothing makes a Man less befriended in his necessity or more unpitied in his adversity than the black Imputation and Character of an ungrateful person But when the Case is stated between God and Man the woful effects of so degenerate a temper are vastly greater and more pernicious for then we do not only cut off our own expectations and render our selves uncapable of future mercies but we lose the advantage also of all our former Blessings and by an unhappy kind of Alchymy convert them into Curses How signally and remarkably we have lately felt the comfortable Refreshings of the Divine Goodness none can be so stupid as to be ignorant none so impudent as to deny If we look upon the Preservation and Establishment of our tottering Religion the happy Union of our selves at home and the successful progress of our Arms abroad we cannot but acknowledge that God has compassed us about with Songs of deliverance if we consider the many Dangers and Distresses from which it has pleased the good Providence of God to protect his present Majesty both as to open Violence and secret Practices so that no weapon no design formed against him has prospered and how he has been pleased to bring him back to his longing People in Health and Safety we cannot but confess that great deliverance has he given to his King And from both considerations we must necessarily infer that vast Returns of Gratitude are due upon our side which we are obliged to pay after the following manner First By Praises and Thanksgivings to Almighty God the Author and Fountain of them all So many visible appearances of the Divine Providence have intitled God to the sole Honour of our signal Deliverances that it would be a direct robbing him of his Glory to pretend to ascribe it to any other he having acted upon these occasions as he expresses himself by the Prophet Isaiah And I looked and there was none to help and I wondred that there was none to uphold then my own Arm brought Salvation Thus God arose and his and our Enemies were scattered and they that hated both him and us fled before him Therefore not unto us O Lord neither to King nor People not unto us but