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A45350	A sermon preached in the cathedral and metropolitical church of St. Peter of York, on Thursday the fourteenth of February, 1688/9 being the day appointed by the lords spiritual and temporal, assembled at Westminster, for a publick thanksgiving to Almighty God, for having made His Highness the Prince of Orange, the glorious instrument of the great deliverance of this kingdom from popery and arbitrary power / by George Halley ...	Halley, George, 1655 or 6-1708.	1689 (1689)	Wing H454; ESTC R6579	12,462	36

to be Hatched GOD Crushed this Hellish Project by a timely Discovery and Delivered the Nation from the Hand of the Enemy It was in Eighty eight too that we as well as our Fore-Fathers were redeemed and delivered from the hand of the enemy from Popery and Arbitrary Power Great were the hopes that the Papists had of introducing and setling their Religion A Prince of their own Religion upon the Throne A Zealous and an Industrious Prince too for propagating the Principles of his Religion This gave them a Charming Prospect of Success this made them leave no Stone unturned this made them Jehu like drive on with all imaginable Fury and Violence this Emboldned them to put that galling and fretting Yoke upon our Necks which neither we nor our fore-fathers were able to bear Unhappy and Unfortunate Prince How is the Mighty faln I am Distressed for him Who can reflect upon his misfortunes without pity and perturbation of Mind How would his Throne a' been Establish'd in Righteousness had but the wicked been taken away from before him Had but his base Flatterers and false Prophets been removed from his Court and Councils the Hearts of his People would never a' been Alienated from him Never Prince came to the Crown with more unanimous and cheerful Acclamations he was look'd upon as a Prince of no less Heroical Vertues than Noble Extraction He then declared that the Laws of England were sufficient to make him as Great a Monarch as his Heart could wish and therefore promised his Endeavours to Preserve the Government both in Church State as by Law Established In all Probability he might have been the Greatest the most Triumphant Monarch that ever sway'd the English Scepter had not his Passion of Glory yielded to his Bigottry and Zeal for his Religion had he not put the Reins of Government into the Hands of a Fiery Jesuit who Phaeton like presently set the Nation on a flame put him upon such Illegal Practices as prov'd destructive of the Nation 's Happiness and Tranquillity and plunged him into the most calamitous and deplorable Circumstances We have now seen by woeful Experience what the Prophetick Parliaments at Westminster and Oxford in the Year 80. Prognosticated We are now I hope highly sensible that they were compos'd of Persons of greater Understanding and Integrity than the World at that time was pleas'd to represent them 't is now plain that the clear prospect they had of the Kingdoms Interest conducted all their Consultations it now appears that the Bill of Exclusion was carried on thro' a true Zeal for the Nations Safety Happiness for the Protection and Security of the Peoples Liberty and Property and for the Preservation of what ought to be dearer to us than our Lives the Protestant Religion But their weighty reasons could make no Impression their Designs were all blasted and we may attribute it to the good and secret Hand of Providence that they were so for probably if they had taken effect the Nation would have been involv'd in Blood and Confusion because of its unbelief That ever Popery could have produc'd Arbitrary Power that ever Popery could have destroyed the Protestant Religion and unhing'd the Government For though in History we have Recorded many pregnant Instances many ample Testimonies of Popish Perfidiousness and Impiety yet no Instance no Testimony so convincing and impressive as Experience Popery was never so generally understood as it is at this day we now see the truth and certainty of this Maxim. That it is impossible for the Protestant Religion to flourish under or the present Constitution of the English Government to be preserved by any Person whom Rome hath stamped her Proselyte Alas What signify all the plausible pretences all the fair promises and assurances where Popery hath got the ascendant What security can there be to the Protestant Religion and Liberty where there is a subjection to the Pope Where Jesuitical Counsels influence and command Alas There is no Faith to be kept with Hereticks This is the Decree of the Roman Councils this is the standing Rule this is the unalterable resolution of the Roman Church this is the Doctrine which she hath constantly practis'd and the sad effects of it such have sensibly felt as have justly oppos'd her usurped Sovereignty and Dominion witness the Parisian Massacre a villainy that had its Authority and Approbation from Rome never did that polluted City rejoice so much in Memory of Christ's Birth or St. Peter's as at the joyful news of that more than Herodian Butchery how did she sound the praises of the bloody Actors and Contrivers of that shameful Tragedy Not to expatiate upon the Irish-Massacre Witness too the late Persecution in France and Piedmont O Barbarous and more than Scythian or Thracian Cruelty Those our poor Brethren had Edicts Promises and Oaths sealed with the Holy Sacrament but alas as soon as ever an opportunity presented it self they found that Popery can absolve from the strictest Oaths can tear in pieces the most Religious Seal and cancel the strongest Obligation We have Instances enough at home which plainly shew that Popish Engagements and Promises are lighter than the very Breach that utters them Did not Queen Mary promise the Norfolk and Suffolk Inhabitants and call'd her God to Witness too That she would content her self with the Private exercise of her own Devotion and Preserve the then Protestant Government uninjur'd and yet as soon as ever her Sovereign Power was securely Establish'd the Masque then fell off Fire and Faggot then Illuminated the Peoples understanding nay those very men who rais'd her to the Throne felt the most signal marks of her vengeance they made Claim indeed of her former Promises but were thought insolent and accounted as criminals for so doing they found that no Merits or Service could secure any from the Cruelties of that Religion for her Princely gratitude for their Crowning her with a Diadem Crown'd them with Martyrdom We our selves too had promises of the like Nature and thought we deserved them but alas they proved as Quick-sands not the least glimpse of Safety to be repos'd in them not the least hopes to be built upon them Had we not Assurances and yet at the same time the greatest Invasion of Rights and Privileges Instead of Governing according to Law such a Dispensing Power set a foot as laid all the Laws asleep as would presently have laid in Ashes too the beautiful Fabrick of our excellent Religion and incomparable Government Promises it is the nature of the Popish Religion first to deceive and then destroy it is a Religion that Transubstantiates the very Nature of him who embraces it it is a Religion that acts in disguise and masquerade changes frequently its colours and puts out a false Flag to conceal the Pyrate no! it is better to trust in the Lord than to put any confidence in man it is better to trust in the Lord th●n to put any confidence in

A SERMON Preached in the Cathedral and Metropolitical Church OF St. PETER in YORK On Thursday the Fourteenth of February 1688 9. BEING The Day appointed by the LORDS Spiritual and Temporal Assembled at Westminster for a Publick Thanksgiving to Almighty GOD for having made His Highness the PRINCE of ORANGE the Glorious Instrument of the Great Deliverance Of this Kingdom from Popery and Arbitrary Power By GEORGE HALLEY M. A. Succentor of the Vicar's Choral of the Cathedral and Rector of St. Cuthbert's in York Published at the Request of the Auditors London Printed for R. C. and are to be Sold by Rich. Lambert and Francis Hildyard Booksellers in York 1689. A SERMON PREACHED In the CATHEDRAL CHURCH of St. Peter in York c. Psalm 107. Verse 2. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy Or as it is in the other Translation Let them give thanks whom the Lord hath redeemed and delivered from the hand of the enemy THis Psalm doth in the most Lively and Glorious Colours paint forth and adorn the admirable Kindness and Transcendent Love of Almighty God doth visibly represent to humane Eye the various and surprizing Scenes of Divine Providence doth clearly evince and prove That God who sitteth in Heaven doth so far humble himself as to behold the Things upon Earth that all the Vicissitudes and Changes all the great Revolutions and variety of Events in this World are from the Hand of God that all humane Affairs and Transactions are under his Providential Conduct and Wise Disposal And therefore it is that the Psalmist gives us so many Illustrious Examples such manifest Testimonies of Providence as are able to convince any considerate Person that the World is not governed by Fate or giddy Chance but by infinite Wisdom and infinite Goodness that God presides over his Creatures that his Providence is deeply concern'd and vigorously engaged in all the Changes and Chances of this Mortal Life Thus from the Third to the Seventh Verse we have a signal Instance of an Over-ruling Omnipotent Providence where we find the Children of Israel wandering in the Wilderness in a Solitary Way depriv'd of the necessary Supports and Comforts of this Life yet upon their devout Addresses to Heaven in Prayer found present Relief and Deliverance from their Pressures God by his Gracious Providence led them forth by the Right Way and safely conducted them to a City of Habitation Thus from the Tenth to the Fourteenth Verse we find how God is pleas'd to discipline and exercise others with Providential Afflictions with Bonds and Imprisonments because of their Wickedness and Impiety yet as soon as ever such sharp Discipline such severe Chastisement has produc'd its desir'd Effect that is brought them to a State of Meekness and Humility Repentance and Reformation as soon as they thus endeavour to make this Atonement God's Mercy then gets the Ascendant of his Justice and he becomes propitious and favourable to them brings them out of Darkness and the Shadow of Death and breaks their Bonds asunder Thus from the Twenty third to the Thirtieth Verse we read that such as go down to the Sea in Ships and do Business in great Waters such have more than ordinary Experiments of the Providence of the Sovereign Mercy and Power of God sometimes they are Mounted into the Air and then again go down into the Depths of the Vast Ocean are at their Wits end in the greatest Amazement and Consternation but when they cry or pray unto the Lord the Violent Storm then is turn'd into a perfect Calm by gentle Gales they are safely wafted to the Port they design'd to sail to Now What doth the Lord require at the Hands of such as have the Characters of Divine Providence so singularly and eminently engraven upon them for whom he hath wrought such Signal and Wonderful Deliverances Nothing but the Tribute of Praise and Thanksgiving that is a grateful Sense and publick Acknowledgment of his immense Favours such a Sense as darts a powerful Influence upon their Life and Conversation such a Sense as obliges them to look up unto him as the Heroick Captain of their Salvation to ascribe the Honour due unto his Name to praise him for his Goodness from whom they received their Protection their Safety and Preservation O give Thanks unto the Lord for he is good or gracious and his Mercy endureth for ever let the Redeemed of the Lord say so Or let them give Thanks whom the Lord hath redeemed and delivered from the Hand of the Enemy In the Words are these Two Observables I. A Duty enjoin'd together with the Object of it and that is to give Thanks unto the Lord. II. The Reason or Enforcement to the Practice and Observation of this Duty and that is the Consideration of a Redemption or Deliverance from the Hand of an Enemy Let them give Thanks whom c. But First of the First Observable A Duty enjoin'd together with the Object of it and that is to give Thanks unto the Lord. To give thanks in this place is according to the Version of the LXX 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Word which according to the Sence of the Ancient Interpreters properly imports Confession and in this Sense I find it us'd by St. James 5.16 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Confess your Faults and indeed before we offer up unto God any Eucharistical Sacrifice it is necessary for us to Confess and beg Pardon of our Sins which hinder God's acceptation of our Services for if we regard Iniquity with our Hearts the Lord will not hear us Psalm 66.18 And here by the by we may admire the Beautiful Succession of Times and Seasons Yesterday was Ash-Wednesday a day of Sack-cloth and Ashes a day of Sorrow and Humiliation for Sin to day a day of Thanksgiving and Joyfulness But as Heinsius observes according to the Modern Interpretation the Word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 doth likewise import to praise or give Thanks unto the Lord and in this Sense I find it Mark 10.21 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jesus rejoiced in Spirit and said I thank thee O Father To give Thanks unto the Lord is a Duty frequently inculcated and press'd upon us in Holy Scripture thus Phil. 4.6 In every thing by Prayer and Thanksgiving let your Requests be made known unto God thus Col. 2.7 Abounding therein with Thanksgiving and Chap. 4.2 Continue in Prayer and watch in the same with Thanksgiving thus 1 Tim. 4.4 Every Creature of God is good if it be received with Thanksgiving thus Rev. 7.12 Blessing and Glory and Wisdom and Thanksgiving be unto GOD for ever and ever Amen But Secondly We have not only Precepts for but rare and illustrious Examples in Holy Scripture for the Practice and Observation of the Duty of Thanksgiving Not to Multiply too many Instances Where do we find a more Noble Pattern of Gratitude than the Royal Prophet King David He thought no place unfit