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A46900	Three sermons preached the first in Richmond Church, August 17. 1690. on the most happy accession of Their Majesties, King William and Queen Mary to the Crown. The second in Mortlake Chuch in Surrey March 3. 1694. on the death of our late most gracious soveraign lady the Queen, of blessed memory. The third in Mortlake Church, April 16. 1696. being the day of Thanksgiving unto Almighty God, for discovering and disappointing the horrid and barbarous conspiracy to assassinate His most gracious Majesty's royal person: and for delivering this kingdom from an invasion, intended by the French. By Christopher Johnson, M.A. and school-master of Richmond in Surrey. Printed to prevent mistakes concerning the author.	Johnson, Christopher, b. 1657 or 8.	1696 (1696)	Wing J770BA; ESTC R216574	43,561	66

hath done great things for us whereof we rejoice And this affirm we in defiance of all who deny Him or his Providence whether in Thought or in Act or be it by both And for all this may we fear Him may we love Him above all things in Heaven and in Earth May all our Hearts all our Souls our Minds and our Strength have a full share in this Affection towards God and so by the Operation of every Faculty and Power in us proper thereto may we take our fill in loving Him that as He hath loved us so the love of Him may dwell plenteously in us To excite us the more to our Duty of Love and Praise Adoration and Thanksgiving it is requisite that we consider what and how great the Blessing is wherein consists the Salvation wrought so lately in our Land And of the Blessing of God now upon us and His Salvation vouchsafed unto us none can be ignorant forasmuch as all know that God Almighty has manifested his Providence his Power and Mercy towards His Most Excellent Majesty and His People by laying open the Depths of Satan and the secret Intentions of wicked Men that He has Discovered and Delivered the King from an Horrid and Barbarous Conspiracy of Papists and other Trayterous Persons to Assassinate and Murder His Royal Person and the Kingdom from an Intended Invasion by the greatest Enemies to its and all Europe's Repose the French By which great Deliverance the King 's Royal Person is saved from Destruction His Government Secured and this Realm Freed from that Total Subversion of its Religion Laws and Liberties which if God had not thus mercifully interposed would have been the Fate of it Lo this is the Blessing and it is very great this is the Salvation we now give thanks for and it is wonderful Here is repeated Mercy and Goodness to an unwise and foolish People who have ill requited God with Ingratitude for His former Loving-kindnesses But as we now meditate on His Mercy so may we with Rivers of Tears in our Eyes think of the other Method God so lately used to reduce us unto a right Sense of our selves by the Deplorable Loss of that most Virtuous and Pious Princess the Queen of Blessed Memory who fell by a heavy stroke alas To us it was God punishing us for our many Provocations our Incorrigible and Undutiful Behaviour to Him that He might melt us thereby into Sorrow and Repentance that He might force us to humble our selves with Weeping and Fasting and to cloath our Souls with Mourning Attire when the thick Cloud of his Anger overspread these Nations by Her Death And now again He invites us to Him in love for lo the Bright Beams of His Mercy shining every where He hath called us this Day out of the Houses of Mourning into those of Joy He hath put a new Song into our Mouths even a Thanksgiving unto our God for the Safety of our Most Serene and Illustrious Monarch KING WILLIAM the Father of our Country the Great Joy and Hope and Support of many Nations the most Heroick and Noble Patron and Assertor of ours and all Europe's Liberties by whose Crown falling from His Head and so the Glory departing again from us God might have laid us with Bleeding Hearts in Dust and Ashes have heaped upon us all the Mischiefs that the Rage and Madness of our Incensed Enemies could bring who would have number'd their Merits by the quantities of our Blood they should have caused to run in our Streets when the more of us they had killed the more Service to God they would have boasted that they had done like that Duke D'Alva who assumed much Glory and Honour to himself for the Slaughter he made of many Thousand Protestants or Hereticks by such Men of Blood falsly so called But O that Men would praise the Lord for his Goodness and declare the Wonders he doeth for us the Children of Men when by a Miracle of Mercy we are saved from that Wo and Destruction which otherwise would at this time have been raging by Fire and Sword in these Islands with Apparent Danger of Ruin and Desolation upon all the Confederate Countries by that Ambitious Prince who has hunted after the Precious Life of our KING that he might Subdue the Nations to the Rod of his Power and tread them under his Feet But behold the Justice of the Lord as well as his Mercy in the King's Salvation For what had Men to do to take God's Prerogative out of His Hands and to number the King's Moments of Life by the time they should set a Fatal period thereto So long as God hath bound up his Soul in the Bundle of Life and may it be I pray God for many Years even to a good Old Age those who have to do with the Stool of Wickedness may sit thereon long enough Plotting and Contriving his Death thus imagining or framing Mischief by their own Wicked Counsels as a Law or Decree written like but more Cruel than those of Draco said to be in Blood and yet shall not be able to prevail with all the Powers of Hell on their side For no Sorcery no Divination no Inchantment no Conspiracy or Weapon form'd against this Mighty Defender of our Faith and of the Liberties of Europe can prosper so long as the Lord is on our side so long as He is the Rock of our Salvation and He will not leave us nor forsake us if we do not leave Him first O therefore draw we near unto Him in Faith and full Assurance of His continual Favour and keep we from every wicked thing from Atheism of the Mind from Atheism of the Will and the Act From Profaneness in our Hearts in our Words and in our Deeds Let us Religiously observe this Day with an holy Joy that it may be acceptable unto the Lord. Let no vain Oaths cause the Land to mourn nor any other Sin of our Souls or Bodies pollute this Day And let us observe every Lord's Day with greater distinction from other Days than we have hitherto done And so may we now turn unto the Lord and prosper May we wash off all Stains and Blemishes of past Ingratitude and be thankful for evermore hereafter And then will we say unto the Grand Enemy of Europe The Virgin Isa 37.22 the Daughter of Zion hath despised thee and laughed thee to scorn the Daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her Head at thee Then the Gates of Hell shall not prevail against the Church of England for her Faith is Built on a Rock and He who is truly the Defender thereof shall stand by Her with Power from God to preserve Her as He hath promised to do to His utmost To our Consolation then be it spoken That Great Deliverance giveth God unto His King that he is a Tower of Salvation unto him and sheweth Mercy unto His Anointed Wherefore will we rejoice and sing triumphantly The Lord liveth and blessed be

her Virtues shaking the Foundation of those Vices which had Triumph'd too much threat'ned their total and in part at least wrought their Destruction This made her truly Great added much to her High and Illustrious Birth and to her Person on the Throne And in all respects her Qualifications enforced and drew a lively pattern from her for all to profit by according to their several States and Conditions As a Queen and a Ruler let Kings and all Princes follow her with the highest Emulation if with her they will take God's Directions amongst King David's last words into their Books of Politicks how to Govern which Divine Lesson was her Majesty's grand and principal Point in the whole Compass of her Government how to steer by and which way to move The Needle pointing always in her Thoughts to these and the like holy Instructions He that ruleth over Men must be just ruling in the fear of God and he shall be as the light of the Morning when the Sun riseth even a Morning without Clouds as the tender Grass springing out of the Earth by clear shining after Rain 2 Sam. 23.3 4. Which Sacred Aphorism herein seems to have been the Golden Rule and Line she measured her Royal Thoughts Words and Actions by all her Reign the holy Balance in which she first weighted every proceeding through the whole Series of her great Affairs And so she answered likewise this Divine Simile as in Water Face answereth to Face truly and exactly Let it be said then of our most Devout and Religious Queen that like holy David she was after God's own Heart With Hezekiah and other Pions Kings She did that which was right in the sight of the Lord. And like good King Josiah she declined neither to the right Hand nor to the left Mercy and Justice resided in the Throne with her the former render'd her very Compassionate but yet her Prudence and Magnanimity were such as shewed her how she should not bear the Sword in vain she being the Ordinance and Minister of God And as she was in high Authority so was she above all idle and vulgar Censures or what was little and mean Consider her Majesty as a Wife Our Great Monarch whom she hath left behind and whom God in his Mercy long preserve to us will witness yea his great Grief of Heart doth Attest how she answer'd God's intent in the Creation of Woman that she should be (a) Gen. 2.18 an help meet for Man And according to the Apostolical Canons with a meek and quiet Spirit she gave reverence and yielded Subjection to her Royal Husband who with mutual Returns of Endearment according to like Holy Rules loved and honoured her as the weaker Vessel and his Glory also For the Man is the Image and Glory of God but the Woman is the Glory of the Man 1 Cor. 11.7 She well deserved the praise of the Virtuous Woman in the last Chapter of the Proverbs Ver. 11 12. For the Heart of her Husband did safely trust in her and she did do him good and not evil all the Days of her Life Her Candle did not go out by Night Ver. 18. for she was always mindful of her Duty and great Affairs She looked well to her Houshould and did not eat the Bread of Idleness Ver. 27. for by her own Labours she gave a New-birth to Work and Industry Her Children her good and dutiful Subjects I mean for she was a most Dear Tender and Compassionate Mother to us all did arise up and call her blessed her Husband also and he praised her Ver. 28. Both whose mutual Affections and Returns of Love and Kindness united their Two Royal Persons into One. Think upon her Majesty only as a Woman but of an uncommon Excellency of Spirit and largeness of Heart of such a Capacious Soul and Radiancy of Mind which is very seldom found and all tending more to Ambition of Goodness than Desire of Greatness for Majesty it self could not tempt her to Pride in any thing All which looked as happy presages of bringing much Benefit to Mankind But according to our purpose to descend from the Throne let us view her as if in a far lower Station amongst her Sex and say no more but she was a Woman We shall find her Exemplary Virtues justly Claim an high precedency amongst the whole Feminine Race For shew us such another when we call to witness her Majesty's profound Piety and Devotion her admired Meekness and Humility her Sweet Temper her Courteous Behaviour and Affability yet preserving Majesty as a Queen and her Moderation which was known unto all Men with that Serenity and Evenness of Mind also that not Passion but Reason moved and sway'd her that not easily lifted up nor soon cast down Heroick and Free yet Serious and Grave Chearful but without Levity She opened her Mouth with Wisdom and in her Tongue was the Law of Kindness Pro. 31.26 so Obliging and Discreet that she gain'd much upon the Affections even of her Enemies and at least often silenced the Tongues of unreasonable Men if she could not correct and alter their Judgments But to Crown all her Majesty's Excellencies she was a holy and good Christian Zealous always in that one thing needful Her unspotted and unblameable Life and Conversation shined before Men whilst she adorn'd the Gospel of Christ with her Divine Graces amongst which we must again inroll her Piety her unaffected Piety and Devotion and all the aforemention'd Virtues that belong to the Christian Chain with an unwearied Constancy in all her Duties At the Head of all placing her servent Charity that notable Badge of Christianity by which she forgave many Affronts and return'd none but with an high sort of Divine Clemency did do good for evil that her Light might shine not for vain Ostentation far from it was she but for God's Glory and an imitable Example to all others and that by an entire Resignation of her Will to Christ's Law which himself exemplified in pardoning and praying for his bitterest Enemies Mat. 5.48 she might be perfect as her Father which is in Heaven is perfect Add we here her Boundless Charity in giving and distributing to those in Want Alas how many indigent and decay'd Persons whom her Royal Bounty and Pity Relieved may bemoan themselves For her Charity was so unlimited that few if any but her self knew its utmost extent or could give it a place wide enough in the vast Sphere of Imagination that the compass of any Persons Thought could comprehend it So Largely and Secretly but Prudently withal did she stretch out her Hands to the Poor yea she reached forth her Hands to the Needy In general shewing the Celestial Extraction of her Blessed Soul when her Love and Charity was Universal like that of her Heavenly Father which our Blessed Saviour hath set forth for our Imitation Mat. 5.45 Who maketh his Sun to rise on the evil and