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A45352	A sermon preach'd in the cathedral and metropolitical church of St. Peter in York on Friday the fifth of November, 1697 being the anniversary-day of thanksgiving for that great deliverance from the gunpowder-treason, and also the day of His Majesty's happy landing in England : with a postscript and two letters, which clearly discover the Roman designs against the English church and nation / by George Halley ...	Halley, George, 1655 or 6-1708.	1698 (1698)	Wing H456; ESTC R40936	15,514	33

A SERMON Preach'd in the Cathedral and Metropolitical CHURCH OF St. Peter in York On Friday the Fifth of November 1697. Being the ANNIVERSARY-DAY of THANKSGIVING for that Great Deliverance from the Gunpowder-Treason And also the Day of His Majesty's Happy Landing in England With a POSTSCRIPT and Two LETTERS which clearly discover the Roman Designs against the English Church and Nation By GEORGE HALLEY A. M. and Prebendary of Ripon London Printed for and Sold by Tho. Baxter Bookseller in Peter-Gate York 1698. TO THE Most Reverend Father in GOD JOHN By Divine Providence Lord Archbishop of York His GRACE Primate of England and Metropolitan MY LORD WHEN I first compos'd this Discourse I had not the least Thought of sending it abroad into the World But partly thro' the Importunity of such as gave it a patient and favourable Audience and partly thro' the Reflections of some who without cause are Enemies to our Great and Triumphant Prince and partly thro' the Incredulity of others touching a Principal and Necessary Branch of true Repentance Restitution as also thro' the Hopes of its proving in some measure a happy Instrument to bring back into the Fold such Sheep as are gone astray I have adventured its Publication And now My Lord this humbly begs the Honour of Your Grace's Patronage and implores the Favour not to interpret the prefixing of Your Great Name to so mean and defective a Piece as great Boldness and Presumption but to accept it as a Specimen of Gratitude and Sincere Affection for all Your Kindnesses unworthily conferr'd upon me I am My Lord incapable of making Your Grace any other Return than this Publick Acknowledgement of them with Fervent Prayer to the Great Shepherd and Bishop of Souls to protect You and Yours and to continue so Great a Blessing as Your Grace is amongst us I am sure all the Flock committed to Your Pastoral Care have the Highest Obligations to render unto Almighty God and His most Excellent Majesty their hearty Thanks as well as gratefully to commemorate the late most Pious and Incomparable Queen for sending so burning a Light so bright and shining a Luminary amongst them In what an Ocean of Peace and Tranquility doth the Great Ship Your Large Diocess now Swim of which God and the King have constituted You the Supreme Commander You not only Direct and Govern but You pull at the Ropes and Sails with as much Vigour as any Common Mariner that Sails therein So Great is Your Lordship's Talent so Indefatigable is Your Industry in Preaching that Your Grace might justly with the late Lord Archbishop of Armagh make this the Motto of Your Archiepiscopal Seal Woe is unto me if I Preach not the Gospel That a Prelate so singularly Eminent for Great Parts and Abilities for Piety and Vertue Care and Diligence Meekness and Humility for Love and Charity may long Preside over and Adorn the Church of God is the Affectionate Desire and Ardent Prayer of My LORD Your Grace's most obliged Dutiful and Grateful Servant GEORGE HALLEY 2 COR. I. 10. Who delivered us from so great a Death and doth deliver in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us THE Conjunction of Mercies which the Almighty so eminently and peculiarly wrought on this Day for our Church and Nation makes this Day an High Day a very great and glorious Festival A Day which upon a double Account ought to be had in everlasting Remembrance Not only for the Providential Discovery of the Snares of Death laid this Day for our Ancestors but for the late happy and astonishing Deliverance of us their Posterity from the imminent Danger of Popery and Arbitrary Power The impure Streams of Idolatry and Superstition had gone even over our Souls the proud and insulting Waves the Romanists had triumph'd over us for they began to rage horribly and swell they gnash'd upon us with their Teeth when their small Stock of Arguments was spent and by this time of Day we should have found their Teeth Spears and Arrows and their Tongue a sharp Sword the Romanists I say had triumph'd over us had not God sent us on this blessed Day a Deliverer to rescue us from Popish Tyranny when we were so near sinking under it Great Reason therefore have we to say with St. Paul God deliver'd us from so great a Death and doth deliver in whom we trust that he will yet also deliver us In which Words consider we I. The great Death from which the Holy Apostle was delivered by God II. I will endeavour to shew you that God in this as well as in the Apostolical Age doth still deliver from Death III. What Method we must of absolute Necessity take to indear the Lord our God to oblige him still to protect and deliver us from Death Who deliver'd us from so great a Death and doth deliver in whom we trust that he will yet also deliver us But first In the first Place consider we the great Death from which the Holy Apostle was delivered by God By Death may be understood Troubles and Afflictions extream or uttermost Dangers Troubles and Afflictions in a Superlative in the highest Degree He was press'd out of Measure above Strength insomuch that he had almost black and desponding Thoughts he despair'd even of Life If he had not found more than ordinary Assistances of the good Spirit of God he had certainly sunk under them This is the doleful Account which he himself gives us at the Eighth Verse with the place too where those Troubles came upon him namely Asia What the Troubles were which he met with in Asia we are informed by St. Luke in the 19th of the Acts and the 23d Verse where we read of a Riot or unlawful Assembly a great Stir raised by one Demetrius a Silver-smith and the Workmen of like Occupation about the Doctrine of the Gospel because St. Paul had preach'd against the Images which they made and worshipp'd as confounded be all they that worship carved Images and that delight in vain Gods worship him all ye Gods because he had persuaded much People that they be no Gods which are made with Hands they came upon him in a furious and tumultuary Manner Further In the first Epistle to the Corinthians 15.32 we read if after the manner of men I have fought with Beasts at Ephesus what advantageth it me if the dead rise not Some interpret those Words of his Conflict with the same Demetrius and the Silver-Smiths who were like Beasts in their Conditions and Manners Others are of Opinion that he really was exposed in the Theatre to furious Beasts tho' peradventure he was only so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Purpose of Men the Magistrates had sentenced and condemned him to that Death but Divine Providence interpos'd and rescued him from the Execution of the Sentence Thus probably these Words of my Text relate to his Sufferings at Ephesus when God delivered him from so great a Death Further In the

with a dispensing Power Thus our Religion our Laws our Liberties all that is near and dear to us would have been destroy'd had not God deliver'd them from so great a Death by sending us the best of Princes who this Day set his Foot on the British Shore It was he alone whom God made the happy Instrument of our Preservation it was he who stop'd our furious Enemies in their Career who prevented their base Designs by a sudden and an unexpected Change of the Scene by such an astonishing Revolution of Affairs as no Age peradventure can parallel A most happy Revolution whatsoever our Male-contents think of it Alass when once the Minds of Men are darkned with Ambition Pride Revenge Hatred Malice and Envy let Acts of Providence be never so illustriously visible they will not see them such Darkness is thick to Admiration how great is that Darkness It was I say a most happy Revolution Tho' it is true indeed the Consequence of it hath been a vast Expence of Blood and Treasure but still we have the least Reason to murmur or complain This Blood hath not been spil'd this terrible War hath not rag'd in our own but in a Foreign Land all the Havock which hath been made all the Devastations by Fire and Sword were not here but in other Countries Taxes and Impositions indeed we have not been freed from but what then our Yoke hath been easy and our Burden light and if Judgment may be form'd according to the Sumptuous way of living according to the little Abatement there hath been ever since the War commenc'd either of Diet splendid Attire or other expensive Diversions all the Charge we have been at is comparatively as nothing It is a Question whether greater Injury hath been done to the Publick whether the Nation in general hath suffer'd more by impairing the Coin than by the War the Prevention of which great Mischief for the future is such a glorious Act as ought never to be forgotten To have call'd in our base Money at a time when we slept upon the downy Bed of Peace would have been a matter of far less Difficulty but to regulate the Coin when we were engag'd in a bloody and expensive War this Act no Age peradventure can parallel It is a Question I say whether the Nation in general hath suffer'd more by impairing the Coin than by the War I heartily wish that such as have thus been guilty of plunging the Nation into calamitous Circumstances may be deeply touch'd and affected with the Consideration of it that they may Repent of the great Wrong and universal Robbery which they have committed and demonstrate the Sincerity of their Repentance by giving the Wealth they have gotten by Injury Fraud and Deceit to Charitable Vses If they do not the time will come when they will wish they had not enriched themselves by others Poverty that they had mov'd in a low Sphere and been contented with a mean Condition that they had cast themselves naked into the Arms of Divine Providence and known nothing of Temporal Affluence and Prosperity Oh! What is a Man advantaged if he gain the whole World and lose himself or be a cast-away Luke 9.25 Oh! what shall a Man give in Exchange for his Soul Mat. 16.26 I am sure Thieves and such are the greatest Thieves as either impair'd or by furnishing were instrumental to the impairing of our Coin unless they repent of their Wickedness and make Restitution if there be a Capacity for it can never enter into the Kingdom of God 1. Cor. 6.10 But blessed be God the Tables of the Money Changers are now overturn'd this great and dangerous Distemper which the Nation hath long labour'd under is now healed this base Art as well as the terrible War hath had its happy Period and Conclusion and if we would but put away from us all Bitterness and Wrath Anger and Clamour Malice and Envy and live in Christian Love and Charity if we would but endeavour to keep the Unity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace what could hinder us from being the happiest People upon the Face of the Earth What complaining could then be in our Streets Trade which is the Life and Soul of this Nation will now flourish our Money hath recover'd its ancient Weight and Fineness it hath now the greatest Beauty and Comliness and tho' we have been at a vast Expence of Blood and Treasure yet the Happiness we have gotten thereby will infinitely over-ballance and preponderate all our Harm and Loss we have purchased therewith a Jewel of a Transcendent value of the greatest Price an Honourable and I hope a durable and lasting Peace God hath made the War to cease it is he who is the Author of all our Deliverances it is he who maketh Wars to cease in all the World who breaketh the Bow and knappeth the Spear in sunder and burneth the Chariots in the Fire God I say hath made the War to cease thro' the Noble Conduct and Heroick Valour of our Great King God hath given unto us the Blessings of Peace God Land him safe again on our joyful Shore let him return with the greatest Glory and Triumph with the loudest Shouts and Acclamations God Almighty give him always the Hearts of his Parliament and the Affections of his People O Young Men and Maidens Old Men and Children cry God Save King William for he it is by whom God hath deliver'd us from Death from innumerable Dangers and doth deliver In whom we trust that he will yet also deliver us And this brings me to the Third and the Last thing Namely What Method we must of absolute necessity take to endear the Lord our God to oblige him still to protect and deliver us from Death And here if ever we hope to endear the God of Heaven to us to oblige him to protect and deliver us from Death this is the Method which we must of absolute necessity take We must lead an holy and exemplary Life we must endeavour as much as in us lies to be Pure and Holy in all manner of Conversation Do we pretend to trust in the Lord our God Alas without Holiness we trust in vain unless we purify our selves we can have no sure and certain Hope no rational Assurance of the Divine Protection No People under Heaven have more liberally tasted of the Favour and loving Kindness of the Lord than we No People in the World have stronger Obligations to Piety and Vertue than we What is it that the Lord could have done for this our Nation and he hath not done it God hath given us the best Religion the best Government the best Laws and the best of Princes and by him the best of Blessings Peace How many Deliverances from Death have we had The Time and your Patience would fail me to give you a particular Enumeration of them they are more in Number than I am now able to express How often hath the Lord