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mercy_n	day_n	let_v	lord_n	11,954	5	4.6424	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55538	The religious rebel a sermon preach'd at South-Marston near Hyworth in Wiltshire, on the ninth of September, being the day of publick thanksgiving for the deliverance of His Majesty's sacred person, his royal brother, and the government from the late hellish fanatick conspiracy / by Charles Powell.	Powell, Charles, b. 1644 or 5-1685 or 6.	1683 (1683)	Wing P3046; ESTC R3301	12,130	32

Persons in your Opinion who bear the Image and Stamp of Him from whom they derive their Authority and while they command nothing but what is in their Commission are no less to be Obeyd than he that sent them and set them over us however are not in any case to be Resisted for whosoever Resist shall receive to themselves Damnation Rom. 13.2 I need not tell you the seasonableness of this Caution the practise of the men of our Age has saved me that labour We too well know what they were doing when under a Pretext of defending Religion they endeavour'd the repealing of those Laws which are the onely Hedge and Mound for its preservation and under the vizor of Zeal to protect his Sacred Maiesty from Popish Cruelty they went about to destroy him with a fanatical Rebellion But O my Soul come not thou into their Secret Gen. 49.6 unto their Assembly mine honour be not thou united who speak friendly to their Neighbors but imagine Mischief in their Hearts Destruction and unhappiness are in their ways Ps 28.3 and the way of Peace have they not known Secondly Therefore how great Cause have we to bless God who has in mercy to us discover'd these 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 6.11 these wiles and contrivances of the Devil and his Accomplices who in mercy meer mercy to this Sinful and Rebellious Nation has deliver'd David his Servant from the peril of the sword and from the hand of Strange Children whose mouth talketh of vanity and their right hand is a right hand of iniquity who has preserved him from the Blood-thirsty and deceitful Man from the Bloody Romanist and from the deceitful Enthusiast Ps 5. v. 6. both whom the Soul of God abhorreth A King so dear to heaven that it has shewn as many Miracles in his preservation as Hell hath produced Plots even to a Miracle for his Destruction I need not tell you of the Star at his Birth which though some men will not admit to be either new or Miraculous yet I am sure was very strange and unusual and was set there by that hand which as it never did any thing in vain so did it never bestow such Signal Remarks but upon Extraordinary Persons and upon Extraordinary Occasions Nor need I refresh your Memories with a rehearsal of the wonderfull Acts of Heaven in his whole Life which though it has had its black lines of Affliction more perhaps than any other King we read of in the Murther of that Glorious Saint his Royal Father the Exile of Himself and the whole Royal Family in which he suffer'd more than I can relate or he would have born had he not been sustain'd by the Right Hand of the Most High while he was 2 Cor. 11.26.27 what St. Paul says of himself In journying often in perils of waters in perils of robbers in perils by his own Countrymen in perils by the Heathen in perils in the City in perils in the wilderness in perils in the Sea in perils among false Brethren In weariness in painfulnes in watchings often in hunger and thirst in fassting often in Cold and nakedness besides those things that are without that which came upon him daily the Care of the Church of God witness that fierce Assault of Militiere which he so piously sustain'd and as generously repel'd and vanquish'd Nor shall I insist upon his stupendous and Miraculous Restauration which we all ought gratefully to admire though we can never reach that which is past finding out And above all with him the Restauration of our Religion which went away and return'd with him as if there were no God while there was no King in Israel and we could not serve and worship the one as we ought to do unless we perform'd our Homage and Allegiance to the other And all this in meer Mercy to us for I can scarce call it any to him who seems to be restored only to new Afflictions by the Ingratitude and repeated Rebellions and Conspiracies of a stiff-necked and Hipocritical Generation who repay all those Blessings that by him are conveyed to us not only by reproachful and contumelious language Exod. 22.28 which Moses cals Reviling of the Gods which has been the frequent and too known practise of many in their Seditious Clubs and Trayterous Cabals even of those persons who would seem to be Religious but by Atheistically Sacrilegiously and Rebelliously plotting and contriving his Death to whose Mercy and God-like Act of Oblivion so many among us owe those Lives which they would yet once more Sacrifice to the God of Rebellion whom they have so long served But God who alone gives Victory to Kings has once more deliver'd David his Servant from the peril of the sword And why because the King putteth his Trust in the Lord and in the Mercy of the most Highest he shall not miscarry O Let us reioyce therefore and triumph in the Name of the Lord our God! This is the day which the Lord hath made we will rejoyce and be glad in it even in the presence of all those that have an evil will at Sion And I hope I need not urge many Argument to excite your Praise and Gratitude in this Day of our Salvation onely let our Joy be such as becomes good Christians and good Protestants let us in the Words of our Orthodox and Loyal Mother the Church of England shew forth our Joy not only with our Lips but in our Lives that the due Sence of this great Mercy and Deliverance may move us all to walk more uprightly and more sincerely before God and make us for the future more Loyal to our King that we may not any longer deal Hypocritically with the one or Rebelliously with the other but That with well doing we may put to silence the Ignorance of foolish men That God may once more speak Peace unto his People and to his Saints that they turn not again that God may delight to dwell among us and glory may dwell in our Land that we may once more go into the House of God as Freinds and worship God in the Beauty of Holiness that there may be no more Heart-burnings among us but that we may with one Mind and one Mouth Glorify God even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ To whom c. 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