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A30998 A sermon preach'd before the University of Cambridge on the 9th of September being the day of publick thanksgiving for the delivery of His Majesties Sacred Person, his royal brother, and the government, from the late hellish fanatick conspiracy / by Miles Barne ... Barne, Miles, d. 1709? 1683 (1683) Wing B861; ESTC R12630 13,250 36

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in His Power to subdue that Pestilence of Puritanism which for above these hundred Years has raged in this Nation to crush the Seeds and destroy the very Principles of Schism To Him it is reserv'd to bring the Church of England up to those Glorious Heights that She shall appear the Envy of Rome and the Terrour of Geneva To settle the Monarchy upon so firm a Basis that it shall be no more shaken by Republican Rage His Sacred Person shall be no longer lyable to Violence nor His Subjects to Oppression No more shall Majesty be affronted by the Sawcy Votes of a Seditious Senate nor we made Prisoners by our Representatives But long and secure shall He Reign in the hearts and Affections of His People and when He returns late to Heaven leave the Blessing of Peace and a well Establish't Crown to His Successor Posterity shall Praise His Memory and Generations to come shall call Him the Father of His Country and the Mighty Defender of the Faith And it remains that we render unto God Almighty our most Solemn Thanks for the Comprehensive Mercy we this Day Celebrate in the Deliverance of His Sacred Majesty and the Government from the damnable Conspiracy of Fanatick Rage And we must pray that as God in His infinite Goodness has hitherto discover'd and defeated their Hellish Devices so He would every day more and more confound their Wicked imaginations That Justice may overtake those Trayterous Fugitives whom Mercy could not Reclaim And let us never more be so far transported with the fears of a Popish Plot as to think our selves secure from a Fanatick Conspiracy This one false step had like to have led us into Destruction They are both formidable Enemies and since we are plac'd between two Extreams common Prudence bids us have a watchfull Eye over both and not to give a palpable Advantage to the One by applying all our Force against the Other At this time the Dissenters appear to me the most Dangerous For the Papists are comparatively contemptible as to their numbers their Interest is broken we have severe Penal Laws in force against them and those Laws in no danger of a Repeal since both their Peers and Commons are made uncapable of Sitting in Parliament But the Dissenters are formidable as to their numbers they boast themselves in their strength they are Restless in their Attempts and Implacable in their Dispositions And it is very memorable that we should on the same day of the Month observe a Day of Thanksgiving for the Deliverance of the Church and Defender of our Faith from a Fanatick Conspiracy on which the Rebellious Commons in 41 first publish't their Order in Derogation of the Common-Prayer Book and for the suspension of the Laws Ecclesiastical of which Violation our late Martyred Sovereign of ever Blessed Memory so often and sensibly complains in His Declaration of Aug. 12. 42. Wonderful art thou in thy ways O God! and thy Paths are past finding out In a word then as we are thankfull to God for the Preservation of His Majesty hitherto so let us implore His Protection over Him for the time to come that He may daily receive fresh Accessions of strength and Splendour and be recompenc'd for the times wherein He hath suffered Adversity And let us evermore pay to so Gracious a King and so much Beloved of our utmost Expressions of Duty Love and Obedience Let us Esteem and Honour Him as the Gift of God and receive Him as a new Present from Heaven O Lord save the King And Bless thine Anointed Send Him help from thy Holy Hill And evermore mightily defend Him Let the Enemy have no Advantage over Him Nor the Wicked approach to hurt Him Which God of His infinite Mercy grant through Jesus Christ our Lord To whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost three Persons and one God be given all Glory Praise and Dominion henceforth and for evermore Amen THE END