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A53335 England's call to thankfulness for her great deliverance from popery and arbitrary power by the glorious conduct of the Prince of Orange (now King of England) in the year 1688 in a sermon preach'd in the parish-church of Almer in Dorsetshire on February the 14th, 1688/9 / by John Olliffe ... Ollyffe, John, 1647-1717. 1689 (1689) Wing O288; ESTC R17619 23,014 38

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Commandments Then saith Ezra Wouldst not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us so that there should be no Remnant nor escaping Ezr. 9.13 14. We must not think that we are therefore delivered to work Wickedness or that we may sin with the greater Boldness God hath a Divine and Holy end in this and all his Dispensations towards us as Luke 1.69 He hath raised up an Horn of Salvation for us that we being delivered out of the Hands of our Enemies might serve him without Fear in Righteousness and Holiness before him all the Days of our Lives We must not think that we are delivered from Popery to serve our own Lusts which is every whit as dangerous an Idolatry as to bow to dumb Images and to serve Stocks and Stones We must not think that we are saved from Errours in our Faith and Doctrine that we may have worse in our Lives For there is no such Errour and Heresy in the World as a bad Life and a wicked Heart And we must not think that our Liberties and Properties are preserved that we may revel more with them in Wantonness and Excess If our Laws and Government are preserved yet that will little avail us if we do not govern our selves well and our own Affections and Passions It is not the saving of our Laws will save us if we are lawless in our own Spirits If we are secured from outward Tyranny what will that signify if our Sins and Corruptions within do still tyrannize over us the World or Sin in our Hearts will be a worse Tyrant to us than ever any Prince that could sit upon the Throne The Pope or French King could never hurt us as our own evil Affections can It had been better a thousand times that our Bodies had been hack'd and massacred at the command of furious Jesuits or that we had been Slaves for ever to the most cruel Lords if thereby our Virtue and Innocency might have been preserved than that we should be the Devils Martyrs or be living Slaves to the World and Flesh It is a Reformation that God intends in what he hath done for us and that is it therefore which we should also intend Let not our Deliverance lull us asleep in Security For if we do not make that Divine and Holy use of it as we ought God can quickly turn his Hand upon us in Fury And though one Instrument be gone he can quickly sind out another to punish us or he can easily make us a Punishment to our selves if he should but suffer an evil Spirit of Division and Discord to seize upon us God hath Axes and Hammers enough at command that he can make use of to chastise us if yet all he hath done doth us no good As we sind in the History of the Judges that when the People corrupted themselves after their Deliverance God soon raised up other Enemies that a long time kept them in hard Bondage till they repented themselves of their Sins and then the Lord heard their Groanings and saved them Jer. 7. 8. Ye trust in lying Words that cannot profit if ye think you may sin securely and because of pres●nt Mercies that yet shall be henceforth out of Danger Will ye steal murder and commit Adultery and swear falsly c. And come and stand before me in this House which is called by my Name and say We are delivered to do all these Aborninations No. But go ye unto my place which is at Shiloh where I set my Name at the first and see what I did to it for the Wickedness of my People Israel So what Calamities and Miseries have befallen other Churches and Countries and how can you but expect the like if you do not take warning by their Falls Thus saith the Lord of Hists The God of Israel amend your Ways and your Doings and I will cause you to dwell in this place We are told by the Psalmist Psal 33.12 That blessed is the Nation wh● hath the Lord for their God and blessed is the People whom he hath chosen for his Inheritance For if God be for us who can be against us If the Eternal God will be our Refuge and will but put under the everlasting Arms who is he that can hurt us So that the greatest thing we can do towards our own Happiness is to engage the mighty God to be on our side and to secure his gracious and blessed Presence that it may be ever with us But then for this we must see that we depart from all Iniquity for he is not a God that hath Pleasure in Wickedness neither can Evil dwell with him We must see that we walk before him and be perfect For his Eyes run to and fro to show himself strong in the Behalf of them that walk uprightly then he will be with us and save us and he will never leave us nor forsake us if we keep his Covenant and his Testimonies We have plainly seen that the Lord's hand is not shortned that it cannot save neither is his Ear heavy that it cannot hear and he is the same God yesterday to day and for ever But let us see that we do not at last provoke him to leave us by our Sins let us see that our Iniquities do not separate between us and our God. He seemed for our Sins to threaten us sore and to write bitter things against us but he hath not yet done his Work his strange Work he hath not brought to pass his Act his strange Act. As the Work of Judgment is called because he is slow to anger Isa 28.21 Let us see that we do not provoke him by our Sins to return upon us in Fury It seems as if our gracious God had had a Dispute with himself not to do with us as once he had about the People of Israel Hos 11.8 How shall I give thee up Ephraim How shall I deliver thee Israel How shall I make thee as Admah How shall I set thee as Zeboim My Heart is turned within me my Repentings are kindled together I will not execute the Fierceness of mine Anger I will not return to destroy Ephraim For I am God and not Man the Holy one in the midst of thee So that at length Mercy hath prevailed over Judgment and we are saved as it is this Day And now shall not the Goodness of God lead us to Repentance shall we no better improve but basely despise the Riches of his Goodness and Forbearance and Long-suffering should we still continue to walk after our Hardness and impenitent Heart What would this be but to treasure up to our selves Wrath against the Day of Wrath and Revelation of the righteous Judgment of God which yet we may expect if we should continue to do wickedly It is prophesied of Mount Sion Obad. 17. That upon Sion shall be Deliverance and there shall be Holiness and then the House of Jacob shall possess their Possessions Why should it not be
as a Thief if they did not watch so that they should not know ●n what Hour he would come upon them This is partly true of us now he hath come on us indeed like a Thief as to the Suddenness of it but it hath not been to kill and destroy but in one Hour as it were is all this Salvation unexpectedly wrought Surely we have seen strange things to day And now considering his wonderful Grace and Kindness to us together with our former Sins and Ingratitude 't is high time for ●s to awake to Repentance and to give up our selves to him in an Holy intire Obedience We must repent then of our past Wickedness and set up a present Reformation that our Mercies may be lasting to us and may be intailed upon the Generations to come We had need all of us mourn every Family apart the Family of the House of David and the Family of the House of Nathan and the Family of the House of Levi and the Family of Shimei And it doth not at all an become the Solemnity of this Day when we are returning Thanks for Mercies yet bitterly to bewail our Sins which inhance the Greatness of God's Mercy to us and might have justly made us to have expected other things And O that God would be pleased to pour out a Spirit of Prayer and Supplication upon all Flesh among us for that End But we must not only reflect with Sorrow upon times past our chief Work is yet to come And that is that we labour for a thorow and National Reformation which though we that are in private Capacities cannot do much to yet we should labour to do what we can that as we have contributed to the national Guilt by our Omissions and evil Practices and Examples so now we may by the same ways promote a National Repentance And what we cannot do our selves let us help by our devout and earnest Prayers at the Throne of Grace that Holiness beginning at the Throne may flow down through all the Channels of Office and Magistracy to the meanest Person of the Land. Let not Holiness suffer for the Miscarriages of some of its Professours But let Piety come into Reputation again and let it be an Honour to Men to be as good as may be which would soon be if all in high place would publickly own and defend it We have good Laws already that all agree in for the suppressing of all Irreligion and Immorality There is no party can have the Face to desire and beg a Toleration here Let these be put into Execution and let Vice be outfac'd that hath been so bold and impudent among us so long If Men will rant and damn and swear and be drunk let them do it in Corners but let them not dare to appear abroad to infect others by their pestilent Breath If Men will dare to affront God and commit Villanies and Excess let them be stigmatized and let a Mark be set upon them that they may become the Observation and Scorn of all if they forfeit Pity by their Irreclaimableness If Men will not become truly religious yet however they ought to be kept from abusing Religion There is no civiliz'd Nation but hath always thought Religion and Vertue its greatest Honour and Interest Atheists themselves will allow that 't is convenient for the publick Good. And therefore those that decry and discourage it or give Countenance to Irreligion and Sin ought to be accounted the very Pests of Mankind and are really the worst of Traitors and Enemies that any State can have And the greatest Kindness therefore that we can show to our Native Country is by becoming truly religious and good This is the way to engage God on our side to prevent the Miscarrying of that Deliverance at last that hath had so blessed a Beginning and to obtain a Blessing upon the publick Counsels and Endeavours and doth in its own Nature tend to promote the Honour the Quiet and the Happiness of the Land. If Parents would be religious in educating their Children and would but take as much Pains to instruct and nurture them up in the Knowledg of God as they do teach them any Arts and Sciences If rich Men and Gentlemen would be religious and there by influence their poor Neighbours to like and practise the same If publick Officers would be religious and restrain Sin as they might by their Example and Authority If they that teach others to be religious would be truly religious themselves and become Examples of it to the Flock then we should soon have as it were new Heavens and a new Earth and if we would but thus do our Duty to God and our Neighbour we may be sure he will not fail to pour down his Blessings upon us Let us therefore all consider our ways and as now we rejoice and are glad at the great and strange things that God hath done for us let us see that we make a grateful Return to God of a suitable Obedience let Religion be our Study in all its parts let us keep his Sabbaths and observe his Ordinances let us read and study his Word to this end that we may be better and let our Delight be in the Law of the Lord let us tremble at his Name and do his Will let us fly from Sin and mortify our Lusts let us particularly see that we remember the new Commandment of our blessed Saviour that we love one another and that we live together as Brethren Let us consider that Religion doth not consist in Meat and Drink but in Righteousness and Peace and Joy in the Holy Ghost And let this our Sion be filled with Judgment and Righteousness And Oh that Wisdom and Knowledg may be the Stability of our times and Strength of our Salvation and that the Fear of the Lord may be our Treasure Then the Work of Righteousness shall be Peace and the Effect of Righteousness Quietness and Assurance for ever then Violence shall no more be heard in our Land nor Wasting and Destruction in all our Borders but we shall call our Walls Salvation and our Gates Praise And the Lord shall be unto us an everlasting Light and our God our Glory The Sun shall no more go down neither shall the Moon withdraw her self For the Lord shall be our everlasting Light and the Days of our Mourning shall be ended FINIS Books lately Printed and Sold by Jonathan Robinson at the Golden Lion in St. Pauls Church-yard relating to the great Revolutions and Affairs in England 1688 1689. AN Account of the Reasons of the Nobility and Gentry's Invitation of the Prince of Orange into England Being a Memorial from the English Protestants concerning their Grievances with a large Account of the Birth of the Prince of Wales presented to their Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Orange A Collection of Political and Historical Papers relating to the Present Juncture of Affairs in England in eleven Parts which will be Continued from Time to Time according as Matter occurs A Brief History of the Succession of the Crown of England c. Collected out of the Records and the most Authentick Historians written for the Satisfaction of the Nation Wonderful Predictions of Nostredamus Grebner David Pareus and Autonius Torquatus wherein the Grandeur of their Present Majesties the Happiness of England and Downfall of France and Rome are plainly Delineated With a large Preface shewing That the Crown of England has not been obscurely foretold to their Majesties William the 3d and Queen Mary late Prince and Princess of Orange and that the People of this Ancient Monarchy have duly contributed thereunto in the present Assembly of Lords and Commons notwithstanding the Objections of Men of different Extremes Julian's Arts to Undermine and Extirpate Christianity c. By Samuel Johnson The Impression of which Book was made in the Year 1683 and has ever since ●●in buried under the Ruins of all those English Rights which it endeavoured to defend but by the Auspicious and Happy Arrival of the Prince of Orange both They and It have obtained a Resurrection The Mystery of Iniquity working in the Dividing of Protestants in order to the subverting of Religion and our Laws for almost the space of thirty Years last past plainly laid open With some Advices to Protestants of all Perswasions in the present Juncture of our Affairs To which is added A Specimen of a Bill for uniting of Protestants Liberty of Conscience now highly necessary for England humbly represented to this present Parliament A Friendly Debate between Dr. Kingsman a dissatisfied Clergy-man and Gratianus Trimmer a Neighbour Minister concerning the late Thanksgiving-Day the Prince's Descent into England the Nobility and Gentries joining with him the Acts of the Honourable Convention the Nature of our English Government ●●e Secret League with France the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy c. With some Considerations on Bishop Sanderson and Dr. Falkner about Monarchy ●●th● c. Written for the Satisfaction of some of the Clergy and others that 〈…〉 under Scruples By a Minister of the Church of England 〈…〉 reproved in a Sermon on 1 Cor. 10.10 By Mr. Hopkins