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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51916	Sermons preach'd on several occasions by John March ..., the last of which was preach'd the twenty seventh of November, 1692, being the Sunday before he died ; with a preface by Dr. John Scot ; to which is added, A sermon preach'd at the assizes, in New-Castle upon Tine, in the reign of the late King James.	March, John, 1640-1692.; Scott, John, 1639-1695.	1699 (1699)	Wing M583; ESTC R18158	123,796	330

which inclined the Heart of that Noble Lord to communicate the Letter which otherwise might easily have been slighted as the off-spring of some melancholy Brain Nay was it not our merciful God who at this time put a Divine Sentence into the Lips of the King and suffer'd not his Mouth to transgress in Judgment His Royal Breast at other times used to be free from Jealousie accounting it no less than a Badge of Tyranny But now Providence so ordered it that by an unnatural construction of an Aenigmatical Phrase he discovered that unnatural destruction which was hatching by his Enemies 5ly God does sometimes make the Wrath of Man to praise him by inflicting some extraordinary Judgments upon the Enemies of his People The Lord is known saith the Psalmist by the Iudgment he executeth the Wicked is snared by the work of his own Hands Psal. 9. 16. Thus God also chastised the Wrath of Sennacherib at the siege of Ierusalem by sending his Angel to destroy 185000 of his Army And tho' Sennacherib himself was spared that he might the better know the Power of that God whom he had despised and blasphemed yet because he was not throughly reformed by this first Judgment but his Wrath still remained when he came to his chief City Niniveh where he fell to persecute the Ten Tribes which were captive there God restrained this remainder of his Wrath by another signal Judgment and made him die an ignominious Death by the Hands of his two Sons and that in the House of his own God whom he had blasphemously opposed to the great Iehovah but was not able to protect him from the Hand of his Almighty Vengeance And did not God also Glorifie himself thus by those strange Judgments which he executed on the Powder-Traytors Was it not remarkable what hapned at Holbeach in Worcestershire where some of this days Conspirators being drying Powder to make Resistance one spark of Fire lighting accidentally amongst the Powder wounded them so sadly that they were forced to acknowledge the Justice and Vengeance of God upon them by that Powder wherewith they had intended the Destruction of so many After this Catesby and Piercy two Principal Conspirators were accidentally shot to Death by one Shot of a Musquet and so fell by the Hand of God taking revenge on them by Powder before the Justice of Man was able to seize them Add to this what we read in King Iames's Works how that God did secretly exasperate the Spirits of all Men against these Popish Traytors that in the Countries where they wandred some of them were killed others taken before any Proclamation could overtake them and before the People who seized them knew any thing of this particular Treason Thus God this day did make the Wrath of Man to praise him to praise his Justice his Power in executing such strange Judgments upon these bloody unnatural Traytors But it is time I should shew you in the second place Secondly Who they are God makes to praise him I shall name two sorts of Men. 1st God by such means as these makes his very Enemies to praise him by acknowledging either his Power or his Justice in their Punishments Thus Pharoah and the Egyptians acknowledged God's Power in the Red Sea when they cried out Let us flee from the Face of Israel for the Lord fighteth for them against the Egyptians It is very remarkable what Herodotus reports of Sennacherib the burthen of the Text namely that he had a Statute erected after his Death with this good Advice engraven on it Whosoever looketh upon me let him learn to be Pious and to fear God So Iulian the Apostate acknowledged the Power of Christ crying out at his death Vicisti Galilaee Thou art too strong for me O thou Galilean What Confessions and Acknowledgments has God also extorted from our Romish Adversaries Don Pedro seeing the terrible dissipation of that invincible Armado which was sent in 88. professed that now he perceived that God was turned Lutheran And on this very day Faux who was appointed to be the Black Executioner and Garnet the Priest that was to Consecrate the Plot did confess to the praise of God as well as the rest at their Execution the outragious wickedness and odiousness of their Hellish design But 2ly God does more especially receive Honour and Praise from his own People whom he wonderfully delivers from the Rage of Wicked Bloody Men Thus Israel when they saw the Egyptians dead upon the shore they sang praise unto God proclaiming him fearful in praises and doing wonders Thus Hezekiah sent this Psalm to the chief Musician on Neginoth that solemn Praises and Thanksgivings might be returned unto God for their wonderful deliverance from the Rage of Sennacherib Even so Religious King Iames did erect this day for a Pillar of Gratitude to our good God who did so miraculously preserve our King the Royal Family the Parliament with our Laws Liberties and Religion Let us therefore rejoyce in the Lord and again I say rejoyce let us rouze up our Spirits call up our Hearts and let all that is within us bless his Holy Name Sure if God extort praises from his very Enemies he may more justly inhabit the praises of his own People those that he has so wonderfully preserved Nay consider how he has restrained also the remainder of Wrath How many Plots of these Blood thirsty Papists he has since defeated If it had not been the Lord who was on our side when Men rose up against us they had swallowed us up quick when their Wrath was kindled so hot against us Let us therefore bless the Lord our God who has not given us over as a prey unto their Teeth And to help us a little in the performance of this Duty I shall conclude all with these two following Directions First If you praise God aright for the Mercies of this Day you must be zealous for that Church which God has hitherto so wonderfully preserved You have heard how that because God had so wonderfully preserved Hezekiah from the Fury of Sennacherib they brought Presents unto him and he was magnified in the sight of all Nations from thenceforth How ought we then to magnifie that Church which God has magnified How precious how honourable ought it to be in all our Eyes which God has honoured with so many Miracles We know this Church is the greatest Eye-fore of Rome and to use the words of the Author of the Review of the Council of Trent There has not been more woful Tragedies of the Papal Fury acted upon any Stage than this of England Yet how has God all along restrained their Wrath Well then may we own that Church and be zealous for her whom God has so signally owned and been at the expence of so many Miracles to preserve But Secondly The Life of Thankfulness does chiefly consist in the Lives of those that are Thankful He that ordereth his Conversation aright is said to glorifie God in