A sermon preached before the King and Queen at White-Hall on the 19th day of October, 1690, being the day of thanksgiving for His Majesties preservation and success in Ireland by the Right Reverend Father in God, Gilbert Lord Bishop of Sarum.
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A sermon preached before the King and Queen at White-Hall on the 19th day of October, 1690, being the day of thanksgiving for His Majesties preservation and success in Ireland by the Right Reverend Father in God, Gilbert Lord Bishop of Sarum.
Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
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1690.
Half title: The Bishop of Salisbury's thanksgiving-sermon for the King's preservation in Ireland.
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A
SERMON
Preached
before
the
KING
and
QUEEN
,
AT
WHITE-HALL
,
On
the
19th
Day
of
OCTOBER
,
1690.
BEING
THE
Day
of
Thanksgiving
,
FOR
His
MAJESTIES
PRESERVATION
and
SUCCESS
in
IRELAND
.
By
the
Right
Reverend
Father
in
God
,
GILBERT
Lord
Bishop
of
SARVM
.
LONDON
:
Printed
for
Ric.
Chiswell
,
at
the
Rose
and
Crown
in
St.
Paul's
Church-Yard
.
MDCXC
.
THE
Bishop
of
SALISBVRY's
Thanksgiving-Sermon
FOR
The
KING'S
PRESERVATION
IN
IRELAND
.
PSALM
CXLIV
.
10
,
11.
It
is
He
that
giveth
salvation
unto
Kings
,
who
delivereth
David
his
servant
from
the
hurtful
sword
.
Rid
me
and
deliver
me
from
the
hand
of
strange
children
,
whose
mouth
speaketh
vanity
,
and
their
right
hand
is
a
right
hand
of
falshood
.
THIS
Place
as
well
as
this
Day
is
dedicated
to
the
Honour
of
the
great
God
,
to
the
Celebrating
of
his
Praise
,
and
the
Glory
of
the
Deliverance
and
Victory
that
he
hath
given
us
.
Those
whom
he
has
made
the
Blessed
Instruments
of
procuring
it
to
us
,
do
so
entirely
offer
up
the
Acknowledgments
due
for
it
to
that
Providence
which
they
signally
Adore
,
that
as
they
●ould
not
endure
so
sacrilegious
a
thought
,
as
●he
putting
the
Honour
that
belongs
to
Them
in
●he
least
degree
of
Competition
with
the
Praises
●hat
are
to
be
offered
up
to
the
Great
KING
of
KINGS
;
so
by
a
Modesty
which
gives
a
peculiar
Grace
to
all
they
do
,
they
cannot
bear
even
that
which
is
just
,
and
in
some
sort
necessary
upon
such
occasions
.
In
other
Places
and
Courts
,
Invention
and
Fancy
are
put
to
the
rack
to
find
out
the
highest
Figures
,
and
the
noblest
Expressions
to
raise
the
Glory
of
Princes
,
even
when
their
Successes
do
more
eminently
belong
to
some
secret
Design
of
Providence
,
since
no
share
of
them
can
be
ascribed
either
to
their
Courage
or
Conduct
.
But
here
we
are
so
confined
by
Orders
which
one
knows
as
little
how
to
obey
,
as
how
to
disobey
,
that
how
large
soever
the
Field
,
and
how
rich
soever
the
Prospect
is
,
it
must
either
be
quite
overlookt
,
or
if
it
be
suffered
to
be
shewed
,
it
must
be
by
Reversing
the
Telescope
in
Little
and
contracted
.
Princes
,
whose
Actions
are
their
own
Panegyricks
,
cannot
bear
that
others
should
make
any
for
them
;
for
what
they
themselves
do
,
exceeds
all
that
can
be
said
by
others
:
Whereas
the
want
of
real
Merit
must
be
hid
or
supplied
by
the
false
appearances
of
it
▪
The
Sun
and
Stars
must
be
brought
down
,
and
in
every
comparison
be
humbled
in
the
Preference
that
is
to
be
given
to
the
Flatter'd
Prince
▪
How
many
a
Reproach
must
the
Sun
have
endured
in
some
Courts
,
if
when
the
day
is
at
it
longest
,
the
Prince
had
for
some
hours
prevented
his
Rising
,
and
continued
his
watchful
Fatigue
till
after
he
was
Set
;
and
that
a
Wound
which
made
so
wide
a
breach
upon
him
by
the
certainest
Instrument
of
Death
,
could
scarce
interrupt
his
Motion
.
Here
had
been
a
copious
Theme
for
Hungry
and
Mercenary
Flattery
:
The
Sun
would
have
been
for
ever
after
that
,
despised
as
a
diminution
to
their
Prince's
Glory
,
when
compared
to
him
.
Impious
Attempts
which
were
once
began
,
would
have
been
pursued
,
of
calling
●im
the
King
of
Glory
,
who
is
strong
and
mighty
in
bat●●l
.
One
King
was
signally
struck
from
Hea●en
,
for
admitting
Divine
Honours
that
were
offered
up
to
him
:
That
Jealous
God
who
will
not
suffer
his
Glory
to
be
given
to
another
,
●nows
what
are
the
properest
Times
and
Methods
for
Punishing
all
the
Blasphemy
that
is
in
●he
Courts
of
Princes
who
encourage
and
engage
their
Subjects
,
or
rather
their
Slaves
,
to
fly
to
such
an
extravagant
pitch
.
But
to
us
,
who
acknowledg
that
Most
High
God
,
that
rules
in
the
Kingdom
of
men
,
and
giveth
it
to
whosoever
he
will
,
and
that
he
sets
up
and
pulls
down
according
to
the
hidden
Designs
of
his
Wise
Providence
;
As
all
that
approaches
to
such
irreligious
Excesses
,
〈◊〉
matter
of
Horror
;
so
the
Princes
we
serve
,
make
this
an
easie
Duty
to
us
,
they
being
as
deeply
possessed
with
the
Belief
of
Providence
,
as
they
are
free
from
all
those
swellings
which
must
be
fed
with
gross
and
exorbitant
Flattery
.
And
therefore
I
am
not
afraid
to
make
this
the
Subject
of
my
present
Discourse
:
It
t
s
God
that
giveth
Salvation
to
Kings
,
that
delivereth
David
his
servent
from
the
hurtful
sword
.
If
any
considers
the
scituation
of
these
words
,
between
those
that
go
before
,
and
those
that
come
after
,
they
will
see
,
that
the
Sentence
is
cut
by
this
as
an
abrupt
Meditation
,
which
probably
was
to
be
sung
by
the
Chorus
;
whereas
what
is
before
and
after
,
was
,
as
is
most
likely
,
sung
by
single
Voices
in
the
person
of
David
.
The
first
part
of
this
Verse
contains
a
general
Position
,
That
the
Advancement
of
Kings
,
and
the
Progress
of
Empires
,
the
Victories
obtained
by
them
,
their
Escapes
and
Deliverances
,
is
of
God
,
and
is
the
effect
of
signal
Providences
,
that
watch
over
them
.
The
words
that
follow
relate
more
particulary
to
David
himself
.
〈◊〉
shall
not
determine
whether
the
word
hurtful
or
evil
sword
is
only
a
Poetical
Epithete
,
to
swell
up
and
beautifie
the
Period
;
or
if
it
relates
to
poisonous
Swords
,
that
gave
a
certain
Death
with
every
wound
.
In
the
second
Verse
that
I
have
read
,
there
is
a
Prayer
for
a
complete
Deliverance
;
that
which
is
here
celebrated
being
yet
imperfect
:
therefore
the
Psalmist
,
returning
to
his
former
Thread
,
says
,
Rid
me
and
deliver
me
from
the
hand
,
that
is
,
from
the
power
,
of
strange
children
,
or
the
children
of
the
strange
God
,
that
is
,
Idolaters
.
Idols
in
the
Scripture
phrase
are
called
strange
Gods
;
and
as
the
People
of
Israel
are
called
the
Children
of
God
,
so
Idolaters
are
called
the
Children
of
the
Stranger
,
or
of
the
Idol
.
There
follows
a
description
of
Idolaters
by
their
Words
,
and
by
their
Actions
:
Their
mouth
speaketh
vanity
;
that
is
,
either
falshood
,
in
which
sense
vanity
frequently
stands
in
Scripture
;
or
words
of
arrogance
and
insolent
scorn
.
Right-hand
,
in
the
phrase
of
the
Old
Testament
,
is
to
be
understood
,
either
of
Oaths
made
by
the
Ceremony
of
lifting
up
the
right-hand
to
Heaven
,
or
of
Compacts
and
Agreements
confirmed
by
the
joyning
mens
right-hands
;
from
which
came
the
phrase
of
the
right-hand
of
fellowship
.
Their
right-hand
,
that
is
,
either
their
Oaths
or
their
Covenants
,
is
a
right-hand
of
falshood
,
or
of
a
lie
,
according
to
that
in
Isaiah
44.
20.
A
lie
is
in
their
right-hand
.
Since
in
all
these
they
were
double
and
false
.
The
Characters
here
given
them
,
may
either
be
thus
understood
;
They
are
false
both
in
their
Words
and
Oaths
:
or
thus
;
There
is
much
haughtiness
and
pride
in
their
Discourses
,
and
as
much
falshood
in
all
their
Treaties
and
Engagements
.
To
return
to
the
first
words
in
my
Text.
There
appear
often
Eminent
Characters
of
God's
Providence
,
in
the
raising
up
and
preserving
of
Kingdoms
,
and
in
the
Victories
and
Salvation
given
to
Kings
.
If
there
is
a
Providence
that
watches
over
any
part
of
this
lower
World
,
then
certainly
the
most
eminent
parts
of
it
,
upon
which
the
rest
does
so
much
depend
,
are
its
chief
care
:
This
has
been
so
universally
confessed
,
that
those
among
the
Philosophers
who
thought
it
below
the
Infinite
Greatness
of
the
Divine
Being
,
that
it
should
take
care
of
the
most
inconsiderable
parts
of
the
Creation
,
did
yet
believe
that
the
greater
and
more
important
Transactions
were
conducted
by
it
:
Tho'
this
slowed
from
the
low
and
narrow
Conceptions
which
they
had
of
God
,
as
if
an
Universal
Providence
had
been
too
great
a
distraction
,
and
too
mean
a
care
for
a
Being
infinitely
Perfect
.
But
there
is
such
a
Chain
in
all
things
,
the
most
Important
Matters
taking
oft
their
rise
or
turn
from
very
inconsiderable
Circumstances
,
that
it
is
certain
that
either
there
is
no
Providence
at
all
,
or
that
it
has
no
limits
,
and
takes
all
things
within
its
care
.
Yet
God
having
put
the
whole
Frame
of
Nature
under
certain
Rules
and
Laws
,
the
greatest
part
of
Providence
is
only
the
Supporting
and
Directing
of
those
Beings
that
do
still
act
according
to
their
own
Natures
;
and
in
these
,
tho'
Providence
is
less
discernable
,
yet
it
is
still
the
Spring
of
the
whole
Machine
,
which
,
tho'
covered
and
unseen
,
gives
motion
to
all
the
parts
of
it
.
There
are
other
more
solemn
Occasions
,
in
which
some
second
causes
are
raised
above
their
own
pitch
,
and
are
animated
beyond
the
ordinary
rate
;
and
others
are
at
the
same
time
as
far
depressed
below
themselves
,
the
Spirits
of
the
One
abating
,
as
much
as
those
of
the
Other
are
elevated
.
This
has
never
appeared
with
more
eminent
Characters
than
in
the
Revolutions
of
States
and
Empires
,
in
which
both
the
course
of
Natural
Agents
,
the
Winds
and
Seasons
,
and
the
tempers
of
mens
minds
,
seem
to
have
been
managed
by
such
a
direction
,
that
not
only
every
thing
,
but
every
circumstance
has
co-operated
to
carry
on
Great
Designs
in
such
a
Conjunction
,
that
those
who
observe
them
with
due
attention
,
are
forced
on
many
occasions
to
cry
out
,
This
is
the
finger
of
God!
this
is
the
Lord
's
doing
!
And
we
may
the
more
certainly
conclude
,
that
such
a
Systeme
of
things
is
the
effect
of
a
special
and
directing
Providence
,
when
the
tendency
of
it
is
to
advance
some
Design
in
which
the
Honour
of
God
is
more
particularly
concerned
.
Cyrus
,
in
whom
the
second
Great
Monarchy
began
,
and
by
whom
God's
Judgments
against
Babylon
,
and
the
bringing
back
the
Captivity
of
the
Iews
,
were
to
be
executed
,
according
to
what
Isaiah
had
prophesied
above
150
years
before
he
was
born
;
Cyrus
,
I
say
,
a
small
Prince
,
and
doom'd
to
an
early
Death
by
a
superstitious
Grandfather
,
scaped
that
severe
Fate
,
and
was
bred
up
in
obscurity
:
He
first
dethroned
Astyages
,
his
Grandfather
;
and
after
that
,
he
extended
his
Conquests
into
Lydia
and
Asia
the
less
:
During
all
the
progress
of
his
Glory
,
the
Babylonians
,
instead
of
putting
a
timous
stop
to
his
Victories
,
thought
only
of
fortifying
their
Capital
City
;
which
when
they
had
done
to
a
degree
that
almost
passes
belief
,
he
,
by
diverting
the
Course
of
the
River
,
made
himself
Master
both
of
City
and
Empire
;
and
sent
the
Iews
back
to
rebuild
their
Temple
,
retaining
still
his
Authority
over
them
.
When
the
final
Period
of
this
Monarchy
came
,
then
one
of
the
smallest
Powers
in
Greece
did
effect
it
.
The
Kingdom
of
Macedon
had
been
one
of
the
most
inconsiderable
of
all
that
Body
,
tho
it
was
become
more
Powerful
in
Philip's
time
.
The
Greeks
had
been
twice
attacked
by
the
Persians
,
and
vast
numbers
had
fallen
before
handfuls
of
them
;
upon
this
,
as
had
been
prophesied
by
Daniel
,
Alexander
,
a
Haughty
,
a
Vain
,
and
a
Dissolute
Prince
,
with
an
Army
of
37000
men
,
invaded
the
Persian
Empire
,
and
after
Three
great
Battels
,
in
the
First
of
which
200000
came
against
him
;
600000
in
the
Second
,
and
a
Million
in
the
Third
,
he
carried
his
Conquests
on
to
the
Ganges
with
such
a
Rapidity
of
Victory
and
Success
,
that
nothing
could
stand
in
his
way
:
Among
the
conquered
Provinces
,
Tudea
was
one
which
came
under
his
Protection
,
and
continued
for
146
years
under
that
Branch
of
his
Empire
that
reigned
in
Syria
.
But
to
give
another
instance
of
this
,
that
has
a
greater
relation
to
the
People
of
God
,
after
the
Iews
had
been
long
under
the
Syrian
Yoke
;
Antiochus
Epiphanes
,
not
content
with
the
Subjection
that
they
had
paid
his
Ancestors
,
set
himself
totally
to
destroy
both
their
Religion
and
their
Nation
;
upon
which
Mattathias
,
the
Father
of
Iudas
,
and
his
Brethren
,
a
Priest
full
of
Zeal
for
God
and
for
his
Countrey
,
was
raised
up
to
resist
that
Fury
;
he
only
began
the
opposition
,
but
dying
soon
after
,
he
left
the
conduct
of
the
Deliverance
of
his
Countrey
from
Persecution
and
Tyranny
,
to
his
Son
Iudas
Maccabeus
,
from
whom
it
passed
to
his
Brethren
,
and
to
their
Posterity
.
A
total
Subversion
of
their
Religion
and
Policy
,
was
begun
,
and
that
according
to
the
sense
of
all
mankind
,
has
ever
been
esteemed
a
Dissolution
of
Government
;
and
Mattathias
and
his
children
their
venturing
on
so
dangerous
an
Undertaking
,
is
reckoned
up
in
the
Epistle
to
the
Hebrews
,
among
the
Heroical
Attempts
of
Faith
;
it
is
reserved
to
the
last
place
,
and
enlarged
on
in
a
variety
of
lofty
Expressions
,
to
shew
that
it
was
one
of
the
greatest
Performances
of
Faith
:
And
it
was
so
indeed
,
for
it
seemed
to
be
a
desperate
Attempt
,
in
which
the
best
Success
that
,
reasonably
speaking
,
they
could
have
expected
,
was
a
speedy
and
a
glorious
Death
;
they
had
nothing
to
trust
to
,
but
Miracles
of
Providence
;
they
were
few
in
number
,
destitute
of
every
thing
,
and
the
Kings
of
Syria
were
Masters
of
all
the
Strong
Places
in
Iudea
,
and
poured
in
at
several
times
,
Seven
or
Eight
great
Armies
upon
them
:
But
that
Deliverance
which
began
in
a
Cloud
that
was
no
bigger
than
a
hand-breadth
,
made
such
a
Progress
under
several
Heads
who
conducted
the
Iews
with
equal
degrees
of
Prudence
and
Courage
,
that
tho
they
were
unprovided
of
all
things
,
but
what
were
afforded
them
from
the
Spoils
of
their
Enemies
;
they
,
after
a
War
of
Twenty-four
years
Continuance
,
and
a
Series
of
constant
and
amazing
Successes
,
became
at
last
a
free
People
,
both
with
relation
to
their
Religion
and
Government
.
Shall
I
give
you
another
Instance
of
him
,
during
whose
peaceful
Reign
,
the
Saviour
of
the
World
was
born
?
Augustus
was
the
Son
of
a
Roman
Knight
,
and
was
but
Eighteen
years
old
when
his
Uncle
Iulius
Caesar
was
killed
,
whose
Usurpation
upon
his
Countrey
had
rendred
him
and
his
Family
the
Objects
of
the
Hatred
of
Rome
;
yet
he
not
only
scaped
the
first
Rages
of
that
Popular
Fury
,
but
was
very
soon
at
the
Head
of
their
Armies
;
he
entred
into
the
Triumvirate
,
and
was
in
a
few
years
rid
of
the
other
two
;
and
after
that
first
scene
of
Artifice
and
Cruelty
was
over
,
he
became
the
Wisest
,
the
Moderatest
,
and
was
the
Happiest
Prince
,
and
the
longest
〈◊〉
of
any
in
History
,
having
had
a
course
of
Glory
of
Fifty-six
years
Continuance
.
But
not
to
weary
you
with
a
dry
Recital
of
too
much
History
,
I
shall
conclude
with
one
whose
Circumstances
were
as
remarkable
in
themselves
,
as
in
the
Effects
that
followed
on
them
:
When
Dioclesian
and
Maximian
had
,
chiefly
by
the
Instigation
of
Galerius
,
begun
the
last
Persecution
of
the
Christians
,
the
Design
seemed
so
well
laid
,
and
was
managed
with
so
much
Fury
,
that
by
all
the
appearances
of
things
,
it
could
not
miscarry
,
when
Successors
were
prepared
to
carry
it
on
steddily
;
Galerius
,
that
had
been
the
most
violent
of
all
the
Persecutors
,
having
chosen
Maximinus
Daia
,
that
had
been
an
ordinary
Grazier
,
for
his
Successor
,
who
had
not
any
one
quality
to
recommend
him
to
that
Elevation
,
but
his
Fury
against
the
Christians
:
It
is
true
there
was
a
part
of
the
Empire
that
fell
not
under
the
common
Calamity
;
it
was
indeed
that
part
in
which
there
were
the
fewest
Christians
.
Constantius
Chlarus
had
for
Sixteen
Years
govern'd
the
West
,
first
as
Caesar
,
then
as
Emperor
,
in
which
time
he
had
kept
both
Gaul
and
Spain
in
perfect
quiet
;
he
had
reduced
all
Britain
,
and
had
frequently
beat
the
Germains
,
and
driven
them
beyond
the
Rhine
:
These
Successes
made
him
so
formidable
,
that
tho
he
was
favourable
to
the
Christians
,
and
would
not
persecute
them
in
his
share
of
the
Empire
,
yet
Galerius
durst
not
plainly
fall
upon
him
,
but
he
had
got
his
Son
Constantine
into
his
hands
,
and
kept
him
about
him
at
his
Court
in
Nicomedia
:
His
Father
began
to
languish
,
and
upon
that
sent
for
him
,
but
Galerius
put
him
off
by
delays
;
and
tho
he
did
not
flatly
refuse
to
let
him
go
,
yet
he
plainly
saw
that
he
had
no
mind
to
grant
it
.
But
Galerius
happening
as
he
often
did
,
to
get
drunk
,
he
obtained
then
his
leave
to
be
gone
,
and
got
his
Seal
for
it
.
Upon
this
he
went
away
immediately
,
and
crossed
the
Sea
,
near
to
the
place
where
Constantinople
was
afterwards
built
by
him
;
and
because
he
apprehended
that
Galerius
when
he
came
to
himself
would
send
after
him
,
he
took
up
all
the
Horses
that
were
in
every
Stage
,
and
at
the
end
of
it
disabled
them
;
so
he
passed
quite
through
to
Italy
,
and
it
was
impossible
for
those
whom
Galerius
sent
after
him
,
ever
to
overtake
him
:
He
came
to
his
Father
at
York
,
whom
he
found
just
expiring
:
He
immediately
declared
him
his
Successor
;
which
he
was
not
willing
to
accept
of
,
till
the
Soldiery
in
some
sort
forced
him
to
it
,
and
made
him
take
the
Purple
.
He
went
over
after
that
into
Gaul
,
where
his
Father-in-law
Maximian
,
who
had
abdicated
the
Empire
,
came
to
him
,
and
intending
to
return
to
it
again
,
he
pretended
kindness
to
his
Son-in-law
,
the
more
effectually
to
betray
him
:
He
was
practising
upon
his
Army
,
when
he
had
advised
himself
to
go
on
an
Expedition
with
a
small
part
of
it
;
but
Constantine
was
inform'd
of
this
in
time
,
and
came
back
so
quick
upon
him
,
that
he
being
both
afraid
and
ashamed
,
fled
to
Marseilles
:
Constantine
pursued
him
,
and
those
within
refusing
to
stand
by
him
,
he
delivered
himself
into
his
hands
,
who
for
two
years
after
that
,
used
him
in
all
respects
as
became
a
Great
Prince
,
and
his
Father-in-law
.
Yet
nothing
being
able
to
overcome
his
restless
Ambition
,
he
solicited
his
Daughter
to
let
him
into
her
Bed-Chamber
,
while
Constantine
was
in
Bed
;
she
thought
her
ties
to
a
good
Husband
were
stronger
than
to
a
bad
Father
,
and
therefore
discovered
all
to
him
;
so
an
Eunuch
was
laid
in
the
bed
,
and
a
door
being
left
open
by
the
Empress
,
Maximian
came
in
and
killed
the
Eunuch
;
Constantine
was
in
the
next
room
,
and
rushed
in
with
some
of
his
Guards
about
him
,
and
Maximian
being
so
fully
convicted
of
the
Crime
,
all
the
Grace
that
Constantine
thought
fit
then
to
shew
him
,
was
to
leave
the
manner
of
his
Death
to
his
own
choice
;
he
chose
the
worst
,
for
he
hanged
himself
.
Another
signal
Instance
of
God's
care
of
Constantine
,
was
,
that
when
he
advanced
towards
Rome
to
possess
himself
of
the
Seat
of
the
Empire
,
Maxentius
,
that
was
Maximian's
Son
,
who
had
assumed
the
Power
there
,
came
out
to
fight
him
:
But
he
had
taken
care
the
night
before
,
to
cut
the
Timbers
and
Beams
of
the
Wooden
Bridg
over
the
Tyber
,
so
that
they
must
have
cracked
,
if
any
great
weight
had
been
upon
them
;
and
he
reckoned
according
to
the
disposition
of
the
Battel
,
that
Constantine
should
be
forced
to
take
that
Bridg
,
and
so
perish
with
its
fall
;
but
the
issue
of
the
Battel
was
such
,
that
he
himself
was
forced
to
pass
over
the
Bridg
,
which
crackt
under
him
,
and
he
was
drowned
in
the
Tyber
.
Through
this
tract
of
wonderful
circumstances
,
was
Constantiue
brought
to
the
Possession
of
the
Empire
,
by
whom
not
only
the
Persecution
of
the
Christians
was
put
to
an
end
,
but
in
pursuance
of
the
Dream
he
had
the
night
before
,
he
defeated
Maxentius
,
that
represented
to
him
the
Figure
of
the
Cross
,
as
that
under
which
he
was
to
conquer
,
he
himself
both
turned
Christian
,
and
made
it
the
Religion
of
the
Empire
.
Such
have
been
the
Methods
by
which
God
has
raised
up
Kings
and
Empires
for
the
advancing
the
Glory
of
his
great
Name
,
for
the
punishing
and
humbling
persecuting
Tyrants
,
and
for
giving
Salvation
and
Protection
to
his
People
.
But
we
need
not
weary
our selves
in
seeking
instances
of
this
in
past
times
,
when
in
our
own
days
,
we
have
seen
a
Prince
,
born
indeed
to
have
a
rank
among
Sovereigns
,
but
with
no
intrinsick
Power
to
support
any
great
Undertaking
;
born
an
Orphan
and
an
Abortive
both
,
and
,
as
to
all
appearance
,
crushed
under
a
double
misfortune
:
A
Royal
Family
to
which
he
was
allied
,
was
become
an
encumbrance
to
him
,
and
his
own
was
under
a
vast
and
a
seemingly
insuperable
depression
;
his
Country
ty'd
up
by
Oaths
to
exclude
Him
;
and
those
from
whom
in
Justice
and
Gratitude
he
ought
afterwards
to
have
promised
himself
a
mighty
Protection
,
leaving
him
to
his
own
Strength
and
Conduct
:
yet
,
by
a
series
of
steps
which
need
not
be
reckoned
up
,
Him
we
have
seen
raised
from
a
Plant
that
seemed
to
rise
out
of
a
dry
ground
,
to
be
a
Great
Tree
,
under
whose
Shade
all
the
Beasts
of
the
Field
come
for
shelter
,
and
in
whose
Boughs
all
the
Fowls
of
the
Air
come
now
to
lodge
.
It
is
this
very
day
two
full
years
since
he
first
set
to
Sea
,
to
calm
our
Storms
.
The
beginning
was
rough
and
inauspicious
;
yet
even
that
seemed
to
be
intended
only
to
those
about
Him
a
Lesson
which
He
had
long
before
well
learnt
,
of
observing
Providence
,
and
depending
upon
it
.
Since
that
time
,
fair
Winds
,
good
Seasons
,
prosperous
Undertakings
,
happy
Discoveries
,
Success
and
Victory
,
seem
to
have
been
chained
to
Him
,
and
bound
to
follow
Him
;
and
now
He
has
not
only
the
Necks
of
His
Enemies
,
but
the
Hearts
of
all
His
People
,
as
well
as
the
Hopes
of
all
Europe
fastned
on
him
.
He
triumphs
over
His
Enemies
,
as
well
by
His
Mercy
in
pardoning
,
as
by
His
Courage
in
conquering
;
and
,
which
is
more
,
He
triumphs
over
all
the
Accidents
of
Life
by
such
an
unshaken
Equality
of
Mind
,
that
His
most
glorious
days
and
His
less-prosperous
hours
do
not
create
in
Him
any
varieties
of
temper
and
behaviour
.
And
what
can
we
now
think
,
but
that
a
Life
which
has
been
a
sequel
of
Wonders
,
will
be
carried
on
and
concluded
as
it
hath
been
hitherto
advanced
;
and
that
if
there
is
a
Nebuchadnezzar
,
or
an
Antiochus
Epiphanius
,
a
Galerius
,
or
a
Maximinian
now
in
being
,
that
God
is
by
This
Hand
to
deliver
his
Church
from
them
?
For
it
is
God
that
giveth
Salvation
to
Kings
;
he
puts
down
one
,
and
setteth
up
another
.
He
raiseth
up
Kings
to
break
his
Enemies
with
a
rod
of
iron
,
and
to
●●sh
them
in
pieces
like
a
Potters
vessel
;
for
the
oppression
of
the
poor
,
and
for
the
sighing
of
the
needy
,
God
will
at
last
arise
,
and
set
him
in
safety
from
him
that
puffeth
at
him
.
The
second
part
of
this
Verse
will
also
afford
us
matter
of
useful
speculation
,
which
is
,
the
bringing
the
general
Observation
to
a
particular
Head
in
the
Instance
of
David
,
who
was
preserved
from
many
Dangers
,
the
Accidents
of
War
,
as
well
as
the
Attempts
of
Saul
;
He
was
raised
up
from
being
the
youngest
of
many
Brethren
,
and
from
looking
after
his
Father's
Flock
,
to
be
the
Shepherd
of
Israel
.
God
girded
him
with
strength
,
and
taught
his
hands
to
war
,
and
his
fingers
to
fight
,
and
gave
him
the
shield
of
his
Salvation
;
he
delivered
him
from
the
Lion
and
the
Bear
,
and
from
the
Philistine
that
defied
the
Armes
of
the
living
God
;
he
delivered
him
also
from
the
strivings
of
the
people
,
and
made
him
the
Head
of
all
the
Nations
round
about
him
.
Therefore
it
was
that
He
,
who
had
seen
so
many
Essays
of
the
goodness
of
God
to
him
,
besides
his
active
Zeal
when
settled
on
the
Throne
for
advancing
God's
Glory
,
and
the
beauty
and
solemnity
of
his
Worship
,
he
employ'd
many
of
his
thoughts
and
hours
in
composing
this
Book
of
Psalms
,
as
the
highest
return
he
could
make
to
God
,
that
by
the
Elegance
and
Variety
of
those
inspired
Hymns
,
not
only
that
Age
and
Nation
,
but
all
succeeding
ones
,
might
be
furnished
with
a
stock
of
the
most
elevating
Devotions
possible
,
which
might
give
wings
to
their
minds
,
and
raise●
them
up
towards
God.
So
much
of
the
David
in
my
Text
,
which
leads
me
to
say
somewhat
of
the
David
of
the
Day
.
Is
it
nothing
to
you
all
,
that
see
and
hear
the
signal
steps
of
Providence
,
that
have
so
gloriously
watched
over
,
and
conducted
this
our
David
?
I
reckon
not
among
the
greatest
of
these
,
his
being
raised
up
to
a
Throne
of
such
high
Dignity
among
the
Kingdoms
of
the
Earth
,
by
a
Title
,
that
,
let
ungrateful
men
say
what
they
will
,
has
more
both
from
God
and
man
in
it
,
than
any
the
World
has
seen
for
many
Ages
.
But
Kingdoms
and
Crowns
are
so
distributed
in
the
World
according
to
the
secret
Designs
of
Providence
,
that
this
singly
is
but
an
ordinary
Blessing
,
and
given
in
common
to
him
with
other
Crowned
Heads
.
To
be
a
Deliverer
of
Mankind
,
a
Preserver
of
Religion
,
a
Fence
against
Tyranny
and
Cruelty
;
to
have
for
his
first
Essay
saved
his
own
Countrey
from
utter
ruine
,
when
it
seemed
to
be
in
its
last
Agonies
;
and
to
have
not
only
resisted
,
but
beat
back
a
mighty
Torrent
that
swept
every
thing
before
it
;
to
have
stopt
the
blackest
Designs
that
were
formed
against
Religion
and
Liberty
both
there
and
here
;
for
the
preserving
the
United
Provinces
,
and
their
Religion
and
Government
,
was
at
that
time
likewise
the
saving
this
Church
and
Nation
;
so
soon
did
he
begin
to
be
a
Deliverer
to
us
:
this
,
perhaps
,
was
not
then
known
to
every
one
;
but
we
do
now
all
know
,
that
we
were
to
have
been
the
second
Sacrifice
)
;
All
this
,
I
say
,
one
should
think
was
Greatness
and
Glory
enough
to
have
fallen
to
any
one
mans
share
.
But
that
a
reserve
of
Blessings
should
yet
be
kept
in
store
for
the
same
Person
,
is
a
peculiar
Favour
of
Heaven
;
and
shews
us
,
That
this
is
the
man
whom
God
delights
to
honour
,
and
whom
he
has
made
strong
for
himself
.
That
the
day
of
our
Extremity
being
come
,
when
we
saw
the
Net
spread
over
us
,
and
that
a
little
time
was
only
wanting
,
to
model
the
Army
,
and
to
make
a
Parliament
,
that
just
then
the
conjuncture
of
Affairs
over
all
Europe
,
and
the
disposition
of
all
mens
minds
in
the
Netherlands
,
the
Errors
and
Follies
of
our
Enemies
,
both
within
and
without
this
Kingdom
,
with
the
zealous
assistance
of
our
Friends
and
Allies
;
but
above
all
,
That
the
Insensible
Creation
,
the
Seas
,
the
Winds
,
and
the
Seasons
,
should
all
have
joined
together
to
promote
that
great
Undertaking
,
shewed
the
care
and
tenderness
of
that
wise
Conduct
that
watched
over
us
.
Every
one
of
these
Particulars
is
extraordinary
in
it self
;
but
the
conjunction
of
them
all
together
is
such
a
scene
of
Wonders
,
that
no
man
who
knows
the
contexture
of
all
the
parts
of
this
Deliverance
,
can
look
upon
them
,
without
seeing
such
a
prospect
of
Providence
as
raises
his
Mind
into
all
the
heights
of
Joy
and
Wonder
.
But
to
view
next
the
second
Scene
of
God's
raising
his
Glory
on
this
Stage
,
when
our
Sins
had
for
a
while
retarded
the
progress
and
the
finishing
of
our
Happiness
,
when
many
among
our selves
were
wishing
to
be
again
in
Egypt
,
and
were
saying
,
We
will
not
have
this
Man
to
rule
over
us
;
when
many
of
those
who
had
formerly
aggravated
our
Dangers
,
as
much
as
any
,
were
changing
their
Stile
,
and
fancying
that
a
Power
thrust
upon
us
from
France
,
and
supported
and
guarded
from
thence
,
was
,
or
would
be
a
tame
and
harmless
thing
,
and
seemed
to
forget
all
the
Affections
that
Nature
gives
for
our
Country
,
and
that
Religion
gives
for
the
Church
of
God
,
so
that
a
new
and
perhaps
a
greater
Crisis
than
the
former
had
returned
upon
us
;
then
it
was
that
our
David
resolved
to
be
no
longer
a
Spectator
and
a
Director
of
his
Forces
,
and
to
make
War
by
Proxy
,
but
again
to
venture
that
sacred
Life
,
in
which
,
if
in
a
Day
of
rejoicing
we
may
mix
any
Complaints
with
our
Jubilee
,
we
must
venture
to
say
,
that
by
a
Courage
which
is
too
prodigal
of
that
in
which
we
have
all
so
great
a
share
,
even
while
he
preserves
us
by
his
happy
Genius
,
yet
he
exposes
us
too
much
by
the
repeated
Dangers
to
which
that
Life
is
exposed
,
by
which
as
we
all
live
,
so
all
Europe
is
kept
united
against
the
great
Destroyer
and
Enemy
of
Mankind
.
Here
again
;
the
Winds
and
Seasons
,
the
Courage
and
Fidelity
of
all
about
him
,
the
feeble
Counsels
and
Conduct
of
the
Enemy
,
conspired
of
his
his
side
;
but
above
all
,
the
Watchfulness
of
Providence
shewed
it self
in
Instances
that
Posterity
will
be
tempted
to
think
the
Contrivances
of
a
happy
Imagination
to
beautify
our
History
.
But
Invention
could
hardly
be
so
bold
or
so
fruitful
,
as
to
represent
a
Prince
just
in
the
Eve
of
a
Day
,
upon
which
not
only
the
Security
of
his
Throne
,
but
that
which
to
a
Mind
like
his
is
much
more
valuable
,
the
Preservation
and
Happiness
of
his
People
depended
,
receiving
a
Wound
by
that
,
which
of
all
the
Inventions
of
giving
Death
,
is
the
most
infallible
,
and
yet
so
slight
a
Wound
,
that
it
seemed
sent
upon
no
other
Intent
,
but
that
the
firmness
of
his
Mind
,
upon
so
extraordinary
an
Accident
,
and
the
care
of
Heaven
in
so
critical
a
minute
,
might
be
shewed
in
the
properest
time
,
and
in
the
sight
of
all
his
Army
,
both
for
animating
and
assuring
them
,
that
there
was
an
invisible
Guard
watching
about
the
Person
of
him
,
under
whose
Standards
they
were
to
triumph
next
day
.
This
prov'd
so
inconsiderable
,
that
it
neither
hindred
the
continuance
of
a
Fatigue
of
nineteen
hours
that
day
,
nor
a
return
to
one
of
sixteen
the
next
,
in
which
his
Presence
was
every
where
so
necessary
,
that
the
slightest
Wound
which
had
disabled
him
from
that
,
might
have
proved
a
mortal
one
to
us
all
.
The
Glories
of
that
Day
,
that
was
neither
stained
with
a
great
effusion
of
Blood
,
nor
with
any
of
that
sort
that
might
have
lessened
the
beauty
of
the
Victory
,
the
entireness
of
the
Defeat
,
the
Consequences
that
followed
upon
it
,
the
Quiet
that
it
secured
to
us
here
as
well
as
that
it
procured
there
;
the
unhappy
State
out
of
which
it
delivered
us
,
when
we
were
beginning
to
languish
by
a
Misfortune
which
I
unwillingly
mention
,
because
nothing
that
is
melancholy
ought
to
be
mixed
with
the
Joys
of
this
Day
.
All
these
things
carry
in
them
such
matter
of
reflection
,
that
tho
I
must
now
croud
them
together
,
yet
they
are
capable
of
affording
great
variety
of
thoughts
.
Our
Spirits
here
were
as
much
depressed
,
as
those
of
some
unnatural
English-men
were
exalted
in
the
prospect
they
had
of
the
approaching
Ruin
of
their
Country
.
Some
were
not
ashamed
to
say
,
that
we
needed
fear
nothing
from
the
French
,
they
would
not
hurt
us
:
and
thus
the
terriblest
of
all
the
Calamities
that
can
befal
our
Nation
,
was
set
forth
by
some
as
an
innocent
,
or
rather
as
a
desirable
thing
,
that
would
prove
a
Deliverance
and
not
an
Invasion
.
While
this
Fermentation
was
working
,
even
in
the
very
moment
in
which
we
wanted
so
mighty
a
Support
,
came
the
happy
News
which
put
a
new
face
upon
our
Affairs
.
Some
feared
that
in
the
absence
of
our
Sun
we
should
have
only
had
a
faint
Moon-light
to
guide
us
,
and
that
the
gentle
Hand
which
then
held
the
Rudder
should
have
proved
too
feeble
for
such
rough
Work
,
especially
when
the
first
Essay
was
in
a
Storm
,
and
that
there
was
an
Enemy
so
powerful
triumphing
in
view
,
and
on
our
Coasts
,
and
so
many
ill
Instruments
at
work
within
.
But
to
our
Admiration
,
and
to
the
eternal
Praise
of
Divine
Providence
,
we
found
we
had
another
Sun
in
our
Firmament
,
and
that
Spirit
which
till
then
Gentleness
and
Modesty
had
shut
in
,
now
finding
that
the
Conjuncture
required
it
,
shewed
it self
with
so
much
firmness
and
so
bright
a
lustre
,
that
we
began
to
doubt
whether
one
Soul
did
not
animate
both
,
and
give
its
Influences
equally
in
both
.
So
much
Skill
in
Government
,
tempered
with
so
much
Softness
,
such
a
dexterity
in
Management
,
such
a
constancy
of
Devotion
,
and
so
unwearied
an
application
to
Business
,
are
things
so
much
out
of
all
common
Roads
,
that
we
must
look
up
to
Heaven
,
and
acknowledge
that
this
was
of
God
,
that
has
raised
up
and
conducted
these
our
Deliverers
and
Preservers
.
He
has
also
literally
preserved
our
David
from
the
hurtful
or
the
evil
Sword
,
since
we
know
that
the
chief
of
our
Enemies
in
the
secret
Corresponcies
,
encouraged
themselves
,
when
the
prospect
of
their
Affairs
seemed
melancholy
and
desperate
,
with
a
reserve
of
Hope
from
the
Negotiation
of
an
Assassinate
whom
they
had
employed
:
but
God
has
delivered
his
Servant
even
from
this
evil
Sword
;
and
to
crown
all
the
Blessings
of
this
Year
,
he
has
now
given
Him
the
Hearts
of
his
People
,
in
so
eminent
a
manner
,
that
the
Q.
Elizabeth's
Days
seem
to
return
again
upon
us
,
in
which
the
Purses
of
the
Subject
were
that
happy
Queen's
never-failing
Treasure
,
who
reckoned
that
their
Money
was
never
more
their
own
,
and
never
better
placed
,
nor
better
imployed
,
than
when
it
was
in
the
Queen's
Hands
.
She
twice
discharged
the
Subjects
of
the
Taxes
they
had
given
her
for
a
War
,
when
a
Treaty
of
Peace
put
an
end
to
her
Warlike
Preparations
.
Such
a
Justice
to
her self
,
and
to
her
People
,
gave
her
so
sure
a
Title
to
their
Wealth
,
that
she
was
indeed
the
Mistress
of
it
all
,
and
knew
that
she
could
call
for
as
much
of
it
as
the
Publick
Occasions
required
.
When
we
see
the
same
Confidence
in
the
Crown
returning
in
the
Nation
,
which
has
been
so
long
and
so
fatally
interrupted
,
we
may
then
reckon
that
our
Kings
are
become
truly
great
,
and
the
Masters
of
the
whole
Property
of
England
,
not
by
the
strained
and
false
Pretensions
of
a
devouring
Prerogative
,
but
by
the
surest
and
best-grounded
Dominion
,
which
they
have
over
the
Hearts
of
their
People
,
which
must
infallibly
draw
every
thing
else
after
it
:
For
a
Nation
can
deny
nothing
that
it
can
give
,
when
it
is
both
asked
and
laid
out
for
their
own
Defence
and
Preservation
.
And
now
,
DREAD
SOVERAIGNS
,
suffer
me
,
in
the
Name
of
God
,
to
turn
my self
to
You.
It
cannot
seem
a
small
thing
in
your
Eyes
,
that
he
has
not
only
raised
you
up
to
so
sublime
a
Dignity
,
and
set
a
Crown
of
pure
Gold
on
your
Heads
,
but
that
he
has
watched
over
your
Persons
,
and
blessed
your
Councils
,
that
you
both
do
now
shine
with
the
Lustre
becoming
each
Sex
,
the
one
with
the
Glory
of
a
Conqueror
of
Enemies
,
and
the
other
with
the
softer
Rays
of
a
Preserver
of
your
People
;
that
this
has
given
you
the
Hearts
of
your
Subjects
,
and
made
you
the
Terror
and
Dread
of
your
Enemies
,
of
which
they
have
made
an
ample
confession
,
in
those
barbarous
Jollities
upon
the
supposed
Death
of
You
,
Great
Sir
,
every
extravagant
Demonstration
of
that
inhumane
Joy
,
being
a
loud
discovery
of
what
they
apprehended
from
You.
God
has
drawn
the
Eyes
of
all
the
World
upon
You
,
who
hope
that
by
You
that
tempestuous
Sea
,
whose
Inundations
have
destroy'd
so
many
Countries
,
shall
be
shut
up
within
Bounds
,
and
that
You
shall
set
Bars
and
Doors
to
it
;
and
that
by
You
God
shall
say
to
it
,
Hitherto
shalt
thou
come
,
and
no
further
▪
and
here
shall
thy
proud
Waves
be
staid
.
It
is
from
You
that
Europe
expects
Liberty
and
Peace
,
and
the
Reformation
a
Recovery
and
a
new
lustre
.
By
You
exiled
Princes
hope
to
be
restored
to
their
Rights
,
and
exiled
Subjects
to
their
Houses
,
Churches
,
and
Edicts
.
It
is
from
Your
Influence
that
our
Elder
Brethren
,
the
first
begotten
of
the
Reformation
,
or
rather
the
last
Remnant
of
True
and
Primitive
Christianity
,
hope
to
be
confirmed
in
the
Settlement
that
their
Prince
hath
granted
them
.
It
is
from
Your
Counsels
and
Arms
,
that
both
Your
Subjects
and
Your
Allies
expect
a
happy
and
a
secure
Peace
.
What
more
could
have
been
hitherto
done
for
the
gradual
raising
of
your
Glory
than
has
been
done
?
You
are
now
advanced
to
be
as
true
Representatives
of
God
,
as
Mortals
can
be
made
,
since
from
your
Power
,
your
Justice
,
your
Wisdom
,
and
your
Goodness
,
so
great
a
part
of
the
World
waits
for
happy
Influences
,
for
great
Undertakings
,
and
for
glorious
Successes
,
that
shall
be
the
Joy
of
the
present
Age
,
and
the
Wonder
of
the
next
.
But
remember
,
O
ye
Kings
,
that
to
whom
much
is
given
,
of
them
much
shall
be
required
;
and
if
You
expect
from
those
that
You
imloy
,
degrees
of
Fidelity
,
Zeal
,
and
Application
,
proportioned
to
the
Favours
and
Trusts
You
bestow
upon
them
;
think
a
little
,
I
know
You
do
a
great
deal
,
what
Examples
of
Piety
and
Vertue
You
ought
to
set
your
People
,
and
how
much
You
ought
to
imploy
your
Authority
in
promoting
his
Glory
,
who
has
covered
You
with
so
much
of
his
own
Image
.
Ordinary
degrees
of
Zeal
may
be
accepted
from
those
of
a
lower
Form
,
but
the
highest
pitch
of
it
is
the
least
Sacrifice
that
You
can
offer
.
The
discountenancing
and
driving
from
You
all
that
prophane
scorn
of
Religion
and
Vertue
,
which
has
so
deeply
infected
the
Nation
,
that
strong
Remedies
must
be
used
before
we
are
purged
from
it
.
The
disgracing
and
punishing
such
as
are
not
ashamed
of
the
most
open
and
crying
Vices
,
the
encouraging
Vertue
by
all
the
distinguishing
Marks
of
your
Favour
to
those
who
pursue
it
.
The
Reforming
your
Court
and
your
People
,
and
particularly
that
Body
which
of
all
others
should
need
your
Care
least
,
but
I
am
afraid
does
it
but
too
much
,
I
mean
those
who
Minister
in
Holy
Things
:
these
are
the
Returns
that
God
expects
from
you
.
I
know
all
cannot
be
done
at
once
,
and
the
leisure
as
well
as
the
calm
of
Peace
will
be
necessary
to
bring
this
about
.
But
as
your
resolving
on
it
inwardly
before
God
,
will
be
accepted
by
him
who
knows
the
sincerity
of
your
Hearts
,
and
does
not
oblige
you
to
endanger
the
Publick
too
much
,
by
a
violent
and
precipitated
Cure
:
So
when
it
is
once
understood
that
You
are
settled
in
these
Noble
Purposes
,
this
will
make
the
execution
of
them
easy
to
You.
And
to
conclude
,
I
must
crave
leave
to
add
one
thing
more
;
Your
Royal
Grandfather
,
who
had
great
Vertues
in
himself
,
was
perhaps
too
easy
to
Vice
in
others
,
and
from
hence
sprang
in
a
great
measure
the
ruin
of
his
Affairs
;
for
dissolute
and
depraved
Men
will
be
always
truer
to
their
Vices
,
than
to
their
Masters
.
I
am
not
afraid
of
Your
displeasure
for
this
freedom
,
it
becomes
the
Place
I
am
in
,
and
the
Station
You
have
raised
me
to
;
and
I
am
sure
the
other
parts
of
this
Discourse
,
which
the
Occasion
has
made
necessary
,
have
been
much
more
uneasy
to
You
than
this
is
.
But
David's
Joy
was
not
so
entire
,
when
he
composed
this
Psalm
,
that
there
was
no
need
of
praying
for
a
further
and
a
more
compleat
Deliverance
;
therefore
he
adds
to
this
joyful
Note
a
mournful
One
;
Rid
me
,
and
deliver
me
;
he
was
yet
encompassed
with
Idolaters
,
and
not
only
common
Idolaters
,
but
Men
whose
Morals
were
as
defiled
as
their
Worship
;
who
were
Treacherous
and
Insolent
,
to
whose
Oaths
and
Treaties
no
regard
was
due
,
who
in
the
time
that
they
made
up
their
Treaties
,
were
intending
to
break
them
,
which
is
imported
in
this
,
that
a
Lie
was
in
their
right
Hand
;
and
whose
Mouths
were
full
of
Insolence
,
daring
Pride
,
and
haughty
Scorn
:
who
how
much
soever
they
depressed
their
God
by
their
Idolatry
,
yet
were
swelled
up
in
themselves
to
all
the
Caresses
of
lofty
Arrogance
;
they
perhaps
loved
to
be
celebrated
by
Statues
,
Titles
,
and
Inscriptions
,
which
might
render
their
Names
Immortal
,
tho
they
could
not
make
their
Persons
so
:
They
might
delight
in
all
the
Contrivances
of
servile
Flattery
,
to
set
them
above
all
other
Mortals
,
and
by
hearing
that
oft
said
,
they
might
fancy
themselves
to
be
really
so
;
they
might
suffer
all
the
Topicks
of
Flattery
to
be
exhausted
,
and
all
the
Methods
of
it
to
be
imployed
in
adoring
them
with
that
Tinsel
.
It
might
be
understood
that
it
was
the
surest
way
of
raising
ones
Fortune
much
more
infallible
than
any
Merit
whatsoever
,
to
find
out
some
new
Strains
of
Commendation
;
and
when
that
once
appear'd
,
then
Minds
made
for
nobler
Purposes
when
pressed
with
a
lowness
of
Fortune
,
would
stoop
to
the
abjectest
Things
of
Humane
Nature
by
turning
their
Wits
to
every
Artifice
that
might
give
a
false
Light
and
Lustre
to
counterfeit
Ware.
But
to
compleat
the
Character
of
David's
Enemies
,
we
are
to
consider
them
as
breaking
through
the
sacredest
Bonds
,
and
protesting
that
they
would
maintain
them
in
the
midst
of
the
most
publick
Violations
of
them
,
as
if
they
had
been
equally
voi●
both
of
Truth
and
Shame
,
giving
and
breaking
their
Faith
as
oft
as
either
their
Interests
or
their
Vanity
required
it
,
violating
the
Ties
of
Nature
,
as
wel
as
breaking
the
bonds
of
humane
Society
,
robbin●
all
their
Neighbours
,
invading
Orphans
trusted
t●
their
Care
,
and
ruining
whole
Provinces
after
the●
had
purchased
their
Protection
at
the
most
extravagant
Rates
,
sparing
neither
Age
nor
Sex
,
but
destroying
both
Cities
and
Countries
,
and
hoping
to
compensate
for
all
the
Crimes
to
which
their
Ambition
●nd
Fury
could
lead
them
,
by
a
pretence
of
Zeal
for
●●eir
Idol
,
and
that
way
of
Idolatry
which
best
plea●●d
them
;
and
yet
sometimes
with
the
basest
sort
〈◊〉
Idolaters
,
who
beat
and
whip
their
Idols
when
●●ey
think
they
are
not
favourable
enough
to
them
,
●●ey
might
even
rob
their
own
Idol
,
and
profane
eve●●
thing
that
had
relation
to
it
,
when
they
them●●lves
were
not
made
the
chief
Idol
,
and
served
with
〈◊〉
deepest
Veneration
:
Such
were
many
of
the
Ido●●ers
of
the
Heathen
Nations
.
Perhaps
the
Cha●●●ters
I
have
set
them
out
in
,
may
not
all
frequent●●
meet
in
the
same
Persons
:
yet
tho
many
In●●ances
of
every
part
of
this
Description
might
soon
〈◊〉
found
out
,
I
will
not
interrupt
the
Chearfulness
〈◊〉
this
Day
,
by
setting
before
you
Objects
that
●●st
give
horrour
:
Nor
will
I
seek
for
any
of
these
the
present
Scene
of
the
World
,
nor
examine
any
〈◊〉
our
David's
Enemies
,
and
see
how
well
these
●●haracters
may
fit
them
.
We
serve
Princes
who
●●e
as
little
to
hear
their
Enemies
reproached
,
as
●●emselves
commended
;
but
it
will
be
no
hard
●●ing
,
upon
a
general
Survey
of
the
present
State
〈◊〉
Europe
,
to
pronounce
who
seem
to
be
born
to
the
Blessings
,
and
who
the
Curses
and
Plagues
the
Age.
But
what
or
whosoever
our
Enemies
may
be
,
both
Kings
and
Subjects
ought
to
join
in
their
most
earnest
Prayers
to
God
,
that
we
may
be
delivered
from
all
the
Children
of
the
strange
God
,
who
may
think
that
the
offering
up
those
that
are
of
a
different
Worship
to
that
of
their
Baal
,
is
a
Sacrifice
that
will
atone
for
all
the
Rapine
and
Bloodshed
,
and
every
others
Immorality
of
which
they
may
be
guilty
.
It
was
no
wonder
that
David
by
repeated
Prayers
desired
to
be
delivered
from
such
Enemies
;
for
we
find
this
Petition
,
and
this
Character
of
them
is
twice
in
this
short
Psalm
,
with
this
addition
in
the
7th
verse
,
that
imports
their
Strength
and
Numbers
;
Send
thy
Hand
from
above
,
rid
me
and
deliver
me
out
of
great
Waters
,
from
the
Hand
of
strange
Children
.
We
who
are
now
the
happiest
Nation
under
Heaven
,
want
nothing
to
make
us
the
most
miserable
,
but
to
fall
under
the
Power
of
those
who
have
no
remnants
either
of
Truth
or
Goodness
left
in
them
.
But
while
our
Kings
are
consulting
,
and
our
Parliaments
are
assisting
,
while
our
Fleets
and
Armies
are
a
preparing
,
and
our
Allies
are
uniting
;
while
the
joint
Endeavours
of
so
many
within
and
without
the
Kingdom
,
are
all
at
work
to
procure
us
an
entire
riddance
and
deliverance
from
the
Hands
,
the
rough
and
Iron
Hands
of
these
our
Enemies
;
There
is
one
thing
I
am
afraid
is
too
generally
neglected
or
forgotten
,
and
that
is
,
our
praying
to
God
earnestly
to
rid
and
deliver
us
from
those
false
and
cruel
Men.
We
have
been
this
last
Summer
frequently
brought
together
to
fast
and
pray
for
Success
and
Victory
;
God
has
heard
our
Prayers
,
and
in
that
has
given
us
all
possible
encouragement
to
continue
our
praying
to
him
.
We
are
now
,
as
to
outward
appearance
,
following
the
Method
that
he
has
prescribed
;
Call
upon
me
in
the
day
of
Trouble
;
I
will
hear
thee
,
and
thou
shalt
glorify
me
.
We
have
called
,
God
has
heard
,
and
we
are
now
glorifying
his
Name
,
and
rejoicing
in
the
great
Salvation
that
he
hath
wrought
for
us
:
And
if
we
desire
a
return
of
such
happy
Occasions
,
we
must
in
the
mean
while
continue
our
most
earnest
Prayers
to
God
;
and
when
we
are
called
on
to
it
,
we
must
return
to
our
monthly
Fasts
and
Humiliations
.
It
did
not
derogate
neither
from
David's
Courage
nor
Conduct
,
that
he
acknowledged
God
was
his
Fortress
,
his
high
Tower
,
his
Shield
and
Deliverer
,
in
whom
he
trusted
;
who
subdued
his
People
under
him
;
and
being
full
of
the
sense
of
his
Glory
,
he
reflected
on
himself
,
and
on
all
his
People
as
nothing
;
Lord
,
what
is
Man
,
that
thou
takest
knowledg
of
him
,
or
the
Son
of
Man
,
that
thou
makest
account
of
him
?
Man
is
like
Vanity
,
his
days
are
like
a
Shadow
that
passeth
away
:
Therefore
it
is
that
he
prays
earnestly
,
Bow
the
Heavens
,
O
Lord
,
and
come
down
.
Here
is
a
Noble
Pattern
to
excite
and
encourage
our
Devotion
,
and
we
have
all
reason
to
conclude
,
that
the
Blessings
we
now
Celebrate
,
are
in
a
great
measure
owing
to
the
Prayers
of
those
happy
Souls
that
have
been
the
Intercessors
for
the
Nation
,
of
which
it
is
not
to
be
doubted
but
we
have
a
great
many
among
us
,
for
it
is
certain
that
we
have
never
seen
a
more
solemn
Observation
,
as
to
all
outward
appearance
,
of
such
Days
as
was
on
those
monthly
Returns
;
and
tho
many
were
very
bare-faced
in
their
neglect
of
them
,
and
others
that
should
have
animated
the
Publick
Zeal
,
were
extream
cold
in
the
observance
of
them
,
yet
much
earnestness
and
fervour
shewed
it self
in
many
places
.
We
see
God
has
heard
the
Prayers
of
those
who
cried
mightily
to
him
;
and
we
have
all
reason
to
hope
,
that
he
who
has
deliver'd
us
from
so
great
a
Calamity
as
then
threatned
us
,
will
still
hear
and
deliver
us
,
if
we
continue
still
to
call
upon
him
.
But
let
the
Murmurers
and
the
Troublers
of
our
Israel
say
what
they
will
,
God
hath
wrought
in
the
midst
of
us
a
mighty
Deliverance
,
and
he
will
perfect
and
stablish
that
which
he
hath
wrought
for
us
,
if
we
do
not
,
by
our
Ingratitude
and
Rebellions
,
stop
that
course
of
Blessings
that
seems
ready
to
flow
in
upon
us
,
as
soon
as
we
are
delivered
from
our
Enemies
,
and
from
the
Hands
of
all
that
hate
us
.
Then
we
may
hope
to
have
the
True
Religion
,
and
the
best
Church
in
the
World
established
among
us
,
and
the
Reformation
by
our
Means
secured
and
maintained
elsewhere
:
We
may
hope
to
see
this
Nation
become
the
Center
of
the
Union
and
Peace
of
Europe
,
that
shall
assert
and
warrant
it
against
every
bold
or
perfidious
Invader
:
We
may
hope
to
see
this
vvhole
Island
become
one
Church
and
one
Body
,
as
it
has
one
Head
;
and
the
neighbouring
Island
set
upon
a
Foundation
liable
to
no
more
Shakings
nor
Convulsions
.
We
may
hope
to
see
Law
and
Justice
become
the
constant
and
certain
Measures
of
our
Government
;
Charity
and
mutual
Forbearance
,
become
the
Strength
as
vvell
as
the
Ornament
of
our
Church
,
and
our
Church
become
the
Pattern
,
as
vvell
as
the
Glory
,
of
the
vvhole
Reformation
.
And
in
conclusion
,
vve
may
hope
to
see
our
Princes
Heads
still
covered
with
fresh
Lawrels
,
ever
triumphing
over
their
Enemies
,
and
yet
never
making
themselves
Enemies
to
any
,
but
to
the
Invaders
and
Enemies
of
Mankind
;
giving
Security
to
all
about
them
,
and
in
a
length
of
Days
,
and
a
stability
of
Peace
,
giving
a
fulness
of
Wealth
and
Happiness
to
all
that
are
under
them
;
an
encrease
of
Trade
,
an
improvement
of
Soil
,
and
such
an
advancement
of
the
Prosperity
of
the
Nation
,
as
is
expressed
in
the
followed
words
of
the
Psalm
,
That
our
Garners
may
be
full
,
affording
all
manner
of
Store
;
that
our
Sheep
may
bring
forth
thousands
,
and
ten
thousands
in
our
Streets
:
That
our
Oxen
may
be
strong
to
labour
;
that
there
be
no
breaking
in
,
nor
going
out
;
and
that
there
be
no
complaining
in
our
Streets
.
Happy
are
the
Princes
,
and
happy
is
that
People
that
is
in
such
a
Case
;
yea
,
and
happy
are
the
Princes
,
and
happy
is
that
People
whose
God
is
the
Lord.
FINIS
.
Notes, typically marginal, from the original text
Notes for div A30435-e240
Dan
,
4.
25.
Psal.
2.
9.
Ps.
5.
12.
Ps.
78.
71.
Ps.
18.
35.
Ver.
43.
Psal.
50.
12.
Ver.
2.