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David and Saul a sermon preached on the day of national thanksgiving for God's gracious deliverance of the King's Majesty from an assassination and the kingdom from a French invasion / by John Strype ...
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Mr.
Strype's
SERMON
Preached
on
the
Day
of
the
National
Thanksgiving
,
&c.
April
16.
1696.
DAVID
and
SAUL
.
A
SERMON
Preached
on
the
Day
of
the
National
Thanksgiving
,
For
God's
gracious
Deliverance
of
The
King's
Majesty
From
an
ASSASSINATION
,
AND
THE
Kingdom
from
a
French
Invasion
.
By
John
Strype
,
M.
A.
Vicar
of
Low-Leyton
in
Essex
.
LONDON
:
Printed
for
B.
Aylmer
at
the
Three
Pigeons
in
Cornhil
,
1696.
TO
MY
Beloved
Auditors
of
Leyton
&
Hackney
.
IT
was
not
only
the
general
good
Acceptation
you
gave
this
Sermon
,
when
it
was
Preached
,
that
induced
me
to
publish
it
,
that
you
might
Read
that
which
you
heard
with
so
much
Satisfaction
;
But
chiefly
that
I
might
Contribute
my
small
mite
,
for
the
better
informing
the
Minds
of
you
,
and
all
others
,
in
the
Justice
and
Happiness
of
our
present
Government
under
King
WILLIAM
,
and
to
shew
what
small
Reason
any
Persons
have
to
disturb
that
Settlement
that
by
God's
Providence
is
now
established
among
us
:
Which
this
plain
Discourse
was
intended
for
.
The
Fruit
whereof
will
be
,
to
Convince
all
of
the
horrible
Impiety
of
those
Miscreants
,
that
Combined
themselves
together
to
Assassinate
the
King
's
Sacred
Person
,
and
by
Force
and
Violence
to
change
the
present
easie
and
good
Government
;
and
thereby
to
make
us
heartily
sensible
of
God's
merciful
Prevention
of
those
Mischiefs
,
and
duly
thankful
to
him
for
the
same
:
And
lastly
,
to
Unite
us
all
together
as
one
Man
,
in
the
Defence
of
our
King
and
Laws
.
Your
Servant
in
the
Ministry
John
Strype
.
PSAL.
cxix
.
78.
Let
the
Proud
be
ashamed
:
For
they
dealt
perversly
with
me
without
a
Cause
:
But
I
will
Meditate
in
thy
Precepts
.
DAVID
,
tho
he
were
a
good
Man
and
a
good
King
,
A
Man
after
God's
own
Heart
,
and
a
King
of
God's
own
setting
up
,
yet
he
met
with
a
World
of
Dangers
,
Sorrows
and
Afflictions
.
He
had
Enemies
thick
and
threefold
about
him
.
But
out
of
all
their
Hands
God
delivered
him
.
Insomuch
that
how
desperately
soever
their
Minds
were
bent
against
him
,
tho
they
thirsted
after
his
Blood
,
and
Contrived
and
Combined
together
many
a
time
to
shed
it
;
Yet
never
could
their
Plots
take
effect
.
Trouble
enough
indeed
they
put
him
to
:
But
in
spight
of
their
Malice
and
all
their
open
Opposition
and
secret
Conspiracy
,
he
swayed
the
Scepter
of
Israel
many
a
year
,
Got
many
glorious
Victories
,
Protected
his
Subjects
in
their
Laws
,
Liberties
and
Religion
,
Enlarged
his
Dominions
,
grew
Greater
and
Greater
,
and
after
all
his
Wars
,
before
his
Death
God
gave
him
Peace
on
every
side
:
And
he
got
a
Name
of
one
of
the
Mightiest
and
most
prosperous
Monarchs
that
ever
sat
upon
the
Throne
of
Israel
.
In
Commemoration
of
these
Mercies
of
God
to
him
(
for
David's
practise
was
to
attribute
all
his
Successes
and
Deliverances
to
God
,
and
not
to
himself
)
he
did
use
to
pen
Psalms
and
compose
Poems
upon
that
Argument
,
to
assist
his
own
Meditations
and
Thanksgivings
:
and
that
they
might
never
be
forgotten
,
he
ordered
the
Levites
,
and
those
that
were
over
the
Musick
of
the
Temple
,
that
these
Psalms
and
Poems
should
be
used
there
in
their
Sacred
Assemblies
and
Services
.
And
in
this
CXIX
Psalm
there
be
abundance
of
Expressions
whereby
the
holy
King
sets
forth
these
Matters
,
making
frequent
mention
of
his
Enemies
,
and
of
the
Afflictions
he
suffered
by
their
means
,
and
his
earnest
Prayers
and
good
Resolutions
which
he
made
with
respect
thereunto
.
And
this
he
is
doing
in
the
Text.
Let
the
Proud
,
(
that
is
,
the
Wicked
,
for
that
Word
in
the
Hebrew
Language
is
but
another
Phrase
to
express
a
Wicked
Man
by
)
be
ashamed
;
for
they
dealt
perversly
with
me
without
a
Cause
.
But
I
will
Meditate
in
thy
Precepts
.
For
the
taking
more
distinct
Cognizance
of
these
Words
,
and
of
King
David's
Condition
as
to
his
Enemies
shewed
by
them
,
we
may
observe
three
things
lying
before
us
.
I.
David's
Enemies
.
The
Proud
,
that
dealt
perversly
with
him
without
Cause
.
II.
David's
Prayer
against
them
,
Let
them
be
ashamed
.
III.
David's
Resolution
and
Practise
,
with
respect
to
his
Enemies
.
But
I
will
Meditate
in
thy
Precepts
.
I.
David's
Enemies
.
Which
are
here
described
to
be
Proud
or
Evil
Men
,
who
dealt
with
him
perversly
,
and
that
without
Cause
.
And
who
were
these
Enemies
of
David
,
but
the
Friends
of
Saul
?
As
God
had
set
up
Saul
to
Reign
over
Israel
,
so
for
his
Mis-government
and
Disobedience
,
the
same
God
that
exalted
him
deposed
him
.
I
have
rejected
Saul
from
reigning
over
Israel
.
And
accordingly
God
took
from
him
that
Spirit
,
or
Gift
,
that
he
gave
him
,
whereby
he
was
enabled
to
Govern
the
Kingdom
,
that
God
had
advanced
him
to
.
The
Spirit
of
the
Lord
departed
from
Saul
.
And
that
Spirit
of
Government
that
God
took
from
Saul
,
came
upon
David
,
to
qualifie
him
for
that
Kingly
Office
that
God
had
laid
upon
him
.
The
Spirit
of
the
Lord
came
upon
David
from
that
day
forward
.
That
is
,
from
the
day
that
Samuel
the
Prophet
,
by
God's
special
Order
,
anointed
him
for
King
in
Saul's
stead
.
But
notwithstanding
all
this
,
Saul
,
however
deposed
,
rejected
by
God
,
and
put
by
his
Kingdom
,
and
David
by
God's
own
Appointment
constituted
King
in
his
room
,
yet
had
many
that
stuck
to
him
;
and
,
even
before
David
assumed
the
Kingdom
,
laid
all
the
wait
they
could
for
him
,
to
take
him
,
to
kill
him
,
to
destroy
him
;
as
you
read
at
large
in
the
first
Book
of
Samuel
:
Striving
thereby
even
to
disappoint
God's
own
Purpose
,
and
to
keep
Saul
in
his
Throne
,
whom
God
had
dethroned
,
and
to
keep
David
out
whom
God
had
put
in
.
But
he
that
chose
him
preserved
him
,
and
at
length
brought
him
through
all
his
Adversities
to
the
Kingdom
.
And
Saul
perished
in
Battel
.
And
when
David
was
placed
in
the
Throne
,
these
old
Friends
of
Saul
still
continued
their
Enmity
against
him
.
They
combine
together
,
and
set
up
Ishbosheth
Saul's
Son
,
and
made
him
King
;
And
by
their
Influence
a
great
part
of
the
Nation
followed
him
.
And
hence
ensued
continual
Wars
between
the
House
of
David
,
and
the
House
of
Saul
.
And
so
two
Parties
were
set
up
,
and
the
whole
Land
of
Israel
brought
into
a
miserable
State
of
Civil
War
by
the
feditious
and
unquiet
Practices
of
these
Malecontents
.
And
their
rancorous
Hearts
they
shewed
,
not
only
in
making
open
War
against
King
David
,
and
disturbing
the
Peace
of
the
Kingdom
,
but
likewise
in
their
more
secret
Machinations
,
Plottings
and
Consultings
to
do
him
mischief
.
This
is
that
which
David
seems
here
in
the
Text
chiefly
to
regard
,
when
he
saith
,
They
dealt
perversly
with
him
.
Which
one
of
the
Latin
Translations
of
the
Bible
reads
,
They
consulted
against
me
.
They
entred
into
Consultations
to
Compass
some
Designs
of
Mischief
upon
me
.
And
another
Latin
Bible
reads
,
They
frame
Destructions
for
me
:
Or
Contrived
them
,
by
using
certain
crafty
methods
,
and
taking
certain
fitting
Seasons
,
the
more
surely
to
effect
their
bloody
purposes
.
They
plotted
together
to
Assassinate
him
,
to
use
our
modern
Phrase
.
For
these
Words
of
the
Text
seem
to
hold
forth
that
Sense
,
that
their
Plots
and
Conspiracies
were
to
take
away
his
Life
.
And
in
this
meaning
did
the
old
Translators
of
our
Psalms
take
it
,
when
they
read
it
,
They
go
wickedly
about
to
destroy
me
.
Wickedly
indeed
,
to
Compass
the
death
of
an
innocent
Man
,
nay
of
a
King
,
and
one
of
so
publick
a
Capacity
,
that
many
Thousands
,
namely
,
as
many
as
were
his
Subjects
,
must
feel
the
blow
,
especially
being
so
good
and
pious
a
Prince
,
as
David
was
.
It
added
then
unto
their
Crime
,
that
they
dealt
thus
perversly
with
him
without
any
Cause
.
For
what
good
Cause
can
you
assign
,
Oh
ye
Enemies
of
David
,
why
ye
have
dealt
thus
perversly
with
him
:
Why
ye
thus
Conspire
and
Plot
against
his
Peace
,
his
Honour
and
his
Life
?
Is
he
an
Usurper
,
whom
God
brought
to
the
Crown
?
He
who
is
the
great
Disposer
of
Kingdoms
;
was
not
David
advanced
by
his
peculiar
Appointment
,
and
wonderful
Providence
preserved
,
to
sit
on
the
Throne
of
Israel
?
And
did
not
the
People
know
that
it
was
he
whom
God
had
established
to
be
King
over
Israel
?
And
did
they
not
all
joyfully
accept
him
for
their
King
?
Or
since
he
came
to
Rule
,
what
Mis-government
,
what
Oppression
hath
he
been
guilty
of
?
Hath
he
infringed
the
Peoples
antient
Rites
and
Liberties
?
Hath
he
vexed
or
spoiled
them
?
Hath
he
turned
Idolater
himself
,
or
encouraged
and
commanded
Israel
to
forsake
the
God
of
their
Fathers
,
and
to
bow
down
to
Baal
,
and
the
Gods
that
were
round
about
them
?
Nay
,
Hath
he
not
set
up
the
true
Worship
of
God
,
discouraged
Idolatry
,
and
given
Himself
a
good
Example
of
Godliness
unto
his
People
?
Hath
he
not
fought
the
Peoples
Battels
,
and
Defended
Israel
from
the
Philistins
,
the
Moabites
and
the
Ammonites
,
those
Idolatrous
Nations
that
bordered
upon
them
,
and
mortally
hated
them
?
Surely
then
none
of
these
things
could
David's
Enemies
lay
to
his
Charge
,
as
Crimes
or
Neglects
of
Government
.
For
what
Cause
then
was
it
,
that
they
are
thus
Confederate
against
him
?
Did
they
pretend
the
Restoration
of
Ishbosheth
,
to
sit
upon
his
Fathers
Throne
?
But
did
not
God
Depose
Saul
?
And
did
not
God
appoint
David
to
be
anointed
King
over
Israel
in
his
stead
?
And
did
not
Samuel
,
God's
own
Prophet
,
Anoint
him
?
Or
may
not
God
dispose
of
States
and
Kingdoms
?
Doth
not
he
set
up
Kings
,
and
cast
them
down
,
according
to
that
of
Daniel
,
He
changeth
the
Times
and
the
Seasons
.
He
removeth
Kings
and
setteth
up
Kings
?
Doth
not
the
most
high
God
rule
in
the
Kingdoms
of
Men
,
and
appoint
over
them
whomsoever
he
will
?
Yea
,
that
was
the
Doctrine
God
himself
taught
a
King
that
was
loth
to
acknowledge
it
.
In
a
Word
,
Are
not
all
earthly
Princes
God's
Substitutes
and
Deputies
?
And
may
he
not
change
them
,
if
he
pleaseth
?
especially
,
when
he
seeth
they
do
not
execute
that
high
Charge
which
he
Committed
to
them
in
that
Justice
and
Equity
,
and
Moderation
,
and
Care
of
the
Peoples
good
,
that
Government
,
the
Ordinance
of
God
,
is
on
purpose
Constituted
for
.
And
therefore
,
O
ye
Malecontents
,
ye
have
no
such
Reason
to
be
angry
with
David
,
tho
he
possesseth
Saul's
Throne
:
Nor
ought
ye
to
endeavour
his
Son's
Restoration
,
seeing
it
is
the
Lord
's
Doing
,
and
brought
about
by
his
Hand
and
Providence
.
If
ye
say
,
Ishbosheth
is
wronged
,
and
your
Endeavours
of
taking
away
David
the
present
King
is
to
do
Justice
to
him
,
who
ought
by
Right
of
Succession
to
possess
the
Throne
;
Then
I
say
,
Will
ye
fight
against
God
?
Are
you
Wiser
,
are
you
Stronger
than
He
?
And
besides
,
what
Right
have
you
of
your selves
to
take
this
Authority
to
your selves
?
Who
put
the
Sword
into
your
Hands
?
Who
gave
you
the
Privilege
to
call
Kings
and
Princes
to
Account
?
Did
God
?
Take
heed
that
you
be
not
like
the
false
Prophets
,
that
ran
when
God
had
not
sent
them
.
And
Moreover
,
for
the
doing
pretended
Right
to
one
,
will
ye
do
Wrong
to
many
Thousands
,
even
to
a
whole
Nation
?
Shall
Ishbosheth
be
restored
,
tho
the
whole
Kingdom
perish
for
it
?
Surely
,
if
there
be
no
other
way
to
do
Justice
to
Ishbosheth
,
than
to
do
Injustice
to
many
Thousands
beside
,
you
ought
to
leave
Justice
to
God
;
and
to
Commit
to
him
Ishbosheth's
Cause
,
which
you
think
so
good
.
But
to
Murther
an
Innocent
King
,
to
involve
a
Nation
in
Blood
;
to
bring
in
all
the
Miseries
,
the
Devastations
and
the
Confusions
of
a
Civil
War
,
among
a
People
that
be
in
Peace
and
Quiet
,
and
live
easie
under
David's
Government
;
this
ye
can
never
justifie
,
but
must
needs
be
guilty
of
most
horrible
Impiety
,
and
draw
God's
as
well
as
the
King
's
heavy
Displeasure
upon
you
.
Ye
can
never
have
God's
Approbation
,
nor
bear
out
your selves
by
any
good
or
tolerable
Cause
,
for
your
dealing
thus
perversly
with
him
.
And
thus
they
dealt
perversly
with
David
without
Cause
,
as
you
have
seen
.
And
so
we
have
considered
David's
Enemies
,
and
their
Pretences
.
We
proceed
next
to
the
second
particular
observable
in
the
Text
,
Viz.
II.
David's
Prayer
against
these
his
Enemies
,
for
his
own
Safety
.
Let
them
be
ashamed
.
That
is
,
let
them
be
disappointed
.
O
my
God
,
overthrow
their
unjust
Purposes
against
me
.
David's
constant
Course
in
all
his
Distresses
was
Application
to
God
,
taking
him
to
be
his
best
Refuge
.
He
knew
his
Cause
was
just
and
good
;
and
therefore
he
did
,
with
the
more
Assurance
,
address
himself
to
God
to
take
his
part
against
his
Enemies
.
He
was
well
aware
how
malicious
they
were
,
and
how
diligent
to
Work
his
ruine
.
And
tho
he
could
not
always
understand
what
they
were
contriving
against
him
,
yet
he
knew
God
saw
all
well
enough
;
And
that
he
was
able
to
prevent
their
more
curiously
spun
mischiefs
,
however
secretly
they
carried
them
,
and
however
true
they
were
to
one
another
.
And
therefore
he
put
his
Trust
in
God
,
and
fled
unto
him
to
be
his
Protector
,
and
by
his
Power
and
Wisdom
to
countermine
all
their
Devices
,
to
demolish
all
their
well-laid
Designs
;
which
possibly
they
themselves
were
extraordinary
sure
must
take
effect
,
being
founded
,
as
they
thought
,
on
such
true
Maxims
of
humane
Policy
.
I
say
,
he
leaves
the
Wise
God
to
deal
with
these
worldly
wise
Men
,
as
knowing
that
they
were
not
,
with
all
their
Subtilty
,
a
Match
able
to
Cope
with
him
.
He
was
careful
of
keeping
himself
in
God's
Way
,
and
of
doing
his
Duty
in
all
good
Conscience
:
And
then
he
committed
his
Cause
to
God
,
and
beseeched
him
to
confound
his
Enemies
.
Let
the
Proud
be
ashamed
.
He
was
not
wanting
by
the
best
means
he
could
to
Defend
himself
;
by
Force
and
Preparations
to
resist
any
Assault
or
Invasion
on
him
or
his
Kingdom
.
But
when
he
had
done
this
,
he
relyed
not
thereupon
.
He
was
not
confident
in
an
Arm
of
Flesh
,
but
put
his
Trust
only
in
the
living
God
,
the
Lord
of
Hosts
,
whom
he
knew
,
(
and
had
often
experience
of
it
)
was
wont
to
put
to
shame
wicked
and
bloody
minded
and
unpeaceable
Men
,
and
to
rescue
the
Poor
and
the
Needy
out
of
most
imminent
Hazards
and
Dangers
:
that
he
might
thereby
get
to
himself
Praise
,
and
Renown
and
Glory
before
the
Face
of
all
the
World.
We
hasten
to
the
third
Particular
,
Viz.
III.
David's
Resolution
and
Practise
upon
all
the
Troubles
and
Dangers
he
underwent
by
Reason
of
his
Enemies
,
these
Proud
Men
that
dealt
perversly
with
him
without
Cause
.
But
I
will
Meditate
in
thy
Precepts
.
That
is
,
Let
what
will
come
of
it
,
I
am
resolved
to
make
God's
Law
my
Meditation
,
or
my
Practise
,
as
the
Word
may
signifie
.
And
so
our
old
Translation
reads
according
to
the
Latin
,
I
will
be
Occupied
,
or
Exercised
,
in
thy
Commandments
.
As
he
that
meditates
diligently
upon
any
thing
,
he
is
wholly
Exercised
,
employed
and
taken
up
therein
.
David
knew
,
that
the
best
way
in
the
World
to
make
God
his
Friend
was
to
take
heed
to
his
Commandments
.
He
that
keepeth
close
to
God
and
God's
Precepts
,
God
will
keep
him
.
And
hereby
we
do
effectually
put
out
selves
under
his
Care
and
Protection
.
For
God
loveth
the
Righteous
and
keepeth
him
as
the
Apple
of
his
Eye
.
Touch
not
these
mine
Anointed
,
saith
God
to
all
his
Creation
,
and
have
a
care
you
do
them
no
harm
.
All
good
Men
are
a
People
neur
unto
him
,
as
well
as
Israel
of
old
were
said
to
be
.
A
Consciencious
heed
to
God's
Commandments
brings
us
near
to
God.
And
he
to
be
sure
will
take
care
of
that
which
is
near
him
,
and
as
it
were
under
his
very
Eye
.
This
then
was
this
holy
King's
Resolution
and
firm
Purpose
:
However
it
falleth
out
to
me
,
whatever
Evils
my
undeserved
Enemies
endeavour
to
bring
upon
me
,
it
shall
not
put
me
out
of
God's
way
,
it
shall
not
break
off
my
Course
of
Piety
:
I
will
never
fall
off
from
the
Fear
of
my
God
,
and
from
my
Obedience
to
him
.
And
thus
I
have
given
at
good
length
an
Exposition
and
Paraphrase
upon
these
Words
of
King
David
.
And
I
have
done
it
the
more
largely
,
that
you
may
in
your
own
Thoughts
accommodate
it
the
better
to
a
present
Case
of
the
King
and
State
,
the
Solemn
Occasion
of
our
Meeting
here
this
day
.
Wherein
we
are
required
openly
to
shew
our
thankful
Sense
of
the
late
great
Mercy
of
God
expressed
towards
him
and
our selves
,
in
delivering
both
so
seasonably
from
a
very
desperate
Conspiracy
.
Wherein
our
King
David
was
to
have
been
dealt
very
perversly
withal
,
and
the
Peace
of
our
Israel
disturbed
by
our
Neighbours
,
those
uncircumcised
Philistines
,
that
the
Friends
of
Saul
had
stirred
up
against
us
.
Who
were
just
ready
to
Invade
our
Country
,
and
by
Force
and
Violence
to
intrude
upon
us
a
King
,
of
the
Rigour
of
whose
Government
we
have
had
already
so
much
sad
Experience
.
Insomuch
that
when
he
departed
from
us
,
and
left
the
Kingdom
,
we
thought
it
one
of
the
greatest
Blessings
and
Deliverances
that
ever
God
vouchsafed
this
Nation
.
Especially
,
when
in
his
stead
he
gave
us
another
Prince
of
the
Royal
Family
,
who
was
of
our
own
Religion
,
a
true
Defender
of
our
Faith
,
and
a
Patron
of
our
Liberties
,
of
our
Properties
and
of
our
Peace
;
and
whose
easie
and
moderate
Government
now
for
above
Seven
Years
,
we
have
had
the
comfortable
Experience
of
:
And
who
still
fighteth
our
Battels
against
our
Enemies
,
and
the
Common
Enemy
of
the
Peace
of
Christendom
,
that
undoubtedly
before
now
had
made
us
a
miserable
People
,
like
his
own
,
had
not
God
raised
up
this
Wife
and
Valiant
Prince
to
withstand
him
;
Like
another
Michael
,
which
we
read
of
in
Daniel
,
that
stood
up
for
the
Oppressed
Jews
;
that
great
Prince
;
which
stood
,
for
the
Children
of
our
People
.
It
would
have
been
a
sore
Judgment
upon
this
Land
,
had
those
Miscreants
that
sought
after
his
Life
,
obtained
their
purpose
,
and
we
should
all
have
felt
the
stroke
most
sensibly
But
the
Supreme
Governour
of
the
World
would
not
suffer
such
Courses
to
take
place
.
He
hateth
such
impious
Methods
.
And
it
appeared
,
methinks
,
most
evidently
,
that
it
was
his
own
Work
,
the
Lord
's
own
Doing
,
to
frustrate
these
Men.
For
what
was
it
,
but
his
Commandment
to
his
Winds
,
that
at
that
time
they
blew
so
long
a
space
from
one
Quarter
,
stopping
thereby
our
Enemies
from
coming
to
us
,
and
staying
our
Friends
,
I
mean
our
Ships
,
from
going
away
from
us
;
that
they
might
be
ready
at
hand
to
defend
us
in
case
of
any
Hostile
Invasion
.
This
alas
!
then
we
saw
not
,
nor
dream'd
of
;
and
were
apt
to
repine
,
that
our
Merchant-men
with
their
Convoys
could
not
proceed
on
their
Voyages
.
But
this
was
God's
Embargo
for
our
good
:
Which
tho
we
knew
not
then
,
yet
now
we
see
well
enough
,
and
are
fully
convinced
of
it
,
that
the
gracious
Hand
of
God
was
in
it
.
And
we
cannot
now
but
admire
the
infinite
Wisdom
and
Goodness
of
God
,
even
in
his
Crossing
and
Disappointing
our
Desires
and
Wishes
.
And
herein
,
methinks
,
God
seemed
to
say
to
us
as
Christ
once
said
to
St.
Peter
upon
the
Washing
of
his
Feet
,
which
that
Apostle
did
so
oppose
,
What
I
do
thou
knowest
not
now
,
but
thou
shalt
know
hereafter
.
We
knew
not
then
God's
wise
and
good
designs
and
purposes
by
those
Cross
Winds
,
as
we
thought
them
to
be
;
but
now
we
know
them
.
And
as
God's
Hand
did
most
notably
appear
in
stopping
of
the
Invasion
after
that
manner
,
so
what
was
it
but
the
Lord's
doing
,
that
the
other
part
of
the
Conspiracy
,
the
Assassination
,
was
disappointed
also
after
such
a
manner
;
by
making
those
Conjured
desperate
Villains
betray
one
another
.
And
that
by
turning
their
Wisdom
into
Foolishness
.
So
that
in
them
was
verified
that
of
the
Wife
Man
;
His
own
Iniquities
shall
take
the
Wicked
,
and
he
shall
be
holden
with
with
the
Cords
of
his
Sin.
Surely
,
all
these
things
deeply
considered
and
weighed
,
the
Preventing
of
this
Mischief
after
such
ways
,
with
all
the
horrible
Consequences
of
it
,
may
justly
require
a
National
Thanks-giving
,
and
that
the
Memorial
of
this
God's
abundant
Goodness
to
England
should
be
Celebrated
,
and
that
not
only
for
a
Day
,
but
for
Ever
;
and
be
added
in
our
English
Calendar
,
to
the
many
other
signal
Deliverances
and
Salvations
of
God
vouchsafed
this
Land.
God
hath
clothed
with
Shame
these
perverse
Dealers
with
us
,
not
only
in
frustrating
and
breaking
their
Intentions
,
but
in
that
their
Treasons
and
base
Designs
are
exposed
to
the
World
,
to
the
Abhorrence
of
all
that
hear
them
,
not
only
in
these
Kingdoms
,
but
abroad
in
other
more
Foreign
Parts
.
All
,
whosoever
and
whatsoever
they
be
,
except
those
that
have
joyned
hands
in
this
Practise
,
and
are
Brethren
in
this
Iniquity
,
do
Condemn
and
Detest
it
,
when
they
hear
it
.
Thus
God
hath
made
them
ashamed
.
And
he
hath
also
cloathed
some
of
them
with
further
shame
,
by
bringing
them
either
to
the
shame
of
an
open
Confession
and
Acknowledgment
of
their
Crime
,
or
,
which
is
worse
,
of
being
Judged
,
Condemned
and
Executed
as
Traytors
by
the
Hand
of
Justice
.
God
hath
cloathed
them
with
Shame
,
but
upon
the
King's
Head
the
Crown
,
Blessed
be
God
,
still
Flourisheth
,
and
seemeth
to
sit
much
Faster
than
it
did
before
.
And
that
the
King's
Crown
may
Flourish
still
,
and
the
whole
Kingdom
may
Flourish
with
him
,
let
us
now
once
more
cast
our
Eyes
upon
the
Text
,
and
learn
hence
from
David
what
to
do
,
and
how
to
behave
our selves
,
that
our
Enemies
for
the
future
also
may
be
put
to
shame
.
Let
the
Proud
be
ashamed
;
for
they
dealt
perversly
with
me
without
a
Cause
:
But
I
will
Meditate
in
thy
Precepts
.
From
whence
I
infer
two
excellent
Expedients
of
Success
against
our
Enemies
;
the
former
is
Prayer
;
and
the
later
a
Resolution
and
Purpose
to
continue
in
the
Study
and
Practice
of
God's
Precepts
.
I
shall
speak
but
a
Word
of
each
of
these
,
and
so
Conclude
.
I.
In
all
our
Apprehensions
of
our
Enemies
,
let
us
fly
unto
God
by
Prayer
;
and
earnestly
implore
him
to
save
and
defend
us
;
and
to
guard
us
by
his
Almighty
Power
from
all
our
Adversaries
;
those
whom
we
know
not
of
,
and
those
whom
we
know
to
be
so
.
Indeed
we
are
never
secure
in
this
evil
World
:
And
there
is
no
Man's
Innocency
can
free
him
from
Danger
.
And
we
of
this
Nation
must
never
expect
to
be
without
Enemies
.
For
,
if
there
were
nothing
else
,
it
is
our
Religion
,
it
is
our
happy
Constitution
and
Government
,
that
will
Create
us
Adversaries
and
Ill-willers
.
Well
,
let
us
therefore
be
instant
in
Prayer
for
God's
Protection
:
that
he
would
make
haste
to
help
us
;
that
he
would
be
our
Rock
and
our
Shelter
from
all
our
Foes
;
that
he
would
Watch
over
us
,
and
Discover
the
Snares
that
at
any
Time
are
laid
for
us
.
And
we
must
never
be
weary
of
these
Prayers
.
And
then
God
,
I
trust
,
will
not
be
weary
of
hearing
them
,
and
giving
a
gracious
Answer
to
them
.
And
surely
for
my
part
,
I
cannot
but
attribute
our
many
late
notable
Deliverances
,
to
those
frequent
and
earnest
Petitions
sent
up
by
many
thousands
of
good
Men
and
Women
in
all
Parts
of
the
Nation
,
which
we
use
in
our
daily
publick
Prayers
:
As
where
we
pray
,
O
God
make
speed
to
save
us
.
O
Lord
,
make
haste
to
help
us
.
And
again
,
Defend
us
thy
humble
Servants
in
all
Assaults
of
our
Enemies
.
That
we
surely
Trusting
in
thy
Defence
may
not
fear
the
Power
of
any
Adversaries
.
And
again
,
when
we
Pray
,
That
we
being
defended
from
the
fear
of
our
Enemies
,
may
pass
our
time
in
rest
and
quietness
.
And
as
it
is
in
our
Litany
,
Graciously
hear
us
,
that
those
evils
which
the
Craft
and
Subtilty
of
the
Devil
or
Man
worketh
against
us
may
be
brought
to
nought
,
and
by
the
Providence
of
thy
Goodness
be
dispersed
.
And
again
,
Turn
from
us
all
those
Evils
that
we
most
righteously
have
deserved
.
And
divers
other
of
the
like
Import
.
Great
is
the
Efficacy
of
these
frequently
repeated
Petitions
,
when
put
up
in
the
Places
where
God's
Honour
dwells
,
by
Multitudes
of
devout
People
with
ardent
and
holy
Affections
.
And
as
these
Prayers
have
had
such
happy
Effect
,
so
let
us
still
continue
in
them
for
our
future
Preservation
.
II.
In
all
our
dangers
of
our
Enemies
let
us
resolvedly
persist
in
the
Study
and
Practice
of
God's
Law.
This
was
holy
David's
Resolution
:
The
Proud
dealt
perversly
with
me
:
But
I
will
be
occupied
in
thy
Commandments
.
As
tho
he
should
have
said
in
other
Words
,
I
am
well
satisfied
,
it
is
the
best
Course
to
be
safe
,
to
Fear
God
and
to
Walk
in
his
Way
,
and
to
Depend
upon
him
in
Well-doing
.
Then
may
I
confidently
pray
to
him
,
and
expect
all
Supplies
whatsoever
from
him
.
For
he
will
not
forsake
the
Righteous
,
nor
suffer
him
to
be
moved
.
And
if
we
would
have
God
still
to
watch
over
our
Land
for
good
,
let
us
steddily
persevere
in
our
Protestant
Profession
,
and
especially
in
the
Practise
of
our
Protestant
Doctrines
,
which
so
effectually
and
indispensably
require
of
us
a
very
sober
,
strict
and
holy
Conversation
.
Which
God
grant
us
all
Grace
that
we
may
do
for
the
Peace
and
Safety
both
of
our selves
and
of
our
King
,
and
of
our
Country
,
for
Jesus
Christ
his
sake
.
To
whom
be
all
Honour
,
Glory
and
Adoration
for
Evermore
.
Sermons
new
Published
,
and
Sold
by
B.
Almer
in
Cornhil
.
THE
Bishop
of
Gloucester's
Thanksgiving
Sermon
before
the
House
of
Lords
,
at
Westminster-Abby
,
April
16th
.
1696.
Mr.
Stephens
of
Sutton
in
Surrey
his
Thansgiving
Sermon
,
preach'd
before
the
Lord
Mayor
and
Aldermen
at
Bow-Church
;
April
the
16th
.
Mr.
Showers
his
Thanksgiving
Sermon
,
also
upon
the
16th
of
April
.
Mr.
Gardiner
his
Thanksgiving
Sermon
,
preached
at
St.
Michael
Crooked-Lane
in
London
the
same
Day
.
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1
Sam.
xvi
.
1.
Ver.
14.
Ver.
13.
Consultarunt
adversus
me
.
Bib.
Tigurin
.
Exitia
mihi
Machinantur
.
Castal
.
Dan.
ii
.
21.
Ch.
v.
21.
Exercebor
.
Vulg.
Ps.
cxlviii
.
14.
Dan.
xii
.
1.
Joh.
xiii
.
7.
Prov.
v.
22.