'TIS a question propounded by the wise Son of Sirach, in the 33d Chap. of Ecclesiasticus, at the 7th verse, Why does one day excel another, when as the light of every day in the year is of the Sun? and he wisely resolves it in these following words, by the knowledge of the Lord they were distinguisht, and he alter'd sea­sons, and feasts: some of them has he made high days, and some of them has he made ordinary days: some of them has he blessed, and exalted; and some of them has he sanctified, and set near him­self.

For as all the works of God are full of wonder, and every one of 'em deserves to be awfully regarded, and religiously ad­mir'd: so there are some of 'em of a more eminent and exalted nature, and of a more rare and unusual occurrence; and these remarkable works being plac't by God himself in a higher, and [Page 2] more elevated station than ordinary, may therefore justly chal­lenge from us men a more solemn honour, and a more frequent commemoration of them.

And as the extraordinary manifestation of God's presence to Moses in the Bush, did make the place whereon he stood to be holy ground: so the extraordinary marks of God's grace and favour to the Prophet David at some particular times and seasons, did make those days whereon these mighty works were wrought to be deservedly esteem'd, and devoutly observ'd as holy days: and 'twas some signal demonstration of God's almighty power and goodness in the miraculous preservation of David's Person and Kingdom, and the utter destruction of his inveterate Enemies, that mov'd him so carefully to remind his people of this re­markable deliverance, and so earnestly to exhort 'em to a pub­lick and solemn Thanksgiving for so great a mercy, as is evident by the words of my Text; This is the day which the Lord hath made, we will rejoyce, and be glad in it.

There are two things in the Text that plainly offer themselves to our consideration; First, that there was some particular day which was made remarkable by God's extraordinary Provi­dence, in delivering King David and his people from some im­minent danger. Secondly, that as a token of their thankful­ness for so signal a mercy, they were resolv'd to solemnize that remarkable day as a day of publick and religious joy.

In reference to the first of these, I shall insist on these fol­lowing Propositions;

First, that as God's mercy is over all his works: so his pro­vidence does more especially concern it self in the preserva­tion of States and Kingdoms.

Secondly, that Almighty God does more remarkably employ [Page 3] his power and goodness in the protection of religious States and Kingdoms professing his holy and eternal Truth.

Thirdly, that there are some particular events that plainly discover the special hand of God in the management of 'em.

Fourthly, that it is the indispensible duty of the people of God both carefully to remark, and religiously to celebrate the miraculous dispensations of Divine Providence in the preser­vation of his Church. And

Fifthly, that the gracious deliverance that God was pleas'd to vouchsafe these Nations, as on this day, has very illustrious marks of an extraordinary Providence imprest upon it.

First, I say, as God's Mercy is over all his works; so his Provi­dence does more especially concern it self in the preservation of States and Kingdoms.

Among the innumerable benefits that the planting of the Christian Religion has oblig'd the world withal▪ the clear dis­covery of an universal Providence, more especially exprest in the guidance and management of human affairs, may reaso­nably be accounted a very considerable and extraordinary bles­sing: for by the promulgation of the Gospel we are all infal­libly assur'd, that God's Providence is extended not only to things that are most distant▪ and conceal'd from human view; but also to the most minute, and seemingly contemptible objects, and occurrences. Thus our Saviour speaks to his Disciples, Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? yet not one of them does fall to th' ground without your Father: and again, he tells his disciples in the following words, that the very hairs of their heads were all numbred: So that as nothing is so little as to escape God's Knowledge, so nothing is so despicable as to be disdain'd by his Providence: For whatsoever he was pleas'd to Create [Page 4] by his power, will certainly be taken care of by his goodness, Yet since there are different degrees of excellency in the Crea­tures, we may reasonably conclude, that according to the various measures of their respective perfections, the power and mercy of Almighty God will be more or less concern'd in their protection and defence. Now, since man is the glory of the visible World, and all things we here behold are particularly design'd for his benefit, and accommodation, we may assure our selves, that we are the principal objects of God's watchful eye, and that his care in the preservation of our per­sons, and the promoting of our welfare will express it self in a more illustrous manner than in consulting the safety, and ad­vantage of our fellow-creatures here below. And since the publick interest of States and Kingdoms is of a far greater, and momentous a concern than that of private persons, it has been generally observ'd in all preceding ages from the foundation of the World, that Divine Providence has been often very emi­nently visible in preventing the dissolution of States, and Em­pires: and accordingly we read in the Prophet Daniel, in the 10th Chapter of his Prophecy, that God has been pleas'd to ap­point particular Tuteler Angels over several Countreys to manage publick affairs, and to promote the common good of their respective charges by invisible ways and methods incon­ceivable by humane understanding: For in the 13th verse of that 10th Chapter, the Angel that converst with Daniel tells him that the Prince of the Kingdom of Persia withstood him one and twenty days. And the meaning of that Title of the Prince of Persia in that Text is generally thought to be the Guar­dian Angel of that Countrey, who, it seems, very diligently solicited the concerns of the Persian Empire in the Court of Heaven.

Secondly, That Almighty God does more remarkably imploy his power and goodness in the protection of Religious States, and Kingdoms, professing his holy and eternal truth, is evident [Page 5] by that very tenth Chapter of the foremention'd Prophecy: for as that Tutalar Angel of the Jewish Church did acquaint Daniel that the Prince of the Kingdom of Persia had op­pos'd him: So he assures him, that Michael, one of the chief Princes, came to help him. By which is meant that the Persian Angel did so vigourously prosecute the publick in­terest and advantage of that Kingdom, that, were it not for the more prevalent intercession of Michael the Archangel, the zealous endeavours of this inferior heavenly Guardian of the Jewish Nation would in all probability, have been unsuccesful. From all which we may observe, that besides the general Provi­dence of Almighty God over all the World, he has delegated the more especial care and protection of Kingdoms to Angeli­cal Governors; and that he does commit the defence, and pre­servation of his Church in a most especial manner to those of the highest order of beatified Spirits: for Michael, one of the chief Princes of the heavenly Host is said, in the last verse of that tenth Chapter, to be Prince of the Jewish Nation, that is, their chiefest Tutelar Angel and Guardian, by which we may clearly understand with what honor God is pleas'd to dignify, and with what security he immures the persons of his own Church & people against the secret conspiracies, and the forcible assaults of their inveterate Enemies.

And that we may the more fully be assur'd that there is no reason to fear the dark designs, and malicious contrivances of our most subtil and potent adversaries, God himself is declar'd by the Prophet David in 84th Psalm, at the 11th verse, to be a Sun and a Shield: a Sun to discover dark plots of our implaca­ble foes, and a Shield to defend us from their open violence: and since hell it self, as Job says, is naked before God, and destructi­on has no covering, we may certainly conclude that all those treasonable conspiracies which have their rise and original from hell, and are designed for the destruction of God's people, tho they be never so cunningly contriv'd, or never so secretly [Page 6] carried on, will (as we have reason to hope) be detected, and defeated by his infinitely wise and over-ruling providence. For we are told by St. Paul, that the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men: that is, the least degree, if I may so speak, of Divine Power can baffle the utmost strength of the greatest Princes: and the least mea­sure of divine wisdom can infatuate the best laid designs of the most subtil Politicians.

Thirdly, I say that there are some particular dispensations that plainly discover the special hand of God in the manage­ment of 'em. For tho the works of divine providence be com­monly cloudy & dark, yet there are some particular events that have the signatures of God's Power, Wisdom and Goodness so plainly stampt upon 'em, and are of such peculiar frame and make, that all men that seriously consider 'em shall say, This has God done, for they shall perceive that it is his Work.

And in reference to these unusual occurrences, there are se­veral Phrases in the holy Scriptures which are very obser­vable, and particularly import the variety of God's methods in these extraordinary dispensations of his providence. Thus God's arm is sometimes exprest in holy Scipture, to be made bare, and to be lifted up, in the atchievement of some prodigious Works. An example of the first of these we have in the 52d Chapter of the Prophecy of Isaih, at the 10th verse: Where the Prophet, reminding the Church of the great miracles which the Lord had wrought for her safety and advantage, says That the Lord has had made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the Nations: that is, as a Souldier in the heat of battle will disen­gage his hands from whatever may hinder, him in the use of his Sword, and if he find his Gantlet heavy, and cumbersom to him, will quit it to enjoy the natural strength, and freedom of his arm, So when God sees his Church and People in immi­nent danger of perishing, if they be left to the natural efficacy [Page 9] of visible causes, He is frequently pleas'd in such an extraordinary exigence openly to appear in their behalf, and laying aside some weak and feeble instrument, wherein his hand did invisibly en­gage it self in their defence, he makes bare his Arm in the Eyes of all the Nations, He delivers them from the prevailing Force of their Enemies by some miraculous instances of this infinite power, and love.

Secondly, Another Phrase made use of in holy Scripture to ex­press the special Providence of Almighty God in some particular emergencies, is, the raising and lifting up of his Arm. Thus in the 26 Chapter of the Prophecy of Isaiah, at the 11 Verse, the Prophet Addresses himself to God in these words; Lord when thy Hand is lifted up they will not see, but they shall see and be ashamed for their envy at the People. Now by his Hand being lifted up we must not understand Gods acting purely by his own Omni­potence, without the concurrence of any visible assistant; but only that he raises, and exalts causes to so great a degree of pow­er, as to enable 'em to perform such actions as are vastly beyond the small proportion of their Natural strength.

In this sense we must understand the Israelites Conquests of the Land of Canaan: for God himself do's frequently tell 'em, that the Nations whose Land they should possess, were stronger, and mightier than they; and yet he Commands 'em not to be dismay'd, because the Lord himself should go before 'em, and should destroy their Enemies with a great destruction until they were Consum'd. By all which promises the Children of Israel did not apprehend, that God would put them into the quiet Possession of the Land of Canaan without a necessity of their own Fighting; but that he would bless their Arms with wonderful success, and would enable 'em to the gaining of those Victories which they never would have got, but by the assistance of his Almighty Power.

But Fourthly, It is the indispensible Duty of the People of God, [Page 10] both carefully to Remark, and Religiously to celebrate the Mira­culous dispensations of Divine Providence in the preservation of his Church. Among the several notes of distinction betwixt ra­tional Creatures, and brute Beasts, this is reckon'd as one of the most considerable, that whereas brute Beasts do only Stare at some unusual objects, and are startl'd at some sudden and surpri­sing accidents; God has been pleas'd to endue Mankind with the power of Reasoning, so that they do not barely perceive the things that are Represented to 'em by their senses, but also can narrowly prey, and strictly search into the Reasons of their pro­ductions, and I may justly say, there is as great a distinction be­tween the natural Man, and the spiritually minded Christian, in reference to some signal events in humane Life, and remarkable in­stances of Divine Providence.

For the most earless & inconsiderate Sinner cannot but be amaz'd at some sudden & unexpected changes in a Kingdom, and may take such notice of 'em, as to make 'em the subject of his Discourse, and the entertainment of his idle hours; but if he goes no further than a slight and superficial consideration of 'em; if he do's not strictly enquire, and diligently search into the secret springs of these ex­traordinary motions, he not only frustrates the good and wise de­signs of Divine providence in those wonderful Revolutions, but does also affront his own rational Faculties: he debates the Digni­ty of his Nature, and sinks himself into the low and ignoble rank of the Beasts that perish. Whereas on the contrary, the Faithful Servants of Almighty God, do not only plainl, perceive, and care­fully Remark, but do also Religiously admire, highly extol, and humbly adore his infinite Wisdom, Power and Goodness in these surprizing and miraculous Events.

A Remarkable instance of both these different Tempers we have Recorded in the 92 Psalm, where the Prophet having declar'd at the 4▪ Verse, that the Lord had made him glad through his work, and that he would Triumph in the works of his Hand, and in an extacy [Page 11] broke out, at the 5 Verse in these words, O Lord how great are thy Works? Thy thoughts are very deep, he assures us in the next Verse, that a brutish Man knows not, neither does a fool understand this. And elsewhere the Psalmist gives it as the Character of wicked Men, that they regard not in their minds the Works of God! nor the operation of his Hands, tho they be never so Signal in their own Nature, and never so rare, and unusual in their Event; and of this sort was that wonderful Deliverance which we solemn­ly Commemorate on this Day, which brings me to the,

Fifth Particular, That the Gracious Deliverance that God was pleas'd to Vouchsafe these Nations as on this Day has very illustri­ous Marks of an extraordinary Providence imprest on it.

Of these I might mention many, but I shall insist only on Two: the First of which is the critical timing and seasonableness of this Gracious Deliverance, which was wrought for us in the Gate of Death, and the very minute almost of our design'd Destruction. And indeed 'tis the usual method of Divine Providence intirely to Baffle the designs of the Wicked, when they are in the heighth of all their hopes and suddenly to throw 'em down from the top and pinacle of their Towring expectations.

God might very easily; if he pleas'd, defeat the bloody purposes of ungodly Men in the First conception of 'em in their minds, and stifle 'em in the First instant of their motions; but he looks upon it as more agreeable to the Excellent designs of his infinite Wisdom, and Goodness; and to the manifestation of his Almighty Power, to permit their Fancies to be impregnated with the Vain hope of a happy success in their ungodly project: [...] suddenly, and surprizingly makes the issue of their wicked Hearts abortive, and when the Children of iniquity are just come to the Birth, he does not permit 'em to have strength to bring forth, and grants his Peo­ple a wonderful Deliverance [...] are [...] falling down the Precipice of utter Ruine and Destruction.

[Page 12] Thus in the Passage of the Israelites over the River Jordan, we read that as soon as the Priests that bare the Ark were come to Jordan, and their Feet were dipt in the brim of the Water, and they might according to the measure of Humane reason have expected at the next step, to be Swallowed up in the deep, the Text says, that the Waters fail'd and were cut off, and that Ri­ver which just before had overflow'd his Banks, did then for­sake his Channel; and the People passed over on dry Ground. We see in this Instance that the time which God Appointed for the Passage of his People over Jordan was at that time of the Year when his Flood was at the heighth; and we also see that the Waters were not cut off till the Feet of the Priests were wet in the brim of the River; and then, and not tell then it was that the Text tells us that the Waters which came down from a­bove, stood and rose up upon a heap. And the Priests that bare the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, as we may read in the third Chapter of Joshua at the two last Verses.

And of the like nature was the Deliverance wrought for us as on this Day: for while our Enemies had made the Cellers un­der the Parliament House a Tophet, according to the Descrip­tion of it in the thirteenth Chapter of Isaiah at the last Verse; Tho' it was prepared for the King, and the three Estates of the Realm; tho' the Pile thereof was Fire and much Wood, yet the latter part of the Character of Tophet was wanting; for the breath of the Lord was so far unlike a stream of Brimstone to enkindle it, that like a stream of many Waters it prevented the breaking out of the unconquerable Flame.

In the 18th Chapter of the Wisdom of Solomon, we have a most Excellent Idea given us of Gods surprizing Vengeance on the Enemies of his Church in the sudden and unexpected de­struction of the first born among the Aegyptians in these most remarkable Words, While all things were in quiet silence, and that [Page 13] night was in the midst of her swift course, thine Almighty Word lept down from Heaven out of thy Royal Throne, as a fierce Man of War into the midst of a Land of Destruction, and brought thy un­feign'd Commandment as a sharp sword, and standing up, fill'd all things with Death, and touched the Heaven, but it stood upon the Earth. These words may with a little alteration very clear­ly describe to us the surprizing Wonders of this days Delive­rance, for while the mischievous, and fatal Plots of our Ene­mies were in quiet silence, and in full security of Success; and while their mighty Works of hellish Darkness were not only in the midst of their swift Course, but just brought to the point of Execution, then it was that Gods Almighty Word leapt down from Heaven, out of his Royal Throne, to save his People, as he did formerly to destroy his Enemies, and brought Gods ex­press Command as a sharp Word, to cut off the implacable Foes of the publick Peace, and the Protestant Religion: It touched the Heaven, and stood upon the Earth, it had its Commission from above, very clearly to discover, and effectually to prevent that unparallel'd Massacre here below, which was just ready to be executed upon us; so that, we were as Firebrands snatcht out of that vast and universal Burning, design'd upon the whole Nation, in the very critical moment of extream Danger.

The second Mark and Character of Gods special Providence, is the great Benefit, and advantage of some particular events, for the defence of Truth, the support of Religion, and increase of Pienty. God who deliver'd his People out of Aegypt, would not destroy 'em in the Wilderness; much less in the Land of Canaan, into which he had miraculously brought them; and since the same God had deliver'd us from more than Aegyptian Darkness, under the Blindness and Superstitions of the Church of Rome; and from more then Aegyptian Servitude, under the cruel Tyranny of the Court of Rome; and had also brought us into Canaan into a Land slowing with Milk and Honey, where we have been plentifully fed with the Milk of Gods word, and had [Page 14] tosted of the Heavenly gift, the Hony of celestial Ordinances; we had no reason but to rest assur'd of his ever watchful Care and Providence over us in our preservation.

And as God was pleas'd as on this Day plainly to discover the works of Darkness, and miraculously to prevent the Execution of 'em; and has successfully compleated a Deliverance for his People no less signal and illustrious than the former: the First Plot indeed was design'd to blow up the Parliament-House and the three Estates of the Realm, but this late design was formed against, and if it had taken Effect, would have entirely destroyed the very Constitution of Parliaments, and have rooted up the ve­ry Original Foundations of our Government.

The first Conspiracy as Conscious of its own Guilt did hide its face in the darkness of the night, in the recesses of Vaults and the privacy of secret Consults, but in this late Conspiracy Popish Villany appeared in open View, our destruction was not privately design'd, nor carefully conceal'd from our knowledg, but openly avow'd, publickly manag'd, and Triumphantly boasted of.

Our Land brought forth not only Frogs, but venemous Toads even in our Kings chambers, & which is worst of all, this grie­vous plague of Egypt was thought by some the greatest blessing of the Land of Canaan, and it was Gods Infinite Mercy to us that our Rivers were not turned into Blood, which his present Majesty's timely landing, as on this day, did very happily pre­vent: and as on this memorable day God had formerly preserved us from utter ruin and destruction designed us by the whole Power and Force of Rome, so having employed his present Ma­jesty in the late mighty work of our deliverance, He was re­solved to give him a remarkable omen of his future good suc­cess by Landing him in England as on this day. For then it was that Superstition and Idolatry appeared with open Face, and were violently bearing down all before 'em; then it was that [Page 15] the Egyptian darkness of Popery was overspreading these three Nations, and more then Egyptian slavery was very close­ly attending it. Then it was that our Rights both Civil and Ecclesiastical were invaded, and whoever wou'd not Worship the Images that were then set up, was in great danger of being Punish'd as the three Children were, whom we read of in the Prophet Daniel, for the Fire which was of old prepar'd for Hereticks and had been for so many Ages kept alive, and was but lately extinguished by Abolishing the Writ de Haeretico Comburendo, was enkindling again, but now the Embers are so effectually quencht by a suddain and wonderful Rain from Heaven, that there is no fear of a Future revival of the Flame.

We read in the 18th Chap. of the first Book of the Kings, that when the People of Israel were mightily distressed by the extremity of Famine, Elijah went up to the top of Carmel, and cast himself down upon the Earth, and Commanded his Servant to look toward the Sea seven times, and 'tis said, that at the seventh time he saw a cloud rise out of the Sea like a Mans hand▪ which afterward overspread the whole Firmament, and became the spee­dy and effectual means of restoring their former plenty and pro­sperity; and truly the circumstances of our late Affairs, both in Church and State, had much the same dismal prospect with that of the Children of Israel in the time of Famine; for when se­veral years we had Groan'd under the grievous burthen of Arbi­trary power, when we had many times cast our selves down upon the Earth at the Footstool of the Throne of Grace, when we had often humbly Prostrated our Souls and Bodies before God, and had look't often towards the Sea for our Relief then it was that we at last perceiv'd a Cloud arising out of the Sea, and encreasing daily, till in a little time, it overspread the Firmament, and then God was pleas'd to send a Gracious Rain upon his Inheritance, and to refresh it when it was weary.

[Page 16] And one signal instance of Gods avenging Hand, on the im­placable Enemies of the Protestant Religion, was the impres­sing on their guilty Minds, such timorous Misgivings, and foreboding apprehensions of the approaching Period of their Power and Greatness, as made their hearts faint, and their hands Weak and Trembling; so that, the joints of their Loyns were loos'd, and their knees smote one against a nother, and what we read in the fourteenth Chapter of the first Book of Samuel, concerning the Miraculous Success of Jonathan and his Armour Bearer, was almost fulfill'd in our Days▪ for there was a trembling in the Host of the Enemies of Gods Church, the Garrison and the Spoylers they also trembled; so that, it was a very great Trembling, and behold the Multitude melted a­way.

And now, since so Gracious a Deliverance has been wrought for us, since in the wonderful Year of 88, we saw a truly invincible Armada making towards our Coasts, and since that auspicious Wind which happily brought our most Gracious Deliverer to our Lands has effectually freed 'em of those swarms of Forreign Lo­custs with which our Canaan like Egypt has been lately so mise­rably infested, and has thrown 'em into the Sea; since our Judges are Restor'd as at the first, and our Counsellors as at the begin­ning, and we are all compas'd about with the Blessings of Peace and good Government; What now Remains, but that our Return of Thankfulness to Almighty God, be in some Regard suitable to the greatness of his Mercies, and as our De­liverance has been as Signal and Remarkable as that of King David's and his People, so our Gratitude to our Gracious and Almighty Preserver, should be as Publick and Solemn, as Hear­ty and Affectionate as theirs; which brings me to the second particular in my Text. Viz. that King David and his People were resolved to solemnize the remarkable day of their Deliverance as a Day of Publick and Religious joy, which is in­cluded in these Words, we will rejoyce and be glad in it, but [Page 17] having spent so much time in discoursing on the first Head; I shall only mention some few duties which these words import, and leave the enlargement on 'em to your own me­ditation; and the

First one of those duties which the latter part of my Text im­plys, and which this days solemnity obliges us to perform, is a publick and religious thankfulness to Almighty God for so ge­neral and so miraculous a preservation; for 'tis very evident, that Rome intended, as on this day, to treat the Church of Eng­land united in one body in Parliament, as Caligula design'd to treat Rome her self; If it had but one neck, to cut it off at a stroke, to destroy it at once with a mighty destruction. For all the Re­presentatives of the Realm, as the Office of the day expresses, were by Popish Treachery appointed as sheep to the slaughter, in a most barbarous and savage manner, beyond the example of former ages.

But God has been graciously pleas'd both by his wisdom to detect, and by his power to blast this inhuman Conspiracy; and therefore we are all indispensibly oblig'd to take care, that the religious expressions of our gratitude for so great a Blessing, may on the wings of Praise and Thanksgiving ascend to Heaven, from whence this wonderful deliverance came. And

Secondly, our publick Thankfulness for so signal a Mercy, should express it self in eminent acts of Charity to the Poor: for as the miraculous preservation of us, as on this day, from this inhuman Plot of our Popish Enemies, does highly resem­ble the wonderful deliverance of the Jews from the merciless designs of Haman; so we ought to imitate the remarkable Ex­ample of their Benevolence on the Feast of Purim, in the ge­nerous distribution of our Alms to our indigent Brethren; as [Page 18] we find it recorded at the first Institution of that Feast, in the 9th Chapter of Esther, at the 22d verse: where 'tis said, that the days wherein the Jews rested from their Enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from mourning to joy, they should make days of Feasting, and Joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.

But lastly, our miraculous deliverance, as on this day, shou'd work in us all a hearty repentance for our past offences, and a thorough reformation of our lives for the time to come; and as we express our publick sense of this mighty Blessing by our publick Offices of religious Praise, and as by our Charity we declare our gratitude to Almighty God, by making our poor distressed Brethren here below partakers of our Joy, so by a true and sincere contrition, we shou'd extend our Joy to the triumphant Saints above, and cause joy in the presence of the Angels of God over so many penitent Sinners. And this ex­cellent duty of a general Repentance on so extraordinary an occasion, I shall re-inforce upon you in the words of Samuel to the people of Israel, in the 12th Chap. of the first Book of Sa­muel, at the 24th verse; Fear the Lord, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider how great things he has done for you; and then we may with a rational confidence of future safety, commit our selves, and all our private and publick af­fairs, our Persons, and our Relatives, our Religion and Liber­ties, to the care and protection of Divine Providence, being fully assur'd, that God's infinite Goodness will prevent the Ma­lice, his Wisdom will infatuate the Councels, and his Almigh­tiness will quell the Power of our most formidable Enemies▪ for Omnipotence is able to support us, and Infinite Mercy will never be unwilling to help us, and Omniscience can never be Forgetful of us, and 'tis impossible for Truth it self to disap­point us.

[Page 19] And now, since God has deliver'd us from so great a Death, and does deliver, in him we'll hope that he will yet deliver us; and that he will compleat his wonderful mercy to us, by the speedy conversion of the Corrigible, and the utter confusion of our implacable Enemies: Which God of his Infinite Mercy grant, through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.