The Valorous Warrior's Welfare, IN God's Victorious Warfare. A SERMON PREACHED In His Majesty's English Camp, near the City of Ghendt in Flanders; Before the BATTALION of His Royal Highness GEORGE Prince of Denmark, Under the Command of the Right Honourable Colonel CHARLES CHURCHILL, Major-General of His Majesty's Forces in the NETHERLANDS. By WILLIAM WILLIAMS, Minister of the Gospel, And a Son of the Church of England.  
LONDON, Printed for John Pero, at the White Swan, and Edward Powel next the Pump-Coffee-House in Little Britain; and sold by R. Baldwin, near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane, 1696.   

TO THE Most Magnanimous, Magnificent, and Munificent MONARCH, William the Third (By GOD's Providential Appointment) KING of Great Britain, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, etc.  
May it please Your Sacred Majesty,  
IN the lowest degree of Submission, I appeal to Your Regal Clemency for a Royal Pardon, in presuming so Sublime and Supreme a Dedication, being very conscious of my Imperfections to manage this Great Enterprise: Yet considering that the meanest Loyal Subject hath some Interest in the Favour of his Prince, I emboldened myself on that account to shelter the follow Sermon under the Defence of your Royal Patronage; which at its Promulgation in your Majesty's English Camp in Flanders, gained the diligent Attention and Approbation of its Auditors. In pursuance whereof, I briefly manifested and maintained, The equitable Cause of your Majesty's late and continued Wars with the Adversaries of your Realms and Government; The indubitable Pleasure of God in placing and establishing your Royal Person on the Thrones of our Three Kingdoms; The seasonable Preservation of our British and Irish Church, in the Principles and Prerogatives thereof by your sacred Defence of her Christian and Catholic Faith; The profitable Uvea l of our Nation, by your Princely and Puissant Aid, in securing the just Rights and Liberties of Freeborn Subjects; the innumerable Deliverances of your Secular, Civil, and Martial Excellency, from those dangerous and desperate Hazards to which you were often exposed by the Fatal Peril of the Sword; And the incomparable Protection of your pious Person from the Destructive Designs of Sanguinary Assassinates, whose Aim (in all probability) was to subvert the present Government.  
These particular Instances, with the whole Matter derived from the Subject of my Warlike Discourse (though delivered in a plain and familiar Method) I humbly Dedicate to the Condescension of your Royal and Favourable Perusal; being a Pledge of that Impartial Love and Loyalty which shall be duly and daily paid to your Regal Authority, by him who is, according to those Apostolical Rules, of Fearing God, Honouring the King, with Subjection for Conscience, and Submission for the Lord's sake,  
Great SIR, Your Majesty's most Observant Subject, and Obeisant Servant, Wi. Williams.   

TO THE CAPITAL COMMANDERS, And All Other Military Officers, According to their Respective Posts or Stations, Engaged in the Management of the English Army, William Williams wisheth, 

National, Personal, and Internal Tranquillity.  
Temporal, Substantial, and External Prosperity.  
Spiritual, Immortal, and Eternal Felicity.    
Valorons and Victorious Martialists,  
IT was the pleasure of Almighty God, as being the Tutor of Valiant David and other Famous Worthies, of Heroic Spirits, before he instructed them in the Art of Military Discipline, by teaching their Hands to War and their Fingers to Fight (being Achievements fit for Combatants, and such as are trained in Gladiatory Affairs) to assume unto his Sacred self the Champion Title of a Man of War, in Exod. 15.8. where his Servant Moses declares in the same Scripture, that the Lord is his Name: Thereby importing that Power, Courage, Success, Victory and Triumph, are all of them Endowments proper and peculiar to God alone; though by his Condescensive and Permissive Pleasure a communicative Respect in a participative manner (having its Commission from himself) is supernaturally instrumental, in causing admiring Mortals to Praise God, and to Blazon the Braveries, Adorn the Acts, or Fame the Feats of Military Men. This sort of Martial Honour eminently appeared in the Public and Princely persons of Saul and David, whose magnanimous and magnificent Victories over their numerous Adversaries embellished the Trophies of their Conquering Triumphs, with resounding Acclamations of Royal Renown and Popular Applause, which as lasting monuments of their Hostile Exploits are Registered (to inform all Humane Posterities) in the Canonical Chronicle of Sacred Histories, witness the first Book of Samuel, Chap. 29 Ver. 5. where it is reported— That the Israelites sang one to another in Dances, saying, That Saul slew his Thousands, and David his Ten Thousands, to Memorise the Fame of Fate and Fortitude.  
This Account of the Slain amounting to Thousands, and Ten Thousands, seems to intimate an unknown, innumerable, or numberless number; but as to the Armies or Militia that were destroyed by the Generals, Chieftains, Centurions, and Soldiers of David, we find that the Divine Warrior ascribed the Success which attended his Arms and Weapons of Warfare, to the concurring and corroborating Power of God, as it is apparently evident in the words of my present Text, where he speaks these Courageous and Religious Expressions,— Through God we shall do valiantly; for he it is that shall tread down our Enemies. The Valiant Acts here mentioned, or Valour derivative (in this Verse from God to Men) I Christianly Conjecture was Experimentally observed by many Worthies, to whom I Dedicate this Epistle, in their Warlike Erterprises relating to the late Affairs of Ireland and Flanders, who with the rest here hinted, may lay a just Claim to the Discourse issuing from the following Subject; which having the Approbation of numerous attentive Auditors, and also their Importunity to have it made public for the Benefit of the Army, I have by forcible Obligations yielded to the sway of prevalency, and adventured (as far as Moderation allowed me) to comply with their reasonable Request: And if it meet with some Thwarting and Carping Dispositions of Captious or Conceited Critics, too much intermeddling and busying themselves in this Censorious Age, I assign Armed Men, whose Cause and Right it is, both to Patronise and Defend its Innocency, leaving such Causeless Quarrellers on the Forlorn Hope of doing Injury, either to Ministerial or Martial Authority. In ample Satisfaction or full Assurance whereof, I commit the Army, the Fleet, myself, and all that desire the Welfare of our Three Kingdoms, to God's Gracious Protection and Providence; remaining,  
Most Courageous Worthies, Your Devoted Friend and Servant, William Williams.   

The Valorous Warriors Welfare, in God's Victorious Warfare. As it was Delivered in a SERMON PERTAINING To the English Army in Flanders, and Preached On Psal. LX. Ver. 12. Through God we shall do Valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our Enemies.  
THIS Psalm, whereof my Text is a part, was Compiled by the Military Monarch David, when he and his Army waged War, or strove with Aram Naharaim, and Aram Zoba, even at the return of Joab the Son of Zerviah, (who was a Chief Officer over the Host of David (from slaying of the Syrians or Edomites in the Valley of Salt, to the number of Eighteen Thousand Men. The History of which Engagement, you may find Recorded in 2 Sam. 8.1, to 17. and also in 1 Chron. 18.1, to 16. in which Relation we may observe, that Holy David was very Successful in his Warlike Erterprises, for he overcame many Potent Kings and Kingdoms, through a fixed Affiance in the Faithfulness and All-sufficiency of an Infallible and Omnipotent God, who is the most Magnificent Monarch, and Mightiest Warrior, of whom Moses saith in Exod. 15.3. The Lord is a Man of War, the Lord is his Name, or his Name is Jehovah, which denotes both his Holiness and Hostility. This Military Description of God may be fitly styled the Soldiers Armoury or Magazine, where not only his Carnal, but also Spiritual Weapons, Accoutrements and Ammunition are constantly kept in a Warlike Readiness: It is as it were the Tower of David, whereon there hang a Thousand Bucklers, all Shields of Mighty Men, as you may Read in the 4th Chapter of Canticles or Song of Solomon, at the 4th Verse: Or as that Tower of Solomon mentioned in Prov. 18.10. where it is said, that— The Name of the Lord is a strong Tower, the Righteous runneth into it, and is safe. Therefore let us betake ourselves to this strong Citadel, or Invincible Garrison, which is the Christian Combatant's Fort Roval, where the Captain of our Salvation is Christ Jesus, and the Generalissimo of our Believing Forces, God Almighty, whose Banner over us is Love, and that stronger than Death; for many Waters could not quench his Love, neither could the Floods drown it, as you may note in Cant. 8.7. This is that Love which surpasseth Knowledge, whereof the Apostle St. Paul speaks in Eph. 3.19. The Superlative Transcendeney of which is apparently made manifest in the Miraculous and many Renowned Victories obtained (over their Enemies) by the Adventurous Armies, and Courageous Champions of the Living God; under whose Irresistible Power, not only Royal David in particular, but also his Loyal Host in general, did Valorously resolve to Encount or and Conquer their Adversaries, yet so, as at the same time, and in the mean space, that with one Unanimous and Harmonious Consent, they voluntarily and devoutly ascribed unto God, (to whom it was due) even the Glorious and Praiseworthy Success of their Valiant and Vigorous Victories, according to these Heroical or Martial Expressions of my present Text, where Divine and Undaunted David, as it were after an Alarm to take up Arms, made this Consolatory Speech unto his Army, Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our Enemies.  
This Portion of Scripture, being the Subject of my Warlike Discourse, hath its Foundation laid on the most durable and unmoveable Rock of Ages, namely, God himself; and that by a Matchless Monarch of Israel, to wit, the Militant and Triumphant David, in which Text, as a Garrison Town, or City of Refuge, he hath Erected on the East-side an Heavenly Castle of Safety, and on the West an Holy Tower of Security: The Heavenly Castle of Safety, importing God's Favourable Presence with his People, in Countenancing them to defy the fierceness of their Enemies, according to these former words of my Text, Through God we shall do valiantly: The Holy Tower of Security, implying God's powerful Providence to his People, in Encouraging them to Defeat the Forces of their Adversaries, as concurring with these last Expressions in my present Subject, For he it is that shall tread down our Enemies.  
Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our Enemies.  
In walking the Rounds of this Text, Town, or City of Refuge, which hath God seated in the Circuit, Situation and Centre thereof, for its Safety, as also Sallying the Ports, viewing the Rampires, Platforms, Counterscarps, Fortresses, Flankers, Battlements, Bulwarks, and Batteries thereof. Besides, a Castle and a Tower Erected on the Eastern and Western sides, to prevent the Storming, Surprising, Besieging, Invading or Taking of the same by Force; I likewise discovered it strongly fortified on the North and South-sides, with two other Regal Citadels, or Royal Forts of Defence, and they are these which I shall describe unto you.  
First, King David's Divine Consideration, That the Foundation of a Just War in the Defence of his People's Lives, Laws, Liberties and Religion, hath its Victorious Dependency on the Supreme Power and Providence of God, the which is apparently evident in the front of my present Text, where the purpose of God in preserving his People from the violent Erterprises of their Enemies, is thus Elegantly and Excellently expressed, Through God we shall do valiantly.  
Secondly, King David's Divine Suggestion, That tho' the People of God may be Instrumental in subduing their Enemies, yet the Success that makes their Foes their Footstool, is a principal Prerogative only peculiar to God himself: And this is likewise apparent in the Rear of my present Subject, where the pleasure of God in punishing his People's Adversaries, is thus Emphatically and Pathetically worded, For he it is that shall tread down our Enemies.  
Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our Enemies.  
I have divided my Text into Two Parts or Portions, like Two Regiments or Battalions of Soldiers, in which respect it represents the Right and Left Wings of an Army. But having thus opened my Text, both to the Right and Left, that I may put it again in a proper form, I shall reduce the Divisions as they were, and thereby bring it to its close Order, drawing up the main Body thereof into a more Complete and Warlike Posture, by demonstrating unto you in a considerable measure, what Glorious Conquests the Successful and Successive Sabbaths or Hosts of God, obtained in former Ages over their Adversaries: In order to which Demonstration, I design through God's Gracious Assistance, to speak unto the Two Chief Generals, or General Heads, posted at the Royal Standard of my Text; as in the  
First place, To King David's Divine Consideration, That the Foundation of a Just War in the Defence of his People's Lives, Laws, Liberties, and Religion, hath its Victorious Dependency on the Supreme Power and Providence of God.  
Secondly, To King David's Divine Suggestion, That tho' the People of God may be Instrumental in subduing their Enemies; yet the Success that makes their Foes their Footstool, is a principal Prerogative only peculiar to God himself: Both which Observations are inseparately included, and completely comprehended within the Bounds and Limits of my Celestial Subject, where in Expectation of Aid from the Deity to suppress his Adversaries; it is thus Dictated by Devout David, Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our Enemies.  
In all the Series of Holy Scripture, we may evidently behold, that when Almighty God intended to accomplish some Notable Deliverance to his People, he gave them to understand (in the mean space) that it was not so much their own Might and Manhood, as it was his mere Mercy that saved them: And this is very Conspicuous in the Courageous Resolutions, and Admired Actions of the Religious Israelites, who by their Military Affair, and God's Favour, overcame no less than Thirty One Considerable Kings and Kingdoms; as you may Read in the 12th Chapter of Joshua, where there is a perfect Catalogue of their Names and Number; the first being the King of Jericho, mentioned in the 9th Verse; and the last the King of Tirza, specified in the 24th Verse, which consummates or concludes the same Chapter.  
Thus you see, according to the Words of my Text, how the Israelites did valiantly; for God did tread down their Enemies.  
Israel, above all the Nations in the World, had the Honour of fight the Lord's Battles; and when they wanted Champions or Conducts for their Encouragement, God was entreated by them, that his Power might appear in the cause of their Warfare: Who, according to his own good pleasure, sent several Rescuers, that protected them from Multitudes of malicious Enemies; one of whose Deliverers, or Saviour's, (as his Name imports it) was Joshua the Son of Nun, Moses his Minister and Successor; for he destroyed the Anakims in the Land of Israel; he also overcame many Prince's that resisted them, and hanged five noted King's, on five several Trees, that were their Adversaries; namely, Adonizedeck King of Jerusalem, Hoham King of Hebron, Piram King of Jarmuth, Japhia King of Lachish, and Debir King of Eglon, as you may read in the 9, 10, 11, and 12 Chapters of Joshua. Thus Joshua did valiantly; for God did tread down his Enemies.  
Secondly, The Israelites were delivered from the bold Attempts of the Aramites, by Othniel the Son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger Brother, and the Land had rest forty years, as it is observable Judg. 3.9, 10, 11. Thus Othniel did valiantly; for God did tread down his Enemies.  
Thirdly, The Israelites were preserved from the Molestations of the Moabites, by Ehud the Son of Gera a Benjamite, a Man lefthanded, when they slew of the Children of Moab about Ten thousand Men, all lusty, all Men of Valour; so that the Land had rest fourscore years, as you may note in Judg. 3.15, 29, 30. Thus Ehud did valiantly; for God did tread down his Enemies.  
Fourthly, The Israelites were succoured from the Fury of Philistines, by Shamgar the Son of Anath, who slew Six hundred Philistines with an Ox-goad; and he also delivered Israel, as it is apparent in Judg. 3.31. Thus Shamgar did valiantly; for God did tread down his Enemies.  
Fifthly, The Israelites were descended from the Incursions of the Canaanites by Deborah a Prophetess, the Wife of Lapidoth, and Barak the Son of Abinoam of Kadesh-Nepthali, who by the assistance of God, prevailed against Jabin King of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin King of Canaan; as is specified in Judg. 4.6, 24. Thus Deborah and Barak did valiantly; for God did tread down their Enemies.  
Sixthly, The Israelites were saved from the Mischiefs of the Midianites by Jerubaal, that is, Gideon the Son of Joash the Abi-ezraite, who discomfited an Host of Men with broken Potsherds, Lamps, and Rams-horns, together with the Noise of the People, who cried earnestly before their Enemies, until they were daunted, routed, and ruined: The Sword of the Lord, and of Gideon, as it is recorded in Judges 7.20, 21. His Messenger also took two Princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb upon the Rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the Wine-press of Zeeb; and they pursued Midian, and brought the Heads of Oreb and Zeeb unto Gideon, on the other side Jordan, as it is remarkable in Judg. 7.24, 25. Also Gideon arose, and slew Zeba and Zalmunna, two chief Kings of Midian, as farther appears in Judg. 8.21. Thus Gideon did valiantly; for God did tread down his Enemies.  
Seventhly, The Israelites were protected from the Arms of the Ammonites, by Jepthah the Gileadite, a mighty Man of Valour, who smote the Children of Ammon from Aroer till thou come to Minnith, even twenty Cities; and unto the Plain of the Vineyards, with a very great Slaughter. Thus the Children of Ammon were subdued before the Children of Israel, as you may find it written in Judg. 11.33. Thus Jephthah did valiantly; for God did tread down his Enemies.  
Eighthly, The Israelites were freed from the Forces of the Philistines by Samson, who slew a Lion: He killed thirty Philistines for thirty Changes of Garments; burnt their Corn with Firebrands tied to three hundred Foxes Tails; carried away the Gates of Gaza; destroyed a thousand Men with the Jawbone of an Ass; and by pulling upon him the Theatre of the Philistines, slew more at his death than he did in his life-time, as the Histories thereof make mention, in the 14th, 15, and 16th Chapters of Judges. Thus Samson did valiantly; for God did tread down his Enemies.  
Ninthly, The Israelites were secured from the Onsets of the Ammonites, Moabites, and Inhabitants of Mount Seir, through the gracious and seasonable Advice of good King Jehosaphat, together with the Divine Assistance of Almighty God; as it is penned 2 Chron. 20.20, 21, 22. where the Relation is thus worded: Here me, O Judah, and ye Inhabitants of Jerusalem; believe in the Lord your God, so shall you be established; believe his Prophets, so shall ye prosper. And when he had consulted with the People, he appointed Singers unto the Lord, and that should praise the Beauty of Holiness, as they went out before the Army, and to say, Praise the Lord, for his Mercy endureth for ever. And when they began to sing and to praise, the Lord set Ambushments against the Children of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, which were come against Judah, and they were smitten, Thus Jehosaphat did valiantly; for God did tread down his Enemies. In the  
Tenth place, I shall, through God's Providential permission, demonstrate unto you some of the Noble Acts of Royal David, who (being the Man after God's own Heart) always won the Field of the Lord's Battle under the Lord's Banner; according to these expressions of my present Text: Through God we shall do valiantly; for he it is that shall tread down our Enemies.  
We read in the Acts of renowned David, that when he was but a ruddy Youth, he killed a Lion and a Bear, as also slew the Chief Champion of the Philistines, namely, the Great Goliath of Gath; as you may read in the 17th Chapter of the First Book of Samuel. He smote two hundred Philistines, for which Exploit he had the Honour of Majestical Assinity, in being made the King's Son-in-Law, as appears in 1 Sam. 18. He took a Spear, and a Pot or Cruise of Water that stood at Saul's head, as you may note in 1 Sam. 26. He warred the Lord's Warfare, and slew Rechab, and Baana his Brother, the Sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, as you have it observable in 2 Sam. 4. He overcame the Philistines twice; he took the Fort Zion; he restored the Ark; he prepared for the Building of the Temple he overthrew the Aramites, and all his Enemies, as you may farther remark in the 5th and 6th Chapters of the Second Book of Samuel. Thus, according to the words of my Text, David the Darling of God did valiantly; for He did tread down his Enemies.  
These are some of the Royal Prophet's Achievements, who upon such Undertake always confided in God's willingness and readiness to assist his Endeavours, in all necessary Engagements: For the Lord himself, who is a Man of War, vested him in an heavenly and impenetrable Coat of Mail, or spiritual Armour, according to those prudent and prevalent Expressions, of his unbyass'd Resolution and Reliance, recorded Psal. 27.1, 2, 3. where he thus expostulated with himself, touching his holy Warfare: The Lord is my Light and my Salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the Strength of my Life; of whom shall I be afraid? When the Wicked, even mine Enemies and my Foes came upon me to eat up my Flesh, they stumbled and fell. Tho' an Host should encamp against me, my Heart shall not fear: Tho' War should rise against me, in this will I be confident.  
This aught to be the courageous Resolution of all sincere Christians, but more especially of Christian Soldiers, who seem to carry their Lives in their Hands, and are observed to stand upon the brink of the Grave: Yet if such conside with David, in the corroborating Power of God, taking cognizance of the Equity of our late continued War, and the just demerit of the Cause thereof, being in defence of Christ's Gospel, and such Kingdoms, Territories, Dominions, and Provinces, as maintain his true Religion, together with the Lives, Laws, and Liberties of freeborn Subjects, who are thereby protected from infringing their Privileges, invading their Properties, and infecting the Principles of their pious Profession: Doubtless such necessary Warriors may have a welcome Access to the acknowledgement of my present Text, in order to defend God's Word with David's Sword, and there to say with the sacred Psalmist: Through God we shall do valiantly; for he it is that shall tread down our Enemies.  
In this place, I have formed or framed my Text, to bear a lively Representation of the late Affairs of our British Nation; where a Party of its Inhabitants, like the disturbed Israelites, have had several Commotions both with domestic and foreign Enemies: This Truth is experimentally memorised by many of us, who, through God's gracious permission, have our continuance hitherto in the Land of the living. But what shall we say to these things? since God hath been for us, who could be against us? For through God we have done valiantly; he trod down these our Enemies.  
It was the good Pleasure of God Almighty, in sundry, and some late years past, to send variety of Judgements upon the Kingdom of England, that the Inhabitants thereof might learn Righteousness; as Isaiah speaks, Chap. 26.9. But as the pious Prophet David saith, in Psal. 28.5. we have not regarded the Works of the Lord, nor the operation of his Hands, either in the late noisome Pestilence which swept away thousands (in the Metropolitan City of the said Realm, namely, London) hurrying them into the dark and gloomy Chambers of the Grave; nor the raging Fire, which burned up the Dwellings of many thousand Families, burying them in their own Ruins; nor the revenging Sword, that in the Series of War slew a marvellous multitude of our Martial Men, in their Engagements with furious Enemies: And because we are not yet reclaimed by all these signal and singular Tokens of God's Displeasure with us, we may justly fear, that Providence prepares some other severer Judgement, either utterly to destroy us from off the face of the Earth, or to force us in it unto better Obedience. And to this purpose are those terrible Threaten of a rewarding God, recorded in Levit. 26.15, 16, 17, 18. where he speaks these dreadful Expressions: If ye shall despise my Statutes, or if your Soul shall abhor my Judgements, so that you will not do all my Commandments, but that ye break my Covenant: I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you Terror, Consumption, and the burning Ague, that shall consume the Eyes, and cause sorrow of Heart: And ye shall sow your Seed in vain, for your Enemies shall eat it. And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your Enemies. They that hate you, shall reign over you, and ye shall flee when none pursueth you. And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then will I punish you seven times more for your sins.  
Here we have a satisfactory Account, in what way or method God usually proceeds to inflict his Wrath upon refractory Sinners: First, he imposeth one Calamity; and if that reclaim them not, than he will add a second, sometimes doubling that with a fourth, or trebbling it with the sixth Affliction. And if all these work not upon the hardness of their Hearts, then will he prepare another, that like Nebuchadnezzar's Fiery Furnace, shall be seven times more punishable than the former. Moreover, it is the Customary Phrase of God in Scripture, when his Holiness would deter us from Vice, to threaten our Destruction with Vengeance, as in Deut. 32.35. where he saith, To me belongeth Vengeance and Recompense. Again, he speaks in Ver. 41. of the same Chapter, If I whet my glittering Sword, and mine Hand take hold on Judgement, I will render Vengeance to mine Enemies, and will Reward them that hate me. And in Ezek. 25.17. thus saith the Lord concerning the Destruction of the Philistines and Cherethims, I will execute great Vengeance upon them with furious Rebukes; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall lay my Vengeance upon them.  
Hence it is observable, that as the heavy Judgements of God are made so unconceivably intolerable, by the weight of Divine Vengeance, our safest Course in avoiding of them, is to flee from Sin to his Sanctuary, and there humbly and devoutly pray for the Peace of Jerusalem, for they shall all prosper that love Communion with the Church of God; and that your Requests may be made conformable to God's most holy Will, at all times, in all places, and upon all occasions, both Christ and his Church to that end have furnished you with sufficient Rules of Devotion, he in the form of his gracious Petitions, and she in the frame of her Pious Ejaculations: He in his Petitions saying, Led us not into Temptations but deliver us from Evil; and she in her Allusive Ejaculations saying, From all Evil and Mischief, from Sin, from the Crasts and Assaults of the Devil, from thy Wrath, and from Everlasting Damnation, good Lord deliver us.  
Many Material Circumstances might be alleged to demonstrate our Church and its Government consistent with the Divine Will and Pleasure of God, for she is so highly in Favour with the Highest, that he removed those who caused her Breaches, far from her, in order to uphold her Walls and Bulwarks; yea, her Interest appears so Interested in God, that he lately dethroned a King that offended her, and in his stead, Enthroned a King to defend her. This is the Lord's doing, it is Marvellous in our Eyes; as the Kingly Prophet expresseth it in Psal. 118.23. For Promotion cometh neither from the East, nor from the West, nor from the South. But God is the Judge: He putteth down one, and setteth up another, as appears, Psal. 75.6, 7. That this Dethronement and Establishment was God's own Handiwork, is Divinely Vindicated by the Prophet Daniel in the Unparallelled Case; and Preternatural Condition of King Nabuchadnezzar; who for his unsufferable Arrogance, was Exiled from the Society of Rational Men, to take his Abode and Food with the unreasonable Beasts of the Field; touching whom the said Daniel in his second Chapter at the 20th and 21th Verses, spoke on this Wise, Blessed be the Name of God for ever and ever: for Wisdom and Might are his. And he changeth the Times, and the Seasons: He removeth Kings, and setteth up Kings: He giveth Wisdom unto the Wise, and Knowledge to them that know Understanding. Again, we Read in the 37th Verse of the same Chapter, that the Prophet said to the King on this manner, Thou, O King, art a King of Kings; for the God of Heaven hath given thee a Kingdom, Power, and Strength, and Glory. Moreover Daniel told him in the 4th Chapter of his Prophecy at the 25th Verse, That the most High ruleth in the Kingdom of Men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will. Thus we see that the disposal of Earthly Kingdoms, is a peculiar Prerogative absolutely pertaining to the King of Heaven; for God being an Universal Monarch, hath ageneral Title attributed unto him, in Jer. 10.7. where he is styled by the Prophet, The King of Nations. And that because all Emperors, Kings, and Princes, in their Enthronements, wear their Crowns, sway their Sceptres. govern their Kingdoms and Principalities, by God's own special Authority: This Truth bears the Badge of his warrantable and undoubted Testification, in the 8th Chapter of Solomon's Proverbs, Ver. 15. where he speaks these certain and significant Expressions, By me Kings Reign, and Princes Decree Justice. This Assirmation hath sufficient Assertions of Scripture to assure it, as in 2 Sam. 12 7. where God by the Mouth of his Prophet Nathan, spoke these words unto David, I anointed thee King over Israel: Solomon also acknowledged, that the Lord had placed and established him on the Throne of his Father David, as you may Read in 1 Kings 2.24. Moreover it was the saying of Ahijah in the Person of God to Jeroboam, I will give the Kingdom unto thee; as it is observable in 1 Kings 11.35. By all these Scripture Instances it plainly and punctually appears, that the removing and settling of Crowned Heads, relate to God's Dispensative Power; and therefore we may say of God in such Cases, as Job spoke concerning the Life and Death of his Children, in, Job 1.21. The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the Name of the Lord. Having thus proved unto you, that the Government of this Lower World, is according to the Rule of God's undeniable and unlimited Authority; so neither the Kingdoms, nor Power of Princes, but all things else proper unto them, are after a peculiar manner God's, their Crowns, their Anointing, their Globes, their Sceptres, their Thrones, and the Government thereof are his; and their Persons adorned with all these Endowments, are so Sublime and Sacred, that they are compared for Excellent Eminency, or Eminent Excellency, unto the Angels of God, in 2 Sam. 14.17. and also styled Gods, by a Deified kind of Dignity, and called the Children of the most High, in Psal. 82.6.  
From these and such like Observations, the sanctify'd Vessel St. Paul, that great Apostle and Patron of the Gentiles, compiled an Excellent Lecture of Loyalty, in order to oblige both Religious and Rebellious Subjects, to bear true Allegiance and submissive Obedience unto their Supreme and Lawful Superiors; the which you may find Recorded in Rom. 13.1, 2. where it is thus worded, Let every Soul be subject unto the Higher Powers; for there is no Power, but of God. The Powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the Power, resisteth the Ordinance of God; and they that resist, shall receive to themselves Damnation. Hence it is observable, that as every individual Person ought to be in subjection to his superior and inferior Rulers, by reason that the Power of their Government is derivative from God, and the Governors now in being, Established by his Ordinance, whom to resist, is plain opposition to God's own Order, for which resistance they become liable to receive unto themselves the Reward or Stipend of Damnation. Therefore to abandon Disloyalty, being the Cause of this Damnable Alotment, as Religious Servants to God, Loyal Subjects to the King, and Loving Sons of the Church: Let us that are her Impaled Children firmly stand in God's, the King's, and the Church her Cause, resolving, that in case no other Kingdom or Nation, should accommodate us with their Assistance, neither to dread, nor to be dismayed at it, although our present Enemies, whomsoever they are, may seem much more in number than ourselves, for the Race is not always to the swift, nor the Battle still to the strong, but to those that have God for their powerful Copartner; for there is no restraint to the Lord, to save by many or by few, as it is observable in 1 Sam. 14.6. This Truth is farther confirmed by the Divine Expressions of Asa, who with an Army of Five Hundred and Fourscore Thousand Men, waged War with Zerah the Ethiopian, whose Host consisted of a Thousand Thousand in number, as you may note in 2 Chron. 14.8, 9, 10. Moreover it is said in Verse 11. That Asa cried unto the Lord his God, and said, Lord, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no Power: Help us, O Lord our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy Name we go against this multitude; so the Lord smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah, as you may Read in Verse 12. of the same Chapter: These Excellent Observations have their full and clear Evidence in Deut. 20.1, 2, 3, 4. where God granted unto Israel a Warlike Commission Sealed with his own Hand, and delivered with his own Mouth, in these Expressions Recorded by Moses, When thou goest to Battle against thine Enemies, and seest Horses and Chariots, and a People more than thou, be not afraid of them; for the Lord thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the Land of Egypt. And it shall be when ye are come nigh unto the Battle, that the Priest shall approach and speak unto the People, and shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, you approach this day unto Battle against your Enemies; let not your Hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them; for the Lord your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your Enemies, to save you. In this Divine Commission, we have a Reviving Cordial to cheer up the drooping Spirits of a faint-hearted Soldier; for it is matter of no great moment to him whether his Enemies are many or mighty, since he hath the Infallible Promise of the most Mighty to take his part in all Lawful Engagements; then a Thousand may fall at his side, and Ten Thousand at his Right Hand, but it shall not come nigh him. God will be with him in Trouble, to deliver him, and honour him. With long Life also will he satisfy him, and show him his Salvation, as it is expressed in Psal. 91.7, 15, 16. Therefore for such a Deliverance as is here promised, let us give unto the Lord the Glory due unto his Name; for God is never more pleased with us, than when his Heavenly Majesty is most praised by us: A frequent Acknowledgement of God's Praises, is an undeniable means of obtaining our desired Deliverances: And to this end, because our frail Lives are uncertain, by reason of Destructive Wars, with other daily Casualties; and that while we have our continuance on this side the Grave, we may live in God's fear, and in our departure hence, Die in his Favour, thereby to obtain Eternal Felicity. I humbly crave your Christian Patience for some few Moment's, that I may discover unto you what Praise is, together with the Fruits and Effects of it in Ten brief Particulars; also how God is to be praised, in Six Compendious Points.  
First then, Praise is the End, or Ultimate part of our Devout Petitions; for we call upon, and importune God to bestow on us out of the Rich Treasury of his Bounty, and unexhausted Supplies, such Benefits as are most necessary or needful, both for our Corporal and Spiritual Necessities, that we may bless and praise him for the same; to which purpose Holy David in 1 Chron. 16.35. teacheth us a Divine Method how to sweeten our Prayers with Praises, according to these Expressions, Save us, O God of our Salvation, and deliver us, that we may give thanks to thy Holy Name, and Glory in thy Praise.  
Secondly, Praise maketh Petition powerful, for God is most ready and willing to hear their Petitions, whose Hearts are inclinable to praise him, in giving due Thanks for former Benefits, we do as it were engage God thereby, to confer upon us further or future Blessings. For on this Direction of David in Psal. 50.14. Offer unto God Thanksgiving, the Lord himself made this Gracious Promise in the next Verse, Call upon me in the day of Trouble, I will deliver thee.  
Thirdly, Praise is a due Debt, which Petitioners are bound to pay; for he that inviteth thee to call upon him, and promiseth thy Deliverance from Trouble, requireth and expecteth that Compensation or Recompense from thee, as to Reward his Promise with thy Praise, according to these Expressions of deserved Retaliation, Recorded in Psal. 50.15. Thou shalt glorify me.  
Fourthly, Praise is the full Requital that we can give unto God for every good and perfect Gift, which his Divine Benignity bestoweth upon us; for when the praying and praising Psalmist propounded this Question in Psal. 116.12. What shall I render unto the Lord, for all his Benefits towards me? The Answer or Resolution was thus given in Ver. 13. I will take the Cup of Salvation, and call upon the Name of the Lord: As if David should have said, I will offer a solemn Sacrifice, wherewith, wherein, or whereby I may clearly manifest the numerous and tremendous Deliverances or Preservations which God hath afforded to me; for by way of Exposition, he addeth these words in Ver. 17. of the same Psalm, I will offer to thee the Sacrifice of Thanksgiving, and will call upon the Name of the Lord.  
Fifthly, Praise is a Satisfactory Evidence of that good Respect which we own to the Lord our God. By Petition, we show that favour which we bear towards ourselves. The Ten Lepers who came unto Christ, lifting up their Voices, and saying, Jesus, Master have Mercy on us, Luke 17.13. showed a care of their own welfare, only one who returned to give Glory unto God, discovered his Carefulness of the Lord's Honour.  
Sixthly, Praise is so prevalent a Duty, that it moves God to show good Estimation or Respect to Men; for he that said in 1 Sam. 2.30. Them that honour me, will I honour, without Controversy will perform so punctual a Promise.  
Seventhly, Praise is the greatest Honour that we can give to Almighty God, for it is his own Declaration or Acknowledgement, in reference to his Divine and Essential Fame, Recorded in Psal. 50.23. He that offereth Praise, glorifieth me.  
Eightly, To Praise God, is the most Excellent Piece of Religious Service that in this World can be performed; and also all the Celestial Spirits are concerned herein, as it is observable in Rev. 5.13. where he saith, That every Creature which is in Heaven, and on the Earth, and under the Earth, and such as are in the Sea, and all that are in them, heard I, saying, Blessing, Honour, Glory and Power be unto him that sitteth upon the Throne, and unto the Lamb for Ever and ever.  
Ninthly, A setting forth of God's Praise, is an indubitable means to enliven the Spirit, and to make the Heart of Man more ready, active, and cheerful in performing the Duty of Prayer; for when David's Heart was in a prepared Temper to praise God, he presently applies himself thereto, and by confessing his stability therein, said to his Tuneable Tongue, and Musical Instruments, in Psal. 57.7, 8. 9 My Heart is fised, O God, my Heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise. Awake up my Glory, awake Psaltery and Harp, I myself will awake early. I will praise thee, O Lord, among the People, I will sing unto thee among the Nations. When the Spirit of a Man is under an undisposedness to pray, let him then meditate on the Mercies and Excellencies of God, by which Divine Contemplations, he shall find a Spiritual Vivification and Vigour put into him.  
Tenthly and Lastly, Praise is comely or pleasant, as Devout David phrases it in his acceptable Psalms of Thanksgiving; but Ingratitude is one of the most odious and vicious Qualities that can be named, for Israel's ungratefulness or unthankfulness was the only Cause of their Captivity, as you may Read in 2 Chron. 36.16, 17. where part of the History is thus related, They mocked the Messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his Prophets, until the Wrath of the Lord arose against his People, till there was no Remedy. Therefore he brought upon them the King of the Chaldees, who slew their young Men with the Sword, in the House of their Sanctuary, and had no Compassion upon young Man or Maiden, old Man, or him that stooped for Age; he gave them all into his Hand. We find that unthankfulness was the main Reason why God gave the Gentiles over to a Reprobate Sense, in Rom. 1.21. and Christians over to Antichristianism, as you may note in 2 Thes. 2.9, 10, 11, 12. This also caused that Nabuchadnezzar was transformed into the Nature of a Beast, as you may Read in Dan. 5.20, 21. And that Herod was eaten up of Worms, as it is Recorded in Acts 12.23. Therefore let us learn from their harms to beware of Ingratitude, and even at this present instant, or juncture of time, return Thanks unto God for those great Deliverances and manifold Mercies, which we continually Enjoyed from the Moment of our Nativity, to this present Opportunity, resolving from henceforth (until our departure out of this Life) to render Praise unto him for whatsoever Benefits or Blessings his good Providence may treasure up for us in order to our future Happiness; saying with the Sacred Psalmist in Psal. 72.18, 19 Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel, who only doth wondrous things. And blessed be his glorious Name for ever, and let the whole Earth be filled with his Glory, Amen, and Amen. Thus have I showed you what Praise is, together with the Fruits and Effects of it in Ten Particulars.  
In the next place, I design by God's permission to demonstrate unto you how God is to be praised, and that in these Six Compendious Points.  
First of all, God is praised by acknowledging him to be what he is, in Himself, in his Son, in his Spirit, in his Properties, and in his Attributes: For Moses, in his Psalm of Thanksgiving, Exod. 15.3. did praise God by speaking of him on this wise: The Lord is a Man of War; The Lord is his Name.  
Secondly, God is praised by attributing unto him that which is his, as holy David did, 1 Chron. 29.10, 11, 12, 13. where it is thus written: Wherefore David blessed the Lord before all the Congregation: And David said, Blessed be thou, Lord God of Israel our Father, for ever and ever. Thine, O Lord, is the Greatness, and the Power, and the Glory, and the Victory, and the Majesty; for all that is in the Heaven and the Earth is thine; thine is the Kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as Head above all. Both Riches and Honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all, and in thine hand is Power and Might, and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all. Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy Holy Name.  
Thirdly, God is praised, by acknowledging that which his Providence seemingly effects, to be only done or performed by himself. Thus doth Moses praise God, by ascribing unto him the Overthrow of Pharaoh and his Hosts in the Red Sea, as you may observe Exod. 15.4. So also doth the Psalmist, in most of his Psalms of Praise; as in Psal. 136.1. and from the 15th Verse to the 23d. where it is thus worded: O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good; for his Mercy endureth for ever. To him that overthrew Pharach and his Host in the Red Sea: To him which led his People through the Wilderness: To him which smote great Kings, and slew famous Kings; Sihon King of the Amorites, and Og the King of Bashan; and gave their Land for an Heritage; even an Heritage unto Israel his Servant: And this he did, because his Mercy to his People endureth for ever.  
Fourthly, God is praised by owning that which he disposeth, to be only given of himself; this was David's candid acknowledgement of God's hounteous Benefits and liberal Gifts, in 1 Chron. 29.14. where he thus spoke unto the Lord: All things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee. Also St. Paul saith, in Rom. 11.36. Of him, and through him, and to him are all things; to whom be Glory for ever. Amen.  
Fifthly, God is praised by declaring or mentioning unto others all the forenamed Points concerning him. Thus did the sweet-tongued David, that singular Singer of Israel, 1 Chron. 16.8, 9 where he speaks these godly Expressions: Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his Name; bring an Offering, and come before him: Worship the Lord in the Beauty of Holiness.  
Thus also have I showed you, in six compendious Points, how God is to be praised.  
If therefore, according to these pithy and practical Points of Piety, our Hearts are inclinable to praise God, who is the most Victorious Conqueror and matchless Man of War, under whose Bellonick or Warlike Banner, we seem terrible in sight of our Adversaries; because, as Abijah said to the Israelites, in 2 Chron. 13.12. That God Himself is with us for our Captain, triumphing gloriously for the Discomfiture and Destruction of his People's Enemies: As Moses speaks concerning the Overthrow of Pharaoh, in Exod. 15.4. and of whom David saith, Psal. 98.1. That he hath done miraculous things; for nis right Hand, and his holy Arm hath gotten him the Victory: That by this means (as Zacharias prophesied of Christ and his believing People, Luke 1.74, 75.) We being delivered out of the hands of our Enemies, might serve him without fear, in Holiness and Righteousness before him all the days of our life; renewing the Vow and Covenant that we made with Christ in our Baptism, of fight manfully under his Banner against Sin, the World, and the Devil; and to continue his faithful Soldiers and Servants unto our Lives end: To which end, in order to prolong our Lives and see good Days, by keeping our Tongues from Evil, and Lips from guile, we must abandon and abominate all horrid and rash Jurations, all hasty and hurtful Protestations, all hellish and heinous Imprecations, all envious and evil Communications, with all unchaste Desires and uncivil Deportment in our Lives and Christian Conversations; for in so doing, we have God's own inviolable Promises, to be still aiding or assisting to us, in all Manly and Military Erterprises. So that we may well agree in the pious Opinion and divine Disposition of indubitable and undaunted David, to say in the Dialect or Warlike Words of my Text: Through God we shall do valiantly; for he it is that shall tread down our Enemies.  
This Portion of Scripture, is a Text befitting the holy Parade and Camp of the Lord of Hosts; for we have God in the Front, God in the Centre, and God in the Rear of it: If we wheel the Text to the Right hand, there we shall find God triumphing; if to the Right about, there triumphing valiantly; if we move the Text to the Left hand, there we shall find God trampling; if to the Left about, there trampling down our Enemies: If we place the Words as they were, either upon their orderly Guard, or in their close Order, and as on the Patrol, walk the Rounds of my Text, Through God we shall do valiantly; for he it is that shall tread down our Enemies.  
Having thus rendezvoused, countermarched, exercised, or mustered my Text, and formed the Bands, Battalions, and Squadrons of our Camp in Battle Array, let us proceed in the Name of the Lord of Hosts, to display unto our Enemies the Flag of Defiance, and make our Proclamation with holy David, Psal. 18.1, 2, 3. saying on this wise: We will love thee, O Lord our Strength: The Lord is our Rock, and our Fortress, and our Deliverer: Our God, our Strength, in whom we will trust; our Buckler, and the Horn of our Salvation, and our high Tower. We will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised; so shall we be saved from our Enemies. Like to this cordial and cheerful Proclamation, was that comfortable Speech which good Hezekiah made to enliven and encourage his Army, who being but few in number, as compared with their Enemies, the great Host of Senacherib King of Assyria, were nevertheless, by a settled Dependence on God's Power, both willing and ready to give them the Encounter, as you may read in 2 Chron. 32.7, 8. where it is thus related: Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the King of Assyria, nor for all the Multitude that is with him; for there be more with us than with him: With him is an Arm of Flesh, but with us is the Lord our God, to help us and to sight our Battles. And the People rested themselves upon the Words of Hezekiah King of Judah: And while the People rested on the Words of Hezekiah, behold the Lord sent a destroying Angel, that on the same night smote in the Camp of the Alliances, an hundred and fourscore and five thousand. And when the People risen up early in the Morning, behold they were all dead Corpses, as you may read 〈◊〉 in the 2d of the Kings, Chap. 19 Vers. 35.  
Hence we may observe, that a King who had the best Cause, never failed of the best Courage: The same may be said of WILLIAM the Third, King of Great Britain and Ireland; for God hath given him a good Cause of War against his Enemies, as, namely, the securing of pure Religion, the procuring of lasting Peace, the uniting of divided Kingdoms, the composing of People's Differences, the preserving of wholesome Laws, the correcting of disloyal Servants, and the protecting of Loyal Subjects. These being the Causes of God, the King, and the Church, do so enhance his Majesty's Spirit, that he is not afraid to meet his Enemies in the Gate, but seems to declare his Interest in the Lord, with holy David, Psal. 118.6, 7. where the Prophetical King speaks on this wise: The Lord is on my side, I will not fear what Man can do unto me: The Lord taketh my part with them that help me; therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me.  
Hence we may find it observable, that the Lord also taketh part with our King's Party, in order to fulfil his Desire upon his Enemies. This Truth visibly appears in the late Wars that were managed both in the Kingdom of Ireland, and the Territories of Flanders, where God wonderfully preserved his Majesty's Sacred Person from the violent and revenging Peril of the Sword; as if no Weapon formed against him should prosper; like one interested in those Escapes of David, mentioned Psal. 18. v. 50. namely, Great Deliverances giveth he to his King, and sheweth Mercy to his Anointed, to David and to his Seed (and Religious Successors) for evermore. Many miraculous Deliverances hath his Majesty already experienced, as if a Guardian or encamping Angel, had a special Commission from Heaven, at all times, in all places, and upon all occasions, to protect or preserve his pious Person. Such a Commissionated-Angel we read of in Psal. 34. vers. 7. where it is said, That the Angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them. But of all the miraculous Deliverances and Preservations which Heaven decreed for his Safety, the most capital and remarkable was his last Escape from a cursed Cabal of Assassinates, who by mischievous Machinations, hatched a Hellish Stratagem how to imbrue their hateful and unhallowed Hands in the scarlet and crimson Dyes of his Royal Blood, had not God (as the Anointed of Himself) prevented the Martyrdom by a matchless Miracle of mysterious Mercy.  
We have not, besides what Divine Revelation affords, a greater Argument to prove this World to be governed, and all Things in it, carried on and directed by the vigilant Eye and powerful Hand of Almighty GOD, than the sudden and seasonable Discoveries of such damnable Erterprises, contrived with the utmost Caution and Secrecy; propagated with great Subtlety or Cunning, and being just ripe for execution; yet in an instant blasted, in a trice broken all to pieces, either by a surprising dread seizing the Conspirators themselves, or an unwary Word overheard, or an unaccountable Suspicion of ill Designs, though founded upon no reason, or a very trifling one, yet hath proved true; or God smote upon the Conscience of some one of them, and for the ease of his tortured Mind, he is forced to a Discovery.  
Peradventure their Jealousy of being betrayed by others, hath made some to give notice of it themselves. A Letter miscarried, a Fright, Mistake, Oversight, or something happening otherwise than was expected, hath brought the hidden Works of Darkness to light, whereby the King and his Liege People, or Loyal Subjects, have been mercifully snatched from the Jaws of Ruin, and the Conspirators themselves brought to condign Punishment, according to that remarkable Observation of the Royal Prophet, in his IX. Psalms, at the 16th. Verse; where he saith,  
That the Lord is known by the Judgement which he executeth: The Wicked is snared in the Work of his own Hands.  
From these Diabolical and Inhuman Attempts, may the Omniscient, Omnipresent, and Omnipotent God, Protect His Majesty's Gracious Person, to improve that prepared Portion which we hope Divine Providence hath laid up for him in the Disposal of Sacred Providence, as length of Days in her Right Hand, and in her Left Hand Riches and Honour. For her Ways are Ways of Pleasantness, and all her Paths are Peace, as appears in Prov. 3.16, 17. Seeing therefore that the plain Paths of Wisdom are all of them both pleasant and peaceable, let us learn of her to be so prudent as to make our Addresses unto God, that he would be pleased to withdraw our Feet from the rugged Ways of War and Bloodshed, that he may guide them into the smooth and pleasant Paths of Peace; for in so doing, both Church and State will famously flourish. This was a Pious and a Primitive Observation among the Jews, as appears in Psal. 76.1, 2, 3. where holy David speaks these Expressions, In Judah is God known: his Name is great in Israel. In Salem also is his Tabernacle, and his Dwelling-place in Zion. There broke he the Arrows of the Bow, the Shield, and the Sword, and the Battle. But now to the Praise and Glory of God, we Christians may say, That in Britain is God known, his Name is great in England, in the Salem of our British Dominion is his Tabernacle, and his Dwelling-place in the Zion of our Three Kingdoms. There also broke he the Arrows of the Bow, the Shield, and the Sword, and the Battle, where the Church of God hath a sound Principled King to her Nursing-father, Elected and Established by Divine Providence, to Defend her from Wrong and Violence; and tho' her furious Foes are many, yet her Faithful Friend is Mighty, for God is in the midst of her, therefore she shall not be moved; God shall help her, and that right early, as holy David well observes in Psal. 46.5. Since therefore that God is a very present help in, Trouble unto his Militant or Warfaring Church, we are in that respect obliged to pray unto him for her good Success and Prosperity, as that his Divine Pleasure might be entreated to adorn and continue her in the Beautiful Ornaments of Unity, Peace, and Concord; for in her Peace we shall enjoy Peace. It is a certain Truth, that as War is the Producer of Mortality, Poverty, and Perplexity among Men, in that Kingdom or Nation wherein it is seated; so Peace is the Procurer of Safety, Plenty, and Prosperity, both to Church and State; for which cause the Sacred Psalmist exhorted and excited the People (in his time) to Pray for the Peace of the Jewish Church, which Petitions are very suitable and useful for the Church of God under Christianity, as appears in Psal. 122.6, 7, 8, 9 where the sweet Singer, and Orator of Israel, thus spoke unto his Fellow-petitioners, Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem: They shall prosper that love thee. Peace be within thy Walls, and Prosperity within thy Palaces. For my Brethren and Companions sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee. Because of the House of the Lord our God, I will seek thy good.  
Next to our Petitions for the Peace of the Church, we ought to Pray for the Peace and Prosperity of the King, that God would be pleased to endue him with a Long Life, a Prosperous Reign, a Secure State and Habitation, Unbyass'd Representatives, a Faithful Privy-Council and Parliament, Judicious and Conscientious Lawyers, Mild and Merciful Magistrates, Able and Valuable Physicians, a Plentiful and Painful Ministry, a Victorious Fleet and Army, and all sorts of his Subjects that are Professors of Arts, Sciences, or other National Occupations, a Religious, Loving, and a Loyal People; all which will very much tend to advance the Fame of His Majesty's Grandeur, that as he is the Defender of our Catholical, Apostolical, Episcopal, and Protestantial Faith, he may say at the end or full Expiration of his Wars, with the holy Apostle St. Paul in 2 Tim. 4.7, 8, 9 I have fought a good Fight, I have finished my Course, I have kept the Faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me a Crown of Righteousness, which the Lord the Righteous Judge shall give at the last Day.  
And may also all His Majesty's Commanders and Soldiers both by Sea and Land, Experience the Truth of my present Text, where it is thus expressed by the Warlike Psalmist, Through God we shall do valiantly: For he it is that shall tread down our Enemies.  
Which God the Father of his Multitudinous Mercies grant, through the Marvellous Merits of God the Son, and the Miraculous Manifestations of God the Holy Ghost; to which Trinity in Unity, and Unity in Trinity, be ascribed, as is most due, all Honour, Glory, Power, and Praise, both Now, and for Evermore, Amen.  
FINIS.   

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JEsus is God: Or, the Deity of Jesus Christ Vindicated; being an Abstract of some Sermons Preached in the Parish-Church of St. James Clerkenwell. By D. Pead.  
The Abridgement of Christian Divinity; or, True Religion and Undefiled in all its Principal and most Useful Branches; both as to Belief and Practice, briefly Stated and Explained to the Meanest Capacities. A Work Seasonable for these Times, wherein so many Articles of our Faith are Questioned, and so many Gross Errors daily Published.  
A Persuasive from the Creatures, to a Perfect Resignation of the Will to God's. By B. Prat, of Merton College, Oxon.