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England saved with a notwithstandingEngland saved vvith a notwithstanding
England saved with a notwithstanding: represented in a sermon to the Honourable House of Commons, assembled in Parliament, Novemb. 5. 1647. The day of Thanks-giving for deliverance from the Powder-Plot. / By William Bridge, sometimes fellow of Emanuel College in Cambridge, now preacher of Gods word at Yarmouth. Published by order of that House.England saved vvith a notwithstanding: represented in a sermon to the Honourable House of Commons, assembled in Parliament, Novemb. 5. 1647. The day of Thanks-giving for deliverance from the Powder-Plot. / By William Bridge, sometimes fellow of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge, now preacher of Gods word at Yarmouth. Published by order of that House.
London: printed for R. Dawlman, 1647
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And hath it not been thus in these Great Deliverances that he hath wrought for us of late? We may all say, The Lord hath Created a new thing, for the woman, (that is) those that are weak, have laid Siege to, and taken those that are strong. Here is Power legible.
Answ. 3 Thirdly, the Psalmist doth speak expressly, The Lord is known by the Judgement that he executeth: The wicked is snared in the work of their own hands. When the wicked Plot, Consult, and Design upon, and against the righteous, and they are so snared in their complotments, as that the cause of the just and righteous is furthered by their own workings; then is the Lord known: then, and there are the Marks, Impressions, Characters, of a Deity upon ⟨p. 18⟩that work. And hath not the Lord led you in this way all a long?
Answ. 3 Thirdly, the Psalmist doth speak expresly, The Lord is known by the Judgement that he executeth: The wicked is snared in the work of their own hands. When the wicked Plot, Consult, and Designe upon, and against the righteous, and they are so snared in their complotments, as that the cause of the just and righteous is furthered by their own workings; then is the Lord known: then, and there are the Marks, Impressions, Characters, of a Deity upon ⟨p. 18⟩that work. And hath not the Lord led you in this way all a long?
First, for the Powder Treason: the Enemies, and Papists, thought to have swallowed up the Protestant party, and to have subdued all this Kingdom with their Religion; promising themselves such a good day, as they never had before: But never had the Papists such a blow, nor that Religion made more odious in this Kingdom, then by this design of their own: they were snared in their own works.