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To the Right Honourable

CHARLES

Earl of MONMOUTH, &C.

My Lord,

Should not have prefum'd to infcribe fo Great a Name in the Front of Jo mean a Difcourfe, had not your

Lordships Signal Loyalty to his prefent Majesty King William, your conftant Zeal for the Liberties of England, and your extensive Candor to all True Proteftants, confpir'd to encourage the Attempt.

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For

For as our Late Common Deliverance, by the merciful Providence of God, was the Occafion of this Sermon ; fo I perfuade my felf your Lordship is too much affected with this great Blessing, to be difpleas'd at the weakest Effort that any one can make, with a fincere and honeft Design to cele

brate it.

That your Lordship and your Noble Family may enjoy the Blessings both of this Life, and of that which is to come, is the earnest Prayer of,

(My Lord)

Your Lordship's

very Humble and

Obedient Servant,

JOHN PIGGOTT.

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Thanksgiving Sermon

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Discovery of the Late PLOT.

PSAL. cxliv. 10.

It is He that giveth Salvation unto Kings: who delivereth David his Servant, from the hurtful Sword.

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Presume that upon the very reading thefe Words, you are convinc'd that they are not unfutable to the Work of this Day; who are here before the Almighty, to acknowledg that he hath eminently given Salvation to our King, and hath miraculously deliver'd him from the hurtful Sword; by bringing to light the hidden Works of Darkness, by baffling and

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defeating

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defeating the late barbarous Confpiracy of wic ked Men to affaffinate his Royal Perfon, and to rob his Subjects of their establish'd Liberties, by encouraging and affifting an Invafion from France.

Efpecially confidering that this Pfalm, of which my Text is a part, is thought to have been compos'd after the Death of Saul, and in the beginning of David's Reign. Whenever it was, it certainly follow'd fome extraordinary Deliverance, which David had receiv'd, and does in the Text, acknowledg to be given by a fpecial Hand of God: and it is not improbable that it was in the beginning of his Reign; for tho David was at firft anointed by a special 1 Sam. 16. Command of God, (while Saul fway'd the Scepter of Ifrael) to fignify that God had chofen him to govern his People, and that upon Saul's Death he was immediately to fill up the Throne, yet after he was anointed King over the Houfe 2 8am. 2.4. of Judah, it was a long time before he fubdued the Rebellions of thofe that adher'd to Ifhbofheth the Son of Saul, who made fome Pretences to the Crown, and was accordingly affifted by Abner the chief Captain of Saul's Hoft, and fo made King over Gilead, and over the Afhurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Ifrael, except Judah, as the next Verfe informs us, ver. 10. But the House of Judah followed David.

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Ver. 9.

So that the greatest part of the first feven Years of David's Reign was fpent in the Fatigues of a hazardous War; hazardous it must needs be, when he had rebellious and unnatural Subjects at Home, and cruel Enemies Abroad. Yet God was pleas'd by his remarkable Protection and Defence, to difappoint wicked Men in their Designs against him. Which

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