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A Sermon Preach'd upon the Occasion of the Anniversary Thanksgiving of the Fifth of November, 1706: at the Church of Kensington — John Shaqi

A Sermon Preach'd upon the Occasion of the Anniversary Thanksgiving of the Fifth of November, 1706: at the Church of KensingtonHough, Nathaniel

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A Sermon Preach'd upon the Occasion of the Anniversary Thanksgiving of the Fifth of November, 1706: at the Church of Kensington

Name: A Sermon Preach'd upon the Occasion of the Anniversary Thanksgiving of the Fifth of November, 1706: at the Church of Kensington
Author: Hough, Nathaniel

Hough, Nathaniel

Anti-Catholicism -- England -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800; Gunpowder Plot, 1605; Gunpowder Plot, 1605 -- Anniversaries, etc. -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800; Sermons, English -- 18th century

Transcribed from the 1707 W. B. edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org  Many thanks to Kensington and Chelsea local studies for
finding this and allowing it to be transcribed.

                      [Picture: Public domain cover]





                                    A
                                  SERMON


                    Preach’d upon the Occasion of the

                         Anniversary Thanksgiving

                    Of the Fifth of _November_, 1706.

                                  AT THE

                         CHURCH of _KENSINGTON_.

                                * * * * *

By NATH. HOUGH, M.A. Chaplain to the Countess FAUCONBERG, Lecturer of
_Kensington_, and Fellow of _Jesus_ College in _Cambridge_.

                                * * * * *

                                _LONDON_:

Printed by _W. B._ for ALEXANDER BOSVILE at the _Dial_ and _Bible_ over
against St. _Dunstan’s_ Church in _Fleet Street_.  1707.




TO THE
GENTLEMEN
AND
PARISHIONERS
OF
_KENSINGTON_.


_THIS is the second Instance of my Service made publick upon an Occasion
of this Nature_.  _As none can be more pleased with the double Blessing
of the Day_, _than your selves_, _being the best Subjects to Her_
MAJESTY, _as well as the nearest Neighbours to Her __Court_: _So I have
this farther Accession to the general Joy_, viz.  _As I have a small
Opportunity of shewing_, _at your own Request_, _how much I am_,

                        Your most obliged Servant,

                                                              NATH. HOUGH.

                                * * * * *

    PSALM cxxiv. _v._ 2. and part of the 3d.

    _If it had not been the Lord who was on our side_, _when Men rose up
    against Us_; _Then They had swallowed Us up quick_.

WHOEVER compares this _Psalm_ and this _Solemnity_ together, will find
the main _Lines_ of the one, and the chief _Circumstances_ of the other
exactly agreeable.  Had We Who live since the _Deliverance_ of this Day
was wrought, been endued with the _Divine Author’s_ Inspiration, we could
scarce have pitch’d upon more apposite Words to express the surprizing
_Manner_ of it.  _Swallowing up quick_, _the Kindling_ of our Enemies
_Wrath_, the Torrents _being like to go over our Soul_, our _Escaping
like a __Bird out of the Fowler’s Snare_: All these are _Expressions_ so
pat for the present _Season_, that whilst We sing an _Hymn_, we seem
likewise to read a _Prophecy_.  _Our Enemies_ have took effectual Care
that the ill _Character_ in this _Psalm_ should not pass unfulfill’d:
And I hope we, for our parts, shall not be wanting to make good the pious
_Acknowledgments_ of it, saying, _Blessed be the Lord who hath not given
us as a Prey to their Teeth_.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

A Sermon Preach'd upon the Occasion of the Anniversary Thanksgiving of the Fifth of November, 1706: at the Church of Kensington

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