memory of ,steven ,gibbs 7#aich-bjji74  
,transcriber's ,note3 ,this e-book1 a   
pamphlet by ,daniel ,defoe1 was         
originally published in #agjd1 and was  
prepared from ,the ,storm1 a modern     
reprint 7,london3 ,penguin ,books ,ltd41
 #bjje74 ,archaic and inconsistent      
spelling1 punctuation1 capitalization1  
and hyphenation1 as well as apparent    
printer errors1 have been retained as   
they appear in the original4     ,,the  
,lay-,man's  ,,sermon  ,,upon ,,the     
,,late ,,storm2  ,held forth at an      
,honest  ,coffee-,house-,conventicle4   
,not so much a ,jest as 'tis thought to 
be4   ,printed in the ,year #agjd4      
,,nahum4 ,i4 ,,iii       ,the ,lord has 
his way in the ,whirle-,wind and in the 
,storm1      and the ,clouds are the    
,dust of his ,feet4   ,this ,text is not
 chosen more for the ,suitableness to   
the present ,callamity1 which has been  
the ,portion of this ,place1 than for   
the aptness of the ,circumstances1 'twas
 spoken of ,god going to ,chastise1 a   

,powerful1 ,populous1 ,wealthy and most 
reprobate ,city4  ,nineveh was the ,seat
 of a mighty ,empire1 a ,wealthy        
,encreasing ,people1 ,opulent in ,trade1
 ,flourishing in ,power and ,proud in   
,proportion4  ,the ,prophet does not    
seem to deliver these words1 to the     
,ninevites1 to convince them1 or encline
 them to consider their own             
,circumstances and repent1 but he seems 
to speak1 it to the ,israelites         
inviteing them to ,triumph and ,insult  
over the ,heathen adversary1 by setting 
forth the ,power of their ,god1 in the  
most exalted ,terms4  ,and that this is 
a just ,exposition of this ,text1 seems 
plain from the words ,imediately going  
before1 the ,lord is slow to ,anger1 and
 ,great in ,power and will not at all   
acquit the wicked4 ,these words could   
have no ,connexion with the ,text1 tho' 
they are joyn'd with them in the same   
,verse1 if it were not meant of his     
being slow to ,anger1 to his own        
,people1 and ,terrible to the ,heathen  

,world1 and this being spoken as an     
,expression of his being not easily     
provoked as to his ,church1 the         
,subsequent part of the ,verse tells    
them how his power and ,vengance is     
matter of particular ,satisfaction to   
his ,people as being exercis'd in       
,revenging the affront put upon his     
,glory by his ,enemies1 ,god is         
,jealous1 and the ,lord ,revengeth1 the 
,lord ,revengeth and is ,furious1 the   
,lord will take ,vengeance on his       
adversaries and he reserveth wrath for  
his ,enemies4 ,tis plain this is meant  
of his ,enemies1 but as if brought in   
with a ,parenthesis1 tis spoken for the 
comfort of his ,church1 the ,lord is    
slow to ,anger as to them1 and to lift  
up their hearts in a further confidence 
that their ,enemies are all in his hand1
 he goes on discribing the ,terrors of  
his ,judgement4  ,the ,lord has his way 
in the ,whirl-wind and in the ,storm1   
and the ,clouds are the ,dust of his    
,feet4 ,eloquent ,flourishes upon the   

,omnipotence of ,god4  ,the short       
,exposition ,i shall make of the words1 
,tends only to remind us that the       
,whirl-wind and ,storm which are here   
made use of1 to express the ,magnipotent
 power of ,god are acted by his         
,direction1 he has his way in them1 it  
may note indeed the ,invisible secrecy  
and swiftness of his providences1 but to
 avoid long ,paraphrases1 ,i confine my 
self to my own ,construction1 as that   
which1 as it is a just inference from   
the matter of the ,text1 so 'tis most   
suitable to the design of this          
discourse4  ,and as this ,sermon may be 
a little ,immethodical1 because ,i      
purpose to make it almost all           
,aplication so ,i shall advance some    
,conclusions from the ,premises which ,i
 lay down1 as the ,geneuine sence of the
 ,words4  #a4 ,the ,omnipotence of ,god 
gives ,christians sufficient ground to  
,insult their ,enemies1 wherefore do the
 ,heathen ,mock thy ,people and say unto
 them where is now your ,god8 ,behold   

our ,god is in the ,heavens1 and doeth  
whatsoever he pleaseth2 as the ,prophet 
,elija1 ,banter'd the ,heathen ,priest  
of ,baal1 with the ,impotence of their  
,gods1 ,cry aloud for he is a ,god1     
either he is talking or he is ,pursuing1
 or he is in a ,journey1 or             
,peradventure he ,sleepeth and must be  
awakned1 so he insulted them about the  
power of the true ,god1 let it be known 
,o ,lord says he this day that thou art 
,god in ,israel4  #b4 ,as ,god in all   
the works of his ,providence1 makes use 
of the subserviency of means1 so the    
whole ,creation is ,subordinate to the  
,execution of his ,divine will1 the     
,clouds are the ,dust of his ,feet and  
he rides upon the ,wings of the ,wind1  
the most ,powerful ,elements are so     
subjected to his almighty power that the
 ,clouds are but as ,dust under his     
feet1 tis as easy for him to ,govern and
 mannage them2 as it is for a man to    
shake off the ,dust from his feet1 or he
 can as easily subdue the fury of them  

as a man ,tramples the ,dust1 they are  
small and ,triffling things1 in his     
,eyes4  #c4 ,the ways of ,god are       
unsearchable1 the ,methods of his       
,providence are secret and powerfull2   
his way is in the ,whirle-wind1 and in  
the ,storm1 tis invisible and           
iresistible1 invisible as the ,wind1 and
 iresistible as the ,storm4  ,but waving
 these and abundance more usefull       
observations which might be justly drawn
 from so rich a ,text1 ,i shall proceed 
upon one which tho' it favours something
 more of private authority1 and ,i have 
not so ,authentick ,opinion of the      
,learned ,commentators1 on my side1 yet 
,i shall endeavour not to ,merit much   
,censure1 in the ,improvement of it1    
even from those who perhaps may not joyn
 with me in the ,exposition4  ,according
 therefore to my own private opinion of 
these words2 ,i shall for the present   
occasion only ,paraphrase them thus1    
that the ,lord has a way or an end in   
the ,whirle-wind1 and in the ,storm1 nor

 is this a very unusual ,method of      
expressing things in ,scripture1 where  
the way is ,exprest1 to signify the     
design1 or end of a thing4  ,and from   
this ,exposition ,i advance this head4  
,that as ,god by his power ,governs the 
elements1 so in all their ,extraordinary
 ,motions1 they are in a ,perticular    
manner acted by his ,soveraignity4 ,and1
  #b4 ,when the ,creation is put into   
any ,violent or ,supernatural           
,agitation1 ,god has always some        
,extraordinary thing to bring to pass1  
he has a meaning in all the ,remarkables
 of ,nature4  #c4 ,we ought dilligently 
to observe the extraordinary actings of 
,providence1 in order to discover and   
,deprecate the displeasure of ,almighty 
,god1 ,providences are never ,dumb1 and 
if we can not discern the signals of his
 ,anger1 we must be very blind4 ,the    
,voice of his ,judgements is heard in   
the ,voice of ,nature1 and if we make   
our selves ,deaf1 he is pleas'd to make 
them speak the ,louder1 to awaken the   

stupifyed sences1 and startle the       
,world1 which seem'd rather ,amus'd than
 ,amas'd1 with the common ,course of    
things4 ,this ,i take to be some of the 
true meaning of the way of ,god1 in the 
,whirle-wind1 and in the ,storm4  ,the  
design of this ,discourse therefore1 is 
to put the ,nation in general upon      
proper ,resolutions2 if we pretend to   
believe that there is any such thing as 
a ,collateral ,sympathy1 a              
,communication of ,circumstances1       
between a ,nations ,follies1 and her    
,fate4 ,any ,harmony between ,merit and 
,mischief1 between the ,crimes of ,men  
and the ,vengeance of ,heaven2 we cannot
 but allow this ,extra-,pulpit          
admonition to be just4  ,and let not any
 man ,object against this being call'd a
 ,sermon1 and its being introduc'd from 
a ,text of ,scripture while the remainer
 of this ,discourse1 seems wholly ,civil
 and ,political4  ,if all our ,measures 
in ,civil affairs were deduc'd as       
,inferences from sacred ,texts1 ,i am of

 the ,opinion the ,text would be well   
improv'd1 and ,publick matters never the
 worse ,guided4  ,and for this reason1  
tho' the ,subject be not ,treated1 with 
the ,gravity of a ,sermon1 nor in so    
serious a manner1 as would become a     
,pulpit1 yet it may be not the less     
suitable to the occasion and for the    
manner1 it must be placed to the        
,authors account4  ,besides the ,title  
,i think has provided for the ,method   
and ,if so he that expected it otherwise
 than it is tis his ,fault1 and not     
,mine4  ,the ,term ,sermon which is but 
,sermo1 a ,speech1 may ,justify all the 
,novelty of my ,method if those who find
 fault please to give themselves leave  
to allow it1 and since it has never     
profain'd the ,pulpit1 ,i believe the   
,text will receive no ,prejudice by it1 
,i wish every ,sermon equally ,improv'd4
  ,and what tho' your ,humble ,servant  
be no ,man of the ,text2 if he be a ,man
 of ,honesty1 he may have a hand in     
making you all ,men of ,application4    

,in publick ,callamities1 every         
,circumstance is a ,sermon1 and every   
thing we see a ,preacher4  ,the         
trembling ,habitations of an ,unthinking
 ,people ,preach to us1 and might have  
made any ,nation in the ,world tremble  
but us2 when we were rock'd out of our  
,sleep as ,children are ,rock'd into it2
 and when the terrible ,hand of         
,soveraign ,power rock'd many a ,wretch 
from one ,sleep to another1 and made a  
,grave of the ,bed1 without the         
,ceremony of waking in the ,passage4    
,the shatter'd ,palaces of our ,princes 
,preach to us1 and tell us aloud1 that  
without respect to ,dignity1 he is able 
to put that ,dreadful ,text in          
,execution2 ,that if a ,nation does     
wickedly they shall be destroy'd both   
they and their ,king4  ,the fallen      
,oaks1 which stood before to tell us    
they were the longest liv'd of all      
,god's ,creatures1 ,preach to us1 and   
tell us that the most towring object of 
humane ,beauty and strength must lye    

humble and prostrate1 when he is pleased
 to give a ,check to that ,splendor     
which was deriv'd from his ,power4  ,the
 ,wrecks of our ,navies and ,fleets     
,preach to us1 that 'tis in vain we     
pretend to be ,wall'd about by the      
,ocean1 and ride ,masters of the ,sea3  
,and that1 if he who bestow'd that      
,scituation upon us thinks fit1 he can  
make that ,element which has been our   
,strength1 and the ,encreaser of our    
,wealth1 be the ,grave of our ,treasure1
 and the ,enemy of our ,commerce2 he can
 put it into so violent ,agitation1 by  
the blast of his ,mouth1 that all our   
,defence and the ,naval ,strength we    
have vallued our selves so much upon1   
shall at once be swallow'd up in the    
,mouth of our ,friend the ,sea2 and we  
shall find our ,destruction in the very 
thing from which we expected our        
,defence4  ,our ,seamen and ,soldiers1  
whose ,dead ,bodies ,embrace the        
,english ,shores1 ,preach aloud to us1  
that whenever we think fit to ,embark   

them on any ,design1 which ,heaven      
approves not of1 he can blast the       
,embrio1 and devour those ,people whose 
,hands are lifted up against ,justice   
and ,right4  ,also they ,preach to us1  
,not to build our hopes of ,success upon
 the multitude of ,ships or ,men1 who   
are thus easily reduc'd1 and the        
,strength of a whole ,nation brought to 
,ruine in a ,moment4  ,these are the    
,monitors of our ,missfortunes1 and some
 of these admonitions would be well     
preach'd from the ,mouths of those whose
 ,tallent as well as ,office gives them 
reason to do it1 and us to expect it4   
,but since the ,sons of the ,prophets   
have not yet thought it proper to enter 
very far into this ,matter1 not doubting
 but they will in due time find it as   
suitable to their ,inclination as 'tis  
to their ,duty1  ,in the mean time let  
us see if no uncommon ,application may  
be made of so uncommon a ,circumstance4 
,first1 'tis matter of wonder that any  
,man can be so senceless1 as to suppose 

there is nothing extraordinary in so    
signal an ,instance of a ,supream       
,power2 but 'tis much more remarkable   
that those who have ,religion enough to 
own it a ,judgment1 are yet at a loss   
how to appropriate it's signification4  
,every one thinks it to be a ,judgment  
upon the ,person or ,parties they see   
touch'd with it4 ,w---- the ,carpenter  
was knock'd on the head with a ,stack of
 ,chimneys1 and his ,wife saved2 all the
 ,neighbours cried out 'twas a ,judgment
 upon him for keeping a ,whore2 but if  
,stacks of ,chimnies were to have fallen
 on the ,heads of all that keep ,whores1
 ,miserere ,dei4  ,s---- was kill'd by  
the like ,accident1 and he must be      
singl'd out for ,extortion2 ,but think  
ye that he was a ,sinner above all the  
,gallileans8  ,the ,jacobites and       
,non-,jurants shall rise up in ,judgment
 against this ,generation1 and shall    
condemn them1 for they tell us1 this    
,storm is a ,judgment on the whole      
,nation1 for ,excluding their ,lawful   

,soveraign1 and ,abjuring his           
,posterity3 ,upon this head they have   
been preaching up ,repentance1 and      
,humiliation to us2 and some of them are
 willing to reduce all to a very        
practical ,exhortation1 and tell us1 we 
ought to look upon it as a ,loud ,call  
to ,restore the ,right ,owner 7as they  
call him7 to the ,possession of his own 
again2 that is1 in short1 to rebel      
against a ,mild1 ,gentle1 ,just and     
,protestant ,queen1 and call in the     
,popish ,posterity of an abdicated      
,tyrant4  ,these ,gentlemen are ,men of 
,uses and ,application1 and know very   
well how to make an ,advantage of ,god's
 ,judgments1 when they serve their turn4
  ,the ,whigs and ,occasional           
,conformists shall rise up in ,judgment 
against this ,generation2 for they are  
sensible of the present severe ,stroke  
of ,providence1 and think 'tis a mark of
 ,heavens ,displeasure upon the ,nation1
 for the violent methods made use of by 
some ,people against them1 for their    

,religion1 contrary to their ,native    
,right1 and the ,liberty of their       
,consciences4  ,some think a general    
,blast follows all the ,endeavours of   
this ,nation against the ,common ,enemy1
 for their slighting and reproaching the
 ,glorious ,memory of the late ,king    
,william1 whose ,gallant ,endeavours for
 the general good of ,europe1 and of    
,england in particular1 were            
,treacherously thwarted and disappointed
 while he was alive1 and are ,basely and
 ,scandalously undervalued and slighted 
now he is ,dead2 and of this sort ,i    
confess my self enclined to be one4     
,from these general ,observations we may
 descend to particulars1 and every one  
judges according to their own ,fancy4   
,some will have it1 that the ,slaughter 
and ,destruction among the ,fleet1 is a 
,judgment upon them1 for going into the 
,streights1 and coming home again       
without doing any business2 but those   
forget1 that if they did all they were  
ordered to do1 the ,fault lies in those 

who sent them1 and not in they that     
went4  ,some will have the ,damage among
 the ,colliers to be a ,judgment1 upon  
those who have ,engross'd the ,trade1   
and made the ,poor pay so dear for      
,coals2 not enquiring whether those     
,engrossers of the ,coals are not left  
safe on ,shore1 while the poor ,seamen  
are drown'd1 who know nothing of the    
matter4  ',tis plain to me1 who ever are
 ,punish'd by the ,storm1 we that are   
left have a share in the ,judgment1 and 
a ,trebble concern in the ,cause4  ,if  
it could be said that those who are     
destroy'd1 or who have suffered the loss
 of ,lives1 ,limbs or ,goods1 were the  
only ,people who gave any occasion to   
the ,divine ,justice thus severely to   
,revenge it self1 then all admonition to
 the rest of ,mankind would be useless1 
any farther than it directed them to be 
,cautious how they provoked him in like 
manner2 but have we not all had a hand  
in the general provocation1 though not  
an equal share in the general ,calamity4

  ,sometimes the ,judgements of ,heaven1
 bear so much ,analogy to the ,crimes1  
that the ,punishment points out the     
,offence1 and 'tis easy to distinguish  
what it is the perticular hand of       
,justice points at4  ,and if we will    
seek for a ,perticular case1 in which   
,heaven seems to have singled out this  
way of ,punishment on the ,nation1 as   
best proportion'd to the general        
,national ,crime we are all guilty of8  
what seems more ,rational than to ,judge
 that tis a severe ,animadversion upon  
the ,feuds and ,storms of parties kept  
up among us in this ,nation1 with such  
unnatural ,heat1 and such unaccountable 
,fury1 that no man1 who has the least   
,compassion for his ,native ,country1   
but must with more than ,common ,grief1 
be concerned for it1 since unless some  
speedy course be taken to bring a       
general ,composure upon the minds of    
,men1 the general ruin seems            
,inevitable4  ,if the matters in ,debate
 were of ,extraordinary ,consequence1   

there might be some pretence for        
,espousing contrary parties with unusual
 heat2 but while the difference lies in 
small1 and1 in some cases1 indifferent  
things1 tis a most inexcusable ,madness 
that the ,feuds shou'd be run up so     
high1 that all manner of ,charity should
 ,perish and be lost among us4  ,we have
 had an ,extraordinary ,bustle in the   
,world about ,moderation1 and all       
,parties pretend to it1 and now we are  
as busy about ,peace1 and every one lays
 in a ,loud ,claim to it4  ,i have seen1
 with some regret1 the strange          
,mysterious ,management of this ,age    
about ,moderation1 and tho' some late   
,authors have ,published that           
,moderation is a ,vertue1 ,it begins to 
be a question whether it is or no4  ,i  
wish some ,body would make enquiry after
 the occasion that has brought this     
,blessed ,word into so much ,contempt in
 the ,world2 tis very hard that a word  
expressive of the most ,glorious        
,principle in the ,world1 should become 

the ,brand of reproach1 and a ,badge of 
,infamy to ,parties2 be a ,nick-name it 
self1 and be ,nick-nam'd on every side2 
and that at a time when the ,vertue it  
self1 is perhaps the only thing left in 
the ,world1 that can preserve this      
,nation from ,destruction4  ',tis too   
unhappy for ,england1 that ,men of      
immoderate ,principles are so powerfull 
as they are4 ,let the ,party be which it
 will1 tis ,destruction even to         
themselves1 to run up all their         
,niceties and all their ,scruples to the
 ,extremes4 ,every ,dispute becomes a   
,feud1 every ,spark a ,flame1 every word
 a ,blow1 every ,blow1 a ,civil-,war1   
and by this ,intestine ,confusion of    
,principles1 ,backt with the ,passion   
and ,fury of ,men1 this unhappy ,nation 
is ,subdivided into an ,infinite ,number
 of ,parties1 ,factions1 ,intrests and  
seperate ,opinions4  ,every ,man being  
thus bent upon the propagation of his   
own ,notion1 for want of this healing   
,spirit of ,moderation1 falls foul upon 

his ,neighbour because he has not the   
same ,heat1 and if he finds him better  
,temper'd than himself1 if he finds him 
less ,violent1 less ,furious1 than      
himself1 he is ,imediately ,branded with
 the ,scandal of ,moderation4  ,since   
then the ,change of times has made this 
,practice1 which in its very ,nature is 
a ,foundation of ,vertue1 become a      
,crime1 ,let us examine who are1 and who
 are not ,guilty of it4  ,for the       
,negatives of this ,vice of ,moderation 
they are something ,easier to be        
discover'd than ordinary1 both in       
,principles and in ,practice2 and1      
without the ,scandal of a ,censorious   
,writer1 ,i may be allowed to say all   
the following ,instances may stand clear
 of this ,crime4  #a4 ,if ,mr4          
,sachaverell1 with his ,bloody ,flag1   
and ,banner of ,defiance1 were ,indicted
 for ,moderation1 ,i verily believe no  
,jury would bring him in ,guilty4  #b4  
,if ,dr4 ,j----ne1 ,author of the       
,character of a ,low-,churchman1 ,mr4   

---- ,author of the ,new ,association1  
if a famous ,bishop who told us1 'twould
 never be well with ,england till all   
the ,dissenters were serv'd like the    
,hugonots in ,france1 if any of these   
were ,indicted for ,moderation1 they    
might safely plead not ,guilty4  #c4 ,if
 ,sir ,john ,friend and ,sir ,william   
,parkins1 had been only accus'd for     
,moderation1 they had never been        
,hanged1 nor ,collyer and ,cook had     
never absolv'd them at the ,gallows     
without ,repentance4  #d4 ,if he were   
,hang'd for ,moderation1 who ask'd the  
,question1 whether if the ,play-house in
 ,dorset-,garden1 were let for a        
,meeting-house1 'twould not do more harm
 than tis like to do as a ,theatre1 he  
would certainly ,dye ,innocently4  #e4  
,if ,fuller had been ,voted an          
,incorrigible ,rogue only for the ,vice 
of ,moderation1 ,i should have thought  
the ,house of ,commons had done him     
wrong4  #f4 ,if the ,councellors of the 
late ,king1 such as ,father ,p----1 my  

,lord ,s---- and all those that betray'd
 their ,master1 by hurrying on his ruin 
and their own4 ,if those ,gentlemen were
 ,charged with ,moderation1 ,i doubt we 
should wrong them4  #g4 ,if some of the 
,members of our ,late ,convocation      
shou'd be accused for ,moderation1 ,i   
believe it might be no ,difficult task  
to ,vindicate them4  #h4 ,if this ,crime
 should be ,charged higher than we dare 
to mention1 ,i am perswaded some        
,persons of ,note would think themselves
 abused4  #i4 ,in short all those       
,gentlemen1 by whatsoever ,names or     
,titles ,distinguish'd1 who repine at   
the ,settlement1 who reproach the       
,tolleration1 and who ,blame the ,queen 
for her promises of ,maintaining it1    
these abhor the thoughts of this        
,scandalous ,crime of ,moderation1 and  
are as ,innocent of it as the ,child    
unborne4  #aj4 ,tis the ,opinion of some
 ,people1 ,that there are some of our   
beloved ,friends in ,scotland1 may be   
,vindicated in this case1 nay others are

 of the ,opinion1 tis not a ,national   
,crime in that ,country1 that is1 'tis  
not a sin the ,scots are much adicted   
to4  #aa4 ,lastly1 ,take our ,english   
,clergy in general1 some are ready to   
say they have no great cause of         
,repentance for the sin of ,moderation4 
,on the other hand1 some ,people have so
 home a ,charge of this ,error laid upon
 them1 that 'twill be very hard to clear
 themselves of it1 and ,i am afraid they
 would be brought in ,guilty by a ,jury1
 almost without going away from the     
,bar4 as1  #a4 ,our ,observator1 they   
say1 is ,guilty of ,moderation1 with    
,relation to his ,wit1 and ,especially  
as concerning his good ,manners2 ,i hope
 he wont be prosecuted for it the next  
,sessions1 if he should1 ,i doubt1      
'twill go hard with him4  #b4 ,if our   
,news-writers should be ,indited for    
,moderation1 as to ,truth of ,fact1 ,i  
would advise them to plead ,guilty1 and 
throw themselves upon the ,mercy of the 
,court4  #c4 ,some of our ,captains1    

they say1 are addicted to ,fight but    
,moderately2 ,i hope all the rest wont  
be ,infected1 but ,i know not what to   
say to it4  #d4 ,some of our ,lawyers   
are apt to be very ,moderate in their   
,justice1 but being well read in the    
,law are cunning enough to keep off an  
,indictment1 so there is no fear of     
them4  #e4 ,some of our ,general        
,receivers1 when they got the ,publick  
,money in their hands1 were apt to be   
very ,moderate in paying it out again4  
#f4 ,some have been very ,moderate in   
giving in their accounts too1 as may    
appear in former ,reigns1 and perhaps in
 time to come too4  ,some ,moderately   
,wise1 some ,moderatly ,honest1 but most
 ,immoderately adicted to think         
themselves ,both4  ,tho' ,i might be a  
little more serious upon the matter1 yet
 this way of talking is not so much a   
,jest neither as it looks like2 and has 
its ,moral1 in it self1 which a ,wise   
man may see1 and for the ,fool tis no   
matter whether he does or no4 ,custome  

has prevailed upon us to such a degree1 
that almost in every part the very      
,practice seem a ,scandal1 and the ,word
 passes for a ,reproach4  ,to say1 among
 the ,sons of ,levy1 such a man is a    
,moderate ,church-man is to say he is no
 ,church-man1 and some of our present   
,bishops from the ,practice of          
,moderation have been boldly call'd     
,presbiterians in the ,pamphlets of our 
less ,moderate writers4  ,in short1 'tis
 hard to find any party or profession of
 ,men among us1 that care for the       
,title2 and those who but ,moderately   
espouse an ,intrest1 are generally      
suspected by those who are of that side1
 as ,persons ,favouring their ,enemies4 
,these ,moderate ,men1 said a ,gentleman
 whose ,gown and ,band had given us     
reason to expect better ,language1 they 
will ,ruin the ,church1 this ,damn'd    
,moderation1 says he1 spoils all1 we    
should deal well enough with the        
,dissenters1 if it were not for these   
men of ,moderation1 they are worse than 

,dissenters1 for they seem to be among  
us1 and yet wont ,joyn heartily to do   
the ,work4  ,moderation seems to be cast
 off on every side1 and is used as a    
,badge of reproach in every ,class1 or  
degree of ,men in the ,world4  ,in the  
,church of ,england1 'tis call'd        
,low-,church4  ,in the ,court1 'tis     
call'd ,whiggism4  ,in the ,dissenters1 
'tis call'd ,occasional ,conformity4    
,in ,parties1 'tis call'd ,trimming4    
,in ,religion1 'tis call'd              
,latitudinarian4  ,in ,opinion1 'tis    
call'd ,indifference1  ,in the ,church  
of ,scotland1 'tis call'd ,prelacy4     
,while ,moderation of principles seems  
thus the general ,sin of ,parties1 ,let 
them consider whether ,heaven it self   
has not declar'd ,war against us all on 
this ,head1 and fill'd us with          
immoderate ,judgements4  ,where's all   
our prospect of success ,abroad1 or     
prosperity at home8 ,since our late     
,thanksgiveing for ,victories1 how has  
,heaven ,treated us1 but like a ,nation1

 that being puff'd up and exalted with  
prosperity1 began to slight ,forreign   
,judgements1 and leaving ,providence to 
,work by it self fell to making ,war at 
home with one another1 as if we would   
prove that the ,scripture was not true  
and that a ,kingdom might stand tho' it 
were divided against it self4  ,how has 
,heaven declar'd that he is resolv'd not
 to bless this immoderate ,generation8  
,how has all their ,measures been       
disappointed both abroad and at home1   
all their designes been blasted1 and the
 ,anger of ,heaven so remarkably bent   
against them1 that even the little      
success we have had1 has been prescrib'd
 by ,providence to those few hands who  
,act from ,principles of ,honesty and   
,temper1 as if ,god did thereby point   
out to us who they are he delights to   
bless4  ,the ,d---- of ,m---- is a ,whig
 say some of our ,people who ,hate all  
,moderation1 he is so ,dutchify'd1 we   
shall never have any ,good of him1 why  
that may be1 but yet you see there is   

not one ,article of our ,conduct has    
succeeded but what has been under his   
,mannagement4  ,and ,heaven has declar'd
 so ,eminently against all other        
,branches of our ,affaires1 that ,i wish
 ,i am mistaken when ,i say 'tis plain  
either he seems to mislike the ,cause or
 the ,persons employ'd1 and that however
 severe he was pleas'd to ,anminadvert  
upon the ,publick affaires in the late  
,violent ,tempest1 it seems that for all
 this his ,anger is not turned away but 
his hand is ,stretched out still4  ,but 
what has a ,sermon to do to enquire1 may
 some say1 and if it had1 how shall it  
make appear whether ,god is displeased  
with our designs or the ,persons        
employed1 with the cause or the         
,carryers of it on4  ,as to the cause1  
all men are ,judges of the ,justice of  
it1 and all men know the ,foot of the   
present ,confederacy1 at least our part 
must be ,just as it is to ,maintain our 
just ,rights1 ,liberty1 ,trade and      
,religion4  ,it must then be the        

,persons1 the ,r----s1 the ,sir ,g----s1
 ,g----ns1 the ,r----ks of this ,war2   
that ,heaven is resolv'd shall not be   
the men1 whom he will honour with the   
,deliverance of his ,people4  ,all wise 
,princes in the ,world have made it a   
constant ,maxim in their ,governments1  
that when any of their great ,generals  
prove ,unfortunate1 tho' never so ,wise1
 they lay them by1 as ,persons that ,god
 does not think fit to bless with       
success1 and 'tis not needful to examine
 whether it were not their fault1 but to
 be ,unfortunate is to be told from     
,heaven1 that such a one is not the     
,man1 and a ,nation ought to understand 
it so4  ,but sure when ,heaven ,singles 
men out by ,crossing their attempts and 
,marks them for unfortunate1 and we can 
give our selves good reasons why they   
are thus ,mark'd by the ,divine         
displeasure2 when we can see their false
 steps1 their ,general designs against  
,god and their ,countries ,intrests1    
'tis high time then for those who sit at

 the ,helm of ,government1 to ,change   
hands and put their affaires into such  
,persons ,conduct1 against whom ,heaven 
has not declar'd so plainly its         
,displeasure1 nor the ,nation its       
,dislike4  ,why shou'd the ,queen be    
desir'd to ,chain down her own          
,happiness and the ,nations ,interest1  
to the ,missfortune of a few ,men4      
,perhaps ,god may ,bless the ,fleet     
under one ,admiral1 when he will not    
under another4 ,i know nothing against  
,admiral ,callemburgh1 he may be an     
,honest and worthy-man1 and ready enough
 to ,fight for the cause1 for indeed    
most of the ,dutch ,captains of ,ships  
are so1 but since ,heaven has now 'twice
 refus'd to let him go1 and driven him  
back again1 if ,i were the ,governour of
 his ,masters affairs1 he should not be 
sent a ,third time1 least we should seem
 obstinately to ,employ somebody that   
,god himself had declar'd against and   
had three times from ,heaven forbid to  
go4  ,i hope no ,body will ,construe    

this to be a ,personal ,satyr upon ,myn 
,heer ,callemburgh1 ,but take it among  
ye1 let it go1 where it ,fitts best4    
,if these are not the ,generation of    
,men that must do the ,nations business1
 then 'tis plain our ,deliverance will  
never be wrought while they are         
employ'd2 ,if ,god will not bless them  
he will never bless us till they are    
dismist4  ,i doubt not we shall be      
deliver'd1 and this ,nation shall yet   
,triumph over her ,enemies2 but while   
wrong ,instruments are ,employ'd the    
,work will be delay'd4 ,god would have a
 ,house built him ,but ,david was not   
the ,man and therefore the ,work was put
 off till ,solomon was in the ,throne4  
,god would have ,israel go into the     
,land of ,canaan and possess it1 but    
those ,generals and those ,captains were
 not the ,men2 ,moses and ,aaron1 and   
the great ,men of the ,camp were not    
such as ,god approv'd off and therefore 
,israel could not go over ,joardan till 
they had laid their ,bones in the       

,wilderness4  ,england is hardly ever to
 pass over the ,jourdan before her1 till
 these ,immoderate ,men of ,strife and  
,storms are laid by4  ,if any man ask me
 why these men shou'd not perfect the   
,nation ,peace as well as other men8 ,i 
do not say which ,men nor who1 but let  
them be who the enquirer please1 ,i     
answer the ,question1 with a question   
,how shou'd men of no ,moderaion bring  
us to ,peace4  ,how shou'd ,men of      
strife bring us ,peace and ,union3      
,contraries may ,illustrate but         
,contraries never ,incorporate2 ,men of 
,temper1 are the safe men for this      
,nation4 ,men of heat are fit to        
,embroil it1 but not to ,cure it3 they  
are something like our ,sea ,surgeons   
who fly to ,amputation of ,members upon 
every slight ,fracture1 when a more     
proper ,application would effect the    
,cure and save the ,joynt4  ',tis an ill
 sign especially for ,england when ,wars
 abroad wont make us ,friends at home4  
,foreign dangers us'd to ,unite us from 

whence ,queen ,elizabeth1 has been said 
to leave this ,character of the ,nation 
behind her1 that they were much easier  
to be ,govern'd in a time of ,war than  
in ,peace4  ,but when ,this1 which us'd 
to be the only ,cure of all our         
diseases1 fails us1 'tis a sign the     
,distemper is ,grown very strong1 and   
there is some more than usual ,room for 
despair4  ,the only ,way left the       
,nation is to obtain from those in      
power1 that ,moderation may cease being 
the pretence and be really the practice4
  ,it would be well all men would at    
least be ,occasional ,conformists1 to   
this ,extraordinary principle2 and when 
there is such a ,loud call to ,peace    
both from ,heaven and from the ,throne1 
they would do well to consider who are  
the ,men of ,peace and who are not3 ,for
 certainly those ,immoderate ,gentlemen1
 who slight the ,proposals for a general
 ,union of ,charity1 cannot pretend to  
be ,friends to the present ,intrest of  
their ,native ,country4  ,these men1    

'tis true1 ,cry out of the danger of the
 ,church1 but can they make it appear   
that the ,church is in any danger from  
,moderation and ,temper2 can they       
pretend that there is no way to secure  
her1 but by pulling down all that differ
 with them1 no way to save her but by   
the ruin of her ,protestant ,brethren2  
there are ,thousands of ,loyal honest   
,church-men1 who are not of this mind2  
who believe that ,moderation and        
,charity to ,protestant ,dissenters is  
very ,consistant with the safety of the 
,church and with the present general    
,union which they ,earnestly desire4    
,as to ,persons we have nothing to say  
to them1 but this1 without pretending to
 prophesy1 may be safely advanced1 that 
,heaven it self1 has ,eminently declared
 it self against the ,fury and          
,immoderate ,zeal of those ,gentlemen1  
and told us as plainly as possible1     
unless we would ,expect a ,voice from on
 high1 that he neither ,has nor ,designs
 to bless this ,generation nor their    

proceedings4  ,when ever our rulers     
think fit to see it1 and to employ the  
,men and the ,methods which ,heaven     
approves1 then we may expect success    
from abroad1 ,peace at home1 prosperity 
in ,trade1 ,victory in ,war1 plenty in  
the ,field1 ,mild and ,comfortable      
,seasons1 ,calm ,air1 ,smooth ,seas1 and
 safe ,habitations4  ,till then we are  
to expect our ,houses ,blown down1 our  
,pallaces ,shatter'd1 our ,voyages      
broken1 our ,navys ,ship-wreck'd1 our   
,saylors ,drown'd1 our ,confedrates     
,beaten1 our ,trade ruin'd1 our ,money  
spent and our ,enemies encreased4  ,the 
,grand dispute in this ,quarrelsome     
,age1 is against our ,brethren who      
,dissent from the ,church2 and from what
 principle do we act8 it is not safe say
 they to let any of them be entrusted in
 the ,government1 that is1 it is not    
profitable to let any ,body enjoy great 
,places but themselves4  ,this is the   
,bottom of the pretence1 as to the      
safety of it4 ,these are the ,people who

 ,cry out of the ,danger from the       
,dissenters1 but are not concerned at   
our ,danger from the ,french2 that are  
frighted at the ,dissenters who as they 
pretend grow too ,formidable for the    
,church1 but are not disturb'd at the   
,threatning ,growth of a ,conquering    
,popish ,enemy2 that ,deprecate the     
,clouds of ,whiggism and ,phanaticism1  
but apprehend nothing of the ,black     
,clouds of ,god's ,threatning           
,judgements1 which plainly tell them if 
they would suffer themselves to think1  
that there is somthing in the general   
practice of the ,nation which does not  
please him1 and for which the hand of   
his ,judgements is extended against us4 
,these are strange dull-sighted men1    
whose ,intrest stands so directly       
between them and their understanding    
that they can see nothing but what that 
represents to them2 ,god may ,thunder   
from ,heaven with ,storms upon ,storms1 
,ruin our ,fleets1 ,drown our ,sailors  
and ,blow us back from the best         

,contriv'd ,expeditions in the ,world1  
but they will never believe the case    
affects them1 never look into their own 
,conduct to see if they have not help'd 
to bring these heavy ,strokes upon the  
,nation4  ,how many ,thousands have we  
in ,england1 who if the whole ,navy of  
,england had been at ,stake2 had rather 
have lost it than the ,bill against     
,occasional ,conformity2 that had rather
 the ,french should have taken ,landau  
and ,beat the ,prince of ,hess ,cassell1
 than the ,queen should have made such a
 ,speech for ,peace and ,union2 that had
 rather the ,duke of ,bavaria should    
have taken ,ausburgh1 than that there   
should not have been some ,affront put  
upon the ,house of ,lords4  ,and if such
 ,zealots1 such ,christian ,furies are  
met with by ,providence1 and see both   
the ,fleet and the ,occasional ,bill    
lost together is it not plain1 what     
,providence meant in it4 ,he that can   
not see that ,god from on high has      
,punish'd them in their own way and     

pointed out the ,crime in the ,vengeance
 must be more blind than usual1 and must
 shut their ,eyes against their own     
,consciences4  ',tis plain ,heaven has  
suited his ,punishment to the ,offence1 
has ,punish'd the ,stormy ,temper of    
this ,party of ,men with ,storms of his 
,vengeance1 ,storms on their ,navies1   
,storms on their ,houses1 ,storms on    
their ,confederates1 and ,i question not
 will at last with ,storms in their     
,consciences4  ,if there be any ,use to 
be made of this matter1 'tis to excite  
the ,nation to ,spue out from among them
 these ,men of ,storms1 that ,peace1    
,love1 ,charity and a ,general ,union   
may succeed1 and ,god may ,bless us1    
,return to us and delight to dwell among
 us1 that the ,favour of ,heaven may    
,return to us1 and the ,queen who has   
heartily declared her ,eyes open to this
 needful happiness1 may enjoy the       
,blessing of ,wise ,counsellors and     
,faithful ,servants1 that ,constant     
,victory may ,crown all our             

,enterprizes1 and the ,general ,peace of
 ,europe may be ,established4  ,if any  
one can tell us a way to bring all these
 ,blessed ends to pass1 without a       
,general ,peace of ,parties and         
,interests at home1 he is ,wellcome to  
do it1 for ,i profess ,it is hid from my
 ,eyes4   ,,finis4