Transcribed from the 1707 W. B. edition , email Many thanks to Kensington and Chelsealocal studies for finding this and allowing it to betranscribed.
A
SERMON
Preach’d upon the Occasion ofthe
Anniversary Thanksgiving
Of the Fifth of November,1706.
AT THE
Churchof KENSINGTON.
By Nath. Hough, M.A. Chaplain tothe Countess Fauconberg, Lecturer ofKensington, and Fellow of Jesus College inCambridge.
LONDON:
Printed by W. B. for AlexanderBosvile at the Dial and Bible over againstSt. Dunstan’s Church in Fleet Street. 1707.
p. 3TO THE
GENTLEMEN
AND
PARISHIONERS
OF
KENSINGTON.
This is the secondInstance of my Service made publick upon an Occasion of thisNature. As none can be more pleased with the doubleBlessing of the Day, than your selves, being thebest Subjects to Her Majesty,as well as the nearest Neighbours to Her p. 4Court:So I have this farther Accession to the general Joy,viz. As I have a small Opportunity of shewing, atyour own Request, how much I am,
Your most obliged Servant,
Nath.Hough.
Whoever compares this Psalmand this Solemnity together, will find the mainLines of the one, and the chief Circumstances ofthe other exactly agreeable. Had We Who live since theDeliverance of this Day was wrought, been endued with theDivine Author’s Inspiration, we could scarce havepitch’d upon more apposite Words to express the surprizingManner of it. Swallowing up quick, theKindling of our Enemies Wrath, the Torrents beinglike to go over our Soul, our Escaping like a p. 6Bird out ofthe Fowler’s Snare: All these are Expressions sopat for the present Season, that whilst We sing anHymn, we seem likewise to read a Prophecy. Our Enemies have took effectual Care that the illCharacter in this Psalm should not passunfulfill’d: And I hope we, for our parts, shall notbe wanting to make good the pious Acknowledgments of it,saying, Blessed be the Lord who hath not given us as a Prey totheir Teeth.
But perhap