十一月五日
凡爲攻击你造成的器械，必不利用（或译：凡爲攻击你而造成的武器，必不能成功）。（赛54：17）
今天在世界历史上，甚至基督教历史上是一个重要的日子。神在这一天曾施行了两次大拯救。一六0五年教皇党徒企图推翻国会，控制英国，建立教权，幸及时发现；不然基督教必受大难。第二，一六八八年的今天，英王威廉第三（荷兰大统领威廉第二之子，与英王詹姆士第二之女玛利结婚，一六八八年被迎立爲王。预誓不损民权，不蹂躏国会，此即所谓名誉革命。一六九一年他曾爲美洲马萨诸塞签署一个新宪章内云：“除了教皇党徒外，一切基督徒皆可享受良心自由。”）登陆英伦，天主教的威权从此被镇压下去，人们才获得宗教自由。我们也应当用圣徒的诗歌来纪念这一天。清教徒的先祖们在这一天举行特别的感恩礼拜。我们这些爱好自由的信徒也当在这一天感谢神。
我们的心和嘴唇也当这样说：“神啊！你在古时，我们列祖的日子，所行的事，我们亲耳听见了，我们的列祖，也给我们述说过。”神一再保护、救援属他的人免受一切的灾害和仇敌的攻击，我们要再三爲神一再拯救我们而歌唱。求你使我们谨防敌基督的假师傅，直到他们完全消灭。你必破坏他们加害于我们的图谋。我们永远信靠这应许：“凡爲攻击你而造成的武器，必不能成功。”愿这话铭刻在一切喜爱耶稣福音的人心上，靠此把异端邪说推翻，好广传神的真道。愿我们省察我们的心，看我们里面还有没有靠己成义的遗毒存留着！
November
5
“No
weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper.”–Isaiah 54:17
This day is notable in English history for
two great deliverances wrought by God for us. On this day the plot of the
Papists to destroy our Houses of Parliament was discovered, 1605.
“While for our princes they prepare
In caverns deep a burning snare,
He shot from heaven a piercing ray,
And the dark treachery brought to
day.”
And secondly–today is the anniversary of
the landing of King William III, at Torbay, by which the hope of Popish
ascendancy was quashed, and religious liberty was secured, 1688.
This day ought to be celebrated, not by the saturnalia of striplings,
but by the songs of saints. Our Puritan forefathers most devoutly made it a
special time of thanksgiving. There is extant a record of the annual sermons
preached by Matthew Henry on this day. Our Protestant feeling, and our love of
liberty, should make us regard its anniversary with holy gratitude. Let our
hearts and lips exclaim, “We have heard with our ears, and our fathers
have told us the wondrous things which thou didst in their day, and in the old
time before them.” Thou hast made this nation the home of the gospel; and
when the foe has risen against her, thou hast shielded her. Help us to offer
repeated songs for repeated deliverances. Grant us more and more a hatred of
Antichrist, and hasten on the day of her entire extinction. Till then and ever,
we believe the promise, “No weapon that is formed against thee shall
prosper.” Should it not be laid upon the heart of every lover of the
gospel of Jesus on this day to plead for the overturning of false doctrines and
the extension of divine truth? Would it not be well to search our own hearts,
and turn out any of the Popish lumber of self-righteousness which may lie
concealed therein?
