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A64348	A sermon preach'd to the Protestants of Ireland in the city of London at St. Helens, Octob. 23, 1690 being the day appointed by act of Parliament in Ireland for an anniversary thanksgiving for the deliverence of the Protestants of that kingdom from the bloody massacre begun by the Irish papists on the 23d of October, 1641 / by Richard, Lord Bishop of Killala.	Tenison, Richard, 1640?-1705.	1691 (1691)	Wing T684; ESTC R9854	19,055	32

Benediction And were not all Excommunicated who adhered to that Peace I could trace them from place to place and shew you how vigorous and active they were in all parts of the Kingdom But I hasten You see by their Books and Practices they hold it lawful to extirpate Protestant Kings and their Subjects and while they retain such Principles what Safety can we expect What Protestant Prince and Country is not in danger What may they not fear when the Fathers of their Church who should restrain them from such horrid Murthers do by Precept and Example prompt them unto them and justifie them by Religious Arguments And if their People may be absolv'd from their Oaths of Allegiance as the Duke of Suevia was by Gregory the Seventh from his Oath to the Emperour Henry the Fourth and the English by Pope Pius in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth how can Princes be secure And while they allow of Equivocating and Mental Reservations in taking of Oaths to what purpose are they administred And while they hold that the Commands of their Superiours must be observ'd as the Command and Will of God there is little likelyhood of Peace hereafter Nor need we wonder at former Conspiracies the Clergy having such power over their Consciences and holding such Principles and approving of such Actions on both which I might abundantly enlarge But having shew'd you how this Rebellion began upon what Principles and at whose Instigation what could follow but the greatest Cruelty that could be committed Of which you expect some Relation and particular Instances also this Day But alas what Heart can think of it what Tongue can express it without great Emotion and Concern The very remembrance of it strikes Dread and Terrour into my Soul For being thus instructed and enraged by the Jesuits Priests and Fryars as the Act of Parliament for the Observation of this Day tells you they began a most cruel bloody and unnatural Rebellion resolving to destroy both Church and State and cut off all the Protestants that would not joyn with them in their Superstitious and Idolatrous Worship To effect which they rose this day in all Parts of the Nation running like Furies up and down breathing forth nothing but Death and finding no delight but in Slaughter their Hands reeking with Blood and their Swords and Skeins dull'd and rebated with hewing Christians in pieces their Zeal hurrying them into the greatest Violations of Religion and Humanity that ever the Sun beheld They fully verified this Text in the greatness of their Rage and spared but few whom they could kill Grey hairs were no protection to the Aged neither could Beauty or Youth find any Mercy from them and even Innocency it self could not save the sucking Infants from being tossed on their Pikes and hung on Tenterhooks It was Crime enough in those poor Souls to be born of Protestant Parents Some tender Virgins fled in Frost and Snow to the Woods and Deserts and when sharp Hunger drove them out of those doleful Solitudes they were catch'd and made a Prey to their Bestial Desires their Shrieks and Tears could no way move them to pity and when by force they had satisfied their Lust they murder'd the very Persons they had embrac'd Hanging and drowning were Acts of Mercy among them for they kill'd Men by degrees as the Tyrant Caligula did In the Castle of Moroghan that they might feel themselves dye tying one naked to a Table and giving him a Gash at every Health they drank until his whole Body was one continued wound Nor were their Women less cruel to their own Sex Bp. Maxwel's Examination barbarously killing the Protestant Women and even their Children as if they had suck'd in ferity with their Milk murdring the Protestants Children Examination of Adam Clover And a Youth not above fourteen years of Age slew fifteen men being disarm'd and in the Stocks and another about twelve kill'd two Women and one Man at the Siege of Agher They brake the Back-bone of a young man Bp. Maxwel's Examination and would not kill him but remov'd him from place to place to eat the Grass of the Field and roasted Mr. Watson alive after they had cut off some pieces of his flesh Exam. of Phil. Taylor and John Wisdom They rip 't up the Bellies of Women and cast their Children to the Swine who eat them and some were delivered of Children while they were hanging They made a man drunk Exam. of Alex. Creighton Ch. Campbell and Geo Cottingham Clerk and then hang'd him They forc'd others to Mass gave them the Sacrament and then murder'd them saying It was no sin to kill Protestants for they were all damn'd already Nay Bp. Maxwel's Examination their Cruelty did extend to the very Cattel of the English cutting pieces out of them alive in which Torment they liv'd some days roaring about the Fields They compell'd some to tread on the Holy Bible cursing it in a horrid manner and saying Exam. of Ed. Slack Rog. Holland and Mr. Dean It had bred all the quarrel They also burnt some Bibles and said It was Hell-fire that burnt and wish'd they had all the Bibles in Christendom to burn with them And they triumph'd and rejoyc'd in the numbers they had kill'd saying Exam. of John Wisdom Phil. Taylor and Marg. Stoakes The Devil was beholding to them for sending him so many Souls to Hell But their Rage against the Clergy was such Mr Harcourt's Martyrology as I am not able to relate nor could you without Horrour and Amazement hear it And the barbarous usage of one of their Wives is not to be nam'd among Christians Mrs. Smithson They drown'd and burnt great numbers and laugh'd at their Cries and Lamentations and took pleasure to hear Men speak as they buried them alive in Ditches Exam. of Antho Stratford Abstract of Irish Massacres They tried whether a Man's Guts or a Dogs were longest and made Candles of a Man's grease in the County of Tyrone and did many other things which Nature loaths and Humanity abhors as may be at large seen in the Examinations taken upon Oath Bp. of Meath by a late eminent and learned Prelate with seven other Reverend Divines Dr. Jones ' Remonstrance Mr. Harcourt's Remonstrance Sir John Temple's Hist Dr. Borlases Hist and in other Books writ on this Tragical Subject to which I refer you and in them you will see that Piso's Head never afforded more pleasure to the inhumane Otho than the dead Carkasses of Protestants did to those men A quick death was the only favour and the greatest Act of Humanity to be expected at their Hands but alas even that was sometimes deny'd though most earnestly desired by those whom they had grievously wounded The whole Kingdom was an Aceldema and nothing but Sighs and Groans were heard throughout the Land When Titus saw Jerusalem in flames and Marcellus beheld Syracusa burning their Words