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A65552	Pastoral admonitions directed by the Bishop of Cork to all under his charge ; whereunto is added A sermon reflecting on the late sufferings and deliverance of the Protestants in the said county and city, preached at White-Hall on the fourth Sunday in Lent, March 22, 1690.	Church of Ireland. Diocese of Cork and Ross. Bishop (1679-1699 : Wettenhall); Wettenhall, Edward, 1636-1713.	1691 (1691)	Wing W1508; ESTC R38579	20,756	56

our guilt Let us then each particularly as our sufferings have been put the question to our consciences has it not been for such and such our sins that we have suffer'd thus and thus that God of late shook us out of the land which we accounted he had given us for an inheritance that our goods were spoiled or torn away before our faces our houses burnt our goodly plantations destroyed that our Wives have been desolate and our Children seeking their bread amongst strangers that many of our brethren have died for want of food that our very own servants have born rule over us and to use Holy Job's words we have been a derision to those whose fathers we would have disdained Job XXX 1. to have set with the dogs of our flock Has it not been for our manifold transgressions and mighty sins that all these Amos V. 22. evils have fallen upon us I in the name of God require all persons to examine their own consciences and in the fear of God as they find things to repent and reform I will only further add a few Earnest but plain and necessary requests unto you which if I can but prevail for I shall not doubt but a true and general amendment in us will follow and God's mercies attend us The First is that you would each one of you use daily to pray in secret though such secret Prayers should be the shorter and Remember always to put your hearts into your prayers Secret prayers you may truly account your own As to prayers with the Family or the Church the Authority of the chief of the Family or the custom of the Countrey puts you upon them and brings you to them but secret prayers come only from within your selves from conscience that is from a sense of duty and from the fear or love of God in you and so as said are purely your own and will most surely speed if sincere Wherefore omit not any day the practice of this kind of prayer Secondly I beseech further That all such who have Families would set up the daily worsh●p of God in their Families Those of the poorer and meaner sort who cannot use longer prayers might easily learn the Confession Almighty and most merciful Father we have Erred c. one of the Collects for morning O Lord our heavenly Father almighty and everlasting God who hast c. one for the Evening Lighten our darkness and then use the Lord's Prayer and The Grace of our Lord Iesus Christ making all their Family to kneel and with Reverence join Even this would be of a wholsome effect Others of greater leisure and ability both may and ought to use more and I presume want not help at hand Besides this seeing there are daily publick prayers in two Churches of the Town at least what would it be for every sufficient Housekeeper if not to come often themselves yet to send daily at least one or two of the Family to pray there for all the rest The sense of Religion would hereby grow amongst us and the face of it daily look brighter Thirdly On what ever daies or times you are forgetful remiss or negligent suffer not the Lord's-day evening to pass without some solemn prayers in the Family And then call to account the younger sort and servants how they have spent the Lord's-day Where they have been at Church or what they remember and make some of them that are are able to read in the Holy Bible or any other good Books in the hearing of the rest All professions of Christians condemn and will rise up in judgment against the generality of those who call themselves Church of England men for neglect of prayers in the Family and calling their Family to account Fourthly Both your selves in person observe and see that your Families in some tolerable manner of strictness observe the Lord's-Day Nothing more promotes the power of Godliness and keeps up the face of Religion amongst us than such observation Fiftly as one branch hereof send your servants and younger people to Church and Catechism in the afternoon on the Lord's days Business is pretended for many servants in the morning Afternoon there can be little And Catechising is the proper preaching for such people I wish it could be truly said the Elder sort of the Commonalty did not want it Lastly Of all sins both your selve beware of and upon all occasions as you hear it manifest your abhorrence of that common but odious useless and unreasonable sin of Common Swearing Warn your children and servants first and then if after guilty chastise them for it and if servants will not reform it turn them away Keep up the Reverence of God's name and this will be a means to promote in your own and others hearts his fear Now the good God make you perfect in every good work deliver you from evil one and preserve you to his Heavenly Kingdom This I daily on my knees more than once or twice commonly pray for you And do you sometimes at the least when you read this pray the same for Your unworthy but affection at and Faithful Pastour E. Corke Rosse Bishop's-Court Corke Novemb. 27. 1691. For the better minding some of us of particular Vows here follows the Form of Prayer which was made and used when the City being taken our Churches were restored to us O God of all Wisdom Power who alone reignest over all that is or is called Great in Heaven or in Earth Mighty in Counsel Wonderful in Working Terrible in Praises We vile sinners less than the least of thy Mercies humbly adore and bless thee for all that Grace Truth and Faithfulness which Thou hast shewn to us thy Unworthy servants and to the Rest of our Numbers who cannot here now present themselves Thou art Righteous in all thy Waies Holy and Gracious in all thy Works Thou executest Righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed and Thou hast magnified thy Mercy above all thy Name We have cried unto thee O Lord in our Distress and Thou hast heard us Thou hast delivered us from under the power of our Cruel Enemies Thou hast redeemed our Life from Destruction and crowned us with loving kindness and tender mercies Thou hast again set our feet in a large room and restored us to our Liberty to worship thee according to thy Word and Ordinance in publick Assemblies Note The Protestants were often imprisoned in the Churches For our sins O Lord thou madest thine House our Prison and in thy tender mercy thou hast now made our Prison the Place of our Praises We will therefore bless thee as long as we live We will lift up our hands in thy name and Our Hearts in thy Love We will daily pay our vows to thee the God of our salvation and by thy Grace with Life and conversation with Heart and soul and all that is within us strive to make thy praise glorious Blessing and Glory