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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64289	A sermon preached at the Cathedral Church of St. Canice Kilkenny, Feb. 27. 1669. By Joseph Teate, dean of St. Can. Kilkenny	Teate, Joseph.	1670 (1670)	Wing T620; ESTC R219172	20,777	55

A SERMON Preached at the CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF St. CANICE KILKENNY Feb. 27. 1669. BY JOSEPH TEATE Dean of St. CAN. KILKENNY DVBLIN Printed by Benjamin Tooke Printer to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty and are to be sold by Mary Crooke in Castle-street 1670. Imprimatur P. M. Archiepiscopo Dubliniensi à Sac. Domest July 19. 1670. To the Right Honourable Lady EMILIA Countess of OSSORY MADAM THe Divine Law that constitutes Tribute the due of Princes hath consigned Honour the due of Nobles which by the Learned is distinguished into Civil which is a Descent from worthy Ancestors Moral whose Spring is Virtue and Christian which consists in a New Birth whereby we are Co-heirs with Christ and the Off-spring of God Madam I judge my self as insufficient as Envy can do impertinent to think by Elogies of your Merit to add Lustre to your Name your Ladiship stands upon such a Theatre that every Scene of your life is exposed to Publique View and therefore if I should give flattering Titles the Suffrage of men would soon condemn me but where God hath made me a Debtor it is but just to make Payment in conscience to the highest Sanction and Sence of my own Obligation of Gratitude How your Ladiship is enobled by Birth I shall relate in the words of the Learned Vossius who in his Book of the three Creeds Dedicated to William Prince of Aurange tells us that his Descent was from Adolphus of Nassaw Cesar in the twelfth Century so that Madam by your Bloud and Allyes you are a Branch circling from an Imperial Stem of Majesty But Madam the Nobility of your Descent onely enrolls your Name in the Catalogue of the Great is Secular and Transitory Calculated for this World but it is your Grace and Virtue that writes it in the Book of Life and Embalms it to Immortality the Wreaths of civil Honour are withering Grandeur is fugitive but Godliness is a Crown that fadeth not away which consists in a great Humility constant Devotion and a diffusive Charity which were the Amabilities of your Ladiships Conversation among us so that you have left behind you a Good Name and carried with you a good Conscience To digest just praises is a tender and discreet Virtue that therefore you may give the Glory to God I shall turn a Panegyrick into a Prayer That your Soul may be precious in the sight of God as the Apple of his Eye the Signet on his Right hand and be made up among his Jewells That the Losses of your greatest temporal Blessings may be borne with Patience and what God hath spared may be enjoyed with Moderation that your mind may be equal and fixed in the great Accidents and Vicissitudes of humane Life that the Kingdom of Ireland may prove to your Ladiship a Fortunate Island by becoming what it once was called an Island of Saints This Sermon had been sooner made publick but that it was retarded by a tedious sickness when it was preached it was consecrated to God and now it s printed it s dedicated to your Ladiship by the obedience of Madam Your Ladiships most humble Servant JOSEPH TEATE 2 TIM 3.5 Having a form of Godliness but denying the power thereof SAint Paul who was not a whit behind the chiefest Apostles in Languages Labours Gifts of healing Visions Extasies and Prophetick Inspirations foretells us what monstrous impieties the Womb of time should travell with under the dispensation of the Gospel He foresaw the wickedness of men flying on as fast as the wings of time could carry it That as the Dew of Heaven and Showres of Divine blessings should descend in plenty and abundance so the Inundation of iniquity should rise higher to deluge and overflow the world that times should be as perillous as sins were exceeding sinfull Therefore as a good Souldier of Jesus Christ not ignorant of the devices and stratagems of his spiritual enemies he presents us with a List of their Legions such a Catalogue of Vices that may exercise our patience to recite as well as resist them where selfe love leads the Van and Hypocrisie in Religion brings up the Rear And prefixeth this Asterisk 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 do thou turn Gnostick in this Son Timothy and know that the last dayes shall be evil for men shall be Traytors Truce-breakers Heady High-minded Lovers of pleasures more then Lovers of God having a form but denying the power of Godliness The Ages subsequent to the Apostle have given a completion to his Prophesie that no Fraud is so insinuating as that which is pious no Error so infectious as that which is formal when the Devil tells Lyes in Hypocrisie from under the Mantle of a Prophet they are credited as the Oracles of God and men think they entertain Celestial Immissions when he suggesteth things that seem to savour of piety as an Angel of light Valentinus preach'd zealously Arius repented publickly Pelagius lived piously yet they were a Triumvirate of the most pernicious Hereticks that ever troubled the Church when a man of Parts and Eloquence who designs Schism in the Church and sedition in the State comes up into the Pulpit with a glorious Profession magnifies his industry in the conversion of Souls and seems himself to be in an Agony when he talks of our Saviour his mortified countenance enlivens his Projects his Person is had in admiration his Discourses received with credulity as the Babilonians entertain'd Zopyrus who by shewing them his mangled members made himself Master of their Affections and soon after Darius Lord of their City So sad is the Truth that as the most poysonous pills may be guilded so the vilest impieties may be garnished with a shew of Religion as may appear from those the Apostle mentions verse 2. Covetous Boasters Proud Blasphemers c. A man may be Covetous in his charity Judas may aske why the Oyntment was not sold and given to the poor not that he cared for the poor but because he was a Thief a man may be a Boaster in his self-denial with the Philosopher write a Treatise against Vain-glory and subscribe to it with his own Name Proud in his humility like Diotrophes preach the Gospel and affect Preheminence or Diogenes revile the Grandure of Princes with greater insolence a Blasphemer in his prayers crying as the Pharisee God I thank thee that I am not as other men are and for all that be worse and take his name in vain There hath not been an irreverend Person in the Assembly a disloyal Person to Authority a schismatical Seperatist from the Church no not the Murder of Gods Prophets and Gods Anoynted nor any sacrilegious Alienation of their Estates and Maintenance nor the Blasphemies of Quakers Ranters and Familists but have been ushered in with the hideous out-cryes of Repentance and Reformation there is not a sinner in the Catalogue but may have the form of Godliness and deny the power thereof The terms of the proposition to be explained are four