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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65563	Six sermons preached in Ireland in difficult times by Edward, Lord Bishop of Cork and Ross.	Wettenhall, Edward, 1636-1713.	1695 (1695)	Wing W1521; ESTC R38253	107,257	296

being at Dublin in the month of March Ann. Dom. 1684. where with weeping Ireland I took my leave of the great and good Duke of Ormond I was according as usually when there invited to preach before the State at Christ-Church and having in that short stay of the few days I had made there met with divers Books some even in English which fell foul upon the Holy Scriptures especially upon the present Original of the Old Testament together with all Translations that closely follow it as our English Translations for the most part does and observing some men taking part with these Writers admiring and applauding their Books others some of whom should have understood better shaken by them so that some since have declared themselves to have been long in quest of Scriptures and notwithstanding all our Divines pretences not yet to know where to find them nay some further to have preached against the Peoples having and reading Scriptures in vulgar Languages I thought I could not by any one Sermon do a more seasonable service to our Church and indeed to the common Christianity than by drawing together the sum of the more considerable Plea's which have been brought chiefly by Spinosa Is Vossius and P. Simon the three Chieftains whose Spittle other less people lick up and vent against the validity or integrity of the Books of the Old Testament and consequently much enervating the New and by shewing the contemptible vanity the gross falsity or unsoundness of them all This I did briefly and have since publisht the Discourse with an Appendix I may say demonstrating the most suspicious Points asserted in it In this Discourse it could not be except I should have been grosly partial but that some passages must fall justifying our establisht Church against her adversaries of Rome But the main scope and design of my Sermon was plain enough against Antiscripturists in general And of the aforenamed Authors whom I mainly struck at and whose Doctrine I overthrew one was an Atheistical Apostate Jew the other a craz'd Admirer of Greek and Philology his Religion if any I may be confident is not Roman The third indeed a profest Son of Rome but so Heterodox that as I understood then and have yet heard nothing to the contrary that very Church has censured him and his Writings Now who could ever have thought that defending Scripture and the Hebrew Text against such Adversaries of whom not one man was an Oxthodox Roman Catholick could have been termed Imprudence Disloyalty ●nd fomenting Rebellion against the King Yet so it was that a certain Dignitary ●n August last as I have been informed ●resented a Paper to a Person of Ho●our wherein not only that Discourse ●nd its Author but certain Irish Prote●tant Bishops indefinitely were charged as follows I cannot understand the Policy of some Irish Protestant Bishops during the Heat of Argiles and Monmouths Rebellion which threatned the Ruine of their whole Order instead of preaching the Christian Doctrine of Loyalty and Allegiance at that time seasonable to go into into the Pulpit and amuse the Peo-with apprehensions of Popery which how Loyal soever their Intentions might be was doubtless no Disservice to Monmouth nor good Service to His Majesty because manifestly tending to alienate the Affections of the Subjects And of these Irish Protestant Bishops I hear I was the first named in the Margin of his Paper To this Imputation Civility and good Manners will not suffer me to return th● Language it deserves but in short as to the truth of matter of fact If the Bisho● of Cork did not in that season preach u● Loyalty and Obedience with all his migh● and possibly more than any one man ● Papist or Protestant within the Kingdom ● or if either at that time or any else h● did ever preach what may be justly termed the amusing the people with apprehensions of Popery the said Bishop offer himself to the severest Animadversions imaginable To the point then If the London Gazzetts may be credited Argile landed at Campletown in the Highlands of Scotland May 20. Ann. Dom. 1685. and se●● out his Treasonable Summons May 2● which day news came of his arrival t● Dunluce in the North of Ireland and o● June 21. ensuing he was brought in Pr●soner to Edenburgh So that the Heat ●● his Rebellion must fall between May 20. an● June 21. 1685. Further Monmouth landed at Lyme in the Evening June 11. and was routed July 6. b●twixt which days must also fall the He●● of his Rebellion My Sermon at Chris● Church Dublin which was the only o● that Gentleman heard of me about tha● time and which certainly he aimed at was preached March 22. 1684. that is two full months not only before the Heat of Argiles Rebellion but before any except Traytors knew of it and three months within three days before the Heat or commencing of Monmouths Rebellion or any saving the Rebels Traiterous Accomplices knew of that Therefore this Gentleman was fouly out in regard of time and the main point in his Accusation which will fix Imprudence or Disloyalty upon me being the timing my Sermon the whole Accusation must on this score fall For how could I by that Sermon preached at that time be serviceable to Monmouth in the time of his Rebellion and disserviceable to the King when the times fell at such distance and his Rebellion was not in being or thought of By what account will March the 22. be made the middle of June I am sure if I had in the least sowed any Seeds of Rebellion there were above an hundred wiser and loyaller and greater men than the Accuser in that Audience from whom I should both have heard of it and felt it But waving this Answer from the Timt which yet that Gentleman can never ge● over was it all true that that Discours● did tend to amuse the minds of men with th● apprehensions of Popery If I understand English to amuse the minds of men wit● the apprehensions of Popery is to posses● them with fears that Popery will be introduce● or imposed upon them Now let me be deal● justly with and let not men be false to their own Sense in this point also Was there in that Discourse any one word pointing at or meddling with Designs of State or Statists Is the modest and peaceable endeavouring to settle the Grounds of our common Christianity and to confirm to mens Reason and Judgments the Divine Authority of Holy Scripture against the Wiles or Bravadoes of men who oppugn the Doctrine not only of our own but of the very Roman Church is this I say possessing the people with fears that the Government intends to establish Popery If it be said some parts of your Sermon were levell'd against certain Doctrines of the Papists as well as against the Tenets and Arguments of those men named I do not deny it but those parts tended only by strength of Argument and without any one virulent