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A80730	Two sermons preached at Christ-Church in the city of Dublin, before the honourable the General Convenion of Ireland. The first on Prov.11.14 at the first meeting of the said convention, March 2. 1659. The second on Jude v.19. at a publique fast appointed by the said convention, March 9. 1659. By Sem Coxe, Minister of the gospel and pastor at St. Katherines in Dublin.	Coxe, Sem.; Ireland. Parliament.	1660 (1660)	Wing C6726; Thomason E1026_21; ESTC R208752	50,638	72

new thing to commit Treasons under the vizzard of holiness The Apostle long since foretold that there should be traitours heady high minded persons having a form of godliness 2. Tim. 3. 1-5 This Prophesy is eminently fulfilled in these our backsliding times By their means our holy and good profession is scandalized and the way of truth is evil spoken of by Papists and Atheists and all profane men as the Apostle speaketh 2 Pet. 2. 2. II. It is also desperate madness in them to act after this rate for the extirpation of our counsellors and their counsells For If they had accomplished their designs could they have escaped scot-free in the common overthrow Who but a man bereft of his wits will sink the vessel wherein he is imbarked or fire the house wherein he dwelleth Wherefore they are to be looked upon and dealt withal as mad man use to be being fitter for bedlam then for sober society The possessed of the Devil used to be bound in chains and fetters Mar. 5. 4. You cannot deal too warily with this generation of men Secondly If it be so That the prosperity or adversity of a people dependeth so much upon counsellors and counsels Then this also informeth us of the great worth and excellency of those honourable Persons who have ventured their all for the restitution of our Grand Council the Parliament they have done what in them is to keep these Nations from utter ruine and confusion This is true Nobility This was it that made Saul honourable in the eyes of all Israel when he stood up so manfully for the preservation and deliverance of the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead 1. Sam. 11. Certainly such Worthies deserve well from us and from our posterity We should all say with Deborah in her song Judg. 5. 9. My heart is toward the Governors of Israel that offered themselves willingly among the people I know full well what some black mouths belch out against these Noble persons and Saviours of our countrey and against the Magistrates of this famous City But let them alone when they are come to themselves they will be wiser and consider That it was a duty to save three Nations from sinking into destruction And as thankfulness love and honor are due from us all unto them So they may expect a reward from God for this incomparable service done to the Church and Nations Yea and God will reward them If a cup of cold water given to any one in the name of a disciple shall not be unrewarded Mat. 10. 42. What then shall the reward of those be that have ventured Life Estate and all that is dear unto them to save this Republique wherein are a multitude of true disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ The second Use of this Doctrine affordeth ground of praise and thanksgiving unto the Lord our God for two great mercies First If the want of counsellors doth portend the fall of a people Then what abundant cause have we all to bless the Lord that these Dominions are not totally ruined ere this day by the secluding of our counsellors and interrupting their counsels for so many years together You see that such a want of councel as we have had is usually the fall of a people and yet herein God hath been more mercifull to us than to others although we were plunged into the ditch yet we are not quite drowned We may say truly with the Psalmist Psal 118 13. Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall but the Lord helped me And verse 2● This is the Lords doing and it is marvelous in our eyes You must set a Selah upon this mercie and say Hitherto hath the Lord helped us The 124 Psalm and the 129 Psalm ought to be sung frequently by all the godly in these Nations in commemoration of this mercie Secondly If it be so That the flourishing estate of a people ariseth from their enjoyment of a multitude of Counsellors Then what cause have we to praise the name of the Lord that he hath at last restored unto us our Free Parliament that great Council that may save us from destruction and ruine God hath this day begun to perform unto us that gracious promise which he made to the Jews Isa 1. 26. I will restore thy Judges as at the first and thy Counsellors as at the beginning It is a wonder of mercie that the Lord hath done this great thing for us And it is a great addition of mercy to us in this Island that God hath raised up to us also so many worthy Counsellors in this poor peeled Nation and hath notwithstanding manifold obstructions which were in the way brought them together into this City to consult and advise of those things that so nearly concern us both in matters religious and civil That both these mercies I am speaking of may have the greater impression upon our hearts consider seriously these four things 1 Our own unworthiness for whom God hath appeared so eminently Well may we take up that humble expression of Jacob Gen 32. 10. We are not worthy of the least of all the mercies and of all the truth which thou hast shewed unto thy servants much less of so great mercy and truth as hath appeared in these mercies that we are now speaking of 2 Look upon the depth of the misery that we were plunged into and that will illustrate the greatness of these mercies our laws were discountenanced our properties impropriated our liberties infringed yea and which is more our selves were unchurched some of our godly Ministers silenced and banished and the Gospel ready to depart from us and nothing but blackness and darkness of error countenanced and encouraged to the wounding of the hearts of all truly pious men The actings of these late times have been like the Rebellion of Korah Dathan and Abiram that strove against Moses and Aaron of which you may read Numb Ch. 16. They endeavoured to pull down Magistracy and Ministry and so have these done Dathan and Abiram were Gentlemen of the tribe of Reuben the eldest son of Israel Num. 26. 5. Famous in the Congregation Verse 9. They thought they had as much right to the civil Government as Moses had and therefore say they speaking in the Levellers dialect Why lift you up your selves above the congregation of the Lord in the third verse And when they were summoned by Moses they refused appear Ch. 16. v. 12. 13. We will not come up say they Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and hony to kill us in the wilderness except thou make thy self altogether a Prince over us Their quarrel against Moses was about civil power they would needs assume the supreme Magistracy Korah was a Levite and he would have none above him in the Church he would needs do the Office of a Priest aswell as Aaron as appeareth verse 10 11. His quarrel was ecclesiastical he would level the