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A42655	Irelands advocate: or, a sermon preached at a publike fast held by authorie, July the 27. in behalfe of bleeding Ireland. By John Geree, pastour of Tewkesbury, in Glocester-Shire. Published by authoritie.	Geree, John, 1601?-1649.	1642 (1642)	Wing G596A; ESTC R223673	15,404	25

Lord against the mighty or help'd in any measure considerable in reference to our ability and ingagements Oh no! my brethren I tell you a sad thing not fit to be mentioned but as St. Paul spake of the profanenesse of some Phillipians with teares Our Brethren in Ireland have fled into divers parts not only three months from before their enemies which was one of the great burthens that put David into such a strait 2 Sam. 24.13 but almost twice three moneths now And we have been as the waters that faile Nay as Aegypt that broken reed that did not support but wound those that stayed on her Even so in some respect and degree have we been to them Reade that excellent Speech of one of the Worthies of our Nation the renowned Pim which he had before the Lords at a Conference and you will see confirmed what I say How long have their and our Brethren of Scotland Christianly forgetting the supplies that Ireland rashly offered against them in the day of their calamity truely honourable for that forgetfulnesse How long did they stand offering assistance before it was effectually accepted Was this to help the Lord to delay the help of others Are not our delayes the cause why Ireland may sadly lament before the Rebells as David before Absalom Psal 3.1 2. Lord how are they increased that trouble me Many are they that rise up against me Many are they which say of my soule there is no help for him in God Selah Are not our delayes the causes of those many heart-cutting insultations of the Rebells over the Loyall Where 's your aid from England your hope your God Have we not had a Call from God aswell as Barac and the Princes of Israel Have not their moanes and cryes come in their Petitions to King and Parliament Did not they rely on Vs Are not we ingaged to them and is not the quarrell Religion and so the Cause the Lords Are not we then in Meroz her sin Oh! may not much of the bloud of Ireland and Gods dishonour there be charged on England for want of our comming forth to help the Lord And what shall I doe now make intercession against England as Eliah sometime did against Israel Rom. 11.2 What shall I say now Curse ye England O God forbid We are come together for deprecation of evill and not imprecation But I must tell you or I should not deale faithfully that the Curse of Meroz hangs over England for this till it be bewayled and deprecated Oh then now bewayle this sin pray God to pardon this Omission this day If we truely bewayle it God may make this sinne find out the Actors of it and we may be free but unlesse it be bewayled it 's Englands sinne We have this to comfort Us The King of England cryed haste haste when he was yet in Scotland or els Ireland will be lost The Commons of England offered aid more then Ireland asked within as short a time as could be expected The Petitions from all coasts cryed for speedy help for Ireland This is some cleering of the Nation yet help was not afforded where was the stay Popish Lords and Prelates hearken yee Petitioners for Prelates stayed all in the Lords House So the Lord in Ireland was not help'd against the mighty England did not help though many in England would have holpen the Lord. This sin then is committed in England and will be the sin of England till it be bewayled Oh then above all sins lament this day this desertion of the Lord. What if a forreine enemie had come in all this while where had Ireland been Nay where England Under what guilt and danger Therefore lament this omission Unlesse we do lament it God will not respect our Prayers this day of Intercession If we pray mercy for Ireland yet we shall pray none for our selves This Curse will prevaile against the Blessing Blot it out therefore with Teares of Repentance Vse 2. For Terrour and Reproofe of such as help the mighty against the Lord. They must need be subject to a double curse having double guilt But are there any such Answ Yes Too many and they of divers sorts 1 Those Popish Lords and Prelates and all that malignant party that have laid blocks in the way to hinder help from Ireland hindering thence either men or money Those help'd the Rebells in Ireland Incouraging and strengthening the hearts and hands of those Murtherers and giving them opportunity to act their cruelties and increase their party But greatly discouraging the hearts and weakning the hands of the Lords side of Gods poore people and party there Those therefore are worse then Meroz 2. Those that when help had been long delayed and the House of Commons had discovered the maine cause of the sticking of this and other of Gods causes to be the opposition of the Popish Lords and Prelates in the house of Peers would yet petition for the Prelates and so labour to keep up those that hindered help for Ireland and so did themselves hinder God and help the mighty To say nothing what mightie enemies many of them have been against the Lords Servants and Ordinances in this Nation They were part of the Mightie against Ireland Nor will their plea of not-Petitioning for the evill help here for in this cause they must light a candle to find out a good in their office not to prejudice their persons unlesse they may possibly be thought to be on the Lords side that are justly in durance for Protesting against the Parliament the maine Refuge as things stand both for Ireland and England And therefore Brethren I speak not in passion but compassion Those that have endeavoured to uphold them have help'd the Mighty against the Lord. The onely Plea left is Humiliation and Confession which we in this place have cause to be carefull in this day because notwithstanding our light and profession yet by what meanes you know we have been deep in this transgression Blot out this day this guilt and stayne with penitent teares 3. Those people that goe on impenitently in any crying sinnes Drunkennes whoring swearing c. Those Magistrates that protect and countenance sinners Whores Drunkards Sodomites Murtherers c. These help the Mighty Our sinnes strengthen our enemies weaken our friends as we have shewed from Dan. 8.12 Isa 59.1 2. Therefore sinners that repent not help the Mighty against the Lord. Sinnes make God as a Mighty man that cannot save as appeares by Jeremyes complaint Cap. 14. Quest Why shouldst thou be as a Mighty man that cannot save and Gods reply vers 10. Thus have they loved to wander Therefore the Lord doth not accept them As holy Prayer doth hold Gods hands that he cannot strike Exod. 32.10 Let me alone So foule sins hold him that he cannot help He is burthened with our sinnes Amos 2.13 14. Good Magistrates by punishing sinne save the Lords flock as Phinchas did and then those that protect evill

vow that whosoever came not up to help the Lord should be put to death Iudg. 21.5 And the men of Iabesh Gilead being found delinquents vers 9. They fell every mother and mothers son none were saved but 400. young Virgins So unworthy a thing was it esteemed not to help the Lord against the mighty Deut. 23.34 There 's an heavie curse layd upon the Ammonites and Moabites vers 3. and why because they help'd not the Lord in his Church they met not his people with bread and water vers 4. But hired Balaam against them Reas 1. Because not to help the Lord in his Churches quarrel s discovers a trayterous and rebellious heart against the Lord and his people And you know treason and falsenes against a King and his leige people how odious and dangerous it is it drawes the weight of the Kings displeasure on the guilty And Christ our King hates treachery as much as any He that is not with me saith Christ is against me Mat. 12.30 And he that is against Christ doth deserve and will not avoid his Curse He whose heart is right accounts Christs cause his owne and cannot choose but be active Want of help discovers then a trayterous heart to Christs Kingdome By the like reason in this present Irish Rebellion if any will not put his hand against the Rebells may we not aswell conclude his heart is with them and so it is trayterous to Gods people and in them to the Lord. Reas 2. He that commeth not to the help of the Lord doth asmuch as in him lyeth expose the Name of God to dishonour and the Church to ruine and so will be Accessorie to all the dishonours of God by the insultation and blasphemie and all that the Church suffereth by the cruelty of their enemies Qui non vetat peccare cum possit jubet he that hinders not when he may commands and he that helps not the Lord hinders not his enemies Here for ought that the Merozites did the Church might have continued under the bondage and crueltie of Iabin King of Canaan and the Lord thereby under reproach and blasphemy Yea Barao and Deborah might have been overthrowne in this service their innocent bloud shed the Tyrants more enraged and God more dishonoured if every man had sit at home like the inhabitants of Meroz And is it not a sinfull and accursed thing not to help the Lord against the mighty Reas 3. He that comes not to the help of the Lord in the quarells of his Church breakes many bonds and engagements We are the work of Gods hands made after his own Image in him we live move and have our being we professe Redemption by him are in league with him and should we desert this Lord what ingratitude were that For Subjects to desert a gracious King in a good cause wherein he will take good care for their indempnitie how vile were it so is the case between us and Christ And is it not an accursed thing not to help the Lord Besides we also neglect the bonds and engagements between us and the Church which are many great and precious Reas 4. Neglect to help the Lord comes from such evill Causes as do discover it to be an accursed sin For whence ariseth it but either from Hypocrisie when our persons are with the Church but our hearts with the enemies Or from prophanenes when men are not affected with the dishonours of God or his Cause as it is like the men of ●abesh Gilead were not Iudg. 21. Or from an heart hardened against the miseries and moanes of the Church Or from carnall feares arising from the enemies greatnesse as it is like it was with the men of Succoth Iudg. 8.6 Or from diffidence of Gods protection All which rootes are of so hatefull a nature to God that he cannot chuse but cast his curse on so foule a sin flowing from them Quest How many wayes may help be afforded to the Lord in his Church Answ Help to be yeelded to the Church is either Spirituall or Temporall Spirituall are Preces lacrymae Prayers and Teares 1. Repentance Lacrymae Teares for sinne The worst enemies of the Church are her Sins Their Sins strengthen their enemies and weaken their friends Dan. 8.12 An Host was given the grand enemy of the Church to cast the truth to the ground and why because of transgression And he practised and prospered See Transgression makes Errour to prevaile against Truth So Isa 59.1 2. Sin weakens Gods hand as it were who is our best friend Hence Psa 78.58 61 c. for the superstition and prophanenes of his people Gods strength is said to be delivered into captivitie and his glory into the enemies hand They then in the first place doe the Church great assistance that help to take a course with Sinne that drowne sinne in the Sea of penitent teares that kill it by mortification For were it not for sinne one would chase a thousand Deut. 32.30 2. Preces Supplication to set God on work God can overcome if he would but stirre but he will not stirre for us unlesse he be set on work by us We must overcome God by our prayers and then we shall overcome by Him Gen. 32. When Esau was comming with an Army against Iacob Iacob staies behinde as is conceived to wrastle with God in prayer and thereby he prevayled with God and so with men See Gen. 32.24 28. Hos 12.4 5. When Israel was fighting with Amalck Moses did so help by holding up his hands that victory depended more on that then on Ioshua's Valour So those that can Pray well are as the Horsemen of Israel and the chariots thereof and help the Lord against the Mighty There is also Temporall help which is either 1. in the purse by gift or loane to support the oppressed or to maintaine the warre For which God will give you opportunity shortly for Ireland Or 2. It may be in person when men are called as Barac Yea Deborah would goe rather then faile And the Princes and Tribes are praysed that offered themselves willingly All may help some of these wayes and some may help in all of them The Cases where in God hath need of help are either of an higher nature as in open murthering warres or of inferiour alloy as when the Christian and Antichristian party are striving in our land like twins in the womb of Rebeccah who shall have the upper hand and advance the Cause they professe Vse 1. To informe us what a Curse this land in generall lieth under which to take off ought to be one speciall work of this day There 's a quarrell this day in Ireland between the limbes of Antichrist and the Lord Iesus in his truth and members And the Lords enemies are mighty if not in their particulars yet in their multitude Insomuch that the Lords flock is driven away and the Lord hath been as I may say put to the worse And have we help'd the