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A66362	Eight sermons dedicated to the Right Honourable His Grace the Lord Duke of Ormond and to the most honourable of ladies, the Dutchess of Ormond her Grace. Most of them preached before his Grace, and the Parliament, in Dublin. By the Right Reverend Father in God, Griffith, Lord Bishop of Ossory. The contents and particulars whereof are set down in the next page.	Williams, Gryffith, 1589?-1672.	1664 (1664)	Wing W2666; ESTC R221017	305,510	423

sin And it were well if this sin reached no farther than the children of Israel for indeed such is the nature of all men apt and prone to devise services unto God as they list every one will be independent and serve God as he pleaseth and all such devised ervice is nothing else but Idolatry saith the Apostle Col. 2.23 1 Joh. 5.21 and thereore St. John writing unto Christians concludes his Epistle with little children keep your selves from Idols which is worth our observation because they might as many do make an Idol of many things of their Pulpit of their Preachers of their Altars and of the most consecrated bread in the Eucharist when as the Church of Rome doth it to this very day they transubstantiate the same to become Corpus Domini and do orally eat that with their teeth which the Scripture teacheth us to eat sacramentally by faith which very doctrine of transubstantiation and thereupon the adoration of their host and the asportation of it as the Israelites did their Moloc I fear if it be rightly discussed will prove to be little less than Idolatry for as I will not reject that truth which the Devil uttered Mat 5.7 Thou art Jesus the Son of the most high God nor refuse the four Gospels and the three Creeds of the Apostles the Nicen and Athanasian because the Pope useth them but will believe all the truth that the Church of Rome believeth and therein joyn with them the right hand of fellowship so I will hate the errours and detest the Idolatry of any Church that committeth it And therefore How the Primitive Christians were slandered though as the Christians of the Primitive Church were most falsly traduced and charged to be the causes of all the calamities dearths wars sedition and all the other evils that happened unto the Heathens which indeed themselves were the sole causes of because they would not become Christians and therefore persecuted the Church of Christ and in all their Counsels had none other Conclusions but Christianos ad leones let us throw away these Christians to the Lyons to the fires and to the Waters so now the Enemies of the truth say we are Papists and Idolatrous and the causes of all these calamities that are fallen upon this Land How we are now slandered and therefore let them be deprived degraded and destroyed yet in very deed we are so far from those points which Jewel Cranmer Latimer and the rest of those holy Martyrs and godly Reformers concluded to be Popish and Idolatrous that as we have hitherto most learnedly refuted them so we are most constantly resolved to oppugn them while we live and rather to lose our lives than to depart from the true protestant faith and to embrace the Idolatry of any Church in the World and you must know that as the Philosopher saith Non quia affirmatur aut negatur res erit vel non erit things are not so and so because they are reported to be such as Gold is not Copper because an ignorant Artist affirmeth it nor Copper Gold because the like Ignoramus avoucheth it so a wicked man is not good nor Rebels loyal because flatterers commend them neither is a good man wicked nor faithful Subjects malignants nor true Protestants Popish because the slanderers traduce them as Christ was neither a drunkard Mat. 11.19 nor a glutton though the Jews accused him of both and we are neither Papists nor Popish though as the Apostle saith in the like case Rom. 3.8 we are slanderously reported to be such but things ought to be affirmed to be as they are indeed and men ought to judge righteous judgements and then you might see and so be assured we are so far from Popery that as I said before we lay on them little less crime than Idolatry And seeing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is derived ab 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 video we see it may be derived farther and brought nearer to our selves then the Church of Rome Hier. in Jer. c. 32. Aug. l. de vera religione Col. 3 5. for so men may as St. Hierom saith erect an Idoll in their own brains as the worldling makes his Gold to be his god the Heretiques and Separatists make an Idoll of their false Religion the precise Hypocrite makes an Idoll of his dissembled purity and the very Rebels make an Idol of their seducers and leaders and their own most obstinate opinions and all these and the like do offer up Idolatrous sacrifices upon the Altar of their own folly and therefore well might St. John say Keep your selves from Idols because the children of the Church when they leave their true Leaders and take blind guides may soon fall and be filled with Idolatry And seeing we have so many such rebellious Idolaters amongst us if there be any Idolaters in the world is it any wonder that God should so abundantly poure out his indignation upon us or that he should not visit for these things Jer. 5 9. and be avenged on such a nation as this 2. Injustice was the other sin whereby the Israelites lost the Lord when as the Prophet saith Ver. 7. The second sin of the Israelites Injustice they turned judgment into wormwood and left off righteousness in the earth wherein you may observe two things in the iniquity of this people 1. Generally among all the Vulgar sort 2. Jer. 5.1 Particularly among the very Judges and Princes of the Land 1. The common people left off righteousness 1 Generally and dealt most unjustly one with another oppressing the poor afflicting the just and filling themselves with thefts robberies and all other kinds of unrighteousness sins able to overthrow the whole earth The praise of Justice Pro. 25.5 Pro. 14.34 Theog p. 431. and to destroy all the Society of mankind for justice establisheth the thrones of Kings it exalteth a nation it is the sister of peace the mother of prosperity the preserver of amity and as Theognis saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And on the other side injury and oppression as Solomon saith Eccles 7.7 is able to make a wise man mad and injustice is the destroyer of peace the producer of War and the bringer of whole Cities Kingdoms and Nations to confusion for as St. Aug. saith Quid sunt regna remota justitia nisi magna latrocinia What are Kingdoms if you take away justice but as our Cities are now in most parts of our Land the Dens of Thieves that enrich themselves with the treasures of wickedness Mica 6.13 and are clad with the spoiles of the poor and how is it possible that men should live one by another cum vivitur ex rapto when Pillaging and Plundering shall become our common trade and the great mens strength shall become the Law of justice and yet this is not all for 2. As the Prophet Esay saith their Princes that is 2 Particularly

great benefits that this good God had done unto them First Moses tells you They waxed fat and then they kicked as we lately did and forsook God that made them and lightly esteemed the rock of their salvation They provoked him to jealousie with strange Gods and moved him to anger with their abominations They sacrificed to Devils and not to God to Gods that they knew not that came newly up whom their fathers feared not which was and is the fruit of every new Religion as of late dayes we have fully seen amongst us And then as they forsook God that formed them so presently they rebelled against his servants they muttered and murmured and rejected all their Governours and as the Psalmist saith They angred Moses in their tents and Aaron the Saint of the Lord for these two to forsake God and to rebel against their Governours do always go together And if you look into the foresaid sixteenth Chapter of Ezekiel you shall see how the Prophet sheweth their wickedness and how they have multiplied their abominations above measure and as many of us over-wickedly and unjustly seeking to make our children great in this world do bring them unto the Devil in the world to come Ezech. 16.21 so did they slay their children and cause them to pass through the fire and as the Psalmist saith Ps 106.37 They offered their sons and their daughters unto Devils and the Lord himself assureth us that Sodom had not done so wickedly as they had done Ezek. 16.48.51 and Samaria had not committed half of their sins And what an intolerable ingratitude was this The most monstrous thing that ever was not possibly to be described quia dixeris maledicta cuncta cum ingratum hominem dixeris because thou sayest all the evils that can be said when thou namest an ungrateful man especially to God that hath done such great things for us For we read of many bruit beasts that for small benefits have been very thankful unto men as of the Dog that for a peice of bread will follow and be ready to die for his Master and the Lion that for pulling a thorn out of his foot preserved the slave that did it from all the beasts of the forrest and afterwards his life on the Theatre in Rome and Primauday tells us of an Arabian infidel that being taken prisoner and afterwards set at liberty by Baldwin King of Jerusalem in token of his thankfulness for that favour Pet. Prim. c. 40. p. 431. he went to him by night into a Town where he was retired after he had lost the field and declared to him the purpose of his companions and conducted him until he had brought him out of all danger And when bruit beasts and Pagans are thus thankful unto us shall man be unthankful unto God No no He should be truly thankful And Seneca saith there be four special conditions of true thankfulness 1. Grate accipere to receive it thankfully 2. Nunquam oblivisci Never to forget it for he can never be thankful that hath forgotten the benefit 3. Ingenue fateri per quem profecerimus Four conditions of true thankfulness ingeniously to acknowledge by whom we are profited 4. Pro virili retribuere to requite the benefit received in the best manner that we are able But this people scarce observed any one of them I am sure not the second and therefore not possibly the third and fourth for the Prophet David tells us plainly that after the Lord had shewed his tokens among them and his wonders in the land of Ham and had brought forth his people with joy and his chosen with gladness and had given them the lands of the Heathen Is 105.42 43 so that they did as many have done amongst us to take the labours of the people in possession Ps 106.13 Yet within a while they did as we do forget his works and would not abide his counsel V. 21. yea they forgat God their Saviour which had done so great things in Egypt wondrous things in the land of Ham and fearful things by the Red-sea But to let this people pass that were destroyed for their unthankfulness let us look unto our selves and have our eyes behind us to behold and see First What God hath done for us And What God did for us the people of these dominions Amos 3.2 Secondly What we have done for the honour and service of God And First As the Lord said of the Jews You onely have I chosen of all the families of the earth so I believe the Lord may justly say of our Kings dominions that he shewed more love and favour unto them then he did to any other Kingdom of the World for whatsoever good he did to others he did the same to us And he shewed two more signal favours to us then he did to any other Kingdome of all Christendome As I. He raised the good Emperour Constantine the Son of Helen out of Britaine to close up the days of persecution and shut the doors of the Idol-Temples II. When the mysts of ignorance and errors and superstition had covered and overshadowed almost all the Church of Christ God sent successively no less then five such excellent Protestant Princes King Edward the sixth Queen Elizabeth King James and King Charles the I. and II. as no other Kingdom had the like to protest against all the Popish errours and superstition and to make such a perfect reformation of Religion that both for Doctrine and Discipline no Church in Christendom is so purely and so perfectly established as these Churches of our Kings dominions are such love and such mercies of God to us as exceeded all the blessings of the earth and shewed to no other Nation of the world in such a measure but to this And what reward I pray you What requital have we rendred unto God have we and our people rendred un●o God for those great unparalell'd benefits that he hath done unto us I do profess I have been a man ever faithful to my King and ever fearless of all the dangers of the world and therefore I must say the truth as Saint Steven told the Jews though I should fare as Saint Steven did that as they were a stiff-necked people that have always resisted the Holy Ghost and persecuted the Prophets and been the traytors and murderers of Christ so have the major part of us shewed themselves a rebellious Nation that confederated to assist the Devil to requite Gods extraordinary signal favour to us with extraordinary signal contempt of Gods service and signal malice to all his servants above any other nation of the World by raising out of us and bringing in amongst us the great Anti-Christ that is the great enemies of Christ you know whom * The Long Parliament to slay the two witnesses of Jesus Christ which were Cohors Magistratuum Chorus Prophetarum 1. the best and blessed King Charles the First that

weak to convey Christ and all his graces unto us but it is the Ordinance of Christ that appointed them for this end and hath promised that how weak soever they seem to be yet if we believe his words and prepare our selves to receive them as we ought to do we shall find them to be sufficient instruments to convey Christ and all his benefits unto us even as here the looking on a Serpent of brass was sufficient to preserve this people from the poyson of the fiery Serpents onely because God had appointed it and promised it should be so And therefore we must not prize things by the outward shew as Naaman did the waters of Jordan but we ought to consider the will and commandment of God that appointed and decreed such and such things to be done and hath promised that we shall receive such and such graces by them as the poor blind man to receive his sight by washing his eyes in the pool of Siloah John 9.7 and we to receive the body and bloud of Christ under the consecrated Elements of bread and wine And so much for the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sicut the lifting up of the Serpent in the Wilderness Now followeth the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sic the lifting up of the Son of man which was typified and figured by the lifting up of that Serpent For 2. It is apparent that when God 2 The mystery which was the lifting up or crucifying of Jesus Christ which could by a thousand other means have cured this Serpent-bitten people commanded the same to be done by having a brazen Serpent upon a pole to be looked on had a singular consideration of some deep mystery that should be understood and was shadowed out hereby and now our Saviour taketh away the veil The resemblances betwixt the making of this Serpent and the manhood of Christ and explaineth the same to Nicodemus and sheweth unto him that this Serpent whose erection he being a great Doctor of the Law could not be ignorant of was a Type and a Figure of himself and did most excellently represent all the parts of the mysterie of his Incarnation As 1. The purity and sanctity of his assumption of our flesh Resem ∣ blance 1 For as the Serpent of brass was no Serpent indeed and therefore had no poyson in it Isai 53.12 1 Pet. 2.22 so our Saviour Christ though he appeared like a sinfull man and was numbred among the wicked yet in very deed he did no sin neither was there any guile found in his mouth for though he assumed the true flesh and the whole nature of man yet he assumed not the sin of man Ambros de Spiritu sanct l. 3 c. 9. and the vitiosity of his nature but as Saint Ambrose saith In veritate quidem corporis sed sine veritate peccati suscepit Dominus speciem peccatoris in the verity of a body but without the verity of sin the Lord took upon him the shape of a sinner Rom. 8.3 and therefore S. Paul saith that God sent his Son not in sinfull flesh but in the similitude of sinfull flesh Where you must observe saith Cassianus that Similitudo non ad carnis veritatem sed ad peccati imaginem referenda est the word Similitude is to be referred Cassian Collat. 22. c. 2. not to the flesh which was true but to the word Sinfull which the flesh seemed to be but was not Resem ∣ blance 2 2. This Serpent is a true Type of the manner of his Incarnation and Conception in the womb of his mother for this Serpent was not made of Iron or Wood or Stone which may be wrought into a form with a Hammer or Chezil and is made successively by parts one after another as any Image made in Wood or Stone must be done but this Image was made of Brass which before it can be cast into any form must be molten in the fire that purgeth it from all dross and the mould of any shape or figure being fitly prepared you need no more but pour the melted Brass into the mould and in a moment you have a perfect Image with all parts So the body of our blessed Saviour was begotten as the Greek Father saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not by the ordinary way of procreation as the carnal effusion of the seminal humour but by the power and operation of the Holy Ghost who framed this blessed Body Non de substantia sua What the Holy Ghost did in framing the manhood of Christ not of his own substance for so he should have begotten it a Spirit and a God Quia omne generans generat sibi simile but as S. Augustine saith Per potentiam jussionem benedictionem Spiritus sancti by the power command and blessing of the Holy Ghost who 1. As the fire purgeth all dross from the Brass 1. Purifie it as the fire doth the brass so did he prepare and sanctifie the bloud and seed of the blessed Virgin whereof the body of Christ was to be composed that it might be made a fit subject for the eternal Word to be united to it And 2. As the Brass melted in the fire 2. Perfect it in an instant as the molton brass did the Serpent is no sooner poured into the Mould but presently the perfect shape and figure of Man Beast Serpent or any thing that the Mould is made for is produced so though in ordinary generation first the Liver then the Heart and then the Brain are fashioned and so the other parts one after another and all not fully compleated till at least the fourtieth day yet the Holy-Ghost compleated the Body of Christ at the very instant of his conception perfectly quoad perfectionem partium non graduum in respect of all parts and indued the same with a reasonable Soul at the same instant of his conception which is not in other generations until the fourtieth day And so Christ from his first Conception was perfect God and perfect Man of a reasonable soul and humane flesh subsisting which is the true Catholick Faith and the Orthodoxal Doctrine of the antient Fathers and of the Primitive Church as it appeareth out of Saint Hierom in cap. 2. Jer. Athanaes in lib. de Incarnat verb. St. Aug. in cap. 18. de fide ad Petr. Damasc lib. 3. cap. 2. de Orthod fide St. Bern. in Hom. 2. sup Missus est and many more 3. The lifting up of the Serpent and fastening it to a long Resem ∣ blance 3 pole on high that the whole host of Israel might look up to it and looking on it might be healed from the poyson of the fiery Serpents was a Type that foreshewed the fastening of Christ upon the Cross to suffer death for our redemption that all men whosoever would might look on him with the eys of Faith and so be cured from the sting of the old Serpent the Devil and as