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A64879 A sermon preached at Clonmell, on Sunday the sixteenth of September, 1683 at the assizes held for the county palatine of Tipperary / by Jo. Vesey ... Vesey, John, 1636-1716. 1683 (1683) Wing V281; ESTC R6797 12,340 24

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A SERMON Preached at CLONMELL ON SUNDAY the Sixteenth of September 1683. AT THE ASSIZES Held for the COUNTY PALATINE of TIPPERARY By JO. VESEY Master of Arts of Trinity College near Dublin and Minister of Abbylease O pray for the Peace of Jerusalem they shall prosper that love thee Psal 122.6 DVBLIN Printed by Joseph Ray at College-Green for Sam. Helsham Bokseller at the College-Arms in Castle-street 1683. To His GRACE MICHAEL By Divine Providence Lord Archbishop of ARDMAGH Primate and Metropolitan of all IRELAND and Lord High Chancellor of the same c. May it please your Grace YOur Grace being so eminent a Minister of State in this Kingdom the main Pillar of the Irish Church under the Government and so great an Example of Loyalty and Steddiness to the Crown is the reason why this Paper flies to your Protection presuming your Grace will encourage the Principles of Loyalty in others because they are so signal in your self It is the joy of all good men to see those who were found faithful in the times of adversity plentifully rewarded to see those Jewels appendant on the Crown which formerly had shewed their true value by sparkling in the dark and indeed who so fit to partake of the blessings of Peace which flow from the Fountain of Royal Bounty as those who in the late times of Apostasie and Confusion durst be Orthodox and Loyal though it was reputed the worst of Crimes to be so that which is a just Reward to your Grace is an Encouragement to others to follow your great Example and the same Beams that shine on your Grace warm and enliven the Seeds of Loyalty in others Honor is not fit for a Malignant nor does a Garland become the Brow of a Rebel It is unreasonable they should expect Favours from His Majesty who are disaffected to the Government and with what confidence do they expect to drink of a pure Stream who cast Dirt and Mud into the Fountain as if their grinning at the Higher Powers were a sufficient reason for the King to through Preferments into their Mouths The worst of your Graces Enemies cannot but acknowledge you to be Orthodox and Loyal and what can your best Friends or even the greatest Panegyrick say more since to be a Christian and a Subject to fear God and honour the King are the two great ends of every mans nativity Your Graces experience of the late times will tell you that a Sermon of this kind preach'd some years agoe would have made the Preacher to be pull'd down and given occasion to an Insolent Officer to enter the Pulpit with a Back-sword and hold forth to the People in Buff. But God be thanked we now may preach Peace and Obedience to our Superiours without danger of Banishment and may exhort Subjects to Loyalty and Allegiance to their natural Prince without fear of Imprisonment or Sequestration I do not pretend to any thing extraordinary in this Sermon but the usefulness of Discourses of Loyalty at this time made some Persons of Worth and Sence perswade me to publish it I submit my self to your Graces censure and however mean the Piece be I hope your Judgment will be favourable because of the honesty of its design We find that the Heathen Votaries offered to their Tutelar Gods not only Irrational Creatures as Birds and Beasts but sometimes even those that were most ridiculous and despicable and as we cannot imagine any Rational Heathen to be so sottish as to perswade himself that such Sacrifices were pleasing to the Gods for their intrinsick value unless he believ'd the Deities to be as stupid and senceless as the Brutes that were offer'd to them but because they were demonstrations of the inward affections of the mind so this I hope though unworthy of so great a Patron may find acceptance for this reason only because it is an argument of a profound acknowledgment of that Service Duty which is due to your Grace not only from me but from all the Sons of the Church of Ireland I humbly beg your Graces pardon for detaining you from a better employment of those few Minutes which free you from the weighty Affairs of Church and State It would be an argument both of want of sence and good manners in me to trouble your Grace with a tedious Dedication of so inconsiderable a work which yet humbly hopes to be accepted because I have no other way of shewing my self to be May it please Your Grace Your Graces most Obedient and most devoted humble Servant JO VESEY A SERMON preached at Clonmell on Sunday Septemb. 16. 1683. O pray for the Peace of Jerusalem they shall prosper that love thee Psal 122.6 WIthout troubling you with any manner of Preface I will fall immediately upon the Words of my Text in which there are these three things to be taken notice of First here is a Duty earnestly enjoyned Secondly there is the thing to be prayed for and that is the Peace of Jerusalem Thirdly there is an Encouragement to this Duty they shall prosper that love thee O pray for the Peace of Jerusalem they shall prosper that love thee 1. There is a Duty earnestly enjoyned O pray for the Peace of Jerusalem c. That Prayer is a necessary Duty incumbent upon all Christians the Commands of God in my Text and in several other places of Scripture may sufficiently testifie yet because we are generally so disingenuous as not to think our selves oblig'd by the bare Commands of God unless we reap some Benefit by obeying such Commands I will lay down two Reasons in order to recommend the Necessity of this Duty and they are 1. Our own Wants and Necessities 2. The Goodness and Mercy of God in that he is willing to answer our Petitions 1. The first Argument to press this Duty to our Practice is our own Wants and Necessities It is one and not the least of those Miseries that attend the whole Race of Adam still to want something whilst we are on this side Heaven The poor man wants Food the rich man wants Stomach Health and Digestion some men would be liberal but they have not wherewithal others are full of Wealth yet have not a Heart to make use of what they possess some have all things yet enjoy nothing for want of being contented with their Condition the greatest part of Mankind either wants Grace or is in danger of falling from it or if some do persevere unto the end yet they are not in this world what they shall be they want the blessed Vision of God which is not to be had till after Death the best of us transgress every day and therefore must needs want the Pardon of our Sins for each day The Wants of the prodigal Son were occasion'd by his own Riot and Excess and the Disobedience of Adam is the cause of all our Wants and Necessities and although this be a sore Evil and a heavy Disease yet he that lay'd on