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A71253	The description and the practice of the four most admirable beasts explained in four sermons upon Revel. 4.8 : whereof the first three were preached before the Right Honourable James, Duke of Ormond, and lord lieutenant of Ireland, His Grace, and the two Houses of Parliament, and others, very honourable persons / by the Right Reverend Father in God, Gr. Lord Bishop of Ossory.	Williams, Gryffith, 1589?-1672.	1663 (1663)	Wing W2664; ESTC R33669	79,502	118

framing of Indictments or the not quashing of them so easily and so frequently as they are reported to be 4. 4 4. Sacriledge The last frequent sin that I shall at this time desire you to cast your eyes behinde you to behold Gods detestation of it and his punishments that he poureth out upon the offenders is sacriledge which is the taking away and with-holding of those Revenues which God hath appointed and godly men have dedicated for the maintenance of Gods service and the religion of Jesus Christ and so the robbing of God himself both of his honour and service a sin so general that the custome of it hath quite taken away the sense of it and men think it to be no sin at all But I know what some may here say that now I plead mine own cause I will briefly answer as Samuel did unto the people 1 Sam. 12.3 and I say that I sued indeed for the Church right but I testifie before the Lord and your Grace and you All that I did it not to inrich my self for I thank God I have enough both for my self and my relation wife children and friends but I did it for the right of the Church and I resolved and vowed that whatsoever I recovered I would by the grace of God wholly bestow it upon the reparation of the Church so that recovering it I should be not one penny the richer and loosing it not one penny the poorer And I desired nothing but what I conceived to be the right of the Church because I know God loves not to be honoured with unjustly gotten goods But now finding that as the Prophet saith I have laboured in vain and I have spent my strength for nought and seeing the partiality and injustice of men I will with patience submit my self to that strength which is beyond my ability to oppose and study to serve my God another way because I see that as Davin saith the sons of Zervia are too strong for me because we that were faithfull to our King were fleec'd and bareshorne and left poor and beggarly and they that served the Beast and adheared to the long Parliament and were arrant rebels against our late good King have got all our Lands and our Monies to make friends withall and to keep us still under hatches and so though nos fuimus Troes yet now they are the men and without envy let then enjoy their prosperity so they forsake their iniquity and repent them of their former impiety And so desiring you to bear with this my just defence I shall proceed in this discourse for none other end but to discharge mine own duty and for the good of your souls to avoid the just wrath of God for a sin so highly displeasing unto God and to that purpose I shal desire you to read the 2 Mac. c. 3. where you shall finde how that when Simon the mutinous traitor both to God and his Country had informed Seleucus King of Asia of the riches and the treasure of the Church of Hierusalem and incited him to seize upon it and he had sent Heliodorus his treasurer to fetch it and Heliodorus came like a Fox pretending it was to visit and to reform the disorders of Phoenice and Caelosyria but Onias the high Priest perceiving that the goods of the Church was his errand his countenance was quite cast down and the people not enduring sacriledge ran some to the Temple some to the City Gates and some gadded up and down the streets as frantick men like Bacchus froes and all lifted up their hands and eyes and voices unto God for the defence of his Church and God heard their cry and did help them For Heliodorus was no sooner entred into the treasury to take away the spoile but there appeared to him a terrible man in compleat armour of gold mounted upon a barbed horse that ran very fiercely at the Kings Treasurer and trampled him under-foot and withall there appeared two other men of most excellent beauty and strength whipping him so that he was carried out of the place speechless and without any hope of life untill God restored him upon the earnest prayer of the Priest and people And to let you see how dangerous a sin is sacriledge to rob the Church Act. 5.5 the end of Ananias and Sapphira can bear witness for though their death was the punishment of their lying yet all must grant they were drawn to that sin by the cord of sacriledge And if a greedy desire of with-holding that from the Church which themselve● had given was sufficient to open such a window unto the Devil that he came presently to cast them as a prey to the Jaws of Hell how many foule fins do they commit and how many greivous plagues may they fear to fall upon their heads which take away from the Church that which they never gave And you may remember that when Egypt in the time of Joseph felt so extreme a famine Gen. 47.22 v. 26. that the fift part of the Land was sold to releive the Land yet the Patriarch in all the care that he had both of the Country and of the King to succour the one and to enrich the other never attempted the sale of the Lands of the Priests nor once to diminish any jot thereof And if the holy man in so great an extremity never ventured to take away the possessions of the Idolatrous Priests though it were to the releif of a whole Kingdome I wonder with what face dares any man in the world curtal the maintenance of Gods Church and take away those Lands and houses that by religious Princes and other pious men have been consecrated to Gods service But Foelix quem faciunt aliena pericula cautum You might be happy if you would cast your eyes behinde you and by the examples of Gods judgments upon other sacrilegious persons learn to escape the punishments of sacriledge because they are all written for our instruction And we read Celce the Constable of Gertrund King of Burgundy having under the authority of the King his Master enriched himself and enlarged his Territories with the Goods and Lands of the Church and being one day in the Church at his Devotion and hearing thee words of the Prophet that proclaimed a woe to them that joyn house to house and land to land he suddainly shricked in the Congregation and cried out This is spoken to me and this curse is upon me and upon my Posterity and so afterwards died most miserably And we read in the Annals of France that although Lewis the Sixt surnamed the Great was once the Protectour of the Church and had caused the Count de Claremont the Lord de Roussi and other great men that had pillaged the Bishopricks to restore their robberies unto the Church again yet in his old age when he began to pull the Church he was sufficiently punished for it by the suddain death of his Eldest

the better and the sooner perswade you to fear God and to serve him Two things to be considered to move us to serve God and to doe that which is just and honest in his sight I shall with Moses desire you to remember the days of old and consider the years of many generations and therein to observe but these two things First How God blessed those that walked in his wayes Secondly How he plagued those that neglected his service and transgressed his commands 1. 1 1. How God blessed those that served him Enoch walked with God and God took him to himself Noah was a just man and God preserved him from the deluge Abraham Isaac Jacob Joseph feared the Lord and the Lord blessed them in all that they took in hand and the Prophet David generally saith Psal 112.1 2 3. blessed is the man that feareth the Lord that hath great delight in his commandments his seed shall be mighty upon earth riches and pienteousness shall be in his house Proverb 10.7 c. 20.7 and his righteousness endureth for ever and Solomon saith the like that the memorial of the just is blessed and his children are blessed after him And therefore if thou lovest thy children and wouldest have them to grow great and to prosper in the world be just in all that thou doest and neither rob God of his right nor oppresse cozen or defraud thy poor neighbour which not done are the chiefest if not the onely things that will bring the curse of God upon thee and thy Posterity For 2. 2 2. How God plagued those that transgressed his commandments and neglected his service Do but cast thine eyes behind thee and consider how God plagued the unrighteous Generations and you shall finde that when the old world corrupted their wayes the Lord swept them all away with the deluge when the cry of Sodom and Gomorrha came to the eares of God God destroyed them with fire and brimstone so when the cry of the innocent servants of Christ shall not be heard to have justice done unto them because of the great friends and power of their oppressours then as the Psalmist saith The Lord will hear their cry and will help them And here to terrifie offenders from their wickedness I could willingly enlarge my discourse to shew the fearful examples of Gods judgement against many sorts of Malefactors but my short allowance of time will scarce permit me to give you the sight of some few judgements against and upon these four predominant sins that are so rife amongst us and so pernitious unto us 1. Rebellion The four usual sins of these dayes 2. Perjury 3. Injustice 4. Sacriledge 1. For Rebellion this our last Age 1 1. Rebellion and the many Plots and Practices of wicked and fanatick Rebels now peeping forth amongst us do sufficiently shew how apt we are to fall into it though it be as bad as the sin of witch-craft which is the giving of our souls by a Contract unto the Devil but the dreadful vengeance of God for the Rebellion of Corah Dathan and Abiram against their Governours when the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them down quick to Hell and the heavy judgement of God upon Absolon for rebelling against King David which followed him hard at the heeles until he came to the bough where he was hanged and the shameful yet most justly deserved death of our late Rebels and of many more the like Viliaines that I could quote to you out of Histories should deterre them from this unnatural sin of Rebellion and keep them within the bounds of their obedience to their Governours which is more acceptable in the sight of God then any sacrifice that we can offer him or if this can not do it then may they look for the like end as those that committed the like sins 2. For Perjury it is so pernitious a sin and yet so general 2 2. Perjury that I know not how to express the hainousness thereof But I finde this perjury to be like the three headed Cerberus 1. Of those Inferiours that either for bribes and reward 1 1. Of Inferiors or for fear of their Land-lords or other great men will most falsly swear before Judge or Jury to the taking away of the goods lands or life of many innocent men 2 2. Of Superiors which is a sin worthy to be punished by the Judges as being the utter ruine of many men fatherless and widdows 2. Of Superiours which break their saith and oaths that they make unto their Inferiours And such a forsworn wretch was Lysander the Admiral of the Lacedemonians Lysander Tissaphernes that brake his oath which he made with the Grecians Tissaphernes Cleomenes and Cleomenes King of Lacedemon that did the like with the Argians but he was sufficiently plagued by the just judgement of God for his perfidiousness and perjury when the women of Argos overthrew the greatest part of his Army and he with a knife killed himself And many more Tyrants and Commanders I could name of this kinde that neither feared God nor regarded their faith with men and therefore were plagued by the just judgements of God 3. 3 3. Of the middle sort The other sort of perjurers are of a middle size and great men that either through discontent or hope to be made greater Eccles 8.2 do break their faith and falsifie the oath of God as Solomon calls it and so prove Rebels and Traytors unto their Kings and Governours But how doth the just God reward these perfidious and perjured Villaines 1 1. How Neclas served Duringus for his treachery to the Son of Vratislas And how do most wise men deeme and deale with them but as Neclas did with Duringus who to secure Neclas as he said in his Throne falsified his faith to his Prince and killed the Son of Vratislas that was the next Heir unto the Crown hoping that for his good service he should be much favoured and well rewarded of Neclas but the wise Prince abhorring such perfidiousness said unto him that perjury and treachery could not be mitigated and wiped away by any good turns or after-service and therefore whereas he expected a reward for his good service done unto him he should have it according to his merit For of three things he should chuse which he would 1. To kill himself with a poinyard Aenaeas Sylv Hist Bobem c. 11. or 2. Hang himself with an halter or 3. Cast himself down from the Rock of Visgrade and he hanged himself upon an Elder tree which while it stood was called Duringus tree 2 2. How Selim used Ladislas Kerezin Camerar Hist Meditat. l. 1. pag. 20. c. 7. Johan Menarius Histor ●urc l. 4. c. 22. as Aenaeas Sylvius writeth And though Ladislas Kerezin did a very good turn to Selim in yielding up to him the strong place of Hiula yet for his perjury and perfidiousness