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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65562	A sermon setting forth the duties of the Irish Protestants arising from the Irish Rebellion, 1641 and the Irish tyranny, 1688, &c. : preached ... October 23. 1692 / by Edward, Lord Bishop of Cork and Ross.	Wettenhall, Edward, 1636-1713.	1692 (1692)	Wing W1520; ESTC R22564	17,350	28

Gallows and Executioners prepared and appearing It was worse yet with those Forlorn Numbers driven before the Walls of DERRY of whom God alone knows how many perished And even those Brave People within DERRY and their Immortal Brethren of ENNIS-KILLIN cannot but be esteem'd with our Apostle to have been pressed out of measure above strength insomuch as oftentimes to have despaired of Life only resolving in those desperate Circumstances to fall into the Hands of God and not of Men not to sell Life with Dishonour or to be made the Scorn of Foreigners and Faithless Men. These things are so manifest that to use the words of our Town Clark in the Acts They cannot be spoken against It admits not Contradiction that we of late had a Sentence of Death in our selves Now as to the Point Questionable and to be Examin'd Has this Sentence of Death according to God's Design thereby brought all of us either us of Forty One or us of Eighty Eight off from our Carnal Refuges and Carnal Life or Sense of things Do we now not trust in our selves but in God which raiseth the Dead Are we all of us as Men ought to be who have had so long the Sentence of Death in themselves prepared for Death Have we in good earnest perswaded our selves that God will raise the Dead Ay and bring them to Judgment too Are we resolved to live as Men only Reprieved a while For our Condition is at best no better We are perhaps delivered from a violent Death but tomorrow or next day at least we know not how soon may we dye a Natural one Behold as Gen. xxvii 2. good old Isaac said I know not the Day of my Death Now are we ready Brethren Has this Sentence of Death mended us Can we each look up to Heaven and say I trust in God that raiseth the Dead If so such Mens Miseries have made them Happy But God knows if we may judge by what appears to Humane Eyes by the Face of things by Peoples Manners Talk Habits Air and like Symptoms the generality of us are as lewd carnal worldly proud vain and fantastick as ever Some I will hope remember the Vows of their Misery and will never forget them And to such mainly belongs The second part of my Application the Exhortation and Advice following God has deliver'd you from so great a Death He does Deliver Wherefore trust to Him that He will yet Deliver you 1. He has Delivered 'T was His Hand and His alone in the Irish Rebellion which that any Protestants did or do here survive is little less then a Miracle The Nation was Confederate and as one Man against us They had every where prepared the Instruments of Death of all sorts and they as barbarously divers Months employed them even till glutted with Blood if English Blood could have glutted them That they left us a Remnant was God's over-ruling Act not at all their Intent or Will Their Design Attempt and diligent Endeavour was to have cut off Root and Branch the Mother with the Child And least our Ashes should have been a kind of a new Seedness of Protestants to the Land they had forbid us so much as Burial Again 'T was God's Hand and His alone that in the Irish Tyranny deliver'd us the Posterity Brethren or Successors of those who fell in the Irish Rebellion Their Priests indeed are said this time not to have given such Bloody Instructions as in the former day Alas good Natur'd Men They only at high Mass that is at their most sacred Office and in the highest pitch of their Charity bid all their People Arm at least with Rupperies and Bagonets pretty innocent Weapons and what other Arms they could get They only interdicted them under pain of Suspension from Mass to be seen again after such a short day unarm'd Their Orders for Action only were Plunder and Strip all Protestants spoil and burn what you cannot possess but spare Blood That is Kill not the Protestants but starve them with Cold and Hunger O Merciful Priests Quid resert ferro pereamne ruina But even this their Mercy lasted not long When many of our Brethren had saved themselves by timely retiring out of the Kingdom how frequent Consults were held to have put to Death us the poor Remainder And herein the Irish Papal Clergy were constant and importunate to this bloody purpose and their People no doubt too many of themselves as ready for acting it Now how a Clergy and a head strong blind abused Nation who denyed even to their own King as they call'd him his Power as often as he would use it in favour of Protestants how I say both these came to be restrain'd from executing their own Will we to this hour are at a loss It was not as some have thought a care of Preserving the English Roman Catholicks which swayed them for they had no regard to them and those of them whom they had in their Army or Councils they scorned hated and to their power turn'd out of Place little otherwise than they did English Protestants It was not fear of an After-Reckoning For by this means only they accounted they would have prevented all After-claps Some times I have thought it was our Paucity They scorned us and esteemed us too Few considering their own Numbers for them to sacrifice And really upon After thoughts herein I believe those who left the Kingdom did a Publick Service For had the whole Body of the English stayed so that our Number had made us Formidable I question not but there had been a Second General Massacre Which what prevented as to us who were in their hands especially at that Critical Point of Time when our Blessed Deliverer and their Conqueror appeared cannot as far as I am able to see be assigned except we say It was God's Almighty Hand He disheartned them and as in the case of those Cities through which Jacob and his Family journeyed Gen. xxxv 5. The Terrour of God was upon them He perfectly amused them so that their Men of Might found not their Hands nor their Wise Men their Counsels He then Delivered us from so great a Death And 2. He doth Deliver How we have subsisted even since the Reduction especially in the Country where for the most part both Towns and Fields were in a manner totally desolate and waste where Houses and Stock and in many places even Trees and Hedges were destroyed so that we might have rationally despaired of Food and Shelter is to me next door to a Miracle But when the Bush burns and burns and continues still burning yet consumes not 't is plain God is in it He doth Deliver us 3. Let us therefore trust in Him that He will yet Deliver us 'T is sure only the Power of our Enemies is abated not their Malice or bloody Minds I may add most justly not their Pride or Expectations Their very common People stick not to our face to tell